The AI Cookbook Show by Malcolm Werchota

Accenture just announced a multi-year partnership with Anthropic — and it’s one of the most important enterprise AI signals of 2025. Right now: 30,000 Accenture professionals are receiving formal Claude training Claude Code is rolling out to tens of thousands of developers A dedicated AI Center of Excellence is being built Anthropic now holds 32–40% enterprise AI market share Two years ago, most e...

This episode wasn’t planned. It was recorded on December 25th , in the middle of real Christmas life. Malcolm shares how AI has become non-optional in his family: A nine-year-old settles a family debate by asking ChatGPT A father uses AI for cooking marinades A wife builds a yoga website with Claude & Lovable Children create dashboards with AI And suddenly it’s clear: AI is no longer a tool. I...

A palliative care doctor visits patients at 8 PM — not out of passion, but because she spent four hours after clinic closing doing reports, billing codes, insurance forms, and documentation. This is not an exception. This is healthcare in 2025. And it’s breaking the system. In this Quick Byte, Malcolm takes you inside a classroom in Buchs, Switzerland — the first major AI course for Medical Practi...

We never planned to record 100 episodes. This podcast started in mid-2025 as a side project — something to externalize what normally stayed locked inside consulting decks, workshops, and boardroom conversations. Fast-forward a few months, and here we are at Episode 100 . So instead of doing a highlight reel or a victory lap, Malcolm did something else: He downloaded the transcripts of the previous...

What if AI could save you 4 hours of work per task ? Not vague “efficiency gains,” but concrete dollar amounts you can plug into a spreadsheet. Anthropic just published a groundbreaking productivity report based on 100,000 real-world Claude tasks . Unlike traditional studies that say “40% faster,” this report quantifies AI’s impact in real monetary terms: Management tasks → $133 saved per task Leg...

An AI-generated country song just hit #1 in the US. At the same time, a viral TikTok hit with nearly 40 million views was pulled from streaming after accusations that the vocalist’s voice was AI-cloned from a real artist—without permission. Welcome to the chaos of AI-generated music. In this episode, Malcolm unpacks the two stories redefining the music industry: A track goes viral worldwide. Smoot...

Your buddy says: “AI was boring this week.” You say: “Bro… no.” Because this week quietly reshaped the foundations of AI — from military adoption, to global chip wars, to enterprise software rewriting itself around AI. In this Weekly AI Recap, Malcolm covers the stories that matter beneath the hype: 🔥 1. The Agentic AI Foundation – Competitors Become Collaborators Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Micro...

Anthropic just made its first acquisition in company history , and it’s not what anyone expected. They didn’t buy more training data, or a model startup, or a shiny app. They bought Bun — a JavaScript runtime. The plumbing. The unsexy infrastructure layer powering Claude Code , the tool Malcolm and thousands of developers now use daily. Why? Because Claude Code has already hit $1B in annualized re...

Your legal team says you need local AI servers for compliance. But do you really? In this 10-minute Q&A, Malcolm explains why 98% of companies don’t need on-premise AI at all —and why your DPA matters more than your server room. Featuring real insights from Emil Muthu (Neuronic Solutions), who builds AI systems for banks, insurance firms, and government ministries. You’ll learn: Why your Data...

November 7th, 2025. Brussels.  9:00 AM. A bureaucrat spills his coffee.  And by 17:43 the same day, the most ambitious tech regulation in European history effectively collapses into a PDF no one wants to talk about. In this episode, Malcolm tells the full unfiltered story of the  EU AI Act  — a four-year political labyrinth filled with 3,000 amendments, endless committees, lobbyists, geopolitics, ...

The consulting industry’s 70-year-old pyramid model is cracking in real time. Four days ago, the Financial Times dropped a quiet bomb: “Top consultancies freeze starting salaries as AI threatens the pyramid model.” For the third year in a row, McKinsey, BCG, Bain and the Big Four have frozen graduate salaries. Graduate hiring in the UK is down 50% . Accenture just laid off 11,000 people and announ...

We talk a lot about new AI models, benchmarks, context windows, agents and multimodality.  But while everyone is staring at technical progress, something far bigger is unfolding: Courts all over the world are beginning to define the legal boundaries of AI.  And they are doing it  fast .  Faster than any regulator, faster than any company, and definitely faster than the EU AI Act. In this episode, ...

The future of work is not science fiction. It’s happening right now — quietly, rapidly, beneath the surface of corporate boardrooms. And the job at the center of this revolution is one most executives have  never even heard of : Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs). While some companies are still debating AI governance frameworks and writing 40-page PowerPoints, the real action — the real transformat...

Google just did something nobody expected. After two years of awkward missteps (remember  Bard ?), they launched  Gemini 3.0  — and instantly flipped the entire AI industry on its head. This episode is not a product review.  It’s a story about  comebacks ,  market power ,  geopolitics , and  how quickly the ground can shift beneath you . Salesforce CEO  Marc Benioff  tested Gemini for two hours an...

NVIDIA just became the first company in history to hit a $5 trillion valuation — and most analysts think it’s overpriced. But what if they’re completely wrong? In this episode, Malcolm Werchota breaks down why NVIDIA’s $5 trillion market cap might be the biggest misjudgment in tech investing . With $500 billion in signed chip orders , 90% market share in AI chips , and an unbreakable software moat...

Amazon’s announcement of 30,000 corporate layoffs marks the largest job cut in company history—and it’s just the first wave. In this eye-opening episode recorded from Zurich Airport , Malcolm Werchota exposes the brutal economics behind Amazon’s AI-driven workforce reduction and what it means for white-collar workers everywhere. With leaked documents revealing plans to eliminate 600,000 positions...

OpenAI launched a new awards program in October 2025 : “Tokens of Appreciation” — physical trophies for companies based on their ChatGPT usage. The numbers are insane: only 141 companies worldwide received these awards. McKinsey leads with 100 billion processed tokens — equivalent to 75 billion words , or roughly 7 million consulting reports . PwC follows as the largest ChatGPT Enterprise customer...

Did you know... that the same AI infrastructure your company relies on is also being used to identify military targets in Gaza and Ukraine? This episode exposes the shocking reality behind systems like Lavender and Palantir — and what that means for your company’s AI strategy. In January 2024 , a drone strike killed three U.S. soldiers — even though a state-of-the-art AI defense system had detecte...

When the Dutch government seized chipmaker Nexperia on September 30, 2025, they thought they were protecting European interests. Instead, they triggered a supply chain catastrophe that could shut down automotive production worldwide. In this episode of The AI Cookbook, Malcolm Werchota breaks down the spectacular policy failure that cut off 6 billion chips per month, threatens car factories across...

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Google DeepMind's AI just discovered a new cancer treatment that scientists validated in the lab - and it could transform how we treat 85% of lung cancers. This is AI's moonshot moment. In Episode 83 of The AI Cookbook, Malcolm Werchota breaks down the 5 biggest AI stories from October's second week, proving we're witnessing the industrialization of artificial intelligence. From breakthrough medic...

Just back from GITEX Global 2025 in Dubai, our Managing Partner Sumeyra Yildirim noticed something fundamental: the conversation has shifted from “what can AI do?” to “how do we scale it?” —and the UAE ecosystem is deliberately optimized for speed. In this episode, Malcolm Werchota breaks down why werchota.ai is seriously exploring expansion to the UAE, sharing insights from Dubai’s largest tech c...

After learning why AI agents fail in Part 1 (attention budget, context rot, orchestration limits), Malcolm Werchota now reveals how to build scalable, long-running AI systems using Anthropic’s framework for Context Engineering . This episode goes beyond prompts — it’s about architecture. Malcolm introduces the five building blocks of Context Engineering: 1️⃣ System Prompts – Define your agent’s id...

Your AI agents work—but they’re not smart. They follow instructions, yet fail on edge cases, forget context mid-task, and need constant supervision. Malcolm Werchota reveals why your invoice automation, podcast metadata generation, and business workflows keep breaking down—and why it’s not the AI’s fault. The missing piece is context engineering , a concept most people have never heard of. In this...

80% of ransomware attacks now use artificial intelligence. In this episode, Malcolm Werchota exposes how criminals with zero programming experience are using ChatGPT and Claude to build sophisticated cyberattacks—and why your business might already be compromised. Discover the real case of "Mr. X," who used AI to infiltrate 17 organizations, steal financial data, and craft psychologically-targeted...