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Bart and Raphaël sit down with Gilles Praet, co-founder of Belgian startup Visiblie, to talk about getting brands recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and other AI search tools. Gilles explains why the company moved from selling dashboards to doing the work, and what generative engine optimization (GEO) involves beyond publishing more blog posts. We dig into Reddit’s influence on AI answers, the challen...

Charlotte Verhamme joins the show as a new co-host, bringing an EU policy lens to the founder interviews, and we start with Lennard Kooy, CEO and co-founder of Lleverage. Lleverage is an Amsterdam startup building the autonomous back office for companies that make, move and sell physical products: quotes, order handling, production planning, invoice matching. Lennard has started somewhere around 2...

In this episode, Bart and Raphaël sit down with Séverine Nolf, co-founder and CEO of PleaseFix.ai, the Belgian-American startup building the AI workforce for finance and strategy professionals. Séverine and co-founder Maxime Lahy left McKinsey's internal AI team to bring agents into the tools where analysts actually live: Excel, PowerPoint and Word. We dig into her three-layer vision, from last-mi...

In this episode, Bart and Murilo sit down with Alexandre Pereira , co-founder & CEO of 2501.ai — the Paris- and NY-based startup building autonomous AI agents that don't just spot infrastructure incidents, they fix them. We dig into why the real blue ocean is the on-prem, legacy enterprise world the cloud never absorbed (JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Société Générale are still mostly on-premise...

Great conversation with Stepan Krivosheev, CEO and co-founder of Wyder, the Leuven-born endurance app betting that training should be social and personal at the same time. 🏃 We dig into the origin story, what makes Wyder the "first social coaching app," and how the three first-time founders went full-time just three months ago. Stepan walks us through the marketplace model for finding training pa...

In this episode, we sit down with Marco Ramilli, co-founder and CEO of IdentifAI, the Milan-based startup applying a cybersecurity mindset to deepfake detection. Marco, a PhD computer security researcher who worked at NIST and previously founded Yoroi (acquired by Tinexta in 2024), explains how IdentifAI builds "de-generative" AI models that reverse-engineer how generators like Midjourney and Nano...

Thanks for listening! ❤️ (09:52) - Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World (19:44) - Learnings from Paying Artists Royalties for AI-Generated Art (26:38) - Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence (37:01) - Nvidia prepares AI 'inference' chip launch to counter rising challengers

We're back! Thanks for listening! ❤️ OpenAI’s acquisition of OpenClaw signals the beginning of the end of the ChatGPT era | 2026-02-17 VentureBeat argues OpenAI’s OpenClaw move is a pivot from chatbots to agents that take actions across apps and systems. The tension is that OpenClaw’s “fast and loose” openness helped it go viral—so what happens when enterprise guardrails and safety expectations mo...

Welcome to the first episode of 2026, lovely to be back! (03:22) - Amazon Web Services launches a European sovereign cloud (08:37) - DNS Belgium plans to move its registry systems off AWS (14:20) - Moldbot (formerly Claudebot) goes viral as a personal AI agent (via TechCrunch) (22:31) - OpenAI introduces ChatGPT “Health mode” for safer wellness Q&A (30:00) - Anthropic advances Claude for healt...

Thanks for listening and happy new year! 🥳✨ (00:00) - Vending machine (01:36) - Anthropic Claude runs a vending machine (WSJ experiment goes bankrupt) (07:28) - Meta SAM Audio model for prompt-based audio stem separation (12:44) - OpenAI + Jony Ive “AI pen” leak / hardware gadget rumors (17:52) - Netflix Open Content library (4K/HDR test footage & assets) (22:50) - Disney AI-generated Star W...

Enjoy the holidays everyone! 🧑‍🎄 🎆 This episode we have: (00:00) - Intro (02:25) - Microsoft denies lowering targets for AI software sales growth (Copilot) (09:26) - If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (robot tax) (18:00) - The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify (Anna’s Archive) (26:06) - The new ChatGPT Images is here (GPT Image 1.5) (32:33) - Announcing the Beta release...

In this episode, we sit down with Charlotte Verhamme , Attaché Digital Affairs, to unpack what actually happens inside the EU “digital dossiers” machine: how Flanders feeds into Belgium’s position, how that becomes an EU negotiation stance, and what the AI Act and the Digital Omnibus mean in practice (standards, compliance, timelines, and the tradeoffs between innovation and safety). 🙋‍♀️ Guest:...

Thanks for listening! ❤️ OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era | 2025-12-09 OpenAI, Anthropic and Block are helping launch the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation to stop agent software from splintering into closed, incompatible stacks. Their donation of protocols like Agents. MD MCP and Goose sets shared guardrails so tomorrow’s task-ru...

Thanks for listening! ❤️ (00:33) - Bun acquired by Anthropic (14:49) - The junior hiring crisis & early-career developers (29:34) - OpenAI’s projected $74B loss by 2028 (Fortune report) (31:10) - OpenAI “code red” after Gemini 3 & GPT-5.2 push (44:44) - German state saves millions switching to LibreOffice (52:14) - IBM to acquire Confluent (Kafka company) (57:48) - Is AI changing how human...

Thanks a lot for listening ❤️ Links 🔗: FabCon Atlanta: https://fabriccon.com/ FabCon Barcelona: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-microsoft-fabric-community-conference/ Fabric Data Days: https://aka.ms/fabricdatadays Fabric February: https://www.fabricfebruary.com/ Sam's blog: https://debruyn.dev/ (00:00) - Introduction to the Podcast and Guests (01:50) - Understanding Microsoft Fabric (0...

Thanks for checking in! ❤️ (00:07) - Intro & weekend catch-up (02:22) - Deloitte breaks silence on N.L. healthcare report (08:50) - PwC says clients are asking for AI Discount? (13:37) - How OpenAI and Google see AI changing go-to-market strategies (17:44) - ChatGPT ads are on the way, but iPhone users can avoid them (24:30) - Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it w...

(01:29) - Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO (05:45) - WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (11:31) - Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google (26:31) - New EU Chat Control Proposal Moves Forward – Privacy Experts See a Dangerous Backdoor (32:09) - Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws (38:12) - Cloudflare outage o...

(00:43) - An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All (07:51) - Using Generative AI in Content Production (13:37) - LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot”! (21:30) - GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT (28:42) - GitHub - toon-format/toon: Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – Compact, human-readable, schema-aware JSON for LLM prompts. Spec, benchmark...

Hi everyone, welcome to the Monkey Patching Podcast, where we go bananas about all things lazy imports, physical AI, and more! Interested to follow? Subscribe where ever you get your podcast and check out our newsletter at newsletter.monkeypatching.io . (00:35) - Continuity camera on Chrome flakiness (01:56) - XPENG Shares Achievements in Physical AI Emergence: Unveils XPENG VLA 2.0, Robotaxi, Nex...

(01:50) - Create on-brand marketing content for your business with Pomelli (09:18) - OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model (17:47) - Microsoft, OpenAI reach deal removing fundraising constraints for ChatGPT maker (25:56) - AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B (36:40) - Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into the Enterprise (44:53) - I analyzed 180M j...

(01:59) - dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data infrastructure for analytics and AI (10:35) - Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (10:40) - Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode turns on more AI features (21:47) - Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot (32:34) - Living dangerously with Claude (51:09) - Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol (59:44) - Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s...

(00:47) - Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores (08:41) - [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance (17:23) - Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime (23:43) - Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are (29:58) - Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 (34:36) - Amazon outage breaks much of the...

(00:57) - Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks (09:15) - Python 3.14 will change the way you parallelise code (18:21) - How I made $300K from an open-source side project (dual licensing) (26:10) - Dutch government takes control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia (31:50) - simonw/claude-skills (36:59) - LSEG and Microsoft transform access to AI-ready financial data (40:10) - Inside T...

Thanks for listening to the MonkeyPatching Podcast! Today we discuss: (00:40) - Agent Workflows | ElevenLabs Documentation (06:12) - Introducing AgentKit | OpenAI (Oct 06 2025) (13:26) - Pay yourself first | HEY World (Oct 04 2025) (22:47) - Tiny lab-grown brains could help build the next generation of computers | TechSpot (Oct 06 2025) (26:25) - Deloitte admits AI hallucinated quotes in governmen...