Machine Dreams

Most companies believe they control their AI tools. They don’t. Employees are bypassing approved software and using shadow AI apps you’ve never heard of. They’re uploading company data to free tools. They’re connecting AI agents to your systems without asking permission. And every new connection creates a security blind spot that traditional defenses can’t see. Gal Nakash, co-founder of Reco and F...

Most AI drug discovery companies fail in clinical trials. Maolac’s success rate? 10 out of 10. In this episode of Machine Dreams, CEO Maya Ashkenazi Otmazgin explains how her company uses “protein intelligence” to reverse-engineer breast milk’s biological playbook, designing therapeutics that mimic what nature already perfected. We discuss why biological data is scarce, how Maolac compresses drug...

AI is transforming software. But what happens when it starts transforming biology? In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Maya Ashkenazi-Otmazin, founder and CEO of Maolac, to explore how AI is being used to understand and design full proteins, not just small molecules, but the building blocks of human biology itself. From breast milk as nature’s survival blueprint to the challenges o...

Digital humans are no longer a concept. They’re already showing up in how we learn, work, communicate, and interact online. In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Ron Friedman, head of content and creative marketing at D-ID, to talk about what AI-powered digital humans actually are, how they’re being used in the real world today, and why they’re becoming the next interface between peo...

In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Ron Friedman from D-ID to unpack the rise of digital humans — lifelike AI avatars now being used across training, education, customer experience, accessibility, and healthcare. We talk about what digital humans really are, how they differ from chatbots, and why trust becomes the central challenge once AI stops living in the background and starts...

One in four people over 65 will have a stroke. Most will survive, but survival doesn’t mean recovery. While we’ve built data centers in space, stroke patients are still treated with 19th-century physical therapy. In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Yotam Drechsler, CEO of BrainQ, who’s building what he calls “NVIDIA for brain recovery.” His AI-powered platform retrains neural netwo...

AI is moving fast into healthcare, but the brain is not just another system to optimize. It’s fragile, personal, and deeply human. In this episode of Machine Dreams, we speak with Yotam Drechsler, CEO of BrainQ, about what it really takes to use AI in brain recovery. We talk about stroke, neuroplasticity, why most care still looks like the 19th century, and why responsible AI sometimes means using...

In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Judah Taub, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures, fresh off closing the firm’s $140M Fund IV during wartime and a period of global uncertainty. Hetz now manages close to $500M in assets, and Judah has a front-row view into what serious investors are funding in AI and what they are walking away from. We talk about why Judah sees this m...

AI spending isn’t dropping. Investors are just getting smarter about where it goes. That’s what Judah Taub, founder and managing partner at Hetz Ventures, tells us in this episode of Machine Dreams. Fresh off a $140 million fourth fund, Judah explains what VCs are funding now, what signals separate real revenue from hype, and the test that can make or break an AI startup. If you’re building, inves...

We are now 4000+ subscribers strong and that’s only because of you, our dear viewers and subscribers. We’ve had some of the most forward-thinking minds in the AI industry as guests and the feedback on every episode has been remarkably amazing. As we get ready to publish episode 7 next week, we wanted to share some of our favorite moments (really hard to choose, to be honest) from each episode so f...

AI is often talked about as if it can instantly diagnose illness, replace doctors, and see everything humans miss. In healthcare, that belief can be dangerous. In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Moshe Barel, CEO and co-founder of AccuLine, to unpack how AI is actually used in real clinical settings. Moshe has spent more than two decades in cardiovascular medicine and digital healt...

AI in healthcare is often described like it’s some magic. It isn’t. In this episode of Machine Dreams, AccuLine CEO Moshe Barel explains how medical AI actually works, why human oversight matters, and what it really takes to build diagnostic tools doctors can trust.

Everyone wants to add AI to their products right now. But few stop to ask whether it actually belongs there. In the last episode of Machine Dreams for 2025, we speak with Josh Hart, co-founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer at YuLife, about what really matters before AI ever enters the picture. Josh has been building digital products since childhood and now leads a prevention-first insur...

Everyone seems to be adding AI to their products. But very few stop to ask the harder question if it should even be there in the first place. In this final episode of 2025, we sit down with Josh Hart, co-founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer at YuLife, to talk about what really matters before you add AI. If you are building with AI in the new year, this is the pause you should take befo...

Everyone is asking whether AI is in a bubble. Fewer people are asking the right question. In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sit down with Guy Dassa, Investment Partner at OurCrowd, Israel’s most active VC with over $2 billion assets under management, and head of its AI portfolio, to unpack what is really happening behind today’s AI investment frenzy. From infrastructure and foundational layers...

Is AI repeating the dot-com era or are we misreading what’s happening? In this episode of Machine Dreams, we sat down with Guy Dassa, who leads AI investing at OurCrowd, Israel’s most active VC with over $2B in assets under management, for a candid conversation about AI valuations, infrastructure versus applications, and why the bubble debate may be missing the point. Full episode coming out soon...

Ofir Mulla spends his days inside the uncomfortable edge cases of AI perception, where systems misread shadows as people, mistake celebration for aggression, and struggle to understand why context matters more than pixels. As cofounder and CTO of Lumana, Ofir joins Machine Dreams to explain why most AI-driven cameras still fail at understanding real-world human behavior and what it actually takes...

We keep talking about smarter models and better benchmarks. But one big question that we don’t see many talk about is whether AI actually understands the world it’s being asked to operate in. In this episode of Machine Dreams Podcast, we sit down with Ofir Mulla, CTO of AI video security leader Lumana, to unpack why visual AI still misreads everyday reality and what it would take for machines to t...

Roger Camrass has spent more than 50 years advising Global 500 companies through every major technology shift — from the birth of the Internet to mobile data to today’s AI revolution. In this episode, he joins Machine Dreams to explain, with rare clarity, what AI will actually mean for your life, your career, and your identity. He breaks down the real risks, the opportunities, the jobs that may di...

The AI revolution is here, but most people still don’t understand what’s really changing. Our next episode breaks it open with Roger Camrass, a technologist who helped pioneer the internet and has lived through five decades of disruption and says AI will reshape work, identity, and opportunity in ways no one is ready for. Today. 7PM WAT. 6PM UK. 1PM EST. On all platforms. Watch out!

The AI revolution isn’t running on magic. It’s running on databases, and most were never built for what’s coming. In this first episode of Machine Dreams, hosts Kolawole Samuel Adebayo and Leah Stern sit down with SurrealDB cofounder Tobie Morgan Hitchcock to explore the unseen engine behind modern AI systems. From chaotic tech stacks to multi-model queries to why AI agents need fast, unified acce...

Here’s your first glimpse into Machine Dreams. In this episode preview, we sit down with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, cofounder and CEO of SurrealDB, one of the leading new-generation databases designed for modern AI workloads, to explore why AI’s future depends on better data systems and why the real story is wilder than the current hype.