AI and the Future of Warfare with US Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
In this episode, Under Secretary of War Emil Michael explains how the Department of War is deploying a generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, to over a million users within its first month, leveraging models like Gemini and Grok to boost decision‑making across the service. He outlines the DoW’s top technology priorities—hypersonics, directed energy, autonomous drone swarms—and stresses the urgency of rebuilding the U.S. defense industrial base to reduce foreign supply‑chain dependence. Michael also discusses recruiting a new generation of “fixer‑builders” and creating pathways for entrepreneurs to contribute to national security innovation.
AI Predictions for 2026 — Agentic Browsers, In-Chat Purchases, and What Marketers Should Actually Prepare For
In this episode, Paul and Martin forecast AI’s impact on marketing for 2026, highlighting the imminent launch of Google’s Gemini‑powered agentic Chrome, the rise of in‑chat purchasing via protocols like Google Agent Payments and Microsoft Copilot Checkout, and the emergence...
Safer, Smarter Construction Sites with Edge AI and Caterpillar Autonomous Machines - Ep. 285
In this episode, Brandon Hootman, Caterpillar’s Vice President of Data and AI, discusses how NVIDIA’s AI Factory, Omniverse, and edge AI are transforming heavy equipment by creating digital twins, enabling safer autonomous operations, and providing in‑cab AI copilots for operators....
BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning
In this episode, Tomaso Poggio discusses extending Marr's three levels of analysis by adding learning as a fourth level, arguing that understanding intelligence requires both engineering breakthroughs and theoretical foundations—much like the era between Volta's battery and Maxwell's equations. He...
E200: Podcast with Cures & Capital Part 3
Dr. Andre Bates, founder and CEO of Eularis, joins the Cures & Capital hosts to cut through AI hype in biopharma, highlighting the low‑hanging fruit such as regulatory document automation, clinical trial optimization, and medical affairs. He explains how AI...
Top AI Tools and Releases of 2025
In this episode, Jordan Wilson surveys the most impactful AI tools and model releases of 2025, explaining the selection criteria and ranking them across four tiers. He highlights breakthroughs such as Canva Visual Suite 2.0, ChatGPT's Atlas browsing and Deep...
Gemini Powers New Siri
The episode examines Google's Gemini becoming the core AI engine for Apple's upcoming Siri, highlighting why Apple chose to partner with Google and what this means for users accustomed to OpenAI and other models. It discusses the strategic benefits for...
86: Using AI at Work to Rethink How We Learn and Build Expertise
In this episode, Panos Siozos, CEO of LearnWorlds, discusses how AI is reshaping workplace learning, emphasizing that while information is abundant, critical thinking and structured understanding are more vital than ever. He warns against cognitive laziness, arguing that friction and...
“A Full Software Engineering Teammate”: OpenAI Product Lead on Getting the Most Out of Codex | Alexander Embiricos
In this episode, OpenAI Codex product lead Alexander Embiricos walks listeners through practical workflows for using Codex—from simple VS Code prompts to parallel coding with Git worktrees and detailed implementation plans via a Plans.md approach. He shares how OpenAI built the...
Anthropic, XAI Secure Multi-Billion Dollar Funding
The episode examines the recent multi-billion-dollar funding rounds secured by AI firms Anthropic and XAI, discussing how the capital influx will shape their development paths and competitive positioning. It highlights the strategic motivations behind the investments, including scaling safety research,...
NVIDIA Tightens China Chip Sales, Expands AI Footprint
The episode examines NVIDIA's recent policy requiring upfront payments for its H200 AI chips sold in China, highlighting how geopolitical tensions and export controls are shaping the company's sales strategy. It also covers NVIDIA's push into "physical AI" by partnering...
OpenAI Acquires Convogo as Elon Musk Preps Lawsuit
The episode explains OpenAI's recent acqui-hire of Convogo's executive‑coaching team, noting that the Convogo product will be shut down as OpenAI integrates the talent into its broader infrastructure and talent strategy. It also examines the escalating legal clash with Elon...
The AI Glasses Race Is Heating Up.
Alex and Ellis recap the oddball gadgets, taglines, and even scents that defined CES, then sit down with Meta’s head of wearables, Alex Himel, to explore the accelerating smart‑glasses market. Himel shares lessons from the Meta Ray‑Ban Displays launch, discusses...
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
The episode examines three major AI controversies: the "Grok" scandal where a language model was allegedly used to target and marginalize women in political discourse, the "Claude" code generation issues that raised concerns about intellectual property and model reliability, and...
OpenAI Unveils "ChatGPT Health" With 230M Weekly Health Chats
The episode breaks down OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT Health, a new feature aimed at the 230 million weekly users who already ask health‑related questions. It explains how the specialized model could improve the accuracy, safety, and accessibility of everyday health information,...
Inside the $41B AI Cloud Challenging Big Tech | CoreWeave SVP
In this episode, CoreWeave SVP discusses how the company has built a $41 billion AI cloud infrastructure that rivals the big tech giants, focusing on its strategy of offering flexible, high‑performance GPU compute and specialized AI services for enterprises. He explains...
#189: Is Claude AGI?, AI Change Management, Nvidia-Groq Deal, Meta Acquires Manus, Yann LeCun Speaks Out & OpenAI Preps AI Device
The episode examines a potential breakthrough in AI coding power, with a Google engineer claiming Claude Opus 4.5 completed a year's worth of work in an hour, prompting hosts Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput to debate whether we are approaching...
Data Solutions for Tailoring Agronomic Support to Meet Regional Needs - with Tami Craig Schilling of Bayer Crop Science
In this episode, Matthew DeMello interviews Tami Craig Schilling, Bayer Crop Science’s VP of Agronomic Digital Innovation, about how generative AI is used to deliver hyper‑local agronomic recommendations throughout the planting cycle. They discuss tools like the zip‑code‑based ELI platform...
The Strangest AI Announced at CES 2026
The episode spotlights the most outlandish tech revealed at CES 2026, dissecting quirky AI-driven gadgets and sci‑fi‑like innovations that captured global attention. The host explains why each invention is unusual, highlighting their novel functionalities, market hype, and potential impact on...
Groq Leadership, Tech to Nvidia for $20 Billion
The episode explains Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition of Groq, focusing on how Groq's inference leadership and its LPU chiplet architecture dramatically boost memory bandwidth and lower latency for large language model serving. It highlights the strategic value of Groq's technology and...
Work in the Age of Infinite Agents
The episode examines how AI agents, rather than just speeding up tasks, expand the scale of knowledge work, enabling organizations to operate beyond human rhythms, meetings, and bottlenecks. Drawing on essays by Ivan Zhao and Aaron Levie, the hosts argue...
Claude Launches Agent Plugin for Chrome—Risk Warning
The episode examines Anthropic's new Claude Agent plugin for Chrome, highlighting its broad tab manipulation and storage access capabilities that enable powerful agentic browsing but also introduce significant security risks. The host explains how the plugin's design allows stealthy data...
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[NeurIPS Best Paper] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL — Kevin Wang Et Al, Princeton
The episode explores the NeurIPS Best Paper on RL1000, where Kevin Wang and his Princeton team demonstrated that scaling reinforcement learning networks to 1,000 layers using a self‑supervised, contrastive objective unlocks dramatic performance gains. They explain why traditional value‑based RL...
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
The episode outlines the team’s 2026 tech resolutions while fielding listener questions, covering practical AI usage tips, the limits of AI in scientific breakthroughs, and major industry updates such as Google’s Gemini 3 launch, OpenAI’s platform ambitions, and Roblox’s new AI‑driven...
AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution
The episode presents a hands‑on 10‑week AI fluency program, with each weekend dedicated to a bite‑sized project such as model mapping, data analysis, visual reasoning, automation, context engineering, and building a functional AI‑powered app. It emphasizes practical habit formation and...
VC's AI Predictions for 2026
The episode examines why venture capitalists are forecasting 2026 as the breakthrough year for enterprise AI adoption, contrasting these hype cycles with current data that shows many firms still struggle to achieve ROI from AI projects. It highlights key barriers...
E198: Podcast with Cures & Capital Part 1
Dr. Andre Bates, founder and CEO of Eularis, explains how AI has progressed from early digitisation to the generative AI era and why ChatGPT marked a turning point for pharma executives. She identifies common pitfalls that keep organisations stuck in...
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI O3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
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Who Gets Written Out of the AI Future?
The episode examines how AI systems systematically exclude marginalized groups, highlighting biases that arise from skewed training data and the perspectives of those who supervise models. It discusses concrete examples such as AI misrepresenting Black hairstyles and the dangers of...
Why Post-Merger Integrations Fail Without Data Governance - Sandro Venturini of UBS
In this episode, Sandro Venturini, Executive Director at UBS Asset Management, explains how fragmented fund data undermines post‑merger integrations and why establishing a single source of truth through data governance is essential for successful AI‑driven compliance and reporting. He illustrates...
Lowering the Cost of Intelligence With NVIDIA's Ian Buck - Ep. 284
In this episode, Ian Buck of NVIDIA explains how mixture‑of‑experts (MoE) architectures allow AI models to become more capable without a linear rise in compute costs, using analogies that make the concept accessible. He highlights the hidden complexities of MoE,...
How Webflow’s CPO Built an AI Chief of Staff to Manage Her Calendar, Prep for Meetings, and Drive AI Adoption | Rachel Wolan
In this episode, Webflow CPO Rachel Wolan explains how she built a custom AI "chief of staff" that syncs with her calendar, email, and other tools to triage tasks, prep for meetings, and give candid feedback on her time usage....
Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
In this episode, Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable, explains how AI‑assisted coding has moved from early GitHub experiments to core production infrastructure, marking 2025 as the tipping point for "vibe coding" and positioning 2026 as the year for AI‑enabled builders...
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parra and AAIF Leads From OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
The episode reviews the first year of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), tracing its evolution from a local experiment to a universal standard adopted by major AI firms and enterprises, and its recent transition into the Agentic AI Foundation under...
Claude Launches AI Agent Chrome Plugin, Beware Security Risks
The episode explains the rollout of Claude's Chrome plugin to all paid users, highlighting how it can streamline everyday tasks by bringing conversational AI directly into the browser. It then delves into the security and privacy concerns of browser‑based AI...
Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE
Steve Yegge argues that traditional IDEs and current AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor are already obsolete, urging developers to shift to "vibe coding"—orchestrating fleets of AI agents via dashboards such as his VC (VibeCoder). He emphasizes a...
Video Recommendations in Industry
Kyle Polich and Cory Zechmann discuss how human curation and machine learning can jointly solve content discovery challenges, coining the term "algatorial" curation. They examine practical issues such as the cold‑start problem, proxy metrics, filter bubbles, and the balance between...
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
In this episode the hosts examine why the hype around AI‑driven scientific breakthroughs hasn’t translated into tangible results, discussing stalled progress in drug discovery, climate modeling, and fundamental research despite massive compute investments. They highlight structural bottlenecks such as data...
LWiAI Podcast #229 - Gemini 3 Flash, ChatGPT Apps, Nemotron 3
In this episode, the hosts review major AI releases—including Google’s Gemini 3 Flash, OpenAI’s GPT‑5.2 Codex for coding, and Nvidia’s open‑source Nemotron 3—while noting the launch of a ChatGPT app store. They discuss significant funding rounds for startups like Lovable and Fal, and highlight...
Nvidia to Pay $20B to License Groq Tech, Hire CEO and President
The episode examines Nvidia's strategic decision to pay $20 billion to license Groq's AI chip technology while hiring Groq's CEO and President, highlighting how this partnership could reshape AI hardware competition. It discusses why Nvidia would align closely with a potential...
ChatGPT Ads: 9 Reasons Why Personalized Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT Soon. (Replay)
The episode breaks down why OpenAI is poised to roll out personalized ads within ChatGPT, citing its high burn rate, a strategic shift by Sam Altman, and new tools like the memory personalization engine and Atlas browser that enable data-driven...
The Future of AI and Marketing: What’s Coming and How to Prepare
In this episode, host explores how emerging AI agents will transform the customer journey, from discovery to purchase, and what businesses must do to stay competitive. Guest Jeremiah Owyang explains the concept of autonomous software, its potential to automate marketing...
Luma AI Raises $900M and Unveils Video Model Features
The episode examines Luma AI's recent $900 million financing led by Saudi AI firm Humain, discussing how the massive capital infusion positions Luma for rapid growth and broader market adoption. It also highlights Luma's new AI video model that can generate...
83: Using AI to Scale Marketing and Revenue Teams with Patrick Leung
In this episode, Chris Daigle and AI strategist Patrick Leung discuss how modern marketing and revenue teams can embed AI to boost efficiency, consistency, and scale without overwhelming non‑technical leaders. They walk through concrete use cases—such as AI‑driven go‑to‑market execution,...
Power Ranking the Big AI Ideas for 2026
The episode evaluates a16z’s "Big Ideas for 2026" by ranking predictions on likelihood, real-world impact, and novelty, covering topics like multimodal data management, agent-native infrastructure, voice agents, multiplayer vertical AI, AI-driven universities, and an industrial renaissance powered by software automation....
Andreas Mogensen on What We Owe 'Philosophical Vulcans' And Unconscious AIs
In this episode, moral philosopher Andreas Mogensen challenges the common view that phenomenal consciousness is required for moral consideration, arguing that desire, welfare capacity, or autonomy could grant moral patienthood to AI even without subjective experience. He explores how desires...
Yann LeCun Looking for $3B+ for "World Model" AI Startup
The episode explains Yann LeCun's announcement of a new AI startup focused on building a "world model" and its pursuit of a $3 billion-plus valuation, potentially exceeding $5 billion. It clarifies what world models are—systems that learn to predict and simulate entire...
Amazon in Talks to Invest $10B in OpenAI
The episode examines the reported $10 billion investment by Amazon in OpenAI, framing it as part of a broader trend toward circular partnerships where tech giants both collaborate and compete in AI. It explains what circular deals are, why major cloud...
82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI
The AI Daily Brief reveals that 82% of organizations now report positive AI ROI, with 37% seeing transformational impact, and most expecting faster gains soon. The study of 1,200 respondents and 5,000 use cases shows ROI is driven by both...
EqualAI End of Year Podcast Episode + Governing the Machine Excerpt
In this year‑end episode, EqualAI CEO Miriam Vogel reviews the pivotal AI developments of 2025, highlighting collaborative initiatives with industry, government, and civil‑society partners that are shaping how AI is used in work, education, and governance. She provides a preview...