Jason Howell

Andy Rubin was in a taxi at CES when the iPhone keynote hit. His reaction:

"Holy crap, I guess we're not going to ship that phone."

I have that phone.

A working Google Sooner, the very first Android that existed before the iPhone. And I went hands-on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEjxZLfpP2Q

Apple raised Mac and iPad prices up to $300, but spared the iPhone. AI data centers consume 70% of the world's memory chips, and GoPro may not survive it. Also: two US AI labs released restricted models the same week.
New AI Inside with @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social → https://aiinside.show/episode/ramageddon-reshapes-tech-and-its-not-pretty

This week on AI Inside with @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social:
-> Anthropic passes OpenAI at a $965B valuation
-> OpenAI crosses 1 billion monthly users
-> Microsoft drops new AI models and agentic hardware at Build
-> Nvidia's RTX Spark reinvents the PC
https://aiinside.show/episode/the-4-trillion-ai-ipo-wave-is-about-to-break

Before the T-Mobile G1, before touchscreens, Android ran on a BlackBerry-style keyboard phone called the Sooner. Google killed it the day the iPhone was announced. I got a working prototype and showed what it was actually like to use.
https://youtu.be/aEjxZLfpP2Q

This week on AI Inside with @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social:
→ Pope Leo XIV's 42,000-word AI encyclical
→ Anthropic Mythos finds 10K+ critical bugs
→ AI lawsuits flooding courts
→ DeepSeek now 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5
Catch it: https://aiinside.show/episode/pope-leo-challenges-silicon-valleys-ai-vision

The government gave Anthropic 90 minutes to pull its most powerful AI offline. The call came from Amazon, Anthropic's own biggest investor.
Also: SpaceX bought Cursor for $60B in stock.
New AI Inside with @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
https://aiinside.show/episode/anthropics-ai-got-shut-down-by-the-government

PROGRAMMING NOTE:
This week's AI Inside will record tomorrow, Tuesday, June 30 at 11:30 am PT:
https://youtube.com/live/FcwIWVaY33M

Expect it in your feed one day early this week.

We got Google's VP of Search on AI Inside this week. Liz Reid said that personalizing search results could actually help small publishers instead of burying them. She also gave a deep explanation of how the "ignore" bug broke AI Overviews, and made a counterintuitive case that NOT personalizing search actually creates MORE filter bubbles.

Full episode:
https://aiinside.show/episode/liz-reid-on-what-publishers-get-wrong-about-ai

cc: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

New AI Inside is up. I spoke with Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau, days after the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two most powerful models offline worldwide.

Her take: access to frontier AI "can be turned off really quickly," which is the whole case for sovereign AI.

Plus, why Cohere open-sources some models and not others, what stops a rogue AI agent, and where AI belongs in medicine.

Watch: https://aiinside.show/episode/joelle-pineau-on-why-sovereign-ai-just-got-real

This week on AI Inside with @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social:
→ Google I/O 2026 rewrites search with AI agents
→ Gemini 3.5 and Gemini Spark announced
→ Karpathy leaves OpenAI for Anthropic
→ America's AI rebellion is growing
→ OpenAI files for IPO soon
New episode: https://aiinside.show/episode/google-changes-search-for-the-first-time-in-25-years

Second single from my upcoming Yellowgold album drops today. It's called "Too Far Gone."

I had this dream of renting a cabin, loading all my gear, and disappearing into music for a week. A friend gave me his house near the ocean for exactly that.

I converted the upstairs bedroom into my studio.

I went in with six song ideas. "Too Far Gone" was the first one I finished.

From the album CABINS, coming 2026.

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/yellowgold/too-far-gone

This week on AI Inside with @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social:
→ Apple rebuilt Intelligence on Gemini
→ Anthropic drops Fable 5, Mythos for public
→ OpenAI files its S-1, targeting $1T+
→ AI bots now outnumber humans online
→ Google pays SpaceX $920M/month
New episode → https://aiinside.show/episode/anthropics-fable-5-is-mythos-for-plebes

Qualcomm's handset boss says RAMageddon is temporary and they'll compress their way out of it. Meanwhile phones are pushing past $2,000.

Also: Qualcomm welcomes Tensor and Exynos competition, smartphones vs. wearables.

New Android Faithful: https://www.androidfaithful.com/episode/qualcomms-phone-chief-talks-ramageddon-and-ai-android-faithful-159/

I've tested a lot of display glasses on my channel. The XREAL xbx a01+ is the first pair I put on and forgot I wasn't just wearing sunglasses. 62 grams. $300. And one feature that you just don't see at this price.
Full review: https://youtu.be/gW26raWPIR4

SpaceX just pulled off the biggest IPO in recorded history. $75 billion raised, $1.75 trillion valuation, and Musk keeps 85% of the voting power. Covered it on today's free episode of AI Inside Daily: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

Viture sent me custom prescription lenses for the Beast display glasses. If you wear glasses and you've been ignoring the whole XR glasses category because you don't know how they work with your prescription, I show how they all work together.

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr8bPgUMVj0