The AI Cookbook Show by Malcolm Werchota

Picture Dr. Katharina Hess — she runs the Computational Chemistry Group at one of the big pharma companies in the Novartis corridor. 11 postdocs and data scientists under her. Not 3 projects — 30 open projects , research cycles of 5, 10, 20 years. Five days ago she opens Nature. The headline grabs her: "AI cracks an 80-year-old mathematical challenge." She reads it. Reads it again. By the third re...

People keep asking: "What are you actually teaching in the Werchota Chief AI Academy?" So here's a Quickbite sneak peek into Cohort 1, Session 1 — the four moments that made the room go silent. Quick context: each cohort = small group (5-15 business leaders — CFOs, Chief AI Officers, heads of procurement, HR directors), 4 weekly sessions × 2 hours. Not just listening to Malcolm — also to Maria (co...

Welcome to AI Drama . About a year ago, in a single night across five Russian airbases, 41 aircraft were destroyed . TU-95 strategic bombers. TU-22 M-3s. A-50 AWACS surveillance planes. Estimated damage: $7 billion . No air raid sirens went off. No interceptors scrambled. The attack didn't come from the sky. It came from trucks . Ordinary containers, driven inside Russian borders. The drivers were...

Imagine your company car is a Lamborghini . Or a Ferrari — doesn't matter. You drive it to work every day. You're productive. You're happy. And then your CEO walks in and says: "Starting next month, you're driving a Skoda Octavia." That's exactly what just happened at Microsoft . And it affects you directly — even if you've never written a line of code. Last week, May 14, 2026, an internal memo la...

You are clonable. Yes, you. Anyone listening to this podcast is right now clonable — audio and video both. And the software has gotten so good that 90 seconds of you on camera is enough. For audio, even less — 30 to 40 seconds from a phone call. Someone calls you, asks two or three questions. That's all they need. If you think that sounds far-fetched, pause this episode right now and go to TikTok....

Remember your first roaming bill shock ? Two weeks in Dubai, you come home, and suddenly you're staring at a 1,000-euro phone bill instead of the usual 30. Same phone. Same behavior. Completely different billing model. That's exactly what's happening to every company in the world right now. Your CTOs are sitting at the kitchen table thinking: "We pay 30 dollars a month for Copilot licenses." And t...

Welcome to AI Drama . A story in two cities, with one villain, a 16-billion-dollar valuation, and one of the biggest conflicts of interest in the entire AI world . Manila, May 5, 2026. A man named Ivan — a "quality analyst" at one of the world's largest BPO companies — sits across from reporters and says one sentence that should make all of us shiver: "I actually helped improve the work of an AI,...

A good friend of Malcolm — from the automotive industry — said it to his face: "Malcolm, your podcast is nice and all, but in our auto sector, literally nothing is moving. Nobody is firing people because of AI." Wrong. So wrong. This episode is the answer. Here's the line that anchors the whole episode: AI doesn't really eliminate jobs. What it does — it eliminates ROLES. And in 2026, the companie...

Picture this. You're not hiring a consultant anymore. You're hiring the model maker itself . Plus private equity. Not for a strategy paper. For the complete redesign of your core operations. That's what just landed. A new firm — reportedly valued at $1.5 billion . Anthropic, the lab behind Claude, teaming up with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to launch an Enterprise AI Serv...

Picture this. It's Monday morning. You open your laptop, go to the internal portal — and for the first time, you see a dashboard where everyone in the company can see how heavily you're using AI. Not somewhere in the future. Not science fiction. Just a real management logic that's quietly being built right now inside major enterprises. In this episode, Malcolm explains why exactly those kinds of A...

If your projects last longer than a few days, then you already know the problem: action items everywhere, people joining and leaving, updates getting lost, and nobody really having a clean overview of what is going on. In this episode, Malcolm makes a very direct argument: the traditional role of the project manager — or Scrum Master in software teams — is becoming obsolete. Not because project ma...

About 10 days ago, Malcolm met a business CEO at Zurich Airport who explained how he had built the second brain of his company in just 48 hours. That conversation changed everything. In this episode, Malcolm breaks down what a real company second brain actually is, why most firms still do not have one, and why that is becoming a serious competitive disadvantage. This is not just a chatbot, not jus...

🎙️ Episode Description For the last few weeks, Malcolm has been doing the same trick in workshops — and it keeps producing the exact same reaction: silence. He walks into a room full of executives, opens a real Excel file, switches Copilot into Agent Mode, gives it one big instruction — build charts, surface insights, create a 90-day plan, flag business errors, add a Read Me tab — and then calmly...

OpenClaw is not just another AI tool — it’s a fundamental shift in how companies build, automate, and operate. In this episode, Malcolm Werchota explains why we are entering the era of multi-agent systems and how OpenClaw enables businesses to prototype, deploy, and iterate at unprecedented speed. Instead of theory, Malcolm walks through a real enterprise implementation: a fully deployed financial...

This episode is a turning point. Over the past few days, Malcolm has been experimenting with OpenClaw (formerly ClaudeBot, then Maltbot) — an open-source agent framework that allows AI agents to communicate with humans and with other AI agents across email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, voice notes, dashboards, APIs, and files. What emerges is not another productivity hack. It’s the beginning of agen...

Welcome to the weekly degustation menu — curated, high-signal, and focused on what actually matters from Week 3 of January 2026 . Energy is now politics Trump, Eric Schmidt (Davos), and Satya Nadella all circle the same point: the AI race is increasingly about megawatts , not just models. Data centers are becoming a national strategic asset, and Europe is being squeezed by energy prices, permittin...

Where have I been for 10 days? Vibe coding. Building something that changed everything about how I see my own business. We built an AI Chief of Staff — a system that mines every email, every call recording, every file across our entire company. Not just my inbox. Everyone's. And then we gave everyone access to query it. What it revealed was brutal: ThyssenKrupp — one of the biggest defense contrac...

AI agents just built a complete web browser — 3 million lines of code — in ONE WEEK. But first, they failed spectacularly. The lesson? It's not about smarter AI. It's about smarter AI organization. Plus: OpenAI adds ads, Google mines your Gmail, and the UK makes deepfakes illegal overnight. 🎙️ ABOUT THE HOST Malcolm Werchota has led AI workshops for executives at Microsoft, LGT, Raiffeisen, Swiss...

What's happening in Iran is a preview of AI's role in future power struggles: Welcome to the algorithmic intifada. AI serves both resistance (circumvention, encryption, therapy, communication) and repression (facial recognition, DPI, automated enforcement) Chinese AI adoption is exploding in sanctioned countries – an unintended consequence of US policy Lock-in effects on US tech stacks (Microsoft,...

This is your weekly degustation menu — the curated, high-signal recap of what mattered in AI in the second week of January 2026 . We can’t cover everything. So I picked the stories that actually move markets: enterprise procurement, regulated industries, geopolitics, hardware roadmaps, capital flows, and the next research frontier. 1) Infosys × Cognition: Devin Goes Enterprise Infosys (massive IT...

October 2011, Bloomberg Television. Elon Musk dismisses BYD as “a battery company from Shenzhen” and says they should focus on not dying in China . Fifteen years later: BYD sells 2.26 million pure EVs Tesla production declines two years in a row BYD’s European sales grow +300% , UK +880% BYD becomes the world’s #1 EV manufacturer This episode isn’t about cars. It’s about AI strategy, philosophy, a...

2:01 a.m., Caracas. The lights go out — not because of bombs, but because algorithms flipped the switch. Within hours: Venezuela’s grid was neutralized Russian S-300 air defenses were disabled 150 aircraft from 20 bases converged Nicolás Maduro was captured in 13 minutes This wasn’t just a military operation. It was a demonstration of AI supremacy . WHAT MADE THIS DIFFERENT This operation wasn’t d...

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are no longer just tech companies. They are turning into energy operators . Why? Because the public power grid can’t keep up with AI. In this episode, Malcolm breaks down why Google bought Intersect Power , why connecting a new data center now takes 5–10 years , and why Big Tech is bypassing governments by building private energy infrastructure . This isn’t abst...

When electricity entered factories, companies first just added light bulbs. When computers arrived, they initially just made accounting faster. It took decades to realize that the real power of new technology lies in re-designing the entire system . That’s exactly where we are with AI today. In Part 2 of the Anthropic Report , the data shows: We are mostly using AI to accelerate existing tasks ( P...

Meta has spent $60–70B on AI infrastructure — and generated zero AI revenue so far. So instead of building another model, Meta just bought something that already works. Manus is an AI agent platform that doesn’t just answer questions — it executes tasks autonomously : runs research overnight browses the web in a virtual computer completes courses builds dashboards screens jobs executes workflows e...