The Skills That Matter Most in the Age of AI – with Aneesh Raman
In this episode, host and guest Aneesh Raman discuss how organizations must evolve like massive startups to thrive in the AI era, granting employees autonomy to experiment with AI tools. Raman emphasizes the importance of reading the room and bringing teams along on the innovation journey. He argues that compensation structures shape behavior, advocating for clear mandates paired with visible rewards for AI adoption and productivity gains. The conversation blends leadership strategy with practical incentives to accelerate AI integration across the workforce.
Reimagining Government: Achieving the Promise of AI
In this episode of the Business of Government Hour, hosts Michael Keegan, Faisal Haack, and Eric Nelson discuss their book "Reimagining Government, Achieving the Promise of AI," outlining what an AI‑enabled government looks like and how agencies can progress through...
Your AI Agent Depends on Six Layers — Here's Which Ones Won't Last
A new six‑layer infrastructure stack is emerging to support autonomous AI agents, mirroring past shifts like cloud and API‑first. The layers—compute, identity, memory, tool access, billing, and orchestration—vary in durability, with some expected to last a decade and others deemed...
The Companies Changing Warfare Forever: Palantir & Anduril Execs on Drones, AI & the Future of War
In this episode, former Palantir and Anduril executives discuss how Silicon Valley firms are reshaping modern warfare through AI‑driven drones, data platforms, and rapid manufacturing. They trace the historical shift from a broad industrial base to specialized defense firms, argue...
I Gave Claude Code Our Entire Codebase. Our Customers Noticed. | Al Chen (Galileo)
Al Chen, a field engineer at observability platform Galileo, used Claude Code to index the company’s 15 Git repositories and merge that context with Confluence and Slack data. He built a 16‑line script that continuously pulls the latest main branches,...
How Kevin Mandia Built the Most Trusted Name in Cybersecurity
In this episode, Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant and CEO of Armadillo, discusses the imminent shift to AI-driven cyber attacks and the need for autonomous defense. He explains how Armadillo is building nation‑state‑grade offensive capabilities to train and certify defenses,...
#354 Beyond BI: Decision Intelligence with Graphs with Jamie Hutton, CTO at Quantexa
In this episode, CTO Jamie Hutton of Quantexa explains how decision intelligence extends beyond traditional business intelligence by using graph‑based context and entity resolution to create a single, trustworthy view of people, companies, and relationships. He details how Quantexa’s platform...
6 Questions Shaping AI
The episode explores six pivotal questions shaping the future of AI, starting with the extent of job displacement and highlighting mixed forecasts—from doomsday scenarios to reports that AI is actually spurring hiring in tech and infrastructure. It then examines how...
TrafficLiteEdu: How to Clearly Define AI Use in Schools - HoET268
In this episode of the House of EdTech, host Chris Nessy talks with former middle‑school math teacher Derek Trankina about TrafficLiteEdu, a Google Classroom add‑on that lets schools embed clear AI usage policies directly into assignments using a simple traffic‑light...
176 - Who's Really Choosing? A Conversation with James Brusseau, PhD
In this episode, host John interviews Professor James Brusseau, PhD, about the ethical challenges of AI in education, focusing on recommendation algorithms and the emerging field of mimetic AI. Brusseau explains how his background in physics and philosophy led him...
I Tested Cowork, Lindy, Sauna, and Opal Against 3 Questions. The Best Scored 1 Out of 4.
An emerging class of AI outcome agents—Cowork, Lindy, Sauna, Google Opal, and Obvious—promises to automate entire work products rather than just assist users. Nate’s April 2026 review pits these tools against a three‑question framework that measures whether an agent can...
What to Do if AI Comes for Your Job — with Aneesh Raman
In this episode, host Aneesh Raman discusses how workers can proactively adapt to AI-driven changes in the workplace by focusing on transferable skills and adjacent roles rather than clinging to specific job titles. He emphasizes leveraging strengths such as emotional...
OpenAI's $121B Funding Round Explained
In this episode, host Jaden Schaefer breaks down OpenAI's historic $121 billion funding round that valued the company at $852 billion, detailing the major investors—Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank—and the conditional nature of Amazon's $35 billion commitment. He also examines Huawei's new 950 PR AI chip,...
Why AI Can't Replace Strategy, with Jamie Sumner.
In this episode, host Josh Dittar and guest Jamie Sumner discuss how AI can automate data analysis for community financial institutions but cannot replace the strategic conversations that drive decision‑making. They share personal anecdotes about stepping out of comfort zones,...
Ep 748: Plugins, Microsoft’s AI Comeback and New AI Video. 7 New AI Features You Should Be Tracking
In this episode Jordan Wilson breaks down seven fresh AI updates, spotlighting the return of ChatGPT plugins now live in the Codex store, Google Gemini’s new ability to import chat histories, and Slack’s overhaul that transforms its bot into a...
How to Build a Personal Context Portfolio and MCP Server
The episode dives into the emerging "agentic era," emphasizing that AI agents need well‑structured context to function effectively. Host explains how enterprises struggle with unstructured data, citing Michael Chen’s insights, and introduces the concept of a Personal Context Portfolio—a modular,...
#852 I Wasted $40K on an AI Agency. Here's What I Built Instead
In this episode, host Dan interviews Aaron Anderson, founder of the link‑building agency LinkPitch.io, about his journey from hiring a $30K AI agency to building his own AI‑driven automation tools. After a disappointing agency experience, Aaron used Claude Code (via...
The Shy Girl AI Scandal Is Way Worse Than You Think
In this episode Dre Dossier examines the "Shy Girl" AI scandal, where author Mia Ballard was accused of using AI to write her horror novel, leading Hachette to drop her—the first major publisher to do so over AI allegations. Dre unpacks...
Lattice and Crosschq Acquire
In this 7‑minute episode of This Week in RegTech, host Chris Russell highlights two major acquisitions shaping talent acquisition: Crosschq’s purchase of Tradeify to create an outcome‑trained hiring model, and Lattice’s acquisition of Mandela’s AI‑native coaching tech to accelerate its...
An AI State of the Union: We’ve Passed the Inflection Point, Dark Factories Are Coming, and Automation Timelines | Simon...
Simon Willison, a veteran Django co‑creator, argues that November 2025 marked a decisive inflection point when AI coding agents moved from experimental to reliably productive. He describes how he now writes 95% of his code from a phone, leaving him mentally...
Ep 747: Responsible AI Playbook: What It Means and 5 Moves to Ensure Your AI Strategy Survives (Start Here Series...
In this episode of the Everyday AI Show, host Jordan breaks down the concept of responsible AI, distinguishing it from ethical AI and outlining its five core pillars: fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy/security, and safety/reliability. He explains why responsible AI has...
The Future of AI Might Be on Your Finger
In this episode of Access, hosts Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger interview Mina Thami, co‑founder of Sandbar, about the company’s AI‑powered smart ring that captures and vocalizes a user’s thoughts in their own voice. They explore Mina’s background in neural...
Agent Skills Masterclass
In this episode of AI Daily Brief, host Nufar teams up with AI expert Nufar Bar to deliver a masterclass on building and deploying AI agent skills. They explain that skills are portable, folder‑based playbooks that agents can invoke automatically...
Anthropic Suffers Massive Claude Leak | Trading the Markets With AI
In this episode, Chris Bullock breaks down the latest AI industry shake‑ups, highlighting OpenAI’s historic $122 billion fundraise that values the company at $852 billion and its upcoming inclusion in ARK Invest ETFs, and dissecting Anthropic’s second consecutive leak of the Claude...
Alex Blania on Proof of Human and Building World's Identity Network
In this episode, Alex Banya, co‑founder and CEO of World, explains the emerging "Proof of Human" challenge—how to verify that online interactions are truly from unique humans rather than AI bots or agents. He outlines why traditional methods like government...
AI Reality Check: Can LLMs “Scheme”?
In this episode Cal Newport debunks a sensational Guardian headline about AI chatbots “scheming” by examining the underlying study, which actually tracks Twitter complaints about DIY AI agents built with the open‑source OpenClaw framework. He explains that these agents are...
Descrybe's Quest to Democratize Legal Research (Kara Peterson & Richard DiBona)
In this episode of Technically Legal, host Chad Main talks with husband‑wife founders Kara Peterson and Richard DiBona about their AI‑native legal research app, Describe. The duo explains how a personal employment dispute during the pandemic led them to discover...
SED News: OpenCode, AI Code Vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach
In this episode of SED News, hosts Gregor and Sean discuss the resurgence of ARM CPUs as they move into branding their own chips, driven by the growing demand for local AI agent workloads that favor CPU and memory over...
Megan McArdle: The Follies of Populism, Impending Fiscal Crisis, and the Whirlwind of AI
In this episode, Megan McArdle discusses the shifting media landscape, the rise of podcasts and YouTube as primary news channels for younger audiences, and the challenges posed by populism and looming fiscal crises. She highlights how traditional newspapers have lost...
256: AI and Bond Markets: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Fixed Income Investing
Artificial intelligence is reshaping fixed‑income markets, influencing capital demand, real interest rates, and debt issuance as firms fund AI infrastructure through bonds. Jeff Rosenberg of BlackRock Systematic explains how machine‑learning and generative AI enhance systematic investing, sentiment analysis, and issuer...
Bots React to The Serenissima Directive - Updated
In this episode the hosts dissect Peter Duke’s Substack piece “The Serenissima Directive,” an AI‑generated blueprint that imagines a hidden, ultra‑wealthy oligarchy using a Venetian‑style governance model to achieve "epistemological supremacy"—total control over knowledge and truth. They explain how the...
How Claude Cowork Is Disrupting AI Workflows in 2026
In this episode the hosts dive into Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork and Claude Dispatch, highlighting how the tools automate computer tasks—from posting on LinkedIn to migrating entire websites—without needing any coding. They compare Claude’s more direct, less “agreeable” responses to...
From Ultramarathons to Market Shifts: Scott Sambucci on Leading Innovation
In this episode, Scott Zambucci, Managing Director at NIA1, discusses how his background in ultramarathons and scaling tech firms informs his approach to accelerating innovation in regulated financial services. He explains NIA1's core offering—a secure, off‑estate digital sandbox that streamlines...
AI Optimism, AI Pessimism
In this free‑form morning show, hosts discuss the cultural clash between AI optimism and pessimism, wrestling with how to learn about AI as adults and the difficulty of finding balanced, skeptical perspectives. They critique the current internet’s loss of human‑curated...
The Retailer That’s Obsessed With AI
The episode explores how fashion retailer Revolve has become a data‑first, AI‑obsessed company, building in‑house tools that boost search relevance, personalization, and private‑label decisions, driving $1.2 billion in sales. Retail editor Kat Chen explains Revolve’s origins as a tech startup, its...
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...
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...