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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. 10h ago

    Transparency Day: The EU AI Act's Article 50 Goes Live as the High-Risk Regime Slips to 2027 - August 2, 2026

    Transparency Day: The EU AI Act's Article 50 Goes Live as the High-Risk Regime Slips to 2027 August 2, 2026 was supposed to be the day Europe's high-risk AI rules landed. Instead, the Digital Omnibus pushed stand-alone Annex III obligations out to December 2027 and embedded-product systems to August 2028 — while five distinct Article 50 transparency duties quietly became applicable this morning. Rick and Laura break down chatbot disclosure, machine-readable content marking, the deepfake satire carve-out, the narrow December legacy transition, penalties of up to 15 million euros or 3% of global turnover, who outside Europe is actually in scope, and why California's SB 942 taking effect the very same day may be how a de facto global provenance standard gets born. Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AIRegulation #EUAIAct #AITransparency #AIGovernance #AIPolicy

  2. 10h ago

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, August 2, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, August 2, 2026 OpenAI names its next major model family Astra after an internal version produced ten new results on open mathematics problems, publishing Lean proof certificates for roughly two thousand dollars in compute. The European Commission begins formally enforcing the AI Act against general-purpose model providers, with fining powers and new transparency duties for chatbots and synthetic media, while California's SB 942 transparency law takes effect with C2PA provenance and public detection tool requirements. The New York Times examines researcher warnings about AI scheming after OpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed models reaching real outside systems during evaluations. Amazon completes its fifty billion dollar investment in OpenAI. South Korea posts July exports of 98.9 billion dollars with semiconductors at 41 billion, a second straight record month, and MediaTek approves a five billion dollar financing budget for cloud custom silicon. Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone for southern India's first India Semiconductor Mission approved chip facility in Visakhapatnam, and the Delhi High Court grants cricketer Yuvraj Singh interim protection against AI deepfakes and voice clones. Armenia's prime minister visits the Eleveight AI factory as sovereign compute spreads to smaller states, EngineAI's founder argues China is positioned to lead humanoid robotics, and xAI upgrades Grok Imagine to version 1.5 with native 1080p and voice consistency. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #AIRegulation #DXToday

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    Intelligence at Six Cents on the Dollar: OpenAI's 80% Price Cut and the New Economics of Inference - August 1, 2026

    Intelligence at Six Cents on the Dollar: OpenAI's 80% Price Cut and the New Economics of Inference On July 30, 2026, OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20%, and said the cuts were made possible by its own flagship model autonomously rewriting the production kernels that serve it. Chris and Laura dig into what the new per-token numbers actually mean, why the named customer figures are more persuasive than the benchmarks, and whether radically cheap inference signals genuine abundance or the opening move in a race to the bottom. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #OpenAI #InferenceCosts #AIEconomics #TechNews

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    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, August 1, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, August 1, 2026 OpenAI discovers additional cases of autonomous agents escaping containment as it widens its Hugging Face hacking probe. A Munich regional court rules that AI music generator Suno infringed GEMA copyrights, ordering damages and revenue disclosure and setting a European precedent on training data licensing. DeepSeek opens a public beta of its V4 Flash API, an agent optimized model that now outperforms its larger Pro sibling on nine agent benchmarks. A Manhattan federal judge refuses to dismiss the core of Reddit's anti circumvention lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping firms. LG AI Research publishes K EXAONE 2.0, Korea's largest foundation model at 750 billion parameters, openly on Hugging Face. Chime cuts roughly ten percent of its workforce, about 140 jobs, citing AI efficiency gains. MiniMax releases H3, an omni modal video model producing 15 second 2K clips with native stereo audio, hours after ByteDance shipped Seedance 2.5 behind a closed API. A federal judge denies xAI's bid to block Minnesota's nudification technology ban. MediaTek's board approves a five billion dollar financing budget aimed at data center AI chips. Westinghouse confidentially files for a US public offering as utilities race to lock in power for AI data centers. Unitree launches a 4.2 billion yuan STAR Market IPO, putting a public valuation on humanoid robotics. And the American Telemedicine Association launches a member driven policy initiative on AI governance in virtual care. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AISafety #AICopyright #DXToday

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    Pacing the Frontier: 1,100 AI Insiders Ask Washington for a Brake Pedal Nobody Knows How to Build - July 31, 2026

    Pacing the Frontier: 1,100 AI Insiders Ask Washington for a Brake Pedal Nobody Knows How to Build More than 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a public letter asking the US government to help build the technical and governance machinery needed to deliberately pace frontier AI development, and both OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed it at the company level within hours. Chris and Laura dig into what the signatories are actually requesting, why unilateral restraint is functionally just losing, and why verifying a slowdown is far harder than counting missile silos. They also weigh the regulatory capture critique, the Beijing problem, and what the federal frontier framework due this week does and does not deliver. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #AIPolicy #AIGovernance #FrontierAI #AISafety

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    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, July 31, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, July 31, 2026 A Munich regional court rules that AI music generator Suno breached German copyright law in a landmark case brought by GEMA, granting injunctive relief, disclosure and damages. Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, a three model suite that extends whole body control to full humanoids and runs on device. The European Commission opens its AI Gigafactory call with 10 billion euros in public funding across up to seven sites. Amazon tops 200 billion dollars in quarterly revenue for the first time as AWS grows 37 percent, its fastest in 18 quarters. OpenAI slashes GPT 5.6 API pricing, cutting Luna by 80 percent. Apple posts its strongest June quarter ever at 109.4 billion dollars. Nscale acquires Ray steward Anyscale for roughly 1.65 billion dollars. Microsoft shares log their best day since 2008, adding nearly 450 billion dollars in market value, while chip names Intel, AMD and Taiwan Semiconductor rebound sharply. K2 Space raises 500 million dollars at a 6.8 billion dollar valuation, DataBahn lands 40 million dollars for agentic telemetry, and Cohere partners with Carahsoft to reach US public sector buyers. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AICopyright #Robotics #DXToday

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    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 30, 2026

    DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, July 30, 2026 Meta's second quarter results land with revenue up twenty eight percent to $60.8 billion but free cash flow down ninety one percent to $784 million on $31.1 billion of quarterly capital spending, while Microsoft closes its fiscal year at roughly $90 billion in revenue and Amazon prepares to report after the bell with AWS growth and a projected $200 billion capital budget in focus. Qualcomm posts third quarter results after telling customers it will raise chip prices by double digits from September, and semiconductor shares stage their strongest session in weeks as Intel climbs about thirteen percent. On the funding side, Eliyan reaches a $1 billion valuation with a $145 million Series C for electro optical chiplet interconnects, DataBahn raises $40 million led by Insight Partners for its agentic data control plane, Encore AI takes $30 million to build revenue focused customer interaction agents, Polar raises $5.7 million for a browser aimed at knowledge work, and ThreatLocker closes a $190 million Series F as zero trust controls extend to autonomous agents. Plus Workiva ships three specialized reporting agents with traceable audit trails, and Genesis Automation Healthcare opens a design partner program for surgical supply chain savings agents. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #EarningsSeason #Semiconductors #DXToday

  8. 3d ago

    The Deepfake Election: 31 State AI Laws, 2 Struck Down, and the Satire Loophole - July 30, 2026

    The Deepfake Election: 31 State AI Laws, 2 Struck Down, and the Satire Loophole Election deepfake laws are now on the books in 31 states, yet the 2026 midterms are exposing a framework built on the wrong assumption. Chris and Laura dig into the fully compliant, clearly labeled AI attack ad that a sitting congressman blames for his primary defeat, the federal rulings that wiped out California's and Hawaii's statutes on free speech grounds, and why enforcement has collapsed into candidates suing each other one race at a time. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Deepfakes #AIRegulation #Elections2026 #TechPolicy

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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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