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If you've only got an hour to keep up with AI, you might as well enjoy yourself! In The Blink of AI is your front row seat to the biggest stories, boldest ideas and brightest minds shaping the future of artificial intelligence With 15 years in tech and innovation and a distinctly Aussie sense of humour, host Georgie Healy gets some of the smartest people in AI to ditch the corporate talking points and talk about what's really happening in tech Each week, Georgie unpacks the AI headlines worth knowing, shares practical hacks worth stealing, and sits down with the founders, researchers, executives and occasional troublemakers shaping the industry Past guests include Akshay Kothari (Notion co-founder), Jeanne Grosser (Vercel COO), Katelyn Lesse (Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering), Dr Simon Longstaff (The Ethics Centre) and Tracey Spicer AM From scientific breakthroughs and billion-dollar bets to the wonderfully weird side of AI, expect big questions, unexpected answers and the occasional doomer (!) New episodes weekly. Follow Georgie on Instagram (georgiehealytech) and Substack (Attention Is All I Need)

  1. Oct 29

    The Great AI Assistant Showdown: Alex Valente, Co-Founder & Co-CEO Quarterzip AI

    Third time's a charm! Alex Valente, CEO of Quarterzip and officially a friend of the show (whether he likes it or not), is BACK on In The Blink of AI, joining us live from San Francisco. And we've got a LOT to unpack. First, Alex shares an absolutely delicious AI hack that turns a whiteboard lecture into a polished blog post, complete with diagrams. Then we get into the AI headlines making everyone slightly nervous: rogue AI agents, the future of free AI, and why Silicon Valley might need to earn back the public's trust. We also ask some very important questions: 🤖 Are AI agents getting too powerful? Turns out giving software more autonomy, access and compute comes with a few minor security concerns.💸 Are you token rich or token poor? And what happens when AI companies start charging for the good stuff?🏭 Are we all factory workers now? Alex explains Quarterzip's "factory of factories" philosophy. Georgie has Industrial Revolution concerns. Alex counters with Ferrari.🔥 Is chaos the ultimate career advantage? Why the people who thrive in the AI era might be the ones who actually get stronger under pressure. Then it's time for the ULTIMATE AI PERSONAL ASSISTANT SHOWDOWN. Five contenders. Two judges. Questionable mental arithmetic. We score Grok Bot, Instinct, Muse, Dots and Duet out of 10 and crown a winner. And finally, some spicy rapid-fire takes: Alex is betting on Anthropic, thinks almost nobody outside four suburbs of San Francisco is sufficiently AI-pilled, and has one prescription for the entire AI industry: Go to the pub. Talk to a normal person. Smart AI conversations, strong opinions and a healthy dose of nonsense. Just how we like it. Chapters 00:00 Cold open: could AI do your job? 01:16 Welcome back: Alex Valente’s third time on the show 03:39 Live from San Francisco 05:17 Waymo doors and traffic jams 06:07 AI hack of the week: whiteboard lectures into Claude 08:03 The factory of factories 10:46 Is a factory a negative? The Ferrari factory 12:16 Headline 1: agents behaving badly 16:46 Security after the PHP incident 18:15 Should regular listeners worry? AI diffusion 21:15 Secondhand golf clubs and the unfair advantage 23:06 Headline 2: ads in free AI, token rich vs token poor 26:18 What should graduates do? Antifragile 30:20 Headline 3: should AI companies prove their safety? 33:51 Data centers and social license 37:41 Personal agent showdown: Grok Bot, Instinct, Muse, Dots, Duet 46:02 Rapid-fire hot takes and recommendations 47:18 Outro

    The Great AI Assistant Showdown: Alex Valente, Co-Founder & Co-CEO Quarterzip AI

  2. Oct 22

    The Admin That Never Ends: Dilani Kahawala on Building Anna

    Georgie Healy talks to Dilani Kahawala, who built Anna, an AI assistant for parents. Anna connects to your emails and calendars and surfaces what needs your attention through iMessage or WhatsApp, like a change to the swimming carnival instructions. They open on the admin that never stops. Georgie shares the day she completely forgot to pick up her son from school, and Dilani explains the mental load, why she carries her husband's admin in her head too, and the guilt of letting other volunteer parents run the school WhatsApp group. Dilani describes building Anna, from hundreds of hours of data labeling so an AI trained mostly for coding learns that soccer matters and a Pilates discount doesn't, to the nine experiments and the pivot from enterprise to consumer. She also covers privacy, saying Anna never sells data and doesn't train on it. The second half turns to kids and AI. Dilani has already introduced AI to her eight-year-old, but doesn't want him using it to get the answer, and argues that learning to think critically is the skill that matters most. She says waiting until kids are 15 isn't the answer, supervision is, and she's honest that she doesn't know how humans stay in control once they stop understanding what AI does. The episode closes with a round of What's Harder, from theoretical physics versus the school pickup to naming a startup versus naming a child. Chapters 00:00 Cold open: the school pickup Georgie forgot 01:17 AI headlines: Navier-Stokes and Joseph Gordon-Levitt 04:38 Meet Dilani and Anna 06:09 Welcome and the launch video shoot 07:36 WhatsApp group chat or inbox 09:12 PhD or three WhatsApp groups 10:26 How Anna handles the boring admin 11:16 The day Georgie forgot the school pickup 13:17 Are kids doing too much? 15:14 The magic wand week and the lunchbox bin 16:35 How Anna was built 17:49 Privacy and data 18:35 The mental load and mom guilt 21:50 Why Dilani built Anna 24:17 Pivoting from enterprise to consumer 25:13 The personal assistant boom 26:35 Introducing AI to kids 28:19 Learning with AI, the LinkedIn roast and Alpha Schools 30:43 AI, physics and who stays in control 32:21 What age is right, voice AI and supervision 35:26 Kids’ big science questions 36:33 What’s Harder game 41:22 Where to find Anna Mentioned in this episode: Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026 Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

    The Admin That Never Ends: Dilani Kahawala on Building Anna

  3. Oct 20

    Just Record Your Screen: Guy Fenton, Head of Go-to-Market at Akai by Deel

    Georgie Healy talks to Guy Fenton, who heads up go-to-market for Akai, the AI workflow automation platform from Deel. Akai started as an internal tool at Deel and is now offered to other companies as a way to automate repetitive back-office work across finance, HR and operations. Georgie opens with the headless debate: if software no longer needs a login screen, does design still matter? Guy's answer is that UX matters more than UI right now, because his customers would rather use agents inside Slack, Teams or a webhook than log in anywhere. He explains how Akai builds an agent from a screen recording, and describes the virtual country finance manager Deel built for month-end bank reconciliation, which he says does the work of 10 people while the team reviews and approves it in Slack. They get into what makes agent projects stick, why the non-technical user is the real bottleneck, and why forward deployed engineers sit with customers to get them to value fast. Guy says the people getting ahead are citizen developers, curious people in HR, ops and finance who adopt AI every day, and he predicts they become the leaders of the future. He also shares a hack for anyone building a team: ask AI to play your toughest buyer, then let it score your answers. The conversation closes on jobs, trust and privacy: why Guy frames AI as optimizing jobs rather than replacing them, how regions from APAC to Germany react to security questions, why he would only trust an agent with his tax return after a few human-approved runs, and his bet that open source models will give the frontier labs a run for their money. Chapters 00:00 Cold open 01:20 AI headlines: OpenAI engineer accused of spying on OpenAI 02:27 Tesla's flying Roadster 03:40 Anthropic drafts its own AI safety bill 04:46 This week's guest: Guy Fenton, Akai by Deel 06:27 What to delegate to new hires vs AI 07:40 Headless or design-led? Why UX beats UI 08:54 What is Akai? Explained for Georgie's mum 09:52 Building Akai inside Deel 11:30 The virtual finance manager doing the work of 10 people 12:33 Will 40% of AI agent projects get cancelled? 13:49 How Akai got agents working fast 16:15 Human in the loop: what's actually possible now 16:44 Forward deployed engineers and time to value 19:07 The skill to double down on: be a citizen developer 21:08 Where to start: personal AI tools and staying curious 24:15 Is AI replacing jobs or optimising them? 27:52 Guy's hack: turn AI into your toughest buyer 29:27 Muse, Instinct and everyday AI wins 31:07 Remote first: how Deel scales through over-communication 32:45 How different regions react: trust, security and privacy 34:49 Who's moving fastest: Higgsfield and APAC adoption 36:23 Is UK regulation slowing startups down? 38:09 Hot takes: favourite model and the rise of open source 39:35 Would you let an agent do your tax return? 40:03 Would you hand hiring interviews to AI? 42:11 How to get started with Akai 43:05 Outro Mentioned in this episode: Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026 Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

    Just Record Your Screen: Guy Fenton, Head of Go-to-Market at Akai by Deel

  4. Oct 11

    The UI Was the Moat: Mirko Gropp, GM of Digital, Data and Technology at The Living Company

    Georgie Healy talks to Mirko Gropp, General Manager of Digital, Data and Technology at The Living Company, live from Dreamforce day three. The Living Company owns, develops and operates student housing, build-to-rent apartments and senior living across Australia, with around 2,000 people and about $17 billion in assets by Mirko's count. Mirko's take on the week: Salesforce going headless means the UI, long the moat for software companies, is no longer the point, and Claude arriving inside Salesforce lets his team ask plain-language questions of their cases. He says agentic coding lets him build in 3 months what used to take a year, with 2 people who never touch the code. They get into how a company rolls AI out when a small group of super users does most of the heavy lifting, and the HR question nobody has answered yet: how do you reward someone who is 10x more productive? Mirko explains why students hate email and voice, how The Living Company will build its first agent for senior living, and why most customer chat doesn't need a top-tier model. If you have a custom tool you assumed was too hard to build, this one is the push. Mirko's advice is to describe the outcome you want, let the tool walk you there, and be a critical, proactive builder. Captions 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Welcome back: the final Dreamforce interview 01:39 Headline: AI agents don't need screens 03:29 Headline: Headless 360 and the 5% AI value gap 05:27 Headline: How AI ends email and password fatigue 08:59 Mirko joins live from Dreamforce 10:22 The Living Company and the headless shift 11:49 Building in 3 months with 2 people who never touch code 12:51 Onboarding 10,000 students with 80% old school automation 13:53 What chatbot questions reveal, plus Cowork inside Salesforce 15:14 Rolling AI out to staff and the super users 16:56 The HR question: employees who are 10x more productive 17:20 Students trying to jailbreak the agent 18:13 Senior living: building the first agent 19:44 Designing for Gen Z and seniors 23:11 Tone of voice and rebuilding the bot with Salesforce 24:18 Shipping 5x to 10x faster than 10 years ago 25:47 Rapid fire: will AI disrupt property? 27:52 Predicting who's leaving and filling rooms early 28:40 You don't need Fable for everything 30:04 Where The Living Company goes next 32:16 Mirko's advice for builders 34:28 Outro: Attention is All I Need Mentioned in this episode: Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026 Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026

    The UI Was the Moat: Mirko Gropp, GM of Digital, Data and Technology at The Living Company

  5. Oct 1

    The End of Logging in? Live from Dreamforce: Agentic AI, Headless and Customer Zero

    Description Couldn't make it to Dreamforce? Salesforce is bringing the latest from the event to Sydney on 20 October and Melbourne on 27 October with Agentforce World Tour Essentials. Find out more: https://www.salesforce.com/au/events/ Recorded at Dreamforce 2026, Georgie sits down with Joe Inzerillo, President, Enterprise and AI Technology at Salesforce. Joe oversees Slack and leads Salesforce's Customer Zero program, where the company puts its own AI to work on itself before customers do. Before Salesforce he was CTO of Disney Streaming, where he led the launch of Disney+, and Chief Product and Technology Officer at SiriusXM. Joe breaks down Claudeforce, the Salesforce and Anthropic partnership, and why he thinks the SaaSpocalypse story never held up. He explains what headless means for a platform built around screens, and why he says the UI was necessary but not the point Then he gets into Customer Zero: small squads that pair a business owner with a couple of technologists to build with coding agents, sometimes shipping within the day. Joe shares the numbers Salesforce is seeing, including a legal team agent he says now routes tickets more accurately than the lawyers who used to do it by hand. Plus the story of when a Salesforce agent recommended a competitor! In the rapid fire, Georgie asks what Joe thinks is nonsense here on the ground, and what he predicts for Dreamforce 2027. Chapters 00:00 Cold open: Do you still need to log into Salesforce? 01:08 Georgie's AI assistant and the four hours a week it saves 02:08 OpenAI launches Dots 03:08 GPT 6.1 Astra pulled after safety testing 04:00 Georgie's McLaren take: no brakes, no release 05:32 Meet Joe Inzerillo 07:38 Dreamforce 2026: Super Bowl meets Coachella 09:26 Claudeforce and the SaaSpocalypse myth 12:14 What "headless" Salesforce actually means 14:02 Slackbot and putting agents and people in one place 15:45 Why Slackbot already knows how your company works 17:14 Slackbot as the impartial teammate in the room 19:19 Customer Zero: how enterprises actually adopt agents 23:47 Can a big enterprise move like a startup? 26:47 Winning hearts and minds with 67 small teams 28:12 The human side: what should agents do, and what stays human? 29:09 When agents go off the rails: the competitor story 31:17 Rapid fire: will Salesforce still have a login screen? 32:03 What's nonsense: "my company can't" 33:16 The flyer story: one prompt that changed her mind on AI 34:21 One prediction for Dreamforce 2027 35:33 Wrap up and Georgie's Substack Mentioned in this episode: Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026 Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

    The End of Logging in? Live from Dreamforce: Agentic AI, Headless and Customer Zero

  6. Sep 24

    Atlassian After the Co-CEO Era: What Comes Next?

    Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar built Atlassian into one of Australia's most successful tech companies, and one of the rare local startups to become a global software giant. Journalists John Stensholt and Perry Williams join Georgie to discuss their new book on the two co-founders: how they scaled a hundred-billion-dollar company side by side, and what it takes to lead a business through a major leadership transition. They cover how co-CEO leadership worked inside Atlassian, how the culture evolved as the founders' roles changed, and what it took to keep the business moving through it. Then the big question: where does Atlassian stand now? They get into the share price, the pressure on software companies to prove themselves in the AI era, and how Atlassian is positioning for its next chapter. Plus, John and Perry reflect on what each founder brought to the company, and what other Australian founders can learn from them. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 00:47 This week's AI headline: an OpenAI agent inside Medicare 02:55 Meet John Stensholt and Perry Williams, authors of Tech Bros 05:05 The farewell dinner Mike Cannon-Brookes skipped 09:51 Why Mike and Scott wouldn't talk to the authors 11:28 Point Piper: the $71M house next to the $100M house 16:17 Private school vs public school: did class play a part? 19:33 How two journalists split and wrote one book 22:02 Atlassian's share price rollercoaster 23:57 Can Atlassian navigate AI and become a 2.0? 27:42 Australia's next billionaires: data centres 30:01 Debate: Scott vs Mike, who's the better entrepreneur? 32:50 Charismatic Mike, "robotic" Scott, and the famous punch 34:11 Signed book + predictions giveaway 34:34 "The most toxic place I've worked": Atlassian's culture 37:18 The Silicon Valley mediator who couldn't fix it 40:38 Will they reunite? SunCable, Anthropic and Skip Capital 42:29 Have Mike and Scott read the book? 44:35 Who should read Tech Bros 47:14 Outro Mentioned in this episode: Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026 Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

    Atlassian After the Co-CEO Era: What Comes Next?

  7. Sep 17

    Inside Alexa Plus: Amazon's Blake Nussey on Voice AI, Far Field Tech and Building for Australia

    Blake Nussey leads at Amazon on Alexa, and he joins Georgie for a deep dive into Alexa Plus, now live in Australia. They cover the shift from rigid voice commands to a true personal assistant powered by over 70 models, and why Amazon built a model agnostic architecture to trade off speed against reasoning depth. The conversation gets personal fast: a customer who broke her leg and called for help through Alexa, Blake's Alexa run wind down routine, and why "don't lead the witness" has become his and Georgie's go to line for settling arguments with a neutral AI referee. They dig into what it actually took to make Alexa understand Australian English (avo, servo and all), the far field listening tech that lets Alexa hear you across a noisy room, and how privacy and trust are engineered in, down to a hardware mute button. They also talk accessibility (Alexa's role for vision impaired and elderly users), kids and voice AI, and Blake's prediction for when voice hits 50% of how we interact with tech. Plus a rapid fire round covering Tesla FSD, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, flat whites, and Jimmethy the raccoon. *** Georgies Alexa+ Prompts to Try “Alexa, remember that Imogen can't have dairy” Alexa+ will remember preferences and factor it into recommendations like dinner ideas “Alexa, remember my frequent flyer number is [number].” “Alexa, it’s too hot in here.” Nelly disagrees, but use this with a connected air conditioner to adjust the room temperature “Alexa, every morning at 7, check the weather, recommend what to wear and play the news.” Create a Routine like the corporate athlete you are “Alexa, what happened while I was out?” Alexa+ reviews footage from connected doorbells and cameras like a deliveries *** CHAPTERS 00:00 – Cold open: FSD and "don't lead the witness" 01:18 – Intro: Georgie's honest take on Alexa Plus 04:04 – Sponsor: Deel 04:22 – Welcome + Blake's favorite AI hack (voice routines + Tesla FSD) 06:27 – Most non-AI thing: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 08:30 – Evolution of Alexa to Alexa Plus 09:59 – Behind the scenes: how Alexa picks the right model 12:51 – Smart home routines and the "corporate athlete" habit 15:29 – Alexa recommends a book (the Kindle story) 16:25 – Sponsor: Deel 17:12 – Building Australian Alexa: colloquialisms and local speech 20:58 – What made the Aussie rollout hard 22:36 – 2 billion interactions and Australian usage patterns 24:32 – Kids and Alexa: safety, kids mode, and development 26:44 – Presence, phones, and family dinner table use 27:44 – Privacy, trust, and the hardware mute button 30:52 – Accessibility: vision impairment, aging, and emergency use 34:21 – Near field vs far field: how Alexa actually hears you 39:19 – Voice AI hype, predictions, and wearable mic concepts 46:17 – Privacy culture, recording etiquette, and Meta glasses 48:44 – Rapid fire round 55:16 – Outro Mentioned in this episode: Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026 Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

    Inside Alexa Plus: Amazon's Blake Nussey on Voice AI, Far Field Tech and Building for Australia

  8. Sep 10

    Georgie’s First Ever Ask Me Anything (50K Special)

    For the first time in 80 episodes, host Georgie Healy flips the format and answers your questions. Recorded to mark 50,000 Spotify plays, this Ask Me Anything covers the questions listeners have been sending in since the early days of the show: the imposter syndrome years when even friends and family weren't listening, the two lines she still repeats to herself every week, and how she prepares guests before they ever hit record. There's a rapid-fire round covering her most-used AI tools (Claude is the one she can't make a decision without), the AI products everyone can't stop talking about right now (Higgsfield and Grok Bot both get a mention), and the guest she's still chasing. Georgie also goes behind the scenes on the interview mistake that still makes her wince years later, told in full for the first time, along with the moment a live Sydney audience quietly revealed just how many of them had Claude running while they sat there. It closes on where the show goes next: Georgie's honest, ambitious answer to what success looks like, and why she wants In The Blink of AI to be your weekly AI Superbowl. Mentioned in this episode: Deel x BAI_Script 01 - Sep 2026 Deel x BAI_Script 02 - Sep 2026

    Georgie’s First Ever Ask Me Anything (50K Special)
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If you've only got an hour to keep up with AI, you might as well enjoy yourself! In The Blink of AI is your front row seat to the biggest stories, boldest ideas and brightest minds shaping the future of artificial intelligence With 15 years in tech and innovation and a distinctly Aussie sense of humour, host Georgie Healy gets some of the smartest people in AI to ditch the corporate talking points and talk about what's really happening in tech Each week, Georgie unpacks the AI headlines worth knowing, shares practical hacks worth stealing, and sits down with the founders, researchers, executives and occasional troublemakers shaping the industry Past guests include Akshay Kothari (Notion co-founder), Jeanne Grosser (Vercel COO), Katelyn Lesse (Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering), Dr Simon Longstaff (The Ethics Centre) and Tracey Spicer AM From scientific breakthroughs and billion-dollar bets to the wonderfully weird side of AI, expect big questions, unexpected answers and the occasional doomer (!) New episodes weekly. Follow Georgie on Instagram (georgiehealytech) and Substack (Attention Is All I Need)

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