In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy

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Stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing world of technology with the In the Blink of AI podcast Host of the show Georgie Healy leverages 15 years in tech with a vibrant Aussie sense of humor to interview leading experts in Artificial Intelligence to unpack AI’s transformative potential and provide weekly commentary on the latest headlines. Tune in for candid conversations as the rapid speed of technology navigates innovation and ethics. The podcast's mission is to demystify the AI jargon and provide real human insights for everyone from the AI-curious to seasoned experts. Hosted by Georgie Healy, In the Blink of AI is a Day One® show. Day One is the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators, and investors. Follow In the Blink of AI through Day One on LinkedIn Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups.

  1. Inside ElevenLabs: Voice AI, Cloning Ethics, and the End of the Call Centre?

    21 hr ago

    Inside ElevenLabs: Voice AI, Cloning Ethics, and the End of the Call Centre?

    Damian Naughton is the General Manager of ANZ at ElevenLabs, the voice AI company now past US$500 million in ARR, just four years after its 2022 founding. Formerly a regional VP at Slack and an early team member at Sydney's Hyper Anna (acquired by Alteryx), Damian is leading ElevenLabs' new Sydney office and tripling the local team as enterprise demand for voice AI accelerates. In this episode, Damian and Georgie Healy cover why ElevenLabs is planting a flag in ANZ now and the local customers already on board, including Xero, Employment Hero, Heidi Health, Australia Post, and Andromeda Robotics' aged care companion robot Abby. Damian unpacks the company's high performance culture and the "11x yourself" philosophy, why intrinsic motivation beats top down pressure, and how he co-designs stretch goals with new hires. They get into voice cloning and the ethics behind it, how little audio you actually need to clone a voice, and how ElevenLabs handles consent, safety, and scammers, including a clever "reverse" use case that keeps fraudsters on the line to gather intel for banks. Damian also shares his view that enterprise AI needs to be led by the business rather than tech, why the BPO and consulting worlds are facing real disruption, and his take that tall poppy syndrome is a scourge holding Australian tech back. Tune in for a candid conversation on voice AI, building a high performing team, and how enterprises should prepare for a near future where your own AI assistant takes action on your behalf. Time Stamps 00:00 – Intro: Your AI Assistant Will Soon Take Action For You 02:17 – AI Hack of the Week: A Michael Caine Voice Butler On The Fridge 04:57 – ElevenLabs Launches in Australia and New Zealand 07:14 – Why Voice AI Is Ready Now (Xero, Employment Hero, Heidi, Andromeda) 10:52 – From Journalist to Voice AI: How AI Is Changing the News 13:40 – Inside Hyper Anna, the Aussie Startup Acquired by Alteryx 15:31 – ElevenLabs' High Performance Culture and the "11x Yourself" Rule 25:38 – The ElevenLabs Founding Story: Two Polish Founders and Bad Dubbing 28:42 – How Will Australia React to Voice AI? 31:24 – Voice Cloning Ethics, Consent, and Celebrity Voices 34:12 – How Little Audio You Need to Clone a Voice 37:17 – Voice AI and Scammers: How ElevenLabs Fights Fraud 42:05 – Can AI Bring Back Music From Artists Who Have Passed? 45:11 – Can Enterprise Companies Actually Adapt to AI? 53:05 – Advice for Heads of AI: Let Business Lead, Not Tech 56:39 – Rapid Fire: Tall Poppy Syndrome, Hiring, and Spicy Takes 1:02:05 – Where to Follow Damian and ElevenLabs In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeelFounders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get visas handled fast, so you stay focused on scaling. Deel takes care of onboarding, HR, IT, EOR, benefits, and compliance, so your team can grow without borders. It’s why more than 40,000 fast-growing companies trust Deel to move fast. Visit https://www.deel.com/dayone ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter Mentioned in this episode: Deel x PX_Post Intro

    1hr 4min
  2. "AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion

    19 Jun

    "AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion

    Akshay Kothari is the COO and co-founder of Notion, the workspace platform now used by over a hundred million people. Before Notion, he co-founded Pulse, the newsreader app built as a Stanford class project that Steve Jobs name-checked on stage at WWDC 2010 before LinkedIn acquired it. He joined Notion in 2018 when the team was fewer than ten people, and in this conversation with Georgie Healy he traces that journey and where knowledge work is heading as agents take centre stage. Akshay shares his AI hack of the week, turning a screenshot of restaurant recommendations into a shareable Notion database, and explains how the unit of work has shifted from taking notes to simply having a chat. He unpacks the design obsession behind Notion's identity, the block architecture that lets anyone build their own tools, and the new Developer Platform that brings outside agents like Claude and Codex onto Notion's context graph. He paints a picture of a "factory of agents" working round the clock while humans move to reviewing and applying taste, makes the case for model optionality and cost control, and shares his rule for custom agents: macro delegate, then micro steer. In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeelFounders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get visas handled fast, so you stay focused on scaling. Deel takes care of onboarding, HR, IT, EOR, benefits, and compliance, so your team can grow without borders. It’s why more than 40,000 fast-growing companies trust Deel to move fast. Visit https://www.deel.com/dayone ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter Mentioned in this episode: Deel x PX_Post Intro

    49 min
  3. Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's Largest Bank with Blair Hudson

    4 Jun

    Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's Largest Bank with Blair Hudson

    This is a #paidpartnership with Commonwealth Bank Episode SummaryBlair is the Chief Engineer of Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank, overseeing nine to ten teams building the AI platform that powers Australia’s largest bank and its millions of customers. Including me, a Dollar Mite since primary school. His origin story is not what you would expect. He was a self-described hacker who grew up clicking through every system configuration setting he could find on his mum’s school computers after hours. That curiosity took him from building on GPT-2 before ChatGPT even existed, to the heart of one of Australia’s most important institutions. In this episode we get into: The litmus test he uses to spot bad AI use immediatelyWhy context matters more than promptingWhat an AI platform actually is and why your company probably needs oneWhy software engineers need to take more accountability for what they buildThe single security mistake most people are still makingWhy it is absolutely not too late to figure AI out for yourself Practical, candid, and full of things you can action today. Time Stamps00:00 Intro 03:05 What Does a Chief Engineer of AI at a Bank Actually Do 06:02 How CBA Collaborates Across Hundreds of Engineering Teams 08:56 How to Keep Up With AI Tools Without Getting Overwhelmed 12:04 Why Tool Consistency Matters in Enterprise AI 14:56 Why Blair Shares His AI Insights Publicly 17:51 What Being a Hacker Really Means in Tech 20:50 How Blair Hudson Went From Startup AI to Commonwealth Bank 23:59 Why CBA Starts Every Sprint With a Real Customer Call 27:06 Why Over-Engineering Is Killing Your AI Projects 29:47 Where AI Is Actually Moving the Needle in Banking Right Now 32:15 Why the Year of the Agent Was Overhyped 34:41 How to Build AI Fast Without Cutting Corners on Safety 39:28 What Is an AI Platform and Why Does Your Company Need One 41:49 How CBA Handles Shadow AI and Tool Adoption at Scale 45:09 Why Context Is More Important Than Prompting 50:29 The Number One Security Mistake You Are Still Making 52:30 The Easiest Way to Start Using AI to Save Time Today 54:05 Why You Should Never Ship AI Output Without Reviewing It 55:38 Why It Is Not Too Late to Learn AI In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeelFounders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get visas handled fast, so you stay focused on scaling. Deel takes care of onboarding, HR, IT, EOR, benefits, and compliance, so your team can grow without borders. It’s why more than 40,000 fast-growing companies trust Deel to move fast. Visit https://www.deel.com/dayone ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter Mentioned in this episode: Deel x PX_Post Intro

    1 hr
  4. You Can. But Should You? | AI and Ethics with Dr Simon Longstaff

    28 May

    You Can. But Should You? | AI and Ethics with Dr Simon Longstaff

    "Can does not imply should." That one line from Dr Simon Longstaff cuts to the heart of everything wrong with how the tech industry is currently building AI. The Executive Director of The Ethics Centre and one of Australia's most respected moral philosophers joins Georgie for a conversation that is equal parts grounding and mind-expanding, and one of the most important episodes the show has produced. Simon's path to becoming Australia's foremost ethics expert is not what you would expect. He left school at 16, cleaned toilets on a remote island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, drove ambulances, became a paramedic and fire officer, and was eventually adopted by one of the clans of the Anindilyakwa people. It was at the end of a ship loading wharf that an indigenous elder taught him something about seeing patterns in the world, a lesson he has carried through 35 years of philosophical work and only recently realised had shaped everything. In this episode he unpacks why ethics is not an optional extra bolted onto technology but the foundation it has to be built on, why the pharmaceutical approval model could be the blueprint for governing AI, and why "necessary fictions" mean that CEOs deploying AI are responsible for outcomes they literally cannot understand. He also makes the case that the coming wave of job displacement does not have to be a catastrophe, and explains what ancient Athens and pre-colonial Indigenous life have to do with universal basic income. In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeelFounders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get visas handled fast, so you stay focused on scaling. Deel takes care of onboarding, HR, IT, EOR, benefits, and compliance, so your team can grow without borders. It’s why more than 40,000 fast-growing companies trust Deel to move fast. Visit https://www.deel.com/dayone ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter Mentioned in this episode: Deel x PX_Post Intro

    59 min
  5. Learn how to use AI at its exponential with Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering

    21 May

    Learn how to use AI at its exponential with Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering

    Episode SummaryWhen Katelyn Lesse was leading engineering at Stripe, she noticed everything around her shifting because of AI. So she left, and joined Anthropic. Today she leads platform engineering at one of the most important AI companies in the world, which is why we were so thrilled to host her for Anthropic's first ever interview in Sydney. Katelyn does not lead with technical jargon. She leads with a question every builder needs to sit with right now. Are you building on the exponential, or are you stuck on the linear? Most people, she says, are already further behind than they realise. In this episode she shares the exact framework she uses to think about building in the AI era, why your frustrations with Claude are actually signals you are onto something, and what it really means to be AGI pilled inside Anthropic. Time Stamps00:00 Intro 02:53 AI Hack: Using Claude to Pick Wine 03:42 Katelyn's Background and Path to Anthropic 05:32 Why She Left Stripe to Join Anthropic 11:22 What Building on the Exponential Means 11:48 Why Australia Is a Top AI Market 13:05 Is the Claude Obsession Healthy? 15:20 The Framework for Building AI Products 16:38 Why Evals Are Non-Negotiable 18:18 Inside Anthropic's Developer Platform 20:11 What Is Harness Engineering? 25:13 AI Security, Sandboxes and Human in the Loop 29:09 Cloud Managed Agents Explained 31:56 Open Source MCP vs Closed Claude 33:48 How AI Is Changing Engineering Teams 36:24 How to Choose the Right AI Coding Tool 39:12 The End of the Traditional Tech Team 44:30 The AI Magic Moment Everyone Remembers 45:30 What It Means to Be AGI Pilled 47:21 Rapid Fire With Anthropic 49:56 Advice for Developers Building With AI In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeelFounders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get visas handled fast, so you stay focused on scaling. Deel takes care of onboarding, HR, IT, EOR, benefits, and compliance, so your team can grow without borders. It’s why more than 40,000 fast-growing companies trust Deel to move fast. Visit https://www.deel.com/dayone ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter Mentioned in this episode: Deel x PX_Post Intro

    52 min
  6. How to Build a Side Project That Goes Global Before You Graduate with Anna and Viv from Toastie

    7 May

    How to Build a Side Project That Goes Global Before You Graduate with Anna and Viv from Toastie

    Episode SummaryAnna Zhou and Vivian Shen, the co-founders of Toastie, join Georgie Healy for one of the warmest and most personal conversations the show has had. Two software engineers at Google by day, they have quietly built one of the most thoughtful health tracking apps in the world by night, all without spending a single dollar on marketing. Toastie was born from a problem they were both living. Anna was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and handed a few photocopied sheets to figure out the rest of her life from. Viv has been managing PCOS for years, experimenting with medications and diets on her own. They realised the tools available simply were not built for people like them, so they built one themselves. Today Toastie helps users track symptoms, food, body signals, lab reports and scans, surfacing the patterns and irregularities that would otherwise go unnoticed. In this episode they unpack why almost one in two Australians live with a chronic illness but no one talks about it, why slapping AI on everything is the wrong instinct and how they decide which features actually need it, and the cold LinkedIn email that landed them their first global partnership before they even had a product. They also share why ChatGPT and Gemini are not enough when the stakes are this high, what their users actually write to them in the feedback form, and the story of the user who quietly security audited their app and was so impressed they wrote in to tell them. Plus the early hackathon they won by faking the backend in real time, why they call themselves boomers when it comes to social media, the worst startup advice they have ever received, and a special offer just for In The Blink of AI listeners. 🎁 Use promo code ITBOA2026 to get a 90 day free trial of Toastie 🍞 Find your Toastie personality: https://toastie.au/quiz Time Stamps00:00 Intro 02:20 AI Hacks and Life at Google Sydney 07:00 How They Met and Their Hackathon Wins 10:51 What is Toastie and Why It Matters 13:50 The Personal Stories Behind the Product 16:23 How They Use AI (And Where They Don't) 17:37 The Cold Email That Landed a Global Partnership 20:00 Why General AI Models Aren't Enough 23:25 Building, Prioritising and the Competition 25:13 Why They Refuse to Call Themselves an AI Company 27:57 Trust, Security and User Feedback 30:00 Going Viral With Zero Marketing Spend 33:33 Handling AI Hate Online 35:43 Rapid Fire and What's Next 38:45 Special Offer for Listeners In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeelFounders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get visas handled fast, so you stay focused on scaling. Deel takes care of onboarding, HR, IT, EOR, benefits, and compliance, so your team can grow without borders. It’s why more than 40,000 fast-growing companies trust Deel to move fast. Visit https://www.deel.com/dayone ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter Mentioned in this episode: Deel x PX_Post Intro

    41 min
  7. The New Rules of Design (with Andrew Hogan | Head of Insight at Figma)

    30 Apr

    The New Rules of Design (with Andrew Hogan | Head of Insight at Figma)

    "Code is getting cheaper. Which means taste is getting more expensive." That one idea from Andrew Hogan reframes everything people think they know about competing in AI right now. Andrew, Head of Insights at Figma, joins Georgie to make the case that features are no longer a moat, and that the companies quietly investing in how their product feels are the ones building something that's actually hard to copy. In this episode they get into why 56% of non-designers are already doing design work, why the job title "designer" isn't going anywhere, and why anyone who's still treating design as a finish-line coat of paint is going to get lapped. They also unpack what agent management platforms actually need to get right, why design matters even more when kids are the users, and what GeoCities taught us about creative ownership that most product teams have completely forgotten. Plus: the prompting-together technique that turns prototyping into a team sport, why "no tech at all" is unnecessarily painful for parents, Andrew's verdict on Australian coffee, and why the golden era of the side project might be the most important shift nobody's naming loudly enough. ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter Mentioned in this episode: Deel x PX_Post Intro

    45 min
  8. How Springboards Built an AI Model That Actually Thinks Differently

    23 Apr

    How Springboards Built an AI Model That Actually Thinks Differently

    Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey "Shit at the speed of light is still shit." That one line from Pip captures the entire philosophy behind Springboards, the AI company he co-founded with Amy and Kieran that is quietly pushing back against what the rest of the industry is doing. The three of them join Georgie Healy for one of the most thought-provoking conversations the show has had about what AI is quietly doing to creativity, and what it takes to build a model that breaks the mould. Pip and Amy never planned to start an AI company. Both worked in advertising and got laid off within three weeks of each other, which led them to accidentally build the first version of Springboards themselves to solve a problem they kept running into: existing AI tools were not helping them do creative work better, they were making everyone's creative work look the same. Kieran joined as their technical co-founder and together they have now released Flint, a divergence model designed to break the AI hive mind. In this episode they unpack why 69 out of 70 language models will tell you that time is a river, why mainstream AI has converged into one gray mush of sameness, and why the scariest part of this might be that most people will not even notice. They also get into how they built Flint to score 7.5 on novelty bench when the frontier models score ones and twos, why the smallest possible model was always the goal, and why they deliberately avoid making the tool feel too polished. Plus why humans are evolutionarily lazy and what that means for our brains in the AI era, the unexpected analogy about sourdough and alcohol that changes how you think about creativity, and the honest reflection from all three founders on being the self-loathing AI company in a space full of hype. 00:00 — Intro 02:22 — Introducing Flint and the convergence problem in AI models 04:50 — Why Springboards is uniquely positioned to solve creative AI 07:30 — What entropy actually means in language models 09:44 — Real examples: random cars, pizza toppings, and where to holiday 12:36 — Why this matters for the advertising industry (and everyone else) 15:29 — Inside Flint: how to fine-tune a model for divergence 18:38 — Doubling the score on Novelty Bench (and what that even means) 23:35 — Try Flint yourself: who it's for and how to access it 26:10 — Cognitive atrophy, taste, and keeping humans in the creative loop 35:04 — Choosing a tech provider as an early-stage AI startup 38:20 — What actually matters for founders in the sasspocalypse era 41:12 — Rapid fire: copyright, cover shoots, Eumundi markets, and self-loathing AI ✨ Connect with Georgie HealyWeekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/ The Day One NetworkIn The Blink of AI is part of Day One, the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators & investors. Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups: https://dayone.fm/newsletter

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Stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing world of technology with the In the Blink of AI podcast Host of the show Georgie Healy leverages 15 years in tech with a vibrant Aussie sense of humor to interview leading experts in Artificial Intelligence to unpack AI’s transformative potential and provide weekly commentary on the latest headlines. Tune in for candid conversations as the rapid speed of technology navigates innovation and ethics. The podcast's mission is to demystify the AI jargon and provide real human insights for everyone from the AI-curious to seasoned experts. Hosted by Georgie Healy, In the Blink of AI is a Day One® show. Day One is the podcast network dedicated to founders, operators, and investors. Follow In the Blink of AI through Day One on LinkedIn Sign up to get your weekly insights into the up-and-coming AI startups.

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