Real-World AI Talks by Just AI News

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Real World AI Talks is a podcast by Just AI News that goes beyond the headlines to explore how artificial intelligence is actually being built, used, and scaled today. Hosted by Paulo Iñaki Palma, each episode features direct conversations with entrepreneurs, researchers, business leaders, and technology specialists who are working with AI in the real world. The podcast cuts through the noise and complexity around AI, bringing listeners practical insights from the people closest to the technology. From business adoption and industry transformation to technical challenges and emerging use cases, Real World AI Talks helps make AI easier to understand for everyone, from curious beginners to senior executives making strategic decisions. Honest, experience-driven, and grounded in real examples, the show is designed for anyone who wants to understand where AI is going and how it is already changing the economy.

Episodes

  1. Aug 10

    The Future of Payments: Bitcoin, Agentic Commerce & AI Agents - w/ D. Parkinson & B. de Waal, Musqet

    What is agentic commerce? Most people have never heard the term. But agentic commerce has arrived, and it is already changing how people buy things, run businesses, and make payments online. In this episode of Real World AI Talks by Just AI News, host and editor-in-chief Paulo Iñaki Palma sits down with Benjamin de Waal, CTO, and David Parkinson, CEO of Musqet, to break down the future of agentic payments and what it means for merchants, businesses, and everyday consumers right now. Agentic commerce means your AI agent handles the entire purchase for you. It finds the product, reads the store data, adds items to the cart, and completes the checkout. Want to know how to buy things with your Bitcoin without touching a website? This episode explains exactly how that already works using Bitcoin Lightning payments and the UCP protocol. Ben de Waal walks through how to build agentic commerce right now, what makes it work reliably, and why letting your AI agent pay with Bitcoin is safer than most people assume. The conversation also goes somewhere most discussions avoid. AI agents are paying each other now. Not in theory. In practice. David Parkinson says we are within twelve months of fully AI led, AI run, AI financed companies that still employ humans for physical tasks. Ben de Waal adds that the question of which decisions AI should never make has a much less reassuring answer than most people expect. In this episode we cover: What is agentic commerce and how it works in practice todayHow to buy things with your Bitcoin using an AI agentWhy agentic commerce has arrived and what that means for merchantsThe future of agentic payments and where it is headingHow to build agentic commerce into your own business or platformWhy AI agents are paying each other now and what that meansHow Musqet built a full agentic checkout with Bitcoin Lightning paymentsWhy the UCP protocol matters for agentic commerceHow much of a business AI can run without human inputWhat fully AI led, AI run, AI financed companies will look likeWhy being a small company is an advantage when AI is moving this fastHow AI avatars with real celebrity personalities are changing customer interactionWhy Stripe is struggling with agentic commerce and what smaller companies are doing differently This is one of the most practical and honest conversations about agentic commerce, Bitcoin payments, and AI business operations we have published. If you are building in this space, working in payments, or simply want to understand where commerce is heading, this episode gives you real answers from two founders doing it right now. Real World AI Talks by Just AI News is hosted by Paulo Iñaki Palma, and is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. New episodes every week.

    The Future of Payments: Bitcoin, Agentic Commerce & AI Agents - w/ D. Parkinson & B. de Waal, Musqet

  2. Aug 4

    Big Data and AI. Too Much Data. Zero Strategy. - with Tom Howe, Hydrolix

    Big data and AI are on a collision course. And most companies are not ready for what comes next. In this episode of Real World AI Talks by Just AI News, host and editor-in-chief Paulo Iñaki Palma sits down with Tom Howe, Director of Insights Engineering at Hydrolix, a real time data analytics platform trusted by companies from growing e-commerce businesses all the way up to Fox, whose Super Bowl stream Hydrolix helped power in real time. The conversation covers one of the most underrated problems behind the AI boom: how companies are collecting petabytes of data, spending millions on AI tools, and have no clear strategy for what to do with any of it. Most companies think more data means better AI. Tom Howe says that is one of the most expensive misconceptions in the industry right now. Without a clear AI data strategy, companies end up in a feedback loop where AI is analyzing AI, producing confident answers based on wrong or incomplete data, and nobody is catching it. Tom has seen entire data clusters crash because a poorly configured LLM wrote queries that took down the hardware entirely. In this episode we cover: Why companies are collecting more data than they can actually useWhat happens when an LLM works with poorly structured or incomplete dataWhy AI giving you a confident answer is not the same as a correct oneHow to decide what data is useful and what is just expensive noiseWhat AI bots are doing to web traffic and why blocking them all is the wrong moveHow generative engine optimization is replacing traditional SEOWhy the dependency on advertising revenue is about to become a serious business problemWhat major changes to internet trust and security could look like in the next five yearsWhy open source AI models are changing the data infrastructure conversationWhat real time data analytics actually looks like on Super Bowl day AI is not just a productivity tool. It is generating more data than most companies know what to do with. Tom Howe has spent his career solving exactly that problem, and this is one of the most practical and honest conversations about big data and AI infrastructure we have published. Real World AI Talks is hosted by Paulo Iñaki Palma, editor-in-chief of Just AI News, and is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. New episodes every week.

    Big Data and AI. Too Much Data. Zero Strategy. - with Tom Howe, Hydrolix

  3. Jul 25

    AI Girlfriends and AI Companions. The Quiet Dependence Nobody Wants to Admit - with Ilana Grines

    Millions of people are already using AI girlfriends, erotic chatbots, and AI companions. Most of them have never told anyone. And according to sex therapist Ilana Grines, that silence is exactly part of the problem. In this episode of Real World AI Talks by Just AI News, host and editor-in-chief Paulo Iñaki Palma sits down with Ilana Grines, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Founder of Daily Therapy Dose, for one of the most honest and uncomfortable conversations about AI companions, erotic chatbots, and what they are doing to human intimacy, desire, and real relationships. Ilana is already seeing patients in her clinical practice whose relationships with AI girlfriends and AI companions are changing how they experience connection and vulnerability. She shares real cases, including a patient who built his perfect AI girlfriend to his exact specifications and stopped wanting to date real women entirely. This is not a conversation about whether erotic AI is good or bad. It is about what is actually happening right now and what it means for all of us. In this episode we cover: Why millions of people are turning to AI girlfriends and erotic chatbots for intimacyWhat emotional needs AI companions are meeting that real relationships are notWhere the line is between healthy sexual exploration and emotional avoidanceWhat happens to real relationship expectations when your AI companion never disappointsThe signs someone is becoming addicted to an AI companion or erotic chatbotWhether using an AI girlfriend or sex chatbot counts as cheatingThe risks of erotic AI and NSFW chatbots for teenagers and younger usersWhat AI companies are getting wrong about consent, gender roles, and power dynamicsHow couples and therapists should be talking about AI companions right nowWhat a genuinely healthy erotic AI would actually need to look like clinicallyWhy AI is not creating these problems but exposing ones society already had AI is not the disease. It is the mirror. And what it is reflecting about loneliness, shame, and the way society talks about sex and desire is something we cannot afford to ignore for much longer.

    AI Girlfriends and AI Companions. The Quiet Dependence Nobody Wants to Admit - with Ilana Grines

  4. Jul 7

    AI Made PR More Important Than Ever. Getting It Wrong Can Destroy Your Brand - with Matias Rodsevich

    What is the impact of artificial intelligence on public relations? This episode explores the connection between AI and PR and how new technologies are changing media outreach, brand visibility, content creation and communication strategy. Paulo Palma speaks with Matias Rodsevich, founder of PRLab, an award-winning B2B tech PR agency, about how PR teams are using artificial intelligence for research, media monitoring, proofreading and first drafts. They also discuss the risks of automated pitching, AI-generated content and the growing amount of spam reaching journalists. The conversation explains how artificial intelligence and public relations now intersect in AI search. As more people use large language models to research companies, products and services, media coverage can help AI tools understand, trust and recommend a brand. Matias also shares practical insights into: • How PR can improve visibility in AI-generated answers • Why media mentions can be as valuable as backlinks • How trade publications and listicles influence AI recommendations • Whether brands should write for people, Google or AI • How companies can use AI without losing their voice • Why human relationships remain central to effective PR • Whether AI will replace PR teams • The future of PR and AI This episode is essential listening for public relations professionals, communications teams, founders and marketers who want to understand how AI is transforming the PR industry.

    AI Made PR More Important Than Ever. Getting It Wrong Can Destroy Your Brand - with Matias Rodsevich

  5. Jun 24

    Can AI Replace a Therapist? Why People Pick a Chatbot Over a Professional - With Caitlin Stamatis

    There are 1.6 million therapists in the United States. There are 340 million people. The math does not work. So what fills the gap? In 2026, more and more people are finding that answer in AI. Most people turn to it for information. But what happens when they turn to it for emotional support at two in the morning, when no therapist is available and the thoughts will not stop? In this episode of Real World AI Talks by Just AI News, host and editor-in-chief Paulo Iñaki Palma sits down with Caitlin Stamatis, a clinical psychologist and Head of Research at Slingshot AI, the company behind Ash, an AI mental health tool built on clinical evidence rather than engagement metrics. Caitlin came into this field as a skeptic. What changed her mind, and what still keeps her up at night, makes for one of the most honest conversations about AI in mental health care we have had on the show. In this episode we cover: Why 16% of US adults are now turning to AI for mental health support Is cost really the main driver, or is mental health stigma the bigger factorWhat separates Ash from a general purpose chatbot like ChatGPT or ClaudeCan AI replace a human therapist or is it filling a gap the system never coveredWhat real clinical research on AI mental health tools actually looks like How Slingshot AI measures outcomes using gold standard validated toolsWhat users should consider before sharing sensitive mental health data with any AIThe risks of AI companions for younger teenagers and their social developmentWhere the line should be drawn between AI mental health support and AI replacing human relationshipsWhat success looks like for Ash in five to ten years Caitlin shares real data from over 100,000 users of the Ash app and gives an honest take on what AI still cannot and should not do in mental health care. Real World AI Talks is hosted by Paulo Iñaki Palma, editor-in-chief of Just AI News, and is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. New episodes every week.

    Can AI Replace a Therapist? Why People Pick a Chatbot Over a Professional - With Caitlin Stamatis

  6. Jun 11

    How AI Is Solving the $100B Surplus Inventory Problem Nobody Talks About

    Most manufacturers are sitting on millions of dollars of surplus inventory and have no idea what to do with it. In this first episode of Real World AI Talks by Just AI News, host Paulo Iñaki Palma sits down with Luke Crihfield, Senior Director of Revenue at Amplio Supply Chain, to break down how artificial intelligence is changing the way enterprise manufacturers manage, appraise, and sell industrial surplus assets. From AI-powered cataloging apps to automated appraisal engines, this conversation covers what AI can realistically do today in supply chain operations and where human judgment still has to lead. Luke explains how Amplio built a system that uses machine learning models to assess price ranges, liquidity, and logistics costs for thousands of SKUs at once, making surplus asset disposition faster and more transparent for enterprise clients. He also talks about the limits of AI in this space: why image recognition alone is not enough to catalog industrial machinery, and why an AI output is always a starting point for a decision rather than a final answer. If you want to understand how AI actually works in a real B2B environment, rather than in theory, this is the episode to watch. The conversation also covers how Amplio is using AI internally to improve its own revenue operations. Luke shares how his sales team uses a network of Claude-powered skills connected to Zoom, Gmail, HubSpot, and Google Drive to reduce administrative work and spend more time building client relationships. This is a clear, practical look at what AI-native revenue teams look like in 2025 and what separates genuine AI adoption from just using a faster version of old tools. Topics covered include: surplus inventory management, AI appraisal and cataloging tools, secondary market liquidity, B2B revenue automation, sustainability in manufacturing, the $11.1M Series A from Hitachi and Yamaha Ventures, and what the next generation of AI-powered supply chain platforms may look like.

    How AI Is Solving the $100B Surplus Inventory Problem Nobody Talks About
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Real World AI Talks is a podcast by Just AI News that goes beyond the headlines to explore how artificial intelligence is actually being built, used, and scaled today. Hosted by Paulo Iñaki Palma, each episode features direct conversations with entrepreneurs, researchers, business leaders, and technology specialists who are working with AI in the real world. The podcast cuts through the noise and complexity around AI, bringing listeners practical insights from the people closest to the technology. From business adoption and industry transformation to technical challenges and emerging use cases, Real World AI Talks helps make AI easier to understand for everyone, from curious beginners to senior executives making strategic decisions. Honest, experience-driven, and grounded in real examples, the show is designed for anyone who wants to understand where AI is going and how it is already changing the economy.

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