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• Google XR Director Juston Payne: Project Aura, Android XR, Lessons from Google Glass

  This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Juston Payne is Google's Senior Director of Product Management for XR and the product mind behind Android XR and the newly announced Project Aura. He joins the AI Inside podcast to explain how Google plans to succeed where Google Glass fell short over a decade ago. We dig into why the smart glasses market today resembles the iPhone before the App Store existed, how Google's platform approach lowers the lift for developers, and why multimodal AI makes this the right moment for XR to take off. Juston also shares a personal story about his son navigating Rome with nothing but prototype glasses. Tune in for an essential conversation about where computing is headed next. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 - Podcast begins 00:00:44 - Introducing Juston Payne, Google's Senior Director of Product Management for XR 00:02:13 - Why Google Sees XR as the Next Major Computing Platform 00:05:14 - Google's Ecosystem Advantage and the Developer Problem 00:09:22 - Gemini and XR: A Perfect Multimodal Pairing 00:13:17 - Google Maps and the AI Pipeline Powering Immersive Experiences 00:16:44 - The 10-Year-Old Navigating Rome with Prototype Glasses 00:18:54 - Juston Reveals His Original Google Glass Explorer Edition 00:21:59 - The Three Things Missing from Glass: Hardware, Platform, and AI 00:26:02 - Privacy, Cameras, and Cultural Acceptance 00:27:43 - The Xreal Partnership and Project Aura 00:33:04 - Thank you to Juston Payne for joining the AI Inside podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• Introducing Smart Talks with IBM

  Jason Howell recommends the Smart Talks with IBM podcast where business leaders, technologists and creatives explore how AI and other innovations are transforming industries. This episode is sponsored by Smart Talks with IBM. Check it out here: https://apple.co/43yY2xd.

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• What a Difference Three Years Makes

  Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack Apple's new AI chief Amar Subramanya, ChatGPT's third birthday reflections, and how Silicon Valley is spoofing websites to train its AI agents without getting blocked by the real thing. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00:00 - Podcast start 0:02:50 - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/30/chatgpt-third-birthday/ 0:05:30 - https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/30/chatgpt-launched-three-years-ago-today/ 0:16:25 - https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/apple-just-named-a-new-ai-chief-with-google-and-microsoft-expertise-as-john-giannandrea-steps-down/ 0:22:42 - https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/amazon-releases-an-impressive-new-ai-chip-and-teases-a-nvidia-friendly-roadmap/ 0:29:35 - https://www.rohan-paul.com/p/semianalysis-on-google-tpu-vs-nvidia - https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-swing-at-the 0:33:25 - https://archive.ph/YsUrX#selection-285.0-285.85 0:39:00 - https://deadline.com/2025/11/james-cameron-gen-ai-horrifying-human-art-sacred-avatar-1236631387/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=692d672d138b980001cfe084&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawOaZNRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCV25hNGNVSm95Tzk0S3pVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsePuPpiv_rP7ZGwwz3XHIDvCxbAILSEt1DcFsZBIT8kw3T9uUkOQR3VqHU5_aem_Er2ggpoE7126yXy0m4i_lg 0:43:53 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/technology/silicon-valley-builds-amazon-and-gmail-copycats-to-train-ai-agents.html 0:52:53 - https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-just-dropped-two-insanely-powerful-ai-models-that-rival-gpt-5-and 0:55:37 - Runway unveils Gen-4.5 video generation model that tops Video Arena 1:00:49 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/technology/college-computer-science-ai-boom.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• Introducing Smart Talks with IBM

  Jason Howell recommends the Smart Talks with IBM podcast where business leaders, technologists and creatives explore how AI and other innovations are transforming industries. This episode is sponsored by Smart Talks with IBM. Check it out here: https://apple.co/43yY2xd.

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• Behind the Scenes of Nano Banana Pro

  Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google’s Nano Banana Pro launch and Jason's unique sit-down with the leaders of Gemini 3, Nvidia’s earnings amid AI bubble talks, Google’s TPU deal with Meta, and Warner Music’s Suno settlement. They also cover Trump’s Genesis Mission, Gmail AI concerns, Anthropic Opus 4.5, and Character AI’s age ban. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Chapters: 6:43 - Google launches Nano Banana Pro, an updated AI image generator powered by Gemini 3 8:21 - Nate B Jones example of how he used Nano Bana Pro 15:33 - Behind the scenes with Google's Gemini team - 3 insights that surprised me the most And these features come to NotebookLM 23:39 - Nvidia’s Strong Results Show AI Fears Are Premature 24:30 - Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push 26:03 - Nvidia's happy for Google 32:18 - What to know about Trump’s order for the AI project ‘Genesis Mission’ 38:07 - Google denies analyzing your emails for AI training - here's what happened 41:22 - Warner Music Group strikes ‘landmark’ deal with Suno; settles copyright lawsuit against AI music generator 44:31 - Suno creators making 7m songs a day; trained on only $2k 51:54 - Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model 55:36 - Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions 58:02 - Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype 58:53 - Sam Altman and Jony Ive have a 'lick' test for OpenAI's mysterious AI device, which they expect within the next 2 years 1:00:43 - OpenAI Partner Foxconn Plans Multibillion-Dollar US AI Push 1:01:34 - Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup 1:03:09 - Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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