Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Bill You Haven't Paid Yet: Hidden Cleanup Costs Inside Your Agent Stack
Season 1 Episode 63
Social Capital published an AI agents primer this month that walks the architecture of the agent stack. One section in it is genuinely important and …
4 weeks ago
Elevate The Adopters. Train The Curious. Phase Out The Refusers.
Season 1 Episode 62
There are two workforces inside your company right now, and the gap between them is widening every quarter. Writer's 2026 AI Adoption Survey found th…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
OpenAI Changed The Model. Your Company Didn't Notice. That's The Whole Problem.
Season 1 Episode 61
A week ago Tuesday, OpenAI silently swapped the default ChatGPT model from GPT-5.3 Instant to GPT-5.5 Instant. Most enterprises did not notice. Their…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Eight AI Vendors. One Customer. The Procurement Lesson Hiding In Plain Sight
Season 1 Episode 60
On May 1, the Pentagon signed agreements with eight frontier AI labs — SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, an…
1 month ago
From Press Release to P&L: Anthropic's Real Story
Season 1 Episode 59
Anthropic's annual conference last week shipped enterprise infrastructure rather than another headline model — Managed Agents, multi-agent orchestrat…
1 month ago
Secrets, Identity, And The Blast Radius Of A Helpful Agent
Season 1 Episode 58
Weekend Special Edition. The Saturday deep dive on secrets management for AI agents — the unglamorous infrastructure decision that determines how big…
1 month ago
The Humans Behind The Automation
Season 1 Episode 57
Earlier this week, we talked about inference getting cheaper. Today is the other half of the story: AI may be getting cheaper to run, but it is not g…
1 month ago
Sierra Just Repriced Customer Service
Season 1 Episode 56
Sierra closed a $950 million round at a $15.8 billion valuation, led by Tiger Global and GV with Benchmark, Sequoia, Greenoaks and others. Eight mont…
1 month ago
Anthropic Buys Distribution Through Private Equity
Season 1 Episode 55
Anthropic is reportedly finalizing a roughly $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic to d…
1 month ago
Inference Got Cheap. Renegotiate Everything.
Season 1 Episode 54
For eighteen months the story has been the same. AI is expensive, and getting more expensive. That story has inverted. The price of using AI, not bui…
1 month, 1 week ago