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ChatGPT 5 Faces Wall of Criticism!
Episode 85

ChatGPT 5 Faces Wall of Criticism!

Perplexity Bets on Chrome, AI Search Shake-Up, and more.

AI Inside · Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

August 13, 20251h 18m

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Show Notes

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down the troubled GPT-5 launch, including Sam Altman’s reversal of the model routing feature, Perplexity’s $34.5B offer for Chrome, and Truth Social’s new AI search engine powered by Perplexity.
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CHAPTERS:


0:01:22 - OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here's Everything You Need to Know

0:09:52 - Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

0:25:31 - Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome

0:31:07 - Trump's Truth Social is getting its own AI search engine — powered by Perplexity

0:42:13 - Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

0:47:25 - Jeff has things to say about Kashmir's latest

0:47:54 - Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

0:53:30 - Jeff's Arxiv-Mania!

1 A taxonomy of hallucinations

2 Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons

Related: Reddit will block the Internet Archive

3 AI: "We don't need you stinkin' humans." We can train ourselves and reach AGI without you. A paper.

1:02:04 - Meta’s Superintelligence AI SWAT Team Is Now Called TBD Lab

1:03:34 - Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

1:05:17 - Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot Launches in Beta on PC

1:08:21 - The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser

1:10:22 - OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT

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