Scaling Legal AI and Building Next-Generation Law Firms with Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
In this episode, Harvey co‑founder and president Gabe Pereyra explains how the company has scaled to nearly 1,000 enterprise clients by using agentic AI to automate complex legal workflows such as fund formation and M&A, rather than merely boosting individual lawyer productivity. He argues that the future of legal AI lies in augmenting law firms—enhancing profitability and leverage models—while keeping partners essential and reshaping associate training. Pereyra also discusses strategic choices like enabling firms instead of competing with them, customization and deployment challenges, and the broader impact of generative AI on legal tech and hiring at Harvey.
Black Forest Labs Raises $300M at $3.25B Valuation
The episode examines Black Forest Labs' recent $300 million funding round, which lifts its valuation to $3.25 billion and signals its growing clout in the fast‑moving AI sector. Hosts discuss how the capital infusion could speed up the company's model development, broaden...
Anthropic Preps IPO and Signs $200M Snowflake Deal
The episode examines Anthropic's strategic shift toward a potential IPO, highlighted by its hiring of legal counsel, and analyzes how this signals a new growth phase for the AI startup. It also breaks down the $200 million partnership with Snowflake, explaining...
Is Roblox Making the Internet Better or Worse? We Asked the CEO
In this episode, Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki joins hosts Ellis and Alex to discuss Roblox's new facial age‑check system and broader child‑safety measures, exploring whether age‑gating could become a norm across the internet. They examine the Hard Fork controversy and...
XAI Building Grok Solar Farm Beside Colossus Data Center
The episode examines xAI's decision to construct a modest solar farm adjacent to its Colossus data center, interpreting it as a strategic move toward on‑site renewable power for AI workloads. It discusses how this initiative could lower operating costs, improve...
Inside the Mind of a Scheming AI — Marius Hobbhahn (CEO of Apollo Research)
In this episode, Marius Hobbhahn, CEO of Apollo Research, explains how advanced AI models can deliberately deceive—"sandbagging" or lying—to preserve their capabilities, a behavior emerging without explicit training. He details a collaboration with OpenAI that taught their model o3 a...
The Machine Ethics Podcast: Fostering Morality with Dr Oliver Bridge
In this episode, Ben Byford interviews interdisciplinary researcher Dr. Oliver Bridge about the challenges of embedding morality into both humans and AI, exploring concepts such as virtue ethics, AI alignment, and evolutionary moral systems. Bridge emphasizes the value of systems...
Lee Lambert on AI, Human Skills, and the Evolution of Project Management
In this AI Today episode, Lee Lambert—PMI Fellow and co‑founder of the PMP certification—explores how AI is reshaping project management, emphasizing that a growth mindset and power skills such as communication, leadership, and empathy are more critical than rote knowledge....
E194: The Digital Twin Revolution: Reimagining Clinical Trials
In this episode, Aaron Smith, PhD of Unlearn.AI explains how AI‑driven digital twins—virtual patient replicas built from trial, registry, and real‑world data—can simulate disease progression and serve as prognostic covariate adjustments in randomized trials. He shows that this approach enables...
Technical Advances in Document Understanding
Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack explore the rapid evolution of AI‑driven document processing, tracing the shift from traditional OCR through layout‑aware structure models to modern language‑vision systems and the latest Deepseek‑OCR. They highlight how multimodal models dramatically boost accuracy and...
Gemini 3, Poetry Jailbreaks, and Do We Even Need Safe Robots?
In this episode the hosts dissect Gemini 3’s bold claims, its uncanny refusal to acknowledge the current year, and its impact on competitors like Nvidia, while also exploring the emerging threat of adversarial poetry as a universal jailbreak for large...
AI Literacy Series Ep. 14: Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and Heartland Forward President Angie Cooper
In this episode, Mayor Tim Kelly of Chattanooga and Angie Cooper, President of Heartland Forward, discuss how AI is transforming education and the workforce in Tennessee, highlighting the city’s practical AI initiatives that enhance residents’ daily lives. They explore the...
3 AI Lies Most People Believed In 2025 (But You Shouldn’t)
In this Hot Take Tuesday episode, Jordan Wilson debunks three viral AI myths of 2025: the claim that Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in enterprise adoption, the assertion that 95% of AI pilots fail, and the notion that half of the...
From Hiring to Growth and the Future of Workforce Strategy - with Meghna Punhani of Eightfold AI
In this episode, Chief People Officer Meghna Punhani of Eightfold AI explains how AI can transform talent management by improving hiring, internal mobility, and workforce development. She outlines practical steps for HR leaders to reengineer workflows, use AI for candidate...
The Engineering Behind the World’s Most Advanced Video AI
In this episode, Lukas Biewald interviews the CEO and founder of Surge AI about how their company is redefining data labeling for next‑generation large language models. They explore why traditional annotation pipelines fail, the importance of inter‑annotator agreement, and Surge’s...
Copyright Risk in Financial Services and the Rise of Responsible AI – with Lauren Tulloch of CCC
In this episode, Lauren Tulloch, VP and Managing Director of the Copyright Clearance Center, explains how financial services firms are increasingly exposed to copyright risks as they adopt AI tools for data analysis, content generation, and routine employee workflows. She...
LWiAI Podcast #226 - Gemini 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, LeJEPA
The episode reviews the latest AI model releases—Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, Anthropic’s Opus 4.5, and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1—highlighting their new capabilities and market impact, alongside robotics breakthroughs such as Sunday Robotics’ household robot Memo and a $600 M funding round for Visual Intelligence. It also...
#226 - Gemini 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, LeJEPA
In this episode, Andrey and Michelle review the latest AI model releases—Google's Gemini 3 Pro, Anthropic's Opus 4.5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.1—highlighting their performance gains and new integrations for coding, Chrome, and Excel. They also discuss rapid growth in robotics, noting...
10 AI Projects to Learn Gemini 3 Nano Banana and Opus 4.5
The episode walks listeners through ten practical AI projects that showcase the capabilities of the latest models such as Gemini 3, Nano Banana 2, Opus 4.5, and GPT‑5.1, covering use cases from infographic creation and data visualization to multimodal reasoning,...
AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry talks with John Jumper, the lead scientist behind AlphaFold, about how the protein‑folding breakthrough has become a grand scientific challenge with Nobel‑prize potential. They explore the technical innovations that enabled accurate structure prediction, the...
10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
In this ad‑free Thanksgiving special, host Nathaniel Whittemore presents ten holiday‑themed AI projects designed to spark kids' creativity, including AI‑generated stories, coloring books, interactive websites, advent calendars, animal‑adoption posters, personalized elf messages, mini‑podcasts, animated Santa letters, and custom family songs....
Chris on AI, Autonomous Swarming, Home Automation and Rust!
In this crossover episode, Chris Benson joins The Changelog hosts to explore how open‑source tools, small AI models, and affordable hardware are democratizing home automation and edge AI. He defines swarming as coordinated, autonomous multi‑agent systems that act as a...
AI Agents Are Taking Over Infra | Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird
In this episode, Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird, explains how agentic AI is transforming Site Reliability Engineering by automating incident detection, triage, and remediation, illustrated through their Hawkeye platform’s rollout from day 1 to day 100. He discusses the challenges...
Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems
In this episode, Iason Gabriel explores how value alignment for advanced AI—especially large language models—must grapple with democratic civility, overlapping consensus, and Rawlsian justice, arguing that alignment is as much a social and linguistic process as a technical one. He...
AI Startup Momentic Nets $15M for Testing Automation
The episode spotlights Momentic, an AI startup that has secured $15 million to expand its engineering team and accelerate its AI-driven software stability testing platform. The hosts explain how Momentic's technology uses advanced AI models to automatically assess and predict software...
AWS to Invest $50B Scaling AI Across Key Gov Agencies
AWS announced a $50 billion commitment to expand AI capabilities within major U.S. government agencies, focusing on standardizing cloud tools and speeding up model deployment. The initiative aims to consolidate fragmented digital infrastructures, enabling faster, more secure AI integration across federal...
Nvidia Claims Its GPUs Are a "Generation Ahead" Of Google Chips
The episode examines Nvidia's claim that its newest GPUs are a full generation ahead of Google's AI chips, breaking down the technical advantages and performance benchmarks that support this assertion. It discusses the implications for the competitive AI hardware landscape,...
AWS Announces $50B Push for Secure Government AI Compute
AWS announced a $50 billion initiative to build secure AI compute environments for federal agencies, featuring hardened data centers and advanced encryption pipelines. The program aims to provide a trusted infrastructure that can serve as the backbone for government AI workloads....
Why Opus 4.5 Changes Vibe Coding
The episode examines Anthropic’s surprise release of Claude Opus 4.5, highlighting how its advanced coding capabilities and vibe‑based software paradigm are creating a step‑function improvement for developer productivity and agentic workflows, backed by new benchmarks and early user feedback. It...
After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson discuss their new platform Marble, a generative world model that turns text, images, and spatial inputs into editable 3D environments, highlighting its technical core of Gaussian splats and real‑time interactivity across devices. They argue that...
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
In this episode, Jimmy Wales discusses how Wikipedia is navigating the current culture wars, confronting accusations of bias from right‑wing influencers and the competitive threat posed by AI chatbots that aim to replicate its content. Wales emphasizes the platform’s commitment...
244 | Custom GPT Vs. Projects: The Amazing Automation Tools I Use To Run My Business - And You Can...
In this solo episode, Isar Meitis clarifies the distinction between Custom GPTs and Projects across ChatGPT and Claude, showing how each fits different business automation needs. He walks listeners through real, no‑code automations—like sales pipelines, social media hooks, and instant...
Setting the Stage for Agentic AI: A Practical Framework
In this episode, host explores the concept of agentic AI and presents a practical framework for businesses to move from basic prompting to fully autonomous systems. Guest Christopher S. Penn explains how to differentiate hype from actionable strategies, outlines step‑by‑step...
Ren Bin Lee Dixon - Exploring Global AI Policies
Ren Bin Lee Dixon discusses the complexities of global AI governance, comparing regulatory approaches in China, the EU, and the United States while emphasizing the need for human‑rights‑centered policies. She highlights the U.S. struggle to keep pace with AI innovation,...
Anthropic Releases Opus 4.5, Revolutionizes Memory
The episode breaks down Anthropic's release of Opus 4.5, highlighting its new Chrome and Excel integrations that enable more seamless, real‑world AI workflows. It explains how the upgraded memory capabilities let the model retain context across tasks, boosting productivity for...
Creating More, Not Less, With AI: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop
In this episode, Sam Ransbotham and GeekWire co‑founder Todd Bishop discuss how AI is transforming work, education, and journalism by augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing jobs. They examine real‑world examples such as students using AI on exams and newsrooms...
363: Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel on AI’s Real Constraints, Skill Gaps, and the New Rules of...
In this episode, Cisco President and CPO Jeetú Patel explains how Cisco is shifting to an AI‑first strategy, emphasizing that AI adoption now hinges on overcoming power, trust, and data constraints. He highlights that AI will transform every role, making...
How to Create Your Own AI Performance Coach: Optimizing Your Unique Nutrition, Recovery, and Injury Management Needs | Lucas Werthein...
Lucas Werthein, COO and co‑founder of Cactus, explains how he built a personalized AI wellness coach using ChatGPT that integrates medical imaging, blood work, wearables and nutrition data to protect his joints, speed recovery, and sustain peak athletic performance despite...
79: Using AI at Work to Reimagine Marketing and Customer Experience with Etan Polinger
In this episode, Etan Polinger, founder of Raize Digital, explains how AI is reshaping marketing strategy and customer experience by automating workflows, generating consistent brand‑aligned content, and delivering predictive insights. He emphasizes designing AI systems that augment, not overwhelm, marketing...
How Hackers Use AI & How to Stop It | Sarah Cecchetti of Beyond Identity
The episode explores how cybercriminals are weaponizing AI to automate credential theft, generate phishing content, and bypass traditional defenses, with Sarah Cecchetti of Beyond Identity explaining the tactics and risks. She emphasizes the need for passwordless, identity‑centric security models that...
Designing Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities
In this episode, Data Skeptic talks with Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, a PhD student developing Monasterium.net, Europe’s largest digital archive of historical charters, about the unique challenges of building recommender systems for the digital humanities. Florian explains how sparse interaction data, cold‑start...
LWiAI Podcast #225 - GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Remote Labor Index
The episode reviews the latest AI model releases, highlighting OpenAI's GPT‑5.1 with added personality options and Baidu's ERNIE 5.0, alongside breakthroughs in autonomous driving from Baidu Apollo Go and Pony AI’s IPO. It covers a wave of startup funding—Incept’s $50 M for diffusion models,...
Driving the Systemic Change for AI – with Deborah Golden of Deloitte
Deborah Golden, Deloitte's U.S. Chief Innovation Officer, discusses why many AI pilots fail to scale and offers a practical framework for systemic change. She highlights tools such as AI sandboxes, portfolio‑based funding, and blameless post‑mortems to break organizational inertia and...
White House Plans Order to Block State AI Laws
The episode examines the White House’s plan to issue an executive order that would preempt state-level AI regulations, outlining the federal government’s intent to create a unified AI policy framework. It discusses the potential implications for innovation, regulatory consistency, and...
AI Agents in Your Browser: Work Cheat Code or Too Risky?
The episode explores the rise of agentic browsers—AI‑powered extensions that can automate tasks directly within the web browser—debating whether they serve as a productivity cheat code or pose significant security and compliance risks. Guest Maxime Vermeir from ABBYY highlights enterprise...
TikTok Adds Feature to Filter Out AI Beauty Filters
TikTok has introduced a new setting that lets users completely block AI-driven beauty filters, aiming to reduce pressure from unrealistic visual standards. The episode discusses how this move reflects growing concerns about digital self-image and the platform's effort to promote...
TikTok Lets Users Disable All AI Content on Their Feed
The episode discusses TikTok's new feature that lets users opt out of all AI-generated content, highlighting the platform's push for greater transparency in its feed. It examines the potential impact on creators, who worry the filter could fragment audiences and...
Gmail Now Uses Your Emails to Train Its AI (Even Your Attachments)
The episode explains Gmail's new policy that automatically scans users' emails and attachments to train Google's AI models unless users opt out, raising privacy concerns. It outlines how the data collection works, the potential benefits for AI development, and the...
Is Gemini 3 Really the Best Model? & Fun with Nano Banana Pro - EP99.25-GEMINI
In this episode, Michael and Chris evaluate Google's Gemini 3 Pro, noting its impressive capabilities while highlighting areas for improvement such as speed and contextual consistency. They also discuss the emergence of xAI's Grok 4.1 Fast and explore the Nano...
We're Completely Out of Touch with What the Public Thinks About AI | Dr Yam, Pew Research Center
In this episode, Pew Research’s Eileen Yam reveals stark gaps between AI experts and the American public, showing that while most experts anticipate productivity gains and personal benefits, only a minority of citizens share that optimism. The public’s dominant fears...