Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBad News Gets An Inbox
Season 1 Episode 166
On 6 October OpenAI's chief strategy officer apologized to an Australian parliamentary committee for an experimental AI agent that, in June, climbed …
1 week, 5 days ago
The Mark Travels With The Paste
Season 1 Episode 165
On 5 October OpenAI said that text from ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union will soon carry an invisible watermark, while developers using its AP…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Default Said Yes For You
Season 1 Episode 164
On 21 September Shopify announced agentic checkout with Meta's new personal agent, Muse, "on all Shopify stores." Shopify's own help pages show how: …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Hour-Seller Is Buying Its Way Out
Season 1 Episode 163
Accenture reported fiscal 2026 on 1 October: $74.2 billion in revenue, up 5 percent in local currency, $84.5 billion in new bookings, and about 814,0…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Algorithm Is Not A Defense
Season 1 Episode 162
Connecticut's Public Act 26-15 takes effect today. Three sections reach ordinary companies: employers filing a federal layoff notice must tell the st…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Price And The Phone Line
Season 1 Episode 161
Reuters reported on 29 September that McDonald's runs a pricing engine that analyzes millions of daily transactions across nearly 14,000 restaurants …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Costco Let The Bots In
Season 1 Episode 160
On its 24 September earnings call Costco's CFO said traffic from AI search grew triple digits for a second consecutive quarter, converts better than …
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Microsoft Gave The Agent A Badge
Season 1 Episode 159
On Friday 25 September Microsoft rebuilt Copilot into one app with three tabs: Home, Code and Autopilot. Home puts Word, Excel and PowerPoint inside …
3 weeks ago
Your Company Has No Bill Of Work
Season 1 Episode 158
Every product a company makes has a bill of materials: every part, its cost, its supplier. The company that makes those products has no equivalent do…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Italy Says Your Certificate Is No Defense
Season 1 Episode 157
On 30 September, Italy's implementing decree for the EU AI Act takes effect, and it reads less like a compliance rulebook than a set of courtroom rul…
3 weeks, 3 days ago