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AI & Beyond

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71 episodes

1 day ago

This episode unpacks Microsoft’s AI Economy Diffusion Report, a visually rich analysis highlighting how AI adoption is racing ahead worldwide. Drawing on multilingual and quantitative data, the report reveals that over 1.2 billion people now use AI—making it the fastest-spreading technology in history. Despite this rapid growth, the report spotlights a deepening global divide: advanced economies boast the highest usage and infrastructure, while billions remain limited by lack of access, skill...

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This episode unpacks Microsoft’s AI Economy Diffusion Report, a visually rich analysis highlighting how AI adoption is racing ahead worldwide. Drawing on multilingual and quantitative data, the report reveals that over 1.2 billion people now use AI—making it the fastest-spreading technology in history. Despite this rapid growth, the report spotlights a deepening global divide: advanced economies boast the highest usage and infrastructure, while billions remain limited by lack of access, skill...

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AI & Beyond

Breaking Barriers: How AI Is Redrawing the Global Map

This episode unpacks Microsoft’s AI Economy Diffusion Report, a visually rich analysis highlighting how AI adoption is racing ahead worldwide. Drawing on multilingual and quantitative data, the report reveals that over 1.2 billion people now use AI—making it the fastest-spreading technology in history. Despite this rapid growth, the report spotlights a deepening global divide: advanced economies boast the highest usage and infrastructure, while billions remain limited by lack of access, skill...

1 day ago

11 minutes

AI & Beyond

Picture Perfect: The AI Power Behind Nano Banana Pro

This episode spotlights Google DeepMind’s launch of Nano Banana Pro, a cutting-edge image generation and editing model built on the Gemini 3 Pro framework. Nano Banana Pro delivers studio-quality visuals with multilingual, legible text, high creative control, and up to 4K resolution for consumers, students, and professionals. Users benefit from advanced editing, merged-image capabilities, and intelligent design tools accessible via various Google products. To ensure transparency, every AI-gen...

1 week ago

16 minutes

AI & Beyond

Comet vs Chrome: 7 Ways AI-Powered Browsing Is Revolutionizing Web Surfing

This episode explores seven key advantages of Comet, an AI-driven browser built on Perplexity AI, over traditional Chrome. Highlighting features like automating complex tasks, step-by-step guidance, content summarization, voice commands, and automated shopping, the discussion emphasizes how Comet offers a smarter, more efficient browsing experience. While Chrome remains reliable, Comet signals the future of web browsing with its advanced automation and contextual understanding, despite some p...

2 weeks ago

15 minutes

AI & Beyond

Eight AI Agent Trends Transforming 2026

This episode breaks down eight key AI agent trends set to reshape 2026, based on insights from Forbes. It covers AI’s evolution from experimental tools to essential players in team collaboration, healthcare, finance, and cyber defense. The episode also tackles challenges like adapting marketing to AI decision-makers and building trust amid ethical concerns as AI agents handle personal and financial choices. Get ready to explore how AI agents will redefine technology and business landscapes ne...

3 weeks ago

15 minutes

AI & Beyond

The AI Bubble Bursts: Risks Beneath the Hype

This episode explores the warning signs of an AI bubble, as detailed in a Yale School of Management article. It examines overinvestment, tangled financial deals, and inflated valuations among tech giants like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Microsoft. Drawing parallels to the dot-com crash, the episode discusses concerns from industry leaders about potential zero returns on many GenAI projects. Finally, it outlines how the bubble could burst through contagion, governance clashes, or disruptive new techno...

4 weeks ago

17 minutes

AI & Beyond

Where Startup Dollars Flow: Inside the AI Application Spending Boom

This episode dives into Andreessen Horowitz’s "The AI Application Spending Report," revealing how over 200,000 startups allocate spending on AI tools. It highlights the dominance of horizontal AI applications like general assistants and creative tools, which edge out vertical, role-specific solutions. The report also uncovers the shift of AI adoption from consumer markets to enterprises and spotlights the rise of "vibe coding" platforms in workplaces. Tune in to discover which AI applications...

1 month ago

16 minutes

AI & Beyond

Sam Altman on Scaling AI: Building an Empire for AGI

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we delve into Sam Altman’s vision for OpenAI as he discusses its operational blueprint—combining a consumer tech arm, a massive infrastructure effort, and cutting-edge research—all aimed at developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that benefits everyone. Altman highlights the company’s focus on scaling compute infrastructure, advancing AGI through innovations like the new product Sora, and the importance of vertical integration. He also shares ins...

1 month ago

12 minutes

AI & Beyond

The AI Trillion-Dollar Loop: Boom or Bubble?

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we unravel the complex circular economy fueling the AI industry’s explosive market value. Discover how companies like OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle are locked in multi-billion-dollar financing deals that boost each other’s valuations—creating a trillion-dollar feedback loop reminiscent of the dot-com bubble. Experts debate whether this is a sustainable surge driven by genuine AI adoption or an unsustainable build-up risking a major crash. Tune in to exp...

1 month ago

11 minutes

AI & Beyond

AI ROI Reality Check: Strategies for Successful Adoption

In this episode of AI & Beyond, Alex Kantrowitz interviews Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, to dissect the true return on investment (ROI) in AI for businesses. Challenging an MIT study claiming many companies see zero returns, Levie explains that early adoption struggles often stem from DIY AI projects versus tailored solutions like Box’s AI agents for document automation. The conversation explores rethinking workflows to unlock AI’s full productivity potential and how AI agents will soon transf...

1 month ago

13 minutes

AI & Beyond

Future Unlocked: AI’s Disruption and Human Resilience by 2050

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla share their vision of how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will revolutionize society and business between 2035 and 2050. Uncover the fast pace of technological change poised to upend traditional companies and dramatically reshape professions as AI accelerates software development to near instant. While AI may take over most intellectual work, the human need for personal connection and specialized services remains strong. ...

2 months ago

14 minutes

AI & Beyond

Gemini’s Leap: Next-Gen Native Image Generation & Editing

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we spotlight Google’s Gemini Native Image Generation Model, a breakthrough update advancing image creation and editing capabilities. Experience how Gemini handles complex multi-turn instructions with creative flair while maintaining character consistency across perspectives. Discover the power of "pixel perfect editing," allowing precise changes without compromising the rest of the image. We also discuss innovative evaluation methods focusing on human pre...

2 months ago

14 minutes

AI & Beyond

ChatGPT in Daily Life: How the World is Using AI Beyond Work

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we explore a groundbreaking study by OpenAI, Duke, and Harvard that reveals how ChatGPT has been adopted by around 10% of the global adult population from November 2022 to July 2025. Discover that over 70% of ChatGPT use is non-work-related, focusing on practical guidance, seeking information, and writing. We unpack demographic shifts, including a narrowing gender gap and how highly educated professionals tend to use ChatGPT more for decision support than...

2 months ago

14 minutes

AI & Beyond

AI Demystified: 7 Terms Every Listener Must Know

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we break down seven essential AI terms from IBM Technology’s latest insights to help you navigate the evolving AI landscape. Learn about agentic AI—autonomous systems that reason and act—alongside large reasoning models that solve problems step-by-step. Explore vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and techniques including Mixture of Experts (MoE). We wrap up with a look at Artificial S...

2 months ago

19 minutes

AI & Beyond

Gen AI Goes Mobile: The 2025 App Revolution

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we dive into Andreessen Horowitz’s fifth edition of the Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, tracking the evolution of AI applications over two and a half years. The report reveals a maturing ecosystem with fewer new web apps but a surge in mobile AI apps fueled by app store crackdowns on copycats. We highlight Google’s growing AI presence with multiple products ranking high, the rise of Chinese AI apps in global markets, and the exciting emergence of "vibe codi...

3 months ago

17 minutes

AI & Beyond

The New Browser Battle: AI Takes the Web Stage

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we explore the next frontier in web browsing—an AI-powered evolution shifting from apps to intent-driven interactions. Discover why browsers are poised to solve key AI challenges around personalization, ubiquity, and proactivity by leveraging their unique position as cross-platform gateways. We dive into the intense new "Browser War III," where Google’s Chrome faces fresh competition amid regulatory pressure, while innovative players like Perplexity Comet...

3 months ago

18 minutes

AI & Beyond

Cracking the AI Code: What’s Really Inside Language Models?

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we dive into Anthropic’s cutting-edge research on AI interpretability—unlocking how large language models like Claude actually think. Unlike traditional software, these models develop complex internal goals and abstractions, much like a brain. Researchers explore and manipulate the model’s inner “concepts” and “circuits” to uncover how it makes decisions, performs tasks, and sometimes hallucinates. This fascinating peek inside the AI mind is key to improv...

3 months ago

18 minutes

AI & Beyond

Gold Rush 2.0: The AI Billionaire Explosion

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we explore the explosive wealth generation sparked by the AI boom. AI startups are rapidly creating new billionaires, fueled by massive fundraising rounds and soaring valuations in both private and public markets. Discover how much of this wealth is concentrated in the Bay Area, often tied up in private companies, yet increasingly unlocking liquidity through secondary markets and acquisitions. We also examine the evolving role of wealth management firms a...

3 months ago

11 minutes

AI & Beyond

Unexpected Twists: How AI Sees the World of Finance

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we delve into a groundbreaking global study comparing the financial decision-making of leading large language models—including GPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek—with real-world human choices from 53 countries. The research reveals that AI models tend to be risk-neutral, consistently prioritizing expected value in lottery scenarios—but occasionally faltering when weighing present versus future gains. Most unexpectedly, the collective financial logic of these AIs m...

4 months ago

12 minutes

AI & Beyond

Me, Myself, and AI: Protecting Kids in the Chatbot Age

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we delve into the July 2025 Internet Matters report on children’s use of AI chatbots in the UK. While these tools offer exciting opportunities for learning, creativity, and companionship, the risks are real—especially for vulnerable kids who may encounter inaccurate information or struggle to distinguish between human and AI interactions. The report calls for urgent, coordinated efforts from industry, government, schools, parents, and researchers to creat...

4 months ago

14 minutes

AI & Beyond

Beyond the Bot: AI Agents in Action

In this episode of "AI & Beyond," we dive into the power of AI agents—autonomous systems that break down complex tasks, reason, and act with precision to achieve specific goals. Using a framework of planning, memory, execution, and action, these agents are transforming industries. We explore practical use cases including IoT-driven agricultural optimization, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for content creation, and coordinated multi-agent disaster response. Plus, discover seven more ...

4 months ago

14 minutes