Is Google Handing AI Startups the Keys?

This week, Jeff Jarvis and I look at Google’s antitrust ruling and how it shakes up the AI landscape, wonder if Tesla’s $25T Optimus robot forecast is just a diversion, debate if Netflix’s algorithm-driven movies are killing creativity, and go deep on OpenAI’s new ChatGPT mental health "safeguards."

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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Podcast Begins

0:02:05 - Pixel 10 Pro, Pro Res Zoom, and the Trinity Alps experiment

0:05:23 - Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case (cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ru…)

0:10:18 - Read our statement on today’s decision in the case involving Google Search (blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy…)

0:18:17 - The Fever Dream of Imminent ‘Superintelligence’ Is Finally Breaking (nytimes.com/2025/09/03/opinion/ai-gpt5-rethink…)

0:29:47 - Related: Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave (archive.ph/UJIli#selection-1885.0-1885.72)

0:36:15 - OpenAI to safeguard ChatGPT for teens and people in crisis (axios.com/2025/09/02/chatgpt-openai-mental-hea…)

0:39:36 - My mom and Dr. DeepSeek (restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick)‘ (theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/30/therapists…)

0:43:13 - Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support (theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/30/therapists…)

0:45:32 - Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films? (theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/28/bland-easy-t…)

0:50:12 - New Yorker: A.I. Is Coming for Culture (archive.ph/dxBft#selection-337.0-337.26)

0:57:51 - Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus (cnbc.com/2025/09/02/musk-tesla-value-optimus-r…)

1:00:05 - Deep Hype in Artificial General Intelligence: Uncertainty,Sociotechnical Fictions and the Governance of AI Futures (arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19749)

1:00:54 - Rethinking How AI Embeds and Adapts to Human Values: Challenges and Opportunities (arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17104)

1:01:44 - BirdRecorder’s AI on Sky: Safeguarding birds of prey by detection and classification of tiny objects around wind turbines (arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18136)

1:03:37 - Amazon’s Lens Live AI shops for anything you can see (theverge.com/news/769585/amazon-lens-live-ai-r…)

1:05:21 - Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds (theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/30/doctors…)

1:08:33 - Introducing gpt-realtime and Realtime API updates for production voice agents (openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-realtime)

1:10:11 - WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool (techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-shows-off-…)

1:11:50 - Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome (techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/anthropic-launches-a…)

1:14:01 - Microsoft releases its own model (OpenAI independence) (microsoft.ai/news/two-new-in-house-models)

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