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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis return for another week of AI news. We cover Amazon CEO Andy Jassey warning of AI-driven job cuts, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei differing views on AI’s employment impact, new data challenging the “AI jobpocalypse” and the rise of emerging AI-related job titles, OpenAI’s $200M Pentagon contract, Google’s AI tools and the decline in news site traffic, the changing landscape of news consumption, Mattel’s partnership with OpenAI to bring AI to toys, Meta’s AI app privacy warnings, SAG-AFTRA’s video game strike resolution, the UK’s new data bill and AI training, Gemini’s new video upload feature, NVIDIA and Perplexity’s partnership for local language models, and Google’s new live AI Mode search feature. Subscribe to the YouTube channel! ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@aiinsideshow⁠ Enjoying the AI Inside podcast? Please rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcatcher of choice! Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: ⁠0:00:00⁠⁠ - Podcast begins 0:01:19⁠⁠ - Amazon CEO tells employees that AI will shrink its workforce 0:06:32⁠⁠ - Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he disagrees with almost everything Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says 0:09:37⁠⁠ - Economist: Why AI hasn’t taken your job 0:14:23 - A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You 0:27:04 - OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract 0:28:38 - New Army Reserve Unit Enlists Silicon Valley Executives to Upgrade Tech 0:29:22⁠⁠ - Eisenhower on the military-industrial complex 0:34:40 - News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools 0:37:41⁠⁠ - Is Google about to destroy the web? 0:40:56⁠⁠ - AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games 0:47:21 - Meta warns users to 'avoid sharing personal or sensitive information' in its AI app 0:49:23⁠⁠ - SAG-AFTRA Suspends Strike Against Video Game Companies, Paving Way for Return to Work 0:50:31⁠⁠ - Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes 0:54:31 - Gemini app rolling out video upload and analysis 0:57:01⁠⁠ - Nvidia and Perplexity Team Up in European AI Push 0:58:25 - Search live with voice capabilities is now available in AI mode through Labs in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices