The Em Dash Stench

Join Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis as they discuss Meta's new chief AI scientist shakeup, Apple losing key AI talent to Meta, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses tripling sales, and Microsoft debuting a bold AI Copilot Mode in Edge.
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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Podcast begins

0:01:51 - Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun clarifies his role after the company hires another chief AI scientist (businessinsider.com/yann-lecun-meta-chief-ai-s…)

0:06:52 - Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month to Meta’s Superintelligence Team (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-29/apple-l…)

0:08:47 - Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target (wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-ai-recruiting-…)

0:19:43 - Personal Superintelligence (meta.com/superintelligence)Zuck yammers about "personal superintelligence" (facebook.com/share/r/1CrgzLJRa4)

0:24:24 - Oakley Meta HSTN Limited Edition impressions (oakley.com/en-us/product/W0OW8002?variant=8883…)

0:35:06 - Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses revenue tripled over the year, EssilorLuxottica says (cnbc.com/2025/07/28/ray-ban-meta-revenue-tripl…)

0:36:40 - You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it. (arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754)

0:45:10 - Donald Trump Says AI Companies Can’t Be Expected To Pay For All Copyrighted Content Used In Their Training Models: “Not Do-Able” (deadline.com/2025/07/trump-ai-action-plan-copy…)

0:50:04 - New: Amazon to Pay New York Times at Least $20 Million a Year in AI Deal (wsj.com/business/media/amazon-to-pay-new-york-…)

0:53:16 - Microsoft revolutionizes Edge as an AI-powered web browser with new experimental 'Copilot Mode' — here's how to enable it right now (windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-edge-co…)

0:54:57 - Related: Fellou.ai (felloui.ai)

0:59:19 - Perplexity for Mac now supports MCP, and you should check it out (9to5mac.com/2025/07/25/perplexity-for-mac-now-…)

1:02:50 - OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test (arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07…)

1:04:43 - Google AI Mode adding Search Live video, Canvas, PDF upload, and more (9to5google.com/2025/07/29/google-ai-mode-searc…)

1:08:01 - Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests (404media.co/meta-is-going-to-let-job-candidate…)

1:08:51 - Meta is testing AI use in technical interviews – DTNSB 5070 (dailytechnewsshow.com/2025/07/29/meta-is-testi…)

1:10:21 - Photoshop just made it shockingly easy to edit objects and people into photos (theverge.com/news/715073/adobe-photoshop-ai-ha…)

1:12:00 - Imax Teams With Runway On Commercial Screenings Of AI Film Festival Selections (deadline.com/2025/07/imax-runway-screenings-ai…)

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