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On this week’s AI Inside with Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis, I unpack the viral “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” memo, Anthropic’s claims of Claude distillation attacks, an OpenClaw inbox meltdown, Meta’s massive AMD chip bet, Samsung’s “Hey Plex” phones, Pomelli’s AI product shots, and Claude’s new Wall Street push.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Start

0:02:55 - THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

0:04:45 - Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street’s Deep Anxiety About AI Future

0:08:24 - IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

0:09:22 - Cybersecurity stocks drop for a second day as new Anthropic tool fuels AI disruption fears

0:20:00 - Anthropic: Detecting and preventing distillation attacks

0:24:19 - American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model

0:33:41 - Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI [Openclaw] Can Just Delete Your Stuff

0:37:39 - Google clamps down on Antigravity 'malicious usage', cutting off OpenClaw users in sweeping ToS enforcement move

0:41:52 - Jia Zhangke Creates AI Video With Seedance 2.0

0:42:29 - The video (translation CC available)

0:52:21 - Facebook owner Meta to buy AI chips from AMD in deal worth up to $100 billion

0:53:08 - Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power

0:54:13 - Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI

0:55:22 - Google: Create studio-quality marketing assets with Photoshoot in Pomelli

0:56:55 - Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR

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