Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI Layoffs Are Outrunning the Technology
Season 1 Episode 99
The pink slips are arriving ahead of the product. This week companies cut thousands of jobs and blamed AI — but the technology can't yet do the work …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Your AI Agents Leak Data and Money
Season 1 Episode 98
The race to deploy AI agents just outran the controls to manage them. This week three numbers proved it.
The breach: Straiker (which raised $64M) foun…3 months, 3 weeks ago
Frontier AI Got Cheap, Open, and Chinese
Season 1 Episode 97
The story of the year was supposed to be who controls AI. The real story this week: control and cost split in opposite directions, and your business …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Graded by Clients, Cloned by Criminals
Season 1 Episode 96
For two years, AI was an internal project you rolled out at your own pace. This week, two stories say that era is over: your clients are using AI to …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Everybody's Building Their Own Stack
Season 1 Episode 95
Three deals this week looked unrelated. They are the same deal. A chipmaker bought the software layer, a software giant built its own models, and the…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Inference Just Got Cheaper. The Market Panicked.
Season 1 Episode 94
OpenAI unveiled its first custom chip the same week the market sold off on fears the AI buildout has gone too far. Stephen Forte argues those are the…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
From Pilot to Payroll
Season 1 Episode 93
AI agents just crossed the line from demo to deployment — and that changes what a CEO has to decide this year. The pilot era is ending; the question …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The AI Jobs Story Just Flipped
Season 1 Episode 92
Three second-order effects of the AI buildout are landing on business leaders at the same time — on your people, on what gets built next, and on who'…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills
Season 1 Episode 91
The strategic AI question is no longer "which model do we use." It's "where does the model run, and who pays for the tokens." This week the AI infere…
4 months ago
The Model Is Not the Moat
Season 1 Episode 90
A weekend deep dive away from the news cycle. The question underneath this week's "who controls AI" headlines isn't the supplier's question — it's yo…
4 months ago