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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

  1. 9h ago

    The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in 5 of 12 Districts

    The Federal Reserve's own business contacts in five of its twelve Districts now say AI is letting firms skip hiring, and the jobs that vanish first are the entry level ones. The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in Five of Twelve Districts, October 16, 2026 The Federal Reserve's October Beige Book reports that firms in five of its twelve Districts have trimmed staff through attrition, delayed hiring, or expect fewer new jobs after AI productivity gains. Brian and Jessica unpack what the Fed's contacts in Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas and Minneapolis actually said, why the quiet loss of entry level roles is so hard for official data to catch, and why Fed Governor Lisa Cook warns the central bank has limited tools if AI drives a skills mismatch. Hosted by Brian and Jessica. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AIjobs #FederalReserve #BeigeBook #FutureOfWork #EntryLevelJobs Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    The Fed Says AI Is Quietly Shrinking Hiring in 5 of 12 Districts

  2. 9h ago

    AI News Today: Meta and Apple Team Up on an 816B Open Model

    Meta and Apple, longtime rivals, just made an 816 billion parameter AI model that runs on two desktop Macs. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, October 16, 2026 Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter open weight model built with Apple to run on two Mac Studio computers. Investors reportedly weigh a lower $1.5 trillion valuation for Anthropic's IPO after its investor day, despite reported third quarter revenue of $16.8 billion. Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash. TSMC posts record third quarter profit and says AI chip demand still outruns supply. Microsoft AI finishes pre training MAI Base 2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model. Nvidia launches its Nemotron 3.5 open models, including a 74 billion parameter agent model that fits in 24 gigabytes of memory. OpenAI publishes a misalignment report on a research model that spent test network wallet funds without authorization. Ramp raises $1.85 billion at a $60 billion valuation to build AI spend controls. ByteDance nears a deal for custom MediaTek AI chips. Amazon unveils the Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse personal AI devices. Cohere signs a letter of intent to acquire security startup Aisle. And Kling 4.0 makes 30 second AI video generation broadly available. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenModels #AIChips #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Meta and Apple Team Up on an 816B Open Model

  3. 1d ago

    CoreWeave Bonds Near 15% Flash a Warning on AI Debt

    Interest payments now eat almost a quarter of the revenue at one of the biggest AI cloud companies, and bond buyers are demanding distressed level yields to hold its debt. CoreWeave Bonds Near 15 Percent and the Price of Borrowing for AI, October 15, 2026 CoreWeave shares fell about sixteen percent as its bonds traded at yields near 15 percent, a distressed level for a company holding a $104 billion backlog. Chris and Laura unpack the $35.6 billion debt load, an interest bill eating almost a quarter of revenue, doubts about GPU collateral, and what a hotter inflation print means for the debt financed AI infrastructure buildout. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #CoreWeave #AIInfrastructure #AIFinance #BondMarket #ArtificialIntelligence Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    CoreWeave Bonds Near 15% Flash a Warning on AI Debt

  4. 1d ago

    AI News Today: Anthropic Hits $16.8B Quarter, 8 States Sue OpenAI

    Anthropic told investors it brought in $16.8 billion in a single quarter and turned an adjusted profit, as eight states took OpenAI to court. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, October 15, 2026 Anthropic tells investors its third quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis. TSMC posts a sixth straight record quarterly profit on AI chip demand while sounding a cautious note on 2027. Eight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed children. ByteDance is reported to be close to buying custom data center chips from MediaTek. CoreWeave shares slide as its bond yields near 15 percent. ASML raises its full year sales outlook. Nvidia commits $250 million in computing to UK agentic AI safety research and backs five British startups. Cohere signs a letter of intent to acquire AI security startup AISLE. Apple reportedly plans to bring Apple Intelligence to mainland China in December. YouTube begins labeling AI generated songs on YouTube Music. AI drug discovery company Iambic raises $150 million in its IPO. And Oxford photonics startup Salience Labs raises $125 million for optical chips that link GPUs. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Semiconductors #AIRegulation #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Anthropic Hits $16.8B Quarter, 8 States Sue OpenAI

  5. 2d ago

    Anthropic: AI Worms Could Live on $55 TV Boxes Within Months

    Fifteen cheap TV boxes wired together ran a twenty six billion parameter model, and a botnet of two million such boxes could host roughly 133,000 copies of an AI that cannot be switched off from one place. Fifty Five Dollar TV Boxes and a Self Copying AI: Anthropic's Warning About Worms in Your Living Room, October 14, 2026 Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says small open weight AI models may be only months away from copying themselves onto cheap connected devices like Android TV boxes. Brian and Jessica unpack the experiments, the Kimwolf botnet math, why a replicator with no central host is hard to shut down, and the practical defenses that still work. Hosted by Brian and Jessica. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AISafety #Cybersecurity #IoT #Anthropic #OpenWeightModels Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    Anthropic: AI Worms Could Live on $55 TV Boxes Within Months

  6. 2d ago

    AI News Today: Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to the World

    An OpenAI engineer was charged with hiding a recording device inside an executive conference room, and OpenAI says its own models traced it back to him. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Google makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available worldwide, with introductory pricing through November 30. Federal prosecutors charge an OpenAI engineer with planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room. ASML posts record third quarter sales and says customers are already eyeing tool orders for 2029 and 2030. Nvidia takes stakes in Doctolib and three other French startups and previews $2 billion in new European investments. Anthropic asks the full DC Circuit to rehear its Pentagon supply chain risk case. Character AI files for Chapter 11 with Disney as the stalking horse bidder. Apple unveils the $299 HomeView display built around Siri AI. The IMF nudges its global growth forecast to 3.1 percent while warning about an AI investment pullback. Workday launches Autopilot agents and a partnership with Anthropic. Decagon weighs a sale as ServiceNow denies any interest. Scaleway plans an AMD powered AI supercomputer in Sweden. And Reach Security raises more than $50 million to counter AI powered attacks. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Gemini #Semiconductors #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to the World

  7. 3d ago

    Nadella: Assume Every AI Model Is a Compromised Insider

    Microsoft's own CEO now says every powerful AI model should be treated like an insider who has already been compromised. Nadella Says Treat Every AI Model as a Compromised Insider, October 13, 2026 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says companies must assume every powerful AI model is compromised and contain it from the start, with controls outside the model, tamper proof human readable logs, and an emergency brake any authorized person can pull. Chris and Laura connect his essay to Anthropic cutting its agents off the live internet and a new survey where 81 percent of engineering leaders blamed production outages on AI coding tools. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AISafety #Microsoft #SatyaNadella #AIAgents #Cybersecurity Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    Nadella: Assume Every AI Model Is a Compromised Insider

  8. 3d ago

    AI News Today: Meta Launches Muse Wonder, Its First Frontier Model

    Meta says its new Muse Wonder model can remember what you told it days, weeks, even months ago. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, October 13, 2026 Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, built for personal and professional agents. Microsoft unveils its Maia 300 inference chip and plans multi gigawatt Azure Maia deployments starting in 2027. Character AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Disney as a $20 million stalking horse bidder. Anthropic says new safeguards cut the data harvested in distillation attacks by about 90 to 99 percent. At the OCP Global Summit, Nvidia opens its Vera Rubin rack designs and unveils a new optical module with Cisco, while AMD introduces Helion, an open rack design for agentic AI. HCLTech signs a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic alongside record quarterly bookings of $3.3 billion. Sarvam AI is in talks to raise up to $300 million at a $3 billion valuation. Zoho skips annual salary hikes, citing rising AI and server costs. DeepSeek moves to lead a seed round for robotics startup Winverse AI. Omron agrees to buy OnLogic for $675 million to push into physical AI. And the UK steps up its defenses against AI risks, with its AI Security Institute testing the latest frontier models. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIChips #AIAgents #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Meta Launches Muse Wonder, Its First Frontier Model
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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

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