Episode 137: Getting Two-Legged Robots Moving - Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunbi
In this episode, Dr. Claire Asher interviews Assistant Professor Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunbi about her pioneering work in bipedal robotics, covering how two‑legged robots achieve stable walking and stair‑climbing through advanced control algorithms. Oluwami explains the development of the Biped Bootcamp curriculum, which translates her PhD research into hands‑on undergraduate courses that blend theory with practical robot building. Listeners gain insight into the challenges of balancing, gait planning, and the broader educational impact of making bipedal robotics accessible to students.
495: Teams Built for Growth and Grit
In this episode, Drew interviews three marketing leaders—Dan Lowden, Marni Puente, and Amy King—about how they build resilient, growth‑focused teams. They discuss hiring senior talent first, establishing clear structures with OKRs, scorecards, and dashboards, and using AI committees, battle‑buddy systems, and...
GPT-5.2 Can't Identify a Serial Killer & Was The Year of Agents A Lie? EP99.28-5.2
The hosts put OpenAI's new GPT‑5.2 through a series of tests, exposing its verbosity, over‑hype, and critical failures—most notably its inability to recognize a serial killer in a straightforward prompt, while Claude Opus and Gemini 3 Pro outperform it. They examine why...
SANS Stormcast Friday, December 12th, 2025: Local AI Models; Mystery Chrome 0-Day; SOAPwn Attack
The episode covers three main topics: running the Gemma 3 AI model locally on modest hardware, a newly patched but undisclosed Chrome zero‑day vulnerability, and the SOAPwn flaw that lets attackers exploit .NET SOAP services via malicious file:// URLs. Guy Bruneau’s...
Episode 1,001: My AI Journey So Far
In this milestone episode, the host reflects on the evolution of the show and their personal AI journey, contrasting early experiences with current developments. They highlight what has fundamentally changed in AI tools and practices, as well as enduring principles...
Google Tests On-Article AI Breakdown Panels
The episode explores Google's new AI-powered "breakdown panels" that appear within articles to automatically highlight key events, people, and data. It discusses how these panels aim to enhance reader comprehension while noting publishers' wariness about depending on machine-generated summaries for...
Why the Next AI Frontier Is Phone Calls, with Beside CEO Maxime Germain
In this episode, the hosts discuss the latest AI industry turbulence—including OpenAI’s alarm over Google’s Gemini and talent wars between Apple and Meta—before interviewing Maxime Germain, CEO of Beside, the AI-powered receptionist handling 2.5 million calls monthly for 20,000 businesses. Germain...
Clive Kinross, CEO of Propel Holdings, on Building a Profitable Fintech Lender with Just $4 Million
Clive Kinross, CEO and co‑founder of Propel Holdings, explains how his accounting background drove a disciplined, unit‑economics focus that enabled the fintech lender to become profitable from its early days with just $4 million in seed capital. He details Propel’s AI‑powered...
GPT-5.2 Is Here
The episode dissects OpenAI's new GPT‑5.2, highlighting its stronger reasoning stability, extended context handling, and real‑world productivity features for coding, spreadsheets, and presentations. Early benchmark data and tester feedback illustrate tangible performance gains, while the hosts discuss OpenAI's pivot toward...
75: A Woken Record
In this episode, hosts Kathy Campbell and Alex Cox examine the rollout of autonomous delivery robots in Chicago, exploring both the technological promise and the community backlash over sidewalk safety and accessibility. They discuss real‑world case studies—from a day in...
Navigating AI: Insights From ProArch's Cloud Strategy Director
In this episode, host Jaeden Schafer talks with Jim Spignardo, ProArch's Director of Cloud Strategy and AI, about the rapid rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and how organizations can adopt them strategically. Jim emphasizes the need for robust AI...
AI Trained in Space.
The episode explores the emerging frontier of space‑based AI and data infrastructure, highlighting Starcloud’s milestone of training the first large AI model in orbit and DARPA’s Phase 2 contract with BAE to develop autonomous space surveillance. Guest Jerome Hittle, CEO of...
The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (Co-Founder of DeepMind)
In this episode, DeepMind co‑founder Shane Legg discusses the current trajectory toward artificial general intelligence, emphasizing the importance of scalable learning algorithms, self‑play reinforcement learning, and the shift from human‑data‑driven models to experience‑based systems. He highlights breakthroughs like AlphaZero and...
Space & Satellite Futures: Investing in the Future of Space: Fairfax County's Role in the Next Economy
In this episode, Victor Hoskins, President and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, explains how Fairfax County’s dense tech ecosystem, top universities, and proximity to federal agencies are creating a launchpad for the $1.8 trillion space economy. He highlights...
From Automation to Agents: Why Weak Data Makes AI Guess
Jordan Wilson and Ed Macosky discuss how the shift from rigid automations to LLM‑powered AI agents changes workflow reliability, noting that weak data leads agents to guess and produce poorer outcomes. They explore the benefits and pitfalls of "agentification" in...
Banks Are Wasting 50% of Their Marketing Budget
In this episode, Fred Cadena of Vericast explains that banks are losing half of their marketing spend because generic campaigns miss the mark, and that relevance—driven by real‑time, hyperlocal data on neighborhoods, life events, and mover signals—outperforms broad reach. He...
GLP Podcast: Ketamine—Miracle Depression Treatment, or Recreational Nightmare?
The episode examines ketamine’s rise from a battlefield anesthetic to an FDA‑approved treatment (esketamine) for treatment‑resistant depression, highlighting its rapid antidepressant effects and potential to reduce suicidal thoughts. Experts discuss the drug’s significant risks—including addiction, dissociation, blood‑pressure spikes, bladder damage,...
Don’t Let Public Ports Bite.
The episode covers three major security threats: a bot‑driven Monotype font‑licensing extortion that collapsed when a knowledgeable employee disproved the claims; a massive Walmart robocall scam using AI‑generated voices to steal personal data, prompting FCC action against the U.S. voice...
LunaRecycle
The episode explores waste management challenges for long-duration space missions, using the Artemis program’s four‑astronaut crew as a case study that could produce over 4,000 pounds of trash annually. It examines current strategies—compactification, recycling, and limited incineration—and discusses emerging technologies...
SaaS as an Orchestra | How to Conduct CX, Content & AI Into One Seamless Journey
In this episode, Arman Eshraghi, founder and CEO of Qrvey, argues that SaaS founders should target smaller, high‑pain markets rather than chasing larger TAMs, and explains how embedded analytics and AI tailored for multi‑tenant SaaS can outshine generic dashboards. He...
SANS Stormcast Thursday, December 11th, 2025: Possible CVE-2024-9042 Variant; React2shell Exploits; Notepad++ Update Hijacking; macOS Priv Escalation
The episode reviews a possible new variant of the CVE‑2024‑9042 Kubernetes OS command injection, noting its reliance on the $() syntax and the need for log‑query privileges. It then delves into React‑to‑Shell attacks (CVE‑2025‑55182), emphasizing that the underlying flaw lies...
Canada’s MILSATCOM in the Arctic.
The episode highlights MDA Space's new partnership with the Canadian Department of National Defence and Telesat to build Arctic-focused military satellite communications, underscoring the strategic importance of secure connectivity in the high‑latitude region. It also covers recent launch news, including...
The Evolution of Wallet Infrastructure in Web3 - Jess Houlgrave | ATC #589
In this episode, Stephen Sargeant interviews Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect, about how the platform is linking hundreds of wallets with thousands of dApps to create a Visa‑like infrastructure for crypto. Jess explains the rise of AI‑driven agent wallets, the...
AI in 2025: From Agents to Factories - Ep. 282
The episode reviews the major AI milestones of 2025, highlighting the rise of autonomous agents that unlocked new creative capabilities, the deployment of AI‑driven robots in agriculture and surgery, and the emergence of AI factories that automate content and model...
221 - 2025 Year in Review: Strategic Intelligence, Golden Dome and Advancements to Direct to Device
In this year‑in‑review episode, hosts Chris Quilty and Caleb Henry dissect 2025’s pivotal developments: the launch of the Golden Dome architecture, Starlink’s expanding market dominance, and the rapid growth of Direct‑to‑Device (D2D) services, all underpinned by increasing sovereign demand for...
Determining the Cause and Severity of Sepsis with a Point-of-Care Test
In this episode of The Bio Report, host Daniel Levine interviews Tim Sweeney, CEO of Inflammatix, about the company's TriVerity point‑of‑care test that rapidly distinguishes bacterial from viral infections and gauges immune response severity in sepsis patients. Sweeney explains how...
Ring Adds AI Controversial Facial Recognition to Doorbell Cameras
The episode examines Amazon Ring's new AI-powered facial recognition feature for its doorbell cameras, detailing how the technology identifies faces and alerts users. It highlights growing privacy and surveillance concerns, noting criticism from civil liberties groups and potential misuse in...
Risky Business #818 -- React2Shell Is a Fun One
Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau unpack a week of cyber news, led by the shocking CVSS 10/10 React2Shell vulnerability that lets attackers execute code on React JavaScript servers—a flaw quickly weaponized by Chinese APT groups. They also note Linux’s new...
The AI Race Gets a Massive Power Shift
The episode examines President Trump's unprecedented decision to let Nvidia ship its H200 AI chips to China, a move that could dramatically shift global AI power by boosting China's compute capabilities while deepening its reliance on U.S. hardware. It explores...
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, December 10th, 2025: Microsoft, Adobe, Ivanti, Fortinet, and Ruby Patches.
The episode reviews the latest Patch Tuesday releases, highlighting Microsoft’s 57 fixes—including a privileged‑escalation bug in the Cloud Files Mini‑filters driver that’s already being exploited and new warnings for PowerShell’s Invoke‑WebRequest and AI co‑pilot integrations—while noting critical flaws remain in...
Why Vision Language Models Ignore What They See with Munawar Hayat - #758
In this episode, Qualcomm AI Research scientist Munawar Hayat explains why Vision‑Language Models often ignore visual input, leading to object hallucination, and how his team’s attention‑guided alignment technique improves visual grounding. He also introduces Generalized Contrastive Learning for efficient multi‑modal...
248 | Beyond ChatGPT: Use Claude Projects For High Impact Content. Steal Michael Steltzner’s Proven Blueprint
In this episode, Michael Stelzner explains how he uses Anthropic's Claude Projects as a 24/7, low‑cost marketing writer, detailing the prompts, project structures, and training loops that turn Claude into a strategic content creator. He contrasts Claude with ChatGPT and...
HOW TO: Be a Human Copywriter in the AI Era
In this episode, Erik Sena, Copy Manager at Refine Labs, discusses his journey into copywriting and how AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping the creative workflow, emphasizing that AI should serve as a brainstorming and efficiency partner rather than a...
How to Spot a 1% Startup Early
In this episode Lenny Rachitsky breaks down the three rare traits that super‑spotters use to identify "1%" startups early, such as ludicrous ambition, subtle signals of founder greatness, and product‑level clues. He illustrates these signals with examples from companies like...
Why Do All Banks Look and Feel the Same?
In this episode, Jim Marous explores why banks increasingly look and feel the same, highlighting how legacy branding, uniform digital interfaces, and risk‑averse cultures create homogeneity across the industry. He discusses how generative AI, data‑driven personalization, and innovative partnerships can...
No, Inbound Isn't Dead. The GTM Playbook Isn't Broken. But Your Moats Are Shrinking to Months.
Jason Lemkin debunks the hype that inbound and traditional GTM playbooks are dead, showing that classic tactics still work but must be paired with modern AI tools to capture soaring demand. He highlights how top AI startups are run by...
Cracking the Cold Start Problem
In this episode, Data Skeptic talks with Virginia Tech assistant professor Boya Xu about modern recommender systems, focusing on a hybrid method that blends collaborative filtering, latent embeddings, and bandit learning. Xu explains how the approach tackles the cold‑start problem...
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...
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...
Email Segmentation: Getting More Sales With Less Traffic
In this episode, host interviews email marketing specialist Chris Orzechowski about the power of email segmentation to boost sales without increasing traffic. They discuss how breaking down a broad audience into smaller, behavior‑based groups enables more personalized, relevant messages that...
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...
Ep. 201: How to Build a Winning Strategy for Your B2B Brand
In this episode, Clay Ostrom, founder of Map & Fire and creator of the SmokeLadder platform, explains how his tool helps B2B marketers, agencies, and consultants conduct fast, data‑driven brand research, messaging analysis, and competitive benchmarking. He walks through the...
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...