Subvolts take AI's future anxieties and major tech plays, from crisis memos to billion-dollar chip deals. Feb 25, 2026 - Developers
- Learn about potential AI vulnerabilities like distillation attacks and tools like OpenClaw that faced issues.
- Business
- Understand Wall Street's AI anxieties, Meta's massive hardware bet, and the competitive landscape.
- Everyday users
- Hear about AI's growing impact on everyday tech like phones and the broader concerns about its future.
This episode provides a solid roundup of current AI industry news, touching on significant anxieties and major corporate investments.
It's Hard Out There For a Lobster
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AI Inside hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss a viral "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" memo, Anthropic's Claude distillation attacks, and Meta's significant AMD chip investment. The episode also covers an OpenClaw incident, Samsung's "Hey Plex" phones, and AI-generated product shots. It touches on IBM's stock drop and cybersecurity fears fueled by new AI tools.
This podcast episode covers worries about AI's future impact, like a "global intelligence crisis" memo. It also discusses how AI can be tricked and how big companies are buying lots of computer chips to build more AI.
This episode offers a broad overview of current AI anxieties and industry moves. It's for anyone tracking AI's impact on finance, cybersecurity, and major tech players. The discussion connects to frontier labs' ongoing work in model security, hardware infrastructure, and the broader implications of advanced AI, particularly Anthropic's research and Meta's strategic hardware acquisitions.
- HostJason Howell
- HostJeff Jarvis
- Episode Title: It's Hard Out There For a Lobster
- Show: AI Inside
- Length: 62 minutes
- Meta AMD Chip Deal: Up to $100 billion
- IBM Stock Drop: 13%
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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
0:41:52 - 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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