Podcast Episodes

Can You Turn It Off?

Season 1 Episode 176

Reuters reported last week that America's top bank regulators have started asking banks whether they can control their AI agents, and whether they ca…

12 hours ago

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I Fired My Second Brain

Season 1 Episode 175

About a year ago, Stephen's company built what he still believes was the right AI knowledge system for the tools of the time: a dedicated machine, a …

2 days, 12 hours ago

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Slow Is Fine. Deliberate Is Better.

Season 1 Episode 174

On Tuesday, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, said his group will go more gradually on AI than it planned a year ago, and wil…

3 days, 12 hours ago

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Buy The Plumbing, Not The Model

Season 1 Episode 173

On Monday, HCLTech, India's third-largest IT services firm, announced a business unit dedicated entirely to Anthropic, adding to its Gemini business …

4 days, 12 hours ago

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They Raised The Flag. Then They Were Gone.

Season 1 Episode 172

About two weeks ago, OpenAI fired three of its own safety researchers. They published an open letter, OpenAI published a long reply, and the two side…

5 days, 12 hours ago

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I Call It The Bill Of Work

Season 1 Episode 171

Stephen Forte puts a name on the record: the Bill of Work™. Every manufacturer knows its bill of materials: every part, what it costs, the order it g…

6 days, 12 hours ago

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My Agent Will Call Your Agent

Season 1 Episode 170

On Friday, Sierra and Meta published Draft 0.1 of the Personal Agent Protocol, nicknamed "Poppy": the first draft of the rules for what your customer…

1 week ago

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Your Dashboard No Longer Needs A License

Season 1 Episode 169

On Thursday, Anthropic shipped Claude Dashboards in beta: connect your data warehouse or an app like Salesforce, ask a question in plain English, and…

1 week, 2 days ago

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Even Microsoft Got Put On An Allowance

Season 1 Episode 168

On 5 October, The Information reported that Microsoft cut the monthly AI spending cap for most people in its Cloud and AI division, from as much as $…

1 week, 3 days ago

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Too Smart To Help You Defend

Season 1 Episode 167

On 6 October Mistral, the French AI lab, released a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a model it says has one trillion total parameters with about 4…

1 week, 4 days ago

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