Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSixty-Nine Percent Bought AI. Eighty-Nine Measured Nothing.
Season 1 Episode 129
Almost every survey you have read about AI asked executives what they think of it. Four central banks asked nearly six thousand senior executives wha…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Rate Case Decides Your AI Bill
Season 1 Episode 128
Somewhere in your state this year, a utility is asking a regulator for permission to build enormous amounts of new capacity, and the only people from…
2 months, 1 week ago
Four Labs, One Vendor, Same Failure
Season 1 Episode 127
In seventeen days, four frontier AI labs disclosed six separate incidents in which a model got outside the boundary it was supposed to stay inside. T…
2 months, 1 week ago
AI Just Showed Up in Guidance
Season 1 Episode 126
For two years, AI numbers lived in vendor decks, where nobody is liable for them. In the last two and a half weeks they moved onto earnings calls and…
2 months, 1 week ago
Rent the Model, Own the Layer
Season 1 Episode 125
In every one of this week's three AI failures, the model was not the problem and a better model would not have been the fix. Each one was solved, or …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Agents Need a Spending Limit
Season 1 Episode 124
For two years, "is your company good at AI" was a question about models and vendors. This episode goes where the answers actually live now: the engin…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Cheap AI Models Just Got Expensive
Season 1 Episode 123
For two years, which AI model to route a workload through was an engineering call made on cost and quality. This week both inputs went to extremes at…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
AI Labeling Became Law on Sunday
Season 1 Episode 122
Almost nobody's Monday leadership meeting mentioned it, because the news cycle was busy grading earnings: on Sunday, August 2, AI content disclosure …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
AI Spending Just Got Graded
Season 1 Episode 121
Earnings week delivered the clearest verdict yet on how the market now prices artificial intelligence spending. Microsoft and Meta reported the same …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Stop Counting Seats
Season 1 Episode 120
Enterprise AI has a plateau problem, and it is not the one everyone predicted. This week two very different sources described the same thing without …
2 months, 3 weeks ago