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Malcolm Werchota's AI Cookbook is where artificial intelligence meets authentic business transformation. Known for his direct style and willingness to show AI in action—even during live presentations—Malcolm helps organizations understand that AI isn't about replacing humans but amplifying their capabilities. From voice-note productivity hacks to real-time meeting intelligence, this podcast delivers actionable insights for immediate implementation.
Your buddy says: “AI was boring this week.”
You say: “Bro… no.”
Because this week quietly reshaped the foundations of AI — from military adoption, to global chip wars, to enterprise software rewriting itself around AI.
In this Weekly AI Recap, Malcolm covers the stories that matter beneath the hype:
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft — normally trying to destroy each other — suddenly join forces.
They launch the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to create shared standards for AI agents.
What they contributed:
Why it matters:
This is the “plumbing” layer of AI — and it just got standardized.
The barrier to building enterprise AI agents dropped overnight.
The Department of Defense (now “Department of War” under Trump) launches a custom Gemini platform:
👉 gen.ai.mil
👉 3+ million personnel
👉 $200M/year contract
Capabilities:
• Document formatting
• Research
• Image/video analysis
• Secure AI assistant for unclassified workflows
Every major AI company — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI — signs defense contracts.
Signal:
AI is now national defense infrastructure, not a toy.
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist (and Turing Award winner) Yann LeCun leaves to build a startup focused on world models, arguing:
Meta declines to invest.
LeCun says Meta is “focused on the wrong spectrum of applications.”
A major philosophical split inside the AI world.
Sidekick is no longer a helper — it’s the new interface:
Plus: Agentic Storefronts
→ Shopify automatically syndicates your products across ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, etc.
Shopping now happens inside AI assistants, not websites.
Also: SimGym
→ AI shoppers simulate UX & checkout behavior before launch.
Photoshop, Express, Acrobat now run inside ChatGPT.
Chat becomes the software interface.
Traditional apps become capabilities invoked by AI.
Malcolm’s insight:
“Every software company must choose: Stay a standalone app… or become a capability inside AI.”
The US uncovers a $160M Nvidia GPU smuggling operation to China — organized, widespread, and not exactly “a guy with GPUs in a suitcase.”
Simultaneously:
Nvidia adds location verification tech to Blackwell chips — a “GPS for GPUs.”
European data centers are uneasy:
“If the US can track them… can they kill-switch them?”
AI chips have become geopolitical weapons.
Focus:
How Google uses publisher content (newsrooms, blogs, creators) to train AI Overviews without compensation.
Potential fine: 10% of global revenue = ~$35B.
At the same time:
EU considers loosening data center permitting, realizing they’re falling years behind the US and Asia in infrastructure rollout.
EU = cracking down + accelerating at the same time.
Rumors suggest GPT-5.2 may drop today — December 11 — with the claim:
“The best coding model ever released.”
If it happens, Malcolm will dedicate an entire episode next week.
00:00 – Intro: “This week was not boring.”
01:00 – Agentic AI Foundation
05:00 – US Military launches Gemini platform
10:00 – Yann LeCun leaves Meta
15:00 – Shopify & Adobe rebuild around AI
20:00 – Trump, China & GPU smuggling
26:00 – EU antitrust investigation
30:00 – GPT-5.2 rumors
32:00 – Closing thoughts
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