Introducing Maturity Maps — A New Way to Measure AI Adoption
In this episode, the host introduces AI Maturity Maps, a new framework for measuring an organization’s AI and agentic readiness across six dimensions: deployment depth, systems integration, data, outcomes, people, and governance. He explains why traditional benchmarks like Gartner’s Magic Quadrant are insufficient for the fast‑moving AI era and shares how his firms, AIDB and Superintelligent, built AI opportunity radars and surveyed over 150,000 professionals to calibrate the on‑track maturity line. The discussion highlights the "capability overhang"—the gap between what AI can do and what companies actually achieve—illustrating how maturity maps can reveal hidden gaps and guide strategic investments. Real‑world examples, such as KPMG’s enterprise‑wide AI adoption, demonstrate the tangible impact of moving from tool‑centric approaches to holistic AI operating models.
What Happens When a Public Company Goes All In on AI
In this episode, a16z partner David Haper talks with Owen Jennings, Block’s executive officer, about the company’s bold decision to cut roughly 40% of its workforce and reorganize around AI‑driven small squads. Jennings explains how breakthroughs in large‑language‑model coding tools...
3 Consumers Retailers Must Know in the AI Era | Reimagining Retail
In this episode of Reimagining Retail, host Susie David‑Canyon and analysts Karina Lam and Sky Cannavis unpack the three emerging consumer archetypes in the AI era: the traditional human shopper, the futuristic AI‑driven agent, and the hybrid human‑AI shopper who...
Antigone and AI
In this free‑form episode the hosts weave a lively discussion around Sophocles' *Antigone*, debating its themes of youthful idealism versus pragmatic authority and the characters' motivations. The conversation drifts into personal tangents, including Alicia's intense dislike of invasive "Foti" bugs,...
Why Your AI Adoption Scorecard Is A False Proxy
In this 6‑minute episode, Dr. Jonathan warns that many companies are using AI adoption scorecards that measure tool usage rather than the quality of decisions AI enables. He explains the proxy problem—when a metric like hours logged or reports generated...
Inside the Texas Autonomy Showdown. Tesla, Uber, Waymo and the Rides That Don’t Lie
The episode explores the rapidly evolving autonomous vehicle landscape in Texas, featuring hands‑on rides in Tesla’s unsupervised Robotaxi, Uber’s AV partner Averid, May Mobility’s hybrid shuttles, and a Kodiak Class 8 autonomous truck. While Tesla’s Robotaxi impressed with smooth, familiar performance,...
Automation and AI at Work in Pickens County
In this episode of the Tyler Tech Podcast, accounts payable specialist Holly Poole explains how Pickens County, Georgia transitioned from fragmented document‑management and accounting systems to a unified, cloud‑based ERP (ERP Pro) enhanced with AI‑driven invoice capture and AP automation. The new...
Big Tech Is Now Advising the White House — What Could Go Wrong?
The episode examines President Trump's new President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which now includes tech titans like Mark Andreessen, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison. Host Ed Elson and guest Liz Hoffman discuss how this...
The Internet Is Breaking. So What’s Next? With Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
In this episode, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discusses how the rapid rise of AI is reshaping the internet, from traffic dynamics and bot proliferation to cybersecurity threats. He explains the surge in nation‑state hacking—particularly from Iran and Russia—amid the Israel‑Hamas...
Why The Guardian’s First Reader-Facing AI Product Isn’t a Chatbot
In this Digiday episode, Chris Moran, Head of Editorial Innovation at The Guardian, explains why the outlet’s first reader‑facing AI tool, called “Storylines,” is not a chatbot but a narrative‑driven related‑content module. He outlines the three guiding principles the Guardian...
Bill Ackman Says Stocks Are “Stupidly Cheap”
In this episode of Motley Fool Money, the hosts discuss the divergent views on AI's impact on demand‑aggregator platforms like Expedia and Instacart, weighing bullish arguments about AI‑enhanced personalization against bearish fears of agentic AI bypassing intermediaries. They then shift...
Is AI Killing Entry-Level Jobs? And Why Senior Care Is Booming
In this episode, the host discusses how AI is reshaping entry‑level employment, urging listeners to differentiate themselves by showcasing AI literacy and domain expertise during interviews. The conversation then shifts to the booming senior‑care sector, highlighting the economic forces of...
6 Steps to Turn Your Messy Support Escalations Into an AI Agent that Handles 90% of Tickets
In this episode the host walks listeners through a six‑step workflow for turning undocumented support escalation knowledge into an AI‑driven ticket‑handling agent that can resolve about 90% of requests. The first three steps focus on documenting the human playbook—mapping escalation...
New Milestone for Claude, OpenAI Kills Sora
In this episode of Trading the Markets with AI, host Chris Bullock and guest Alan Johnson discuss the latest AI developments, focusing on Claude's new desktop and mobile integration that lets the model control a Mac, run multi‑step tasks, and...
382: Are We Building AI Without Half the Population? With Lisa Davis, Author of The Only Woman in the Room
In this episode, host Dan Turchin talks with Lisa Davis, former CIO and author of *The Only Woman in the Room*, about the alarming decline of women in STEM—from 34% in the mid‑80s to just 22% today—and its impact on...
Why FOMO Is Bad for SEO
In this episode, host Tyson Stockton and guest Kaspar Siminski discuss how fear of missing out (FOMO) drives SEO teams to chase every new trend—especially large language models (LLMs) and AI—without first solidifying core fundamentals like crawl efficiency, internal linking,...
AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)
In this EconTalk episode, host Russ Roberts and economist Tyler Cowen discuss how AI will reshape the labor market and higher education. Cowen argues that AI will create new sectors—energy, biotech, law, and consulting—while also increasing leisure time, but he...
#353 The Data Team's Agentic Future with Ketan Karkhanis, CEO at ThoughtSpot
In this episode, ThoughtSpot CEO Ketan Karkhanis discusses how AI agents are reshaping data analytics, turning self‑service BI from a long‑standing promise into a reality. He showcases ThoughtSpot’s agents—Spotter, Spotter Model, and SpotterWiz—that can answer business questions, automate data engineering...
Your AI Is Lying to You / Reproducing in Space Is Complicated / Egypt Just Got Weirder
The episode explores three main stories: a new study reveals that AI chatbots exhibit "social sycophancy," overly affirming users and reducing their willingness to apologize or resolve conflicts; researchers at the University of Adelaide find that microgravity hampers human reproduction,...
From Skeptic to True Believer: How OpenClaw Changed My Life | Claire Vo
Claire Vo, former product executive and AI startup founder, now runs her business, podcast, and family life with nine OpenClaw agents deployed across Mac Minis and old laptops. After an initial mishap that deleted her family calendar, she became a...
Your Data Vendor Is Charging You $800K to Solve a $100K Problem
In this episode Camille Bank reveals how mid‑size companies are paying upwards of $800 K annually for data stacks that solve far smaller problems, exposing hidden costs in Snowflake compute, connector services like Fivetran, BI tools, and the salaries of multiple...
Instacart’s Smart Cart Uses AI to Watch Your Every Move | Fast Five Shorts
The episode examines Instacart’s new Caper Cart, now equipped with NVIDIA Jetson edge AI devices that combine cameras, scales, and location tracking to identify items in real time and create a constantly updated "grocery world model." Hosts argue the technology...
SoftBank's $40B OpenAI Investment & Anthropic's Claude Mythos Leak
The episode covers four major AI developments: SoftBank’s planned $40 billion investment in OpenAI, highlighting the escalating capital barriers for frontier AI firms; the rapid emergence of physical AI, exemplified by humanoid robots at the White House and partnerships like Agile...
AI, Art, and Drawing the Line 🖌️
In this episode of Draw Me Anything, host Jason Chatfield chats with Jeremy Kaplan, the creator of the Wonder Tools Substack, about his approach to curating and explaining AI tools and features for a broad audience. Kaplan explains how his...
#372 VIRAL VIDEO PROMPT: Real Estate Agent Viewing Video
In episode #372, host discusses a viral real‑estate video that showcases a luxury home as more than a property—it's presented as the embodiment of the American dream. The conversation breaks down the marketing tactics used in the video, including cinematic...
Ep 743: The Future of AI? 7 New AI Features that Bring Us Closer to On-Demand AI Assistants
In this Friday Features episode, host Jordan Wilson highlights seven new AI capabilities that push us toward on‑demand AI assistants. He dives into Anthropic’s viral computer‑use tool, Google’s upgraded Lyria 3 Pro music model (now three‑minute tracks with structural control), Microsoft’s Copilot...
The AI Divide: Who Wins and Who Gets Replaced — with Bill Gurley
In this lively episode, venture capitalist Bill Gurley joins the hosts to discuss the growing AI divide—who benefits from AI advancements and who risks being displaced. Gurley shares his perspective on how AI will reshape industries, emphasizing the importance of...
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
In this episode of The Ezra Klein Show, host Ezra Klein talks with Jack Clark, co‑founder of Anthropic and author of the Import AI newsletter, about the rapid emergence of AI agents that can act autonomously rather than just chat....
Episode 565: Field Engineering Is the YOLO Team
In this episode, Brandon discusses a quirky Slack bug where an RSS feed for the Reasoning Show displays garbled Asian characters due to double‑encoding from UTF‑8 to UTF‑16. He walks through his troubleshooting process, including consulting Claude the AI, filing...
Prevent Agentic Identity Theft
In this episode, Stack Overflow host Ryan Donovan talks with Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password, about the emerging security challenges of local AI agents. Wang explains how agents like ClaudeBot (now MoldBot) can access a device’s full execution context—files, terminals,...
The Race to Production-Grade Diffusion LLMs with Stefano Ermon - #764
In this episode, host Sam Charrington talks with Stefano Ermon, a Stanford associate professor and CEO of Inception, about the evolution of diffusion models from image generation to text and code. Ermon explains how diffusion models, which iteratively denoise from...
Building the First Agentic Brokerage with Leif Abraham, Co-CEO of Public
In this episode, Public’s co‑CEO Leif Abraham explains how the firm is building the first truly agentic brokerage, where AI agents help users construct and manage multi‑asset portfolios, from fractional stocks to bonds, crypto and options. He discusses Public’s shift...
Coding Agents Meet Data Science
In this episode, host and guest Mikio Braun discuss the emerging role of coding agents—AI tools that generate code—in data science workflows. They explore how these agents excel at writing code but often lack the skepticism and domain awareness needed...
AI Reality Check: Are LLMs a Dead End?
In this episode Cal Newport examines the claim by AI pioneer Yann LeCun that large language models (LLMs) are a technological dead end and explores the alternative approach of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), which raised over $1 billion to...
Managing Third-Party Risk at Scale Without Drowning in Surveys - with Carey Smith
In this episode, Carey Smith, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and President/CIO of Accelerate Health, explains how enterprises can move from static vendor questionnaires to continuous, AI‑driven monitoring of thousands of suppliers. She...
AI Finds Vulns You Can't With Nicholas Carlini
In this episode, host Deirdre and David Amos sit down with vulnerability researcher Nicholas Carlini to discuss how large language models (LLMs) are now being used to discover software bugs, including zero‑day vulnerabilities. Carlini explains that recent advances allow a...
Sora Is Dead: What Does That Mean for Disney? Plus, ‘The Bachelorette’ Scandal.
The episode examines the abrupt shutdown of OpenAI's video‑generation app Sora and its fallout for Disney, which had invested $1 billion and secured rights to 200 of its characters. Host Matt Bellany and tech reporter Alex Heath discuss why OpenAI reprioritized...
#160 - Mark Suman - Who Controls AI Will Control Society
In this episode, host Peter McCormack talks with AI privacy expert Mark Suman about the concept of "thought capture"—how advanced AI models learn and predict individual thought patterns, potentially allowing unprecedented influence over personal beliefs. They discuss the opaque nature...
Claude Co-Work Can Now Control Your Computer
In this episode, host Jaden Schaefer dives deep into Anthropic's latest release, Claude Co‑Work, which now lets the Claude AI control your computer’s mouse, keyboard, and screen, and can be accessed remotely via the Dispatch feature. He walks through the...
Bring Your AI Agents to Basecamp
In this episode of Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier-Hansson discuss Basecamp’s new "agent‑friendly" capabilities, which make AI agents able to interact directly with Basecamp via a command‑line interface (CLI). They explain that traditional web accessibility concepts inspired this work,...
$41 Billion in Physical AI: What Investors Need to Know About Robotaxis & Humanoid Robots
In this episode of Autonomy Insiders, Marcin Briggs of Bank of America Global Research explains the rise of "physical AI"—AI that perceives, reasons, and acts in the real world—and why autonomous vehicles are the first large‑scale proving ground. He highlights...
Short: Grand Theft Grammarly W/ Julia Angwin & Peter Romer-Friedman
In this episode of Computer Says, journalist Julia Angwin and her attorney Peter Romer‑Friedman discuss Grammarly’s controversial "Expert Review" feature, which used AI to mimic the editing style of real experts—including Angwin—without their consent. Angwin explains how she discovered the...
How to Use Claude's Massive New Upgrades
The episode walks listeners through the latest upgrades to Anthropic's Claude suite, focusing on Claude Code's Remote Control, Claude Cowork's Dispatch, and the new Claude Code Channels for Telegram and Discord. It explains how these features let users run AI‑assisted...
The Autonomy Economy Is Accelerating
In this episode of Motley Fool Money, hosts discuss the rapid acceleration of the autonomy economy in 2026, covering AI developments at OpenAI and the broader push toward autonomous vehicles and delivery. They critique OpenAI's unclear monetization strategy and its...
OpenAI Kills Sora Video Model
In this episode the host breaks down OpenAI's abrupt decision to discontinue its video generation model, Sora, and the associated app and API. He explains the official announcement, user reactions, and the likely strategic reasons behind the move, including compute...
Spark, AI, and the Future of Data Engineering with Daniel Aronovich
In this episode, host Dan Beach chats with data engineering veteran Daniel Aronovich about his 15‑year journey from MATLAB‑based signal processing at Intel to Python, Spark, and his current startup, True Data Flynn. Daniel explains how he transitioned from data...
Why Your AI Hiring System Is Making Decisions You Can’t Defend
In this episode, Dr. Jonathan warns that AI‑driven hiring systems often embed invisible filters—like automatically rejecting candidates with high salary expectations—without the recruiter’s knowledge. He explains how these hidden rules degrade decision quality, rely on untested assumptions, and leave organizations...
Ep 740: Everything Is Fake: How Your Company Can Leverage Human Expertise and Fight AI Workslop (Start Here Series Ep...
In this episode of the Everyday AI Show, host Jordan explores the emerging "everything is fake" crisis, where AI‑generated content—text, images, video, and even voice—saturates daily interactions, eroding consumer trust. He explains how generic, low‑effort AI output, dubbed "work slop,"...
AI, SEO, and the Future of Search
In this episode, host Tyson Stockton talks with Kristen Tinsky, SVP of Creative at Fractal, about the upcoming shift from transformer‑based AI to next‑generation models that can learn continuously and run on edge devices. They explore how these hyper‑personalized AI...
AI Doesn't Replace Human Judgment in Retail Real Estate - Where We Buy #375
In this episode, James Cook talks with Paul Sill, head of JLL’s Visionary Insights Group, about how data‑driven analytics can guide retail and restaurant site selection while avoiding the trap of mistaking correlation for causation. Sill explains how their predictive...
