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Saleema Amershi is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, where she leads the teams behind AutoGen and Magentic-One. She joins the AI Inside podcast to discuss what happens when AI agents stop working in isolation and start collaborating, transacting, and negotiating with each other at scale. We cover the challenges of multi-agent orchestration, why current frontier models show a dangerous first-proposal bias that favors speed over quality, and how her team built the Magentic Marketplace to simulate agent-to-agent commerce. We also dig into agent manipulation, the tension between walled gardens and open ecosystems, and what duty of care means when an AI is acting on your behalf.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Podcast Start

01:46 - Introduce Saleema Amershi

0:02:04 - Talk about the challenges surrounding the orchestration of these agents together. And what limits this collaboration today, is it a technical limitation or something deeper?

0:05:10 - OpenClaw perspectives

0:06:42 - From your research, why would these projects fall apart? And actually, are companies setting themselves up for failure by moving too fast?

0:07:53 - What IS Magentic AI

0:12:16 - Collaboration between humans, AI and the agents.

0:18:45 - Agents eliminate the scarcity of attention

0:20:04 - You found that these frontier models that we're often told are ready to handle complex tasks like these were getting stunted by too many choices. They were showing a strong bias toward whatever option showed up first regardless of the quality. So, what's going on there?

0:24:07 - The first-proposal bias

0:33:25 - You co-published 18 guidelines for human-AI interaction back in 2019. When you look at those original guidelines through the lens of what you're working on today, what still holds up and what could you not have anticipated back then?

0:36:58 - What are the lessons for marketers and sellers?

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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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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Claude Opus 4.6’s new role as a financial‑research engine, discuss how GPT‑5.3 Codex is reshaping full‑stack coding workflows, and explore Matt Shumer’s warning that AI agents will touch nearly every job in just a few years. We unpack how Super Bowl AI ads are reframing public perception, examine Waymo’s use of DeepMind’s Genie 3 world model to train autonomous vehicles on rare edge‑case scenarios, and also cover OpenAI’s ad‑baked free ChatGPT tiers, HBR’s findings on how AI expands workloads instead of lightening them, and new evidence that AI mislabels medical conditions in real‑world settings.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Start

0:01:59 - Anthropic Releases New Model That’s Adept at Financial Research

Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’

0:10:00 - Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex

0:14:42 - Something Big Is Happening

0:33:25 - Can these Super Bowl ads make Americans love AI?

0:36:52 - Dunkin’ Donuts digitally de-aged ‘90s actors and I’m terrified

0:39:47 - AI.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70mn in biggest-ever website name deal

0:42:11 - OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT, draws early attention from advertisers and analysts

0:48:27 - Waymo Says Genie 3 Simulations Can Help Boost Robotaxi Rollout

0:53:30 - AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

1:02:08 - As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

1:04:48 - Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own

1:06:53 - Google goes long with 100-year bond

1:09:18 - OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down the rise of Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, and how it claims to let 1.5 million bots argue, joke, and organize like humans. We explore what it means when almost all of those agents are actually human‑driven proxies, and whether this is a playful experiment or a worrying blueprint for AI‑driven behavior at scale. We also question why anyone would need a social network just for AI agents, and what security and privacy risks OpenClaw‑style tools introduce when combined with an engagement‑driven platform that rewards risky actions.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:03:42 - AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast - Ars Technica

0:06:00 - Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

0:31:47 - Why Anthropic's latest AI tool is hammering legal-software stocks

0:38:25 - Anthropic says ‘Claude will remain ad-free,’ unlike ChatGPT

0:43:05 - Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off

0:45:27 - DuckDuckGo Asked Its Users How They Feel About AI Search. 90% Hate It

0:48:14 - Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt

0:54:29 - Rabbit’s Next AI Gadget Is a ‘Cyberdeck’ for Vibe Coding

1:01:14 - Xcode moves into agentic coding with deeper OpenAI and Anthropic integrations

1:02:33 - Switching to Gemini from another chatbot may soon get much easier

1:05:41 - Musk’s SpaceX Combines With xAI at $1.25 Trillion Valuation

1:09:57 - OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month
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On this week’s AI Inside, Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell test Google’s new Gemini-powered Auto-Browse Chrome agents, wonder whether Yahoo Scout really matters, question Apple’s Gemini-fueled Siri revamp and rumored AI pin, and explore Mozilla’s “rebel alliance” bet on open-source AI.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Podcast begins

0:04:30 - Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks

0:26:42 - Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search

0:38:31 - Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI

0:42:59 - Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable

0:47:10 - Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavyweights OpenAI, Anthropic

0:56:14 - Google DeepMind launches AI tool to help identify genetic drivers of disease

0:59:05 - The EU tells Google to give external AI assistants the same access to Android as Gemini has

1:01:07 - Shopify Merchants to Pay 4% Fee on ChatGPT Checkout Sales

1:02:23 - Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference

1:03:50 - EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes
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