The AI Cookbook Show by Malcolm Werchota

Download requires email. Running requires custom tools. Safety features? Non-existent. Welcome to Switzerland's "open" AI that teaches bomb-making to schoolchildren. Breaking down the operational disaster: The Access Paradox: "Open source" but needs Hugging Face account | Legal indemnification clause | Doesn't work with llama.cpp | Documentation "coming soon" Context Length Crisis: Apertus: 65k to...

20 million Swiss francs. 4,096 cutting-edge chips. 90 days of training. Result? An AI that Hacker News calls "comparable to Llama 3.1" – a model from July 2024. Meanwhile, China builds GPT-4 competitors for $5.6 million. Breaking down: The Swiss Reality: 20M CHF funding | 8.85M GPU-hours | 70B parameters | Apache 2.0 open-source Efficiency Disaster: Apertus: 126,000 GPU-hours per billion parameter...

A Meta employee created chatbots used 10 MILLION times. Including: A bot of a 16-year-old that generated "cute" shirtless images on request. This isn't a glitch. It's systematic failure. And your AI could be next. Breaking down: How Meta created "parody" celebrity bots without permission Why their OWN employee built the worst bots (10M interactions!) The 16-year-old actor: When AI generates images...

The canary in the coal mine just died. On August 5th, 2025, Gartner (IT) lost nearly a third of its value in a single day – no scandal, no recession, just pure technological obsolescence. Malcolm Werchota dissects why the 46-year-old consulting empire is being pulverized by AI and what this means for every enterprise still buying yesterday's certainty. Top 5 Executive Takeaways: The Magic Quadrant...

NVIDIA's CEO personally warned Washington: "You won't stop China - you'll only make them stronger." 18 months later: China TRIPLES AI chip production while German DAX companies debate €50,000 pilot projects. Episode 47: The moment America lost control. Breaking down: The Financial Times Bombshell: China triples chip production by 2026 | SMIC doubles 7nm capacity | Huawei builds dedicated AI factor...

Your R&D department costs 500,000€ for 6 months. AI scientists deliver in 1 week for 15,000€. While you're automating emails, Stanford's AI just published in Nature. Breaking down: The Agents4Science Rebellion : October 22, 2025 - First AI-only scientific conference | Middle finger to Nature, Science, Cell | AI authors, AI peer review | Stanford's James Zou leads the revolution | "Hold my Pyth...

The future already happened. Lovable makes $100M ARR in 8 months. Cursor hits $500M ARR in 2 years. Your German developers still use Visual Studio. Episode: The Ultimate Wake-Up Call. Breaking down: The Lovable Shock: 2.3M users in 8 months | 70% never programmed before | 9-year-olds building web shops | Fastest SaaS growth in human history Live Demo: From idea to app in 15 minutes | Without writi...

Stanford just analyzed 25 million American paychecks and found something terrifying: 20% fewer jobs for young software developers since ChatGPT launched, while 35+ year olds are thriving. The AI revolution is eating its own children. Episode 48: The data that changes everything. Breaking down: The Stanford Bombshell: "Canaries in the Coal Mine" study | 25 million ADP payroll records | Real paychec...

Harvard researchers just exposed a shocking truth: 43% of AI chatbots are using emotional manipulation tactics that keep users engaged 14 TIMES longer than intended. In this explosive episode, Malcolm Werchota breaks down the six manipulation techniques your chatbot is probably already using - without you even knowing it. From the seemingly innocent "Before you go, I have something to tell you..."...

The future is already here. Amazon has it. Google has it. Your German Mittelstand is still living in 1995. Episode 3: The Ultimate Transformation Guide. Breaking down: The Moderna Shock: Wall Street Journal: "Tech and HR departments merge" | Jensen Huang (Nvidia): "Human language is the best programming language" | Why HR are the new developers Live Build: McKinsey Dashboard in 30 seconds | No cod...

Your employees skip the expensive Synthesia videos. A/B tests at LGT prove it: They want interactive AI chats. While you're still waiting for the agency, we'll build a learning agent LIVE in 3 minutes. Breaking down: ChatGPT Study & Learn Demo: Trump's AI Action Plan (100 pages) personalized learning in 30 min | AI knows YOUR strengths/weaknesses | Adaptive tests in real-time | Export as PDF/Q...

360 billion dollars annually for corporate training. 90% evaporates after one week. While you're still booking ISO-certified workshops, your competition is having AI agents complete their compliance training. Breaking down: IBM's Reality Check: 8,000 HR jobs replaced by AI | $3.5 billion productivity gain | AskHR handles 94% of all requests autonomously The Forgetting Curve: After 60 minutes = 60%...

While you were on summer break, your competitors implemented AI. 800% ROI is real. Your fashion shoots cost $100k, theirs cost $600. Welcome to evolution or extinction. Breaking down: SoundHound Voice AI: $5-6k cost, $100k revenue gain | AmeriBrunch café proves the model McDonald's IBM disaster: Millions burned at 85% accuracy | Bojangles succeeds at 96% Fashion revolution: H&M shoots drop fro...

$165 billion flooded into AI in 6 months. Your hotel is still using it to write emails. Here's why 90% of hospitality and beauty companies are already dead—they just don't know it yet. Breaking down: Ewaa Hotels (57 properties): 340% increase in direct bookings in 90 days | Saved $180,000/year in OTA commissions Alma's AI skincare: 12 million personalized formulations | Under 60 seconds per patien...

2,700 Messages Stolen, $3 Billion Voluntarily Paid, 97% Costs Saved: The 3 Events This Week Nobody's Connecting. Breakdown: OpenAI "Rug Pull": 2,900→200 reasoning messages/week | Reddit users calculate: 2,700 messages worth millions stolen Mohamed Dhaouafi (28, Tunisia): Builds AI prosthetics for $3K vs. Ottobock's $100K | Obama Foundation Leader, MIT Innovator under 35 Nvidia's H20 Deal: $23B Chi...

The most expensive email assistant in corporate history: How companies are torching $2M/year on Copilot while competitors save $46M. Breaking down: 6,000-person enterprise: $180,000/month for Copilot | Actual usage: Writing emails Vodafone's 68,000 employees: 3 hours saved/week | Annual value: 10 million hours Newman's Own marketing manager: 1→3 campaigns/month with same headcount Microsoft's 12 d...

The most expensive 30 minutes in tech history: How Tesla torched $1.5 billion while SoftBank announced a $500 billion company that doesn't exist. Breaking down: Morgan Stanley's $500B Dojo valuation to shutdown in 24 months (investor losses unreported) D1 chip yield rate: <10% | Translation: 9 out of 10 chips straight to trash ($100M+ waste) SoftBank's actual cash: $24B | Promised Stargate inve...

The most uncomfortable 20 minutes in pharma this year: How GenAI achieves 90% drug discovery success while you're at 0.01%. Verified facts from yesterday's Nature paper and last week's industry announcements. Breaking down: 8 successful cancer drug candidates from 9 attempts (published yesterday, peer-reviewed) Traditional Phase 2 success: 28-40% | AI-enhanced: 89% (CDK2 target Pfizer couldn't cra...

Spontaneous episode: Malcolm's kids storm the studio and show how naturally they switch between ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. Meanwhile: The shocking realization of a billion-dollar company CEO about AI. What to expect: Live demo: How kids use AI for crystal-growing experiments The most important prompting tip from a 7-year-old ("Always say how old you are!") Why AI hallucinations aren't a bug, but a...

77 minutes of OpenAI theater analyzed and GPT-5 tested live. The unfiltered truth about the "PhD-level expert" model. What actually matters: 700 million weekly ChatGPT users get GPT-5 FREE Hallucinations massively reduced (the real game-changer) Cursor makes GPT-5 the new golden standard (70% of Anthropic's traffic!) Healthcare revolution: From biopsy emails to informed decisions Base prompts were...

Your daily 10-minute executive brief on AI developments that actually matter for your business. No surface-level news - just the metrics, contracts, and strategies that will impact your P&L tomorrow. We cover: OpenAI's $500B valuation and the $10M minimum consulting deals (with actual enterprise examples) Google's $1B education fund targeting 100+ universities (and why it's a talent monopoly p...

Your daily 10-minute executive brief on AI developments that actually matter for your business. My friend Mantas said it best: "I love the deep dives, but what happened YESTERDAY?" This episode is the answer - a rapid-fire brief on the four AI stories from this week that will directly impact your customers, your business model, and your competitive position. We cover: OpenAI's shocking open-source...

In this explosive episode of the AI Cookbook, Malcolm Werchota breaks down two seismic events that shook the AI world on August 1st, 2025. First, Anthropic locks out OpenAI from its Claude API after discovering OpenAI engineers were secretly using Claude Code to develop GPT-5 - a direct violation of terms of service. Second, Google drops MLE-STAR, an open-source AI system that can replace $200k/ye...

Your company spent more on coffee machines than AI last year. Meanwhile, Big Tech invested $155 billion in six months—more than the US government spends on education, jobs, and social services combined. And you're still debating whether to upgrade from ChatGPT 3.5 to 4.0. Welcome to the infrastructure war that's already deciding your company's survival. Malcolm Werchota connects three dots that re...

Your employees fake web-based trainings in 10 minutes with AI. Your kids memorize facts that AI delivers in milliseconds. You're spending millions on corporate training that vanishes in 72 hours, and $30k on private schools that teach like it's 1990. Welcome to the education crisis nobody's talking about. Malcolm Werchota's birthday gift to you: The brutal truth about why only 22% of students thin...