# We Got Slopped in 2025

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Published: 2025-12-31T01:53:00+00:00
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This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack AI consolidation as Nvidia licenses Groq's fast inference chips and Meta buys Manus for $2 billion. Growing anti-AI sentiment over jobs, mental health, and politics emerges alongside OpenAI's high-stakes preparedness role. Finally, Jason and Jeff reflect on 2025's jagged progress and 2026's agent and surveillance shifts. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 3:27 - Nvidia, joining Big Tech deal spree, to license Groq technology, hire executives 4:50 - Explaining the Groq deal 15:11 - Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about 16:50 - 3 reasons buying Manus could give Meta a much-needed AI boost 27:41 - An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It? Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? 29:46 - Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’ 45:11 - ‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI 47:15 - * Sell It Before You Make It: Revolutionizing E-Commerce with Personalized AI-Generated Items 51:27 - * What Human-Horse Interactions may Teach us About Effective HumanAI Interactions 52:27 - * FakeParts: a New Family of AI-Generated DeepFakes 55:45 - Karpathy's year in review 58:37 - https://hbr.org/2025/12/the-hbr-charts-that-help-explain-2025 1:04:29 - Jason: 1. Love/Hate and Confusion (people don't know how they really feel about AI)2. General agents show potential but need a LOT of work3. AI for companionship 1:05:39 - Jason:1. How productive ARE we really?2. AI Shopping moves beyond the demo3. A budding surveillance problem Lea…

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