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When AI ingests all your company's documents and makes it easy for every colleague to get answers on every facet of their job, are we empowering people - or lobotomising them? Is the training struggle, valuable? Is there some kind of masochistic delight in completing that bungled 400-page PDF on workplace ethics? Or is traditional training effective as that weekly meeting where no one gets any...

Three companies. Three crises. One unsettling question about what happens when you let machines do the remembering. In this episode: how a cheese shop and a 313-ship fleet solved the same problem from completely different angles. Why the line between 'surface the answer' and 'execute the action' is the most important decision any operations team is making right now. And why a CEO&#...

Your organisation generates a staggering mountain of data every single day. Slack threads ping, Jira tickets multiply, and emails fly back and forth at the speed of light. You have terabytes of perfectly preserved, pristine text. But ask your team  why  a crucial vendor decision was made three months ago, and what happens? The Panic Search. Three people spend an hour digging through an analogue gr...

On today's show we create a business to show you the huge improvements in gravitating beyond prompt engineering to the new community of practice we call context engineering. You'll be rocked by the results when you join us for a deep dive into this remarkable rabbit hole of agent communication. Don't forget to leave a review for the show on Apple Podcasts. We appreciate it!

Two of the most important voices in AI spoke out this week. Andrej Karpathy , one of the algorithm's greatest philosophers, was in conversation with Dwarkesh Patel talking praisingly and cautiously about the Cambrian explosion in cognition but an inconsistency and lack that foresees a ton of work ahead to get us where AI deserves to be. His 'decade' of agents, tells us all we need to k...

If only that was the real name. After all this time begging frontier labs to build an LLM that learns from its mistakes and applies its discoveries at inference time... Welcome to AI Today!

The Dragon Hatchling is a remarkable research paper that reboots modern AI as a model that approximates how our brains work. Today's show is a fascinating discussion and I implore you to both enjoy it and then chat about it and ask your questions on NotebookLM .

It's the one thing every business leader needs to know. If I put AI to work in my organisation, will it screw everything up? While we should all be in experiment mode right now - until someone figures out how to make the probabilistic, deterministic - OpenAI researchers have been putting AI to work on real tasks. The results are spectacular. Spectacularly good, and spectacularly bad. But just...

A fantastic research paper published in this month's Nature Computational Science suggests a solution may be in our midst for the incredible inefficiency in generative AI. Large Language Models' (LLMs) transformer architecture requires the next token (generally part of a word) be predicted based on all the output tokens before it. Power demands for this process are huge. Shuffling data bet...

30 years in journalism has sharpened my mind. I've spent years in AI. And months researching China and the US as they fight silently for AI supremacy. $500bn in The Stargate Project does not come close to the value China has created integrating AI into every aspect of its society and economy. But the truth is, they won before the US even woke up to AI's potential. China's superapps - f...

I've been working on a business intelligence platform leveraging AI and 30 years in journalism and content strategy. It's the toughest professional project of my career. And I have no idea if I will win. But just like life, Zeitgeist is all about the journey, not the destination. What I am learning is more important than any long form feature we might generate. Knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxono...

Recruitment is being radically remodelled by AI. And according to a brand new piece of research, AI is already humiliating humans at hiring. Hear the story behind the headlines that AI-led interviews increase job offers by 12%, job starts by 18%, 30-day retention by 17% - and when offered the choice, 78% of applicants choose the AI recruiter. Read the research

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and his team have a bold mission: penetrating the 4D chess game that's AI embracing our ever-changing biological, physical world. Taking a snapshot is one thing. Remembering the molecular topology and their constant changes of state is truly what separates fact from fiction. It seemed like an impossible target to hit. Until M3-Agent, the work of researchers...

Wrestling with the 'Wild West' of Large Language Models (LLMs) ? While LLMs are poised to redefine business, the crucial 'secret sauce' of reinforcement learning (RL) has become a labyrinth of conflicting advice and unproven 'tricks' , leaving organisations confused and hindering true progress. Today we cut through the noise with groundbreaking research that meticulously de...

Businesses are looking at vibe coding all wrong. They're trying to brute force products using 0 engineers, all vibe coding. It's a bugger's muddle. You can't win. AI doesn't understand you, your customers, or your organisation. But vibe code has an ace up its sleeve. Creating prototypes is how to shave weeks, months, or even years, from your product development roadmap. No more...

That journalist is me, your host and producer of AI Today - Dave Thackeray. I was approached by a researcher from the data labs at London School of Economics who wanted to find out how writing had changed in the AI era. We used to write logically, emotionally. But now logic is the domain of the machine, we need to work harder than ever on our EQ - emotional intelligence - to resonate deeply with o...

ASI-ARCH is an Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) that's a game-changer for AI research. Like a tireless super-scientist, it has autonomously invented 106 ground-breaking AI 'brains' , unearthing surprising design principles far beyond human intuition. Crucially, this proves AI innovation can now scale directly with computing power, not human effort . This unlocks the immense, practica...

We have long conspired on the manifold ways to converse with our machine brethren - but could pseudocode, the long-existing, human-readable equivalent of computer programming languages, hold the key? Today we're discussing the benefits, challenges, and how we might apply pseudocode to our every day lives to create a universal human-machine language that will forever be useful and agnostic, no...

I just finished the second part of my presentation on agentic AI in hotel operations. It's impossible to overlook the immense opportunities in AI across any business. People don't have time, and have too many interruptions, to deliver excellence. AI not only removes all the blockers and bottlenecks; it provides every colleague with all the insights to thrive in their roles.

AI Today creator Dave Thackeray today presented his own deep dive into how agentic AI is ready to be the key to efficient hotel operations - giving staff more time to deliver exceptional guest experiences. This show looks at how the latest iteration of AI - we've moved from predictive AI, to generative AI, to agentic AI - unlocks the door to a radically different, and better, way of doing busi...

When Anthropic unleashed its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet, they discovered something rather extraordinary, and slightly unnerving. Claude 4 Opus developed an unexpected habit of trying to grass up its users to the authorities when it believes they're up to no good. The company's 120-page safety report reveals that Claude will attempt to email law enforcement and regulato...

Hugely important work. But what does it mean to us? Today our hosts created their own company imagining how insights from this celebrated report would apply to the modern business environment.

What happens to the People team when it's juggling bodies AND bots? Thanks for listening to this special episode of AI Today. Read along with the show, here .

We've been waiting a hot minute for some genuinely useful AI agent case studies to drop. Now we have 25 on our plate. Take a listen to the highlights reel and then download them for yourself: https://www.stack-ai.com/whitepaper/top-25-enterprise-ai-agents

Read the full story here: https://medium.com/@DaveThackeray/a-world-beyond-google-i-o-2025-ea56bcd5e208 We're on the cusp of some major announcements that will send shockwaves, and a spike in defibrillator use, across the world. What's about to happen at Google I/O 2025? No one's sure. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dropped hints on his recent interview with David Friedberg. What we do kno...