Digilize Lab

Digilize Agency

Digilize Lab is a weekly tech and AI podcast hosted by the three co-founders of Digilize Agency, with new episodes every Sunday. The tools worth building with, the news worth caring about, and the takes worth arguing over. Three founders. Builders first. Proudly European.

Episodes

  1. May 20

    What actually matters in AI right now.

    Episode 10 is here, double digits! We’re celebrating ten weeks of Digilize Lab by diving into MIT Technology Review’s brand new list: the 10 things that will actually matter in AI this year and beyond. Ten weeks in. The lab is open. This week: MIT Technology Review released their first ever AI-specific annual list. Ten things that actually matter in AI right now and over the next ten years. World models, AI in military war rooms, humanoid data collection, agent orchestration, mechanistic interpretability. We go through all of them and tell you which ones are actually worth paying attention to.Google quietly pushed a 4GB on-device AI model to 3 billion Chrome users overnight. No consent asked. They say the data never leaves your device. We say we'll believe it when we see it.Claude is replacing Microsoft Copilot on Wall Street. GPT-5.5 scored 60+ on the intelligence benchmark; everyone else is at 50. And yet Copilot is losing enterprise clients to Anthropic. Microsoft is panicking.Meta is rolling out AI voice cloning and auto-dubbing for Reels. Your voice, new language, same lip sync. Available now for eligible creators with 1,000+ followers.Unitree's GD01: a 3-meter, 500kg manned humanoid robot you can sit inside. Price tag: $650K. We get into why that's actually not the interesting part.Browserbase AutoBrowse: turns any website into a skill in under 3 minutes. Stack or skip? We pick a stack.OpenAI released voice intelligence APIs with emotion detection. Deep dive next week. 🎟️ Hackathon Haarlem, June 6th. €15. Build, ship, compete. → Here Keep building.

    33 min
  2. Big Tech Spent $790B on AI. In One Year. | Ep. 9

    May 11

    Big Tech Spent $790B on AI. In One Year. | Ep. 9

    $790B on AI in one year. Episode 9 of Digilize Lab is live. Digilize Lab is where we talk about what's actually happening in AI and tech. The lab is open. We took it outside this week. Canal, sun, the whole thing. This week: We put the $790B AI spending number in real context. Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, Apollo Program, the ISS, the entire EU budget. Combined, they still don't reach it. Four companies. One year. $2 billion a day on data centers. We get into why that number is both insane and somehow expected.A lab called SubQ nobody had heard of just dropped a 12 million token context window. 94.81% recall accuracy. No fanfare. Just a banger.Anthropic rented xAI's entire data center. 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, 300+ megawatts. Claude Code 5-hour caps lifted. Usage limits doubled across the board.Claude Code went from 5% to the #1 coding tool in 8 months. 91% of developers now use AI coding tools daily. We talk about what that shift actually means on the ground.Dev jobs aren't dying, they're changing. Postings up 15-20% since mid-2025. Junior roles shrinking, senior roles exploding. We get into the paradox.Musk vs. Altman trial: secret investors in OpenAI were also backing xAI. The judge cut Musk off multiple times. More next week.Warp deep dive: number one on terminal benchmarks worldwide. 150 million lines of code per week. 97% user approved. 🎟️ Hackathon Haarlem, June 6th. €15. Build, ship, compete. → https://hackathon.digilize.agency Keep building.

    33 min
  3. Apr 28

    The $60B Cursor Deal & North Korea’s Deepfake Devs

    By episode 7, we’re back in the usual spot (and the spring weather is actually holding up). The lab is open. This week: The $60B Cursor Acquisition: xAI just inked a wild deal with Cursor: pay $10M for immediate cooperation, with the right to acquire the company later this year for an insane $60 billion. The war for the developer interface is officially heating up. North Korea's Deepfake Devs: Over 3,000 North Korean IT workers are using AI video and voice filters to pass interviews and infiltrate EU/UK tech companies. They’re planting extortion backdoors in proprietary code and generating $600M for Pyongyang’s weapons programs. The hiring game is broken. Vercel's $2M Security Nightmare: A third-party breach (via thecontext.ai) exposed sensitive environment variables, Google IDs, and API keys. The hackers are now selling the data for $2 million on the dark web, threatening the massive Next.js ecosystem. Apple's Next CEO & Hardware Play: Tim Cook is stepping up to Executive Chairman in September, passing the torch to John Ternus (SVP of Hardware). We break down what it means for a pure hardware engineer to lead Apple into the on-device AI era. SpaceX’s Space Monopoly: SpaceX and xAI are combining forces at a $1T+ valuation, but the real story is Starlink quietly owning 60% of all space communication frequencies and how Amazon just checkmated Apple's SOS satellite network. Stack or Skip: GPT-5.4 just beat humans in 83% of knowledge work tasks across 44 occupations, Anthropic's Mythos model got breached by hackers guessing the API URL, the OpenAI IPO rumors, and Codex dropping a massive desktop control update. Hackathon alert: Get your tickets now and be part of our AI Hackathon right here in Haarlem on June 6th, where we build the future live. https://hackathon.digilize.agency/ Enjoy the episode. Keep building with us. Here we go. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss the latest in AI, agents, and tech.

    29 min
  4. Apr 19

    The $10B AI That Hacks Everything & The Pivot of the Century | E6

    We build with AI every day, and this is Digilize Lab — our weekly spot where we chop it up about everything happening at the forefront of AI and tech.By episode 6, we’re back in the studio (and the weather is actually holding up).The lab is open.This week:Anthropic’s $10B zero-day machine: The highly-rumored Mythos model is out in preview, and it’s chaining cybersecurity vulnerabilities like nothing we've ever seen. Meanwhile, OpenAI is scrambling to counter-punch with a GPT-5.4 cyber model while pausing Project Stargate.The Pivot of the Century: Basic shoe brand Allbirds abandons footwear to become a GPU-as-a-service cloud provider called "New Bird AI" — and the stock pumped 600% in a single day. You cannot make this up.Agentic Tax Season: Perplexity's computer agent is now doing taxes, and the French government just dropped an official tax-filing AI skill in collaboration with Mistral.EU AI Act & The €1B Fund: The 6-month countdown begins for massive 7% global revenue fines, while the EU tries to buy its way back into the AI race by funding new Frontier AI Labs.Stack or Skip: Cursor 3.0 leaves VS Code behind, 50% of Mintlify’s traffic is now purely AI agents ($45M Series B), MegaTrain unlocks 100B+ parameter local fine-tuning on a single GPU, Butter.dev drops 500ms local sandboxes, and why you need to opt out of GitHub training by April 25th.Hackathon alert: Get your tickets now and be part of our AI Hackathon right here in Haarlem on June 6th, where we build the future live. https://hackathon.digilize.agency/Enjoy the episode. Keep building with us. Here we go.Make sure to subscribe so you never miss the latest in AI, agents, and tech.#anthropic #cybersecurity #aiagents #cursoride #perplexityai #openai #ainews #gpu #DigilizeLab #techpodcast #builder

    35 min
  5. Apr 14

    OpenAI’s $122B Bombshell + Why Copilots Are Already Dying. | E5

    We build with AI every day, and this is Digilize Lab, our weekly spot where we chop it up about everything happening at the forefront of AI and tech. By episode 5 we’re rolling online again (with great weather on both ends), and somehow our moderator skills are improving one chaotic episode at a time. The lab is open. This week: OpenAI just pulled off the biggest private AI funding round yet, raising $122B at an $852B valuation — and it says a lot about how insane the race for compute, infrastructure, and distribution has become. Agentic AI keeps heating up: Gartner says more than half of enterprises could move away from assistive copilots by 2028 and shift toward outcome-driven agent platforms instead. Humanoid robots are moving from demo hype into real factory workflows, with BMW publicly confirming a humanoid robot pilot in production. OpenAI is also pushing a much bigger conversation: robot taxes, public wealth funds, and even four-day workweek pilots in an AI-heavy future. We also get into AI IPO rumors, solo-founder scale with tiny teams, local agents, token-saving hacks, and why the next wave of AI products may look a lot more autonomous than assistive. Link to OpenWhip: https://github.com/GitFrog1111/OpenWhip June 6: Haarlem AI Hackathon at De Koepel. One day. One real challenge. Builders First. ⁠Get your Tickets ⁠ Enjoy the episode. Keep building with us. Here we go. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss the latest in AI, agents, and tech. #OpenAI #AgenticAI #AIagents #HumanoidRobots #AIPodcast #OpenAIFunding #AInews #FutureOfWork #DigilizeLab #TechPodcast

    42 min

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Digilize Lab is a weekly tech and AI podcast hosted by the three co-founders of Digilize Agency, with new episodes every Sunday. The tools worth building with, the news worth caring about, and the takes worth arguing over. Three founders. Builders first. Proudly European.