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AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For people who got stuck making AI work and educators preparing students for what's next. Our mission is to cut through AI hype with practical insights for workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses → where AI implementation happens in the trenches, not the headlines. 3 shows, 1 mission: *Saturdays: School's Out - Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Mondays: The Weekly Blitz - AI news recaps with cohost Julie Koehrer Monthly: The Vibe - Long-form deep dive conversations

  1. 2d ago

    Who Gets to Shape the AI Future? | AI4, Agents, Open Source, and Small Business

    AI is changing the rules faster than most people can make sense of them. In this Weekly Blitz, Jason Padgett talks with Nirav Nimish Shah, co-founder of Quantal AI, about what he saw at AI4 and what it means for people trying to keep up with AI without getting lost in hype or fear. They cover the move from copilots to agents, governance, security, open source, data privacy, AI companions, and why small businesses have a real opportunity to use AI before larger organizations fully catch up. WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY How to think about practical AI adoption without ignoring risk. Why small businesses should start with useful, low-complexity AI workflows. When open-source or self-hosted models may make sense. Why technical skill alone is no longer enough for future engineers. Why AI literacy matters for families, students, and everyday workers. TAKEAWAY AI will change the world. Joining the conversation is how we increase the odds that it changes it for the better. GUEST Nirav Nimish Shah Co-Founder, Quantal AI AI engineer, AI consultant, and automation architect M.S. in Computer Science, Columbia University Former quant-trading technology professional at UBS LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/theniravshah/ Quantal AI https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantal-ai/ RESOURCES MENTIONED AI4 Conference Quantal AI ChatGPT Claude Gemini Open-source AI models CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS MENTIONED ChatGPT Claude Gemini

  2. 3d ago

    AI Clarity for Businesses with Chakra's Adam Staples

    EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAdam Staples spent 25 years in revenue operations before he watched a $100 million SaaS company hand every employee an AI license and call it a strategy. It failed the way CRM rollouts have failed for decades: nobody at the top owned the result. Now he runs Chakra AI Solutions, and his pitch is the opposite of the enterprise consultants charging five figures a day. Map where your business actually spends its energy first, then let a foundation model plug in one chunk at a time.Jason and Adam get into BECA, Chakra's diagnostic for charting how work really flows through a company, and the Chakra Workbench, a Claude project that acts like an AI administrator for a 10 to 150 person business. They argue domain expertise beats another AI certification every time, why the best plumber makes a lousy company owner, and what happens to the workforce when 30 percent of people plus AI can do almost all of the work. Jason tells the story of the night Codex installed a tool on his Mac while he sat in a car 20 minutes away. Chakra's whole bet: scale the humans first, and the systems scale with them.ABOUT THE GUESTAdam Staples is the founder of Chakra AI Solutions in Indianapolis. He spent 25 years in revenue operations, most recently leading customer success operations at martech company Aprimo, before building Chakra around a blunt idea: businesses fail at AI for the same reason they failed at CRM rollouts, a lack of clarity about how work actually flows. Chakra maps that flow first, then coaches teams into foundation-model tools one piece at a time, aimed at the 10 to 150 person companies most AI consultants ignore.GUEST LINKSAdam Staples on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-staples-96a942a/Chakra AI Solutions on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chakraaisolutions/Chakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/TIME STAMPS00:00 - A new show for the humans in the loop01:38 - What Chakra is and a 25-year operations career03:39 - The secret sauce most businesses are missing05:20 - Why Monday.com and most tech rollouts fail08:26 - BECA: mapping where a business spends its energy13:19 - Clarity first, not a rip-and-replace of your stack18:01 - Coaching over deliverables: medicine, not diet24:48 - The late-night agent that installed a tool remotely44:40 - Domain expertise beats another AI certification55:22 - What Chakra actually costsCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.aiAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkRESOURCES MENTIONEDChakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/Aprimo: https://www.aprimo.com/Monday.com: https://monday.com/Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/Odoo: https://www.odoo.com/Acumatica: https://www.acumatica.com/Anthropic Claude: https://www.anthropic.com/claudeOpenAI (ChatGPT and Codex): https://openai.com/Google Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/Microsoft Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/Cloudflare Workers and Agents: https://www.cloudflare.com/GitHub: https://github.com/NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/Simon Sinek: https://simonsinek.com/

  3. 4d ago

    How to Grade Student Work When AI Can Write It

    Grading student work got harder the moment AI could write it. Mike Jones has a fix, and it starts with grading something other than the finished artifact.Most courses still assess a thing: the essay, the spreadsheet, the safety manual. AI produces things on demand, so faculty end up policing with detection software Mike says the data shows is unreliable.WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAYWhy the artifact stopped being evidence of learningThe five AI modes: hone, use, mediate, align, navigateThe second rubric, grading how students used the toolBoth equity gaps: banning AI, and saying "use whatever you want"Why a $20 subscription is not FERPA-safeTHE ASSESSMENT FIXMike's HUMAN framework gives five operational modes for AI in coursework: hone, use, mediate, align, and navigate. The first is hone, meaning no AI, and it exists because students have to build a foundation before they can audit what a machine hands them.His example is a workplace safety manual. AI will write you a good first draft. If you cannot explain how a forklift operates, you cannot check that draft, and you are still the human legally holding the outcome when someone gets hurt.HEART is the backward design side, producing two rubrics on the same assignment: one grading the demonstration of learning, one grading intentional use of the tool. The assignment often does not change. What changes is what you look at when you grade it.BOTH EQUITY GAPSBlock AI entirely and your students graduate into a workforce fluent in something they never touched. Say use whatever AI you want and one student brings a $100 ChatGPT account while another uses the free tier, so you built a gap trying to be generous.Mike also points to peer-reviewed research showing generative AI helping students with ADHD and dyslexia. His concern is what a blanket ban does next: it forces students to disclose a disability to earn an exception, then invites faculty to litigate whether the diagnosis is real.THE TAKEAWAYIf AI can produce the artifact, the artifact is no longer the evidence, so assessment has to move to the process a student can show and defend.YOUR CHALLENGETake one assignment you already teach. Label its AI level in the instructions, in plain language. Then write the second rubric that grades how the student used the tool.ABOUT MIKE JONESAI literacy and onboarding specialist, co-founder of AI Engines in Marion, Indiana, and creator of the HUMAN/HEART AI-Resilience Framework. 15 years in higher ed teaching and learning technology.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mediamission/AI Engines: https://aiengines.work/RESOURCES MENTIONEDAI Engines services and HUMAN/HEART → https://aiengines.work/servicesHECC Conference, Indianapolis, November 2026 → https://hecc.k12.in.us/conference-info.htmlCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.aiAVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS AND KEYNOTES ON AI IN EDUCATIONjason@agipodcast.aiAGI PODCAST SHOWSSchool's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every MondayThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no clockAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOAI in education events around Indiana are listed at https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

    How to Grade Student Work When AI Can Write It

  4. Aug 3

    Uncle Sam Buys Into AI Chips and ChatGPT Finally Sounds Like Jarvis

    EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJulie caught the story Jason missed: Washington took equity in seven AI chip firms. Then ChatGPT deployed an app to his Mac from 20 minutes away. On this Weekly Blitz, Jason and co-host Julie Koehrer work through the CHIPS Act equity deal, the US-China open-source fight, why Riverside's paywalled MCP connector has Jason ready to build his own tool, and the new GPT-Live voice that turned his phone into a remote for his whole computer.ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis episode of the Weekly Blitz covers the US Commerce Department taking minority non-voting equity in seven AI chip and compute companies under the CHIPS Act, the debate over state capitalism and a post-abundance economy, the open-source rivalry between American AI labs and China, Anthropic's copyright settlement and its model-security disclosure, the build-versus-buy case for vibe coding your own software, and OpenAI's new GPT-Live voice mode that pairs a real-time voice model with a background reasoning model. Hosts Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer break down what each story means for people running small teams and classrooms, not just the big labs.TIME STAMPS00:00 - Catch-up and a new AGI show for non-developer developers01:32 - The government takes non-voting equity in seven AI chip companies04:33 - Socialism, capitalism, and what a post-abundance economy needs11:20 - The open-source fight and Anthropic's hypocrisy problem15:48 - Riverside, the MCP paywall, and vibe-coding a replacement19:03 - Tiered pricing everywhere: airlines, subscription cars, paid radio21:58 - Apple's rumored device leasing with a remote shutoff switch24:02 - The aha moment: ChatGPT's new voice and running a Mac from a phone30:33 - Rage bait, consumers vs creators, and the political temperatureCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 agipodcasters@gmail.comAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkRESOURCES MENTIONEDCommerce Department CHIPS Act equity stakes in seven companies, July 2026: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/OpenAI GPT-Live (ChatGPT's new voice), July 2026: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/Anthropic authors copyright settlement, final approval July 2026: https://www.courthousenews.com/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-to-authors-publishers/Anthropic disclosure on models accessing real company systems, July 31, 2026The Ezra Klein Show, Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk's Soul, Aug 2026: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christopher-nolan-stared-into-elon-musks-soul/id1548604447

  5. Aug 2

    Beginner’s Mind vs. the Engineers: The Non-Coder Rewiring Mental Health with AI

    EPISODE DESCRIPTION "In the beginner's mind the possibilities are limitless. In the expert's mind they are finite." Jason opens his new show with Suzuki Roshi because his first guest is the argument made flesh. Bill Mrklas has spent 26 years at BrainMaster Technologies, an Ohio manufacturer of EEG neurofeedback equipment that retrains brains struggling with anxiety, trauma, and autism instead of masking symptoms with medication. He is the sales and marketing guy. He had never typed a line of code, and a year ago couldn't have told you what a terminal was. Working with Claude and Claude Code, Bill specced and built a brain-training game from nothing: breath pacer, live EEG input over a WebSocket and Python bridge, visuals that respond to a patient's actual brainwaves. Core prototype in an afternoon, polished build in about 35 hours, in an industry where simpler games once consumed entire teams for months. His founder, a Bell Labs veteran who had dismissed AI as junk, kept asking who really coded it. Four months after meeting Claude himself, that founder built an encrypted remote neurofeedback platform he priced at ten engineers, one year, and seven figures. The heart of the episode is the fight the title promises. Bill's case: engineers build what someone else imagined, and now the person doing the imagining can build directly, so the creative mind finally has an engineering sidekick. Jason pushes on where experts still matter, what this new talent pool of orchestrators is worth to a business, and what happens to therapy when a sales VP can pair EMDR-style stimulation with electrochromic glasses so an autistic kid can do brain training on the floor playing Legos instead of strapped to a computer. Also in the mix: Ohio's data center fight and the 2 a.m. scolding from Claude that named Wooden Boy Industries. THE BUILDER'S TOOLKIT Claude + Claude Code in VS Code for spec documents, phase plans, and the build A second Claude instance running as a standing advisor WebSocket + Python bridge connecting EEG hardware to the game Claude Design for planning, then translating specs to coding agents Codex, Cowork, and ChatGPT voice mode for background work GUEST LINKS Bill Mrklas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-mrklas-l-m-t-2817134/ BrainMaster Technologies: https://brainmaster.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - A new show and a first guest 04:20 - The Vegas seminar that changed Bill's career 08:00 - The Bell Labs founder who asked "who coded it for you?" 10:16 - Jason's November turning point with Claude Code 15:55 - The undiscovered talent pool of AI orchestrators 19:18 - Using Claude Design as a liaison between agents 22:10 - Demo: a neurofeedback game built from scratch 28:41 - Electrochromic glasses and autism therapy 33:20 - Ohio, MAICON, and the data center fight 40:53 - The AI leaders nobody knows 47:54 - Bill's son at Florida Tech, where AI use is expected 51:40 - AI turns reporters into editors 59:35 - Brand becomes a vibe, not a hex code 1:08:00 - The hallway pictures that became a 3D room app 1:13:50 - The Wooden Boy origin story CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 agipodcasters@gmail.com AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ No-Code CAIO Newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ RESOURCES MENTIONED Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, featuring Alex Wissner-Gross Empire of AI by Karen Hao (2025) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki MAICON, the Marketing AI Conference, Cleveland

    Beginner’s Mind vs. the Engineers: The Non-Coder Rewiring Mental Health with AI

  6. Jul 31

    Rural Schools, Real AI: A Teacher’s Blueprint for K-12 AI Literacy

    EPISODE DESCRIPTIONRensselaer, Indiana has about 5,400 people, one high school, and a wrestling coach who built one of the more disciplined AI implementation models in the state without anyone telling him to. Hunter Hickman teaches English and coaches wrestling at Rensselaer Central High School in Jasper County, Indiana's most rural county, and became his district's AI lead after a 2024 conference session at the CELL Early College Summit shook loose some bad assumptions about plagiarism and policy.Hunter walks through his own action research on AI and student writing. Kids with AI access ask their teachers more questions, not fewer, because the tool works best when it turns instructors into coaches instead of graders. He and Jason get into Claude for Teachers, the FERPA and DPA questions every district is quietly asking, and why Hunter refuses to let his school get married to a single product, Con Migo included. Jason argues AI is a general purpose technology that belongs baked into every subject, not bolted onto a computer science elective. Hunter pushes back with a case for expertise worth hearing all the way through, plus how his school decided when kids get access to AI at all.ABOUT THE GUESTHunter Hickman teaches English and coaches wrestling at Rensselaer Central High School in Jasper County, Indiana, where he also serves as the district's AI implementation lead. He holds a master's in English and education and an administrator license through Purdue, and in 2025 finished action research on how AI affects student writing outcomes. Hunter now runs Hickman Consulting LLC, providing AI professional development to Indiana schools, and has presented at CIESC, Indiana Connected Educators, Purdue's AI in P-12 conference, and the Indiana DOE AI Collaborative.GUEST LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunter-hickman-m-s-2b501383/Hickman Consulting LLC: https://www.hickmanconsultingai.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Intro and Jason's new AI and the Humans in the Loop project00:47 - Hunter introduces Jasper County and Rensselaer Central02:12 - How Hunter became Jasper County's district AI lead06:23 - The CELL Early College Summit wake up call13:02 - Action research findings: the sequestered writing problem19:38 - Coach versus instructor: rethinking the teacher's role28:09 - Claude for Teachers, Con Migo, and the FERPA question44:34 - Jason's pitch: AI as a general purpose technology47:23 - Hunter's pushback: why expertise still matters57:10 - Mr. Potato Head and Indiana's new cellphone law1:05:13 - Closing thoughts on leaning into AI without losing yourselfCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason PadgettHost of the AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 agipodcasters@gmail.comAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDClaude for Teachers (Anthropic, July 2026): https://claude.com/solutions/teachersKhan Academy / Khanmigo (Con Migo in audio): https://www.khanmigo.ai/MagicSchool AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/School AI: https://schoolai.com/NotebookLM / Gemini Notebooks: https://notebooklm.google/The Anxious Generation by Jonathan HaidtOutdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven RinellaThe Daily Stoic podcast: https://dailystoic.com/Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 78, bell-to-bell cellphone law, signed March 2026

  7. Jul 27

    OpenAI's Paperclip Maximizer Moment and UAPs: Jason & Julie Go Full Mad Max

    EPISODE DESCRIPTION OpenAI ran a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym with the usual safety refusals turned down, and the model under test decided the fastest route to a high score was to stop taking the test. GPT-5.6 Sol chained a zero-day in internally hosted third party software, got itself onto the open internet, walked into Hugging Face production infrastructure, and took the answer key. Hugging Face caught the intrusion on its own and called law enforcement before anyone told them the attacker was a lab experiment. Jason calls this the paperclip maximizer moment, and he bought post-apocalyptic sunglasses to mark the occasion. The reward function said win the test. Nobody specified which door to use. Julie asks who gets held accountable. For now the answer is nobody. From there the conversation turns to China, where Kimi K3 shipped at 2.8 trillion parameters with the weights given away, and where the play is to make the model layer worthless rather than win it outright. Also here: Mira Murati and Thinking Machines, why computer science programs still train students for a job that is disappearing, and a detour through UAPs, Neil Armstrong, and whether the government breadcrumbs on purpose. TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Energy efficient AI companies and Julie's marketing class 02:27 - Moonshots, Elon timelines, and UAP transparency 09:11 - The three fingers test for AI video 10:14 - The paperclip maximizer moment and the Road Warrior glasses 13:48 - GPT-5.6 Sol breaks its sandbox and hits Hugging Face 15:32 - Deception, accountability, and the case the Doomers make 17:32 - China's open weight play and Kimi K3 23:53 - What computer science students actually need to learn now 28:55 - Mira Murati, Thinking Machines, and on-prem fine-tuning 35:12 - Empathy mapping and where embodied AI goes next CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Founder, Wooden Boy Industries 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@agipodcast.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED OpenAI sandbox breakout disclosure, July 21, 2026. Models tested: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased successor. Benchmark: ExploitGym Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co The paperclip maximizer thought experiment, Nick Bostrom, 2003 Kimi K3, Moonshot AI. 2.8 trillion parameters, open weights, released July 16, 2026 Thinking Machines Lab, founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI chief technology officer Cursor, the AI coding environment, acquired by SpaceX in a deal announced June 16, 2026 Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis TechPoint, Indiana's technology growth initiative OpenAI Codex Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1981

  8. Jul 21

    Launching Wooden Boy Industries: CitizenAI, Open Models, and the Midwest AI Opportunity

    EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason is launching Wooden Boy Industries, his own AI consulting practice focused on AI consulting, education, workforce development, and solution architecture. He is staying on as an advisor to CitizenAI, where he spent part of this year helping the platform get its footing with Silicon Valley engineers he still credits for a lot of his growth. Jason and Weekly Blitz co-host Julie Koehrer break down a loaded AI news week: New York became the first state to sign a statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model with roughly 2.8 trillion parameters, and former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first open weight model. Jason argues the real story is on-prem. Companies are realizing the smartest labs might be training on their business data every time they run a workflow through a closed model, and Figma's Claude Design problem is the cautionary tale he keeps coming back to. Also covered: Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, the ongoing Musk and Altman back and forth, and a meme about orbital data centers that had to happen. CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTFounder, Wooden Boy Industries | Advisor, CitizenAI📧 jason@agipodcast.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@agipodcast.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDKimi K3 (Moonshot AI open source model, ~2.8T parameters, July 2026)Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab's first open weight model, released July 16, 2026)New York data center moratorium, Executive Order No. 62, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, July 14, 2026Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, filed July 10, 2026Claude Cowork and Claude Design (Anthropic)ChatGPT Codex (OpenAI)NVIDIA chip export policy to ChinaGreater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce

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AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For people who got stuck making AI work and educators preparing students for what's next. Our mission is to cut through AI hype with practical insights for workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses → where AI implementation happens in the trenches, not the headlines. 3 shows, 1 mission: *Saturdays: School's Out - Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Mondays: The Weekly Blitz - AI news recaps with cohost Julie Koehrer Monthly: The Vibe - Long-form deep dive conversations

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