Rick Spair
DX Today | No-Hype Podcast & News About AI & DX
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 "di...
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Episodes
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, February 11, 2026 11.02.2026 9:02
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, February 11, 2026
🤖 Agentic AI and the Revolution of Retail Commerce 10.02.2026 35:51
Agentic AI is transforming retail by shifting from reactive insights to autonomous action. These systems optimize supply chains , inventory, and marketing. While AI shopping agents empower consumers, brands must prioritize structured data and trust to remain competitive and visible.
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, February 10, 2026 10.02.2026 7:58
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, February 10, 2026
AI, jobs, and the future of work – Economists are re‑examining how AI interacts with aging populations, immigration, and globalization to reshape labor markets rather than simply “killing jobs" 09.02.2026 9:44
In this episode of DX Today, we dismantle the prevailing narrative that artificial intelligence will inevitably lead to mass unemployment and examine why the job-killing headlines are failing to account for global economic realities. As advanced economies face a massive demographic cliff known as the Silver Tsunami, the mass retirement of the Baby Boomer generation is creating structural labor sho...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, February 9, 2026 09.02.2026 7:47
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, February 9, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, February 8, 2026 08.02.2026 7:35
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, February 8, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, February 7, 2026 07.02.2026 7:08
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, February 7, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, February 6, 2026 06.02.2026 4:45
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, February 6, 2026
Governing AI That Takes Action 06.02.2026 39:23
The enterprise is at the dawn of the Agentic Era, a structural transformation where AI transitions from a passive generator of content to a fleet of autonomous, goal-directed agents capable of executing complex business processes. These agents can independently reason, plan, and act across organizational silos, managing tasks from supply chain negotiation to financial trades with minimal human int...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, February 5, 2026 05.02.2026 6:04
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, February 5, 2026
AI Implementation and Governance: A Strategic Briefing 05.02.2026 34:04
The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence presents a significant paradox: while investment and executive mandates are at an all-time high, the vast majority of initiatives fail to deliver tangible value. Research from MIT indicates a staggering 95% failure rate for generative AI pilots, a finding echoed by reports from RAND and S&P Global. This briefing document synthesizes extensive...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, February 4, 2026 04.02.2026 7:13
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, February 4, 2026
The Governance Gap in Banking AI 03.02.2026 38:54
Regional banks face a Governance Gap where vendor solutions offer automated efficiency but fail to meet strict regulatory mandates for human accountability and conceptual soundness. Risk management cannot be outsourced; banks must use compensating controls to ensure compliance.
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, February 3, 2026 03.02.2026 6:37
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, February 3, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, February 2, 2026 02.02.2026 4:06
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, February 2, 2026
Agentic AI and FinOps 01.02.2026 9:47
In this episode of DX Today, we explore the radical transformation of cloud financial management as the industry pivots from manual dashboards to autonomous Agentic AI. For years, FinOps has struggled with the insight-action gap, where engineers are often too overwhelmed to act on the endless optimization reports generated by traditional tools. We dive into the rise of FinOps 3.0, where goal-orien...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, February 1, 2026 01.02.2026 7:28
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, February 1, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, January 31, 2026 31.01.2026 6:37
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, January 31, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, January 31, 2026 31.01.2026 6:29
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, January 31, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, January 30, 2026 30.01.2026 7:52
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, January 30, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, January 29, 2026 29.01.2026 7:11
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, January 29, 2026
When AI Starts Mumbling to Itself 28.01.2026 35:50
The artificial intelligence industry is at a pivotal inflection point, transitioning from the brute-force "Scaling Era" of the 2020s to a new "Reasoning Era." The limitations of scaling static transformer architectures—prohibitive compute costs, brittleness in novel situations, and the "sensorimotor gap"—have necessitated a new paradigm. Groundbreaking research from t...
Internal Dialogue: AI Models Learn Faster by Talking to Themselves 28.01.2026 5:58
In this episode of DX Today, we explore a landmark breakthrough from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology that is redefining the architecture of machine intelligence as of January 2026. Researchers have unveiled a mechanism known as internal mumbling, where AI models utilize a dedicated working memory to talk to themselves before executing tasks. This shift from linear processing to sel...
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, January 28, 2026 28.01.2026 7:10
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, January 28, 2026
AI safety, regulation, and misuse 27.01.2026 9:05
In this episode of DX Today, we navigate the precarious intersection of artificial intelligence innovation and global security as we move toward the mid-2020s. The era of moving fast and breaking things has officially collided with a reality where the alignment gap—the disparity between an AI models capabilities and human intent—creates unprecedented operational and legal risks. We explore the shi...
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