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This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Nvidia's partnership with six Wall Street firms to line up $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, turning GPU chips into an investable asset class. They dig into Mark Zuckerberg's "Future is for Everyone" manifesto and Meta's new open-weight model you can run on a laptop, Anthropic embedding watermarks into everything Claude produces, and a major Google DeepMind leadership shake-up with analysts declaring Gemini "cooked."
Also in this episode: the Pixel 11's AI camera features, a technique for reading what AI models actually think, UK venues banning Meta smart glasses, xAI's Grok Bot agent, OpenAI's hardware device plans, Nvidia's Nemotron open model, Cloudflare open-sourcing their agent platform, and Spotify labeling AI-generated artists. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

• 0:00 - Start

• 0:03:14 - Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone (about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-ev…)

• 0:23:18 - Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU (theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/11/anthropic…)

• 0:23:50 - How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-cl…)

• 0:41:21 - Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion (wsj.com/business/deals/nvidia-wall-street-firm…)

• 0:50:36 - Google’s AI shake-up boosts Brin as DeepMind’s Hassabis steps aside (archive.ph/WdYXo#selection-1471.0-1471.67)

• 0:50:40 - Google seeks a sharper focus in AI after Hassabis move (archive.ph/Pq5wC#selection-1431.0-1431.54)

• 1:00:13 - Google’s Pixel 11 lineup offers fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini (techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/pixel-11-has-few-har…)

• 1:09:52 - Jason goes hands on with the Pebble Index 01 (repebble.com/index)

• 1:14:34 - UK Venues Ban Meta Smart Glasses En Masse (petapixel.com/2026/08/10/uk-venues-ban-meta-sm…)

• 1:15:11 - ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content (theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/09/i-kept-…)

• 1:19:12 - OpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300 (archive.ph/l3i2J#selection-1245.0-1245.64)

• 1:20:08 - Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands (openai.com/index/putting-frontier-cyber-models…)

• 1:21:40 - Cloudflare OS (github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os)

• 1:24:17 - Nvidia Releases New Open Model (wsj.com/cio-journal/nvidia-releases-new-open-m…)

• 1:25:03 - Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them (theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/spotify…)

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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