The Artificial Intelligence Podcast

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Interview #94 Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM, Splunk at Cisco

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2026/10/02

Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM of Splunk at Cisco, breaks down why intent is never enough to control an AI agent: agents are ruthless goal seekers, and asking one to free up 3 percent of disk space can end with 97 percent free because nobody said keep the rest. He explains why trust means verification rather than instruction, and why it includes the invoice, comparing it to hiring a contractor you trust to build a house that stands without emptying your bank account. Kamal also digs into why the rush

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00:16:11

Interview #93 Hao Yang, VP and Head of AI, Splunk at...

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2026/10/01

Hao Yang, VP and Head of AI at Splunk, breaks down why sampling an AI system's output cannot earn trust: a fraction of ten thousand probabilistic calls will be wrong, and a spot check is unlikely to find them. He explains why a small model can grade a frontier model reliably inside a narrow context but not outside one, and why prompt injection follows from the architecture rather than being a bug, since following instructions is how these systems work. Hao also digs into why time series is still

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00:19:44

Interview #92 Mangesh Pimpalkhare, SVP and GM, Splunk...

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2026/09/30

Mangesh Pimpalkhare, SVP and GM of Splunk Platform at Cisco, breaks down why agentic AI generates more telemetry than the systems it monitors, and why nobody can yet say when observing AI costs more than running it. He explains the decade spent preaching centralized data was always partial, since machine data never sat in one system, and that what broke was volume rather than architecture, pushing a whole category to abandon the ingestion pricing it ran on for 15 years. Mangesh also digs into why an

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00:24:06

Interview #91 Johan Land, Chief Product Officer of...

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2026/07/13

Johan Land, Chief Product Officer at Samsara, breaks down why every major AI lab crowded into the easy 90% of knowledge work while ignoring the 40% of the economy that is physical and the 80% of workers who never sit at a desk. He explains why intelligence on a battery budget has to live on the edge - collision warnings fire in milliseconds, making GenAI's hundreds of milliseconds of latency unthinkable behind the wheel - while the heavy pattern-spotting waits for the backend. Johan also dives

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00:39:04

Interview #90 Ketan Karkhanis, CEO of ThoughtSpot

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2026/07/02

Ketan Karkhanis, CEO of ThoughtSpot, breaks down why two decades of self-service BI was a hoax that only handed everyone the right to build their own dashboards, leaving companies sitting on 50,000 of them with no idea what to do. He explains why the industry's shortcut of bolting a language model onto your data and letting it write the SQL is doomed: analytics are deterministic while AI is probabilistic, so the same churn question comes back three different ways and a frontier model on a

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00:27:44

Interview #89 TVN Reddy, CEO of Aptean

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2026/06/08

TVN Reddy, CEO of Aptean, breaks down why the entire software industry is selling "bigger is better" AI while the real goal is the opposite: people spending 80% less time in systems and more time doing the work that actually drives the business. He explains why general purpose models hand every competitor the same 95% while the deep vertical 5% drives the outsized gains, why enterprise AI is unusable past roughly a half percent error rate, and why validation agents beat the instinct to

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00:36:27

Interview #88 Bill Franks, President at Analytics...

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2026/06/01

Bill Franks, President of Analytics Advisory Partners, breaks down why a degree no longer proves much and employers now hire on what you can show, not what you know. He explains the pipeline trap companies are walking into - handing every junior, tactical task to AI the way firms offshored it back in 2000, then finding no one qualified to step into the senior roles - and argues teams should deliberately do one in ten tasks by hand just to keep their skills sharp. Bill also digs into the boring

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00:19:09

Interview #87 Vishnu Hari, CEO of ego AI

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2026/05/25

Vishnu Hari, CEO of Ego AI, breaks down why the labs with billions in compute missed the product hiding in plain sight: character AI quietly tops every consumer retention leaderboard while the serious labs write it off as a sideshow. He argues humanness itself is the hard problem - dangerous, uncontrollable, and unchained - so the giants retreat to safe coding agents and ship characters that collapse into therapy or role-play because they never actually live lives. Vishnu takes apart the memory

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00:30:40

Interview #86 Carter Huffman, CTO of Modulate

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2026/05/07

Carter Huffman, CTO of Modulate, breaks down why voice AI keeps failing in production despite years of "solved" transcription claims. He explains the "transcript trap" that fools dev teams into shipping voice agents that crumble on real calls, why bigger language models actually make latency worse, and how ensemble approaches with smaller specialized models outperform monolithic systems. Carter also dives into the explosion of deepfake voice fraud - including the $25M Hong Kong

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00:45:22

Interview #85 Bakak Hodjat, CAIO at Cognizant

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2026/04/08

Join Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant, as he unpacks what's actually happening at the cutting edge of agentic AI — from agents that run continuously without being asked, to the governance crisis quietly unfolding inside enterprises right now. Babak draws on decades of AI research to break down multi-agent architecture, the TerraLingua experiment that let AI agents form their own societies, and a breakthrough in evolutionary fine-tuning that could change how the entire industry thinks

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00:47:34

Interview #84 Hagay Lupesko, SVP of AI Inference at...

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2026/04/02

Join Hagay Lupesko, SVP of AI Inference at Cerebras Systems, for a deep dive into the rapidly evolving world of AI inference. Hagay breaks down why inference has overtaken training as the dominant AI workload, how Cerebras' wafer-scale chip architecture delivers 10-20x faster performance than NVIDIA GPUs, and why CUDA is no longer the moat many think it is. He also covers how DeepSeek wiping $600 billion off NVIDIA's market cap in a single day was both a foundational and deeply misunderstood

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00:26:58

Interview #83 Shiva Pillay, General Manager & SVP,...

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2026/02/18

Join Shiva Pillay, SVP and General Manager of Veeam Americas, as he discusses why 80-90% of AI projects fail due to fundamental data issues, revealing that enterprises are attempting to feed AI models with fragmented, poorly governed, and inconsistently labeled data that was never designed for AI consumption in the first place. Pillay explains the dangerous disconnect between C-suite executives confident in their AI-ready initiatives and SMEs still struggling in pilot mode, warning that without

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00:03:03

Top 2% of 7M Spotify Podcasts: 2025 Wrapped

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2026/01/31

Out of 7 million podcasts on Spotify, The Artificial Intelligence Podcast achieved top 2% Most Shared, top 9% Most Talked About, and top 7% listener retention in 2025. In this year-end review episode, Dr. Tony Hoang reflects on interviewing 80+ enterprise leaders from Microsoft, Intel, NVIDIA, and Fortune 500 companies, while previewing 2026's bigger AI guests, deeper enterprise AI case studies, and exciting new distribution opportunities. Our community of AI executives and tech leaders

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00:26:30

Interview #82 Christopher Brown, Managing Partner of...

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2026/01/30

Join Christopher Brown, Managing Partner of The Nova Rose Group, as he examines the collision course between AI innovation and governance, arguing that America's fragmented 50-state regulatory patchwork creates unprecedented challenges for an industry evolving too rapidly for traditional democratic experimentation. Brown critiques the Trump administration's AI litigation task force threatening to sue states over AI laws, warning that while maintaining competitive dominance against China is

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00:33:26

Interview #81 Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO of Operant AI

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2026/01/01

Join Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO of Operant AI, as he reveals the emerging threat landscape facing production AI systems, from sophisticated prompt injection attacks to zero-click exploits that can exfiltrate sensitive data without any user interaction. Bhavsar explains how traditional security tools like code scanning, network firewalls, and cloud security posture management become largely ineffective against AI agents operating with non-deterministic behavior and authorized access to critical systems,

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00:43:37

Interview #80 Raj Shukla, CTO of SymphonyAI

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2025/12/19

Join Raj Shukla, CTO of SymphonyAI, as he discusses the critical distinction between AI demos and production-ready systems, revealing that enterprises consistently underestimate the "last mile" challenges of authentication, authorization, and data scalability that break POCs when moving to production. Shukla explains how SymphonyAI's vertical AI approach pre-trains models on industry-specific ontologies and knowledge graphs for retail, financial services, industrial manufacturing, and enterprise IT,

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00:31:21

Interview #79 Balaji Raghavan, Head of Engineering at...

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2025/12/01

Join Balaji Raghavan, Head of Engineering at Postman, as he discusses the critical gap between AI adoption and API readiness, revealing that while 80% of developers use AI, only 24% design APIs with AI agents as the intended consumer. Drawing from Postman's 40 million developer user base, Raghavan explains how human-designed APIs create ambiguity problems for AI systems, requiring additional tooling layers that often introduce security vulnerabilities through proxy credentials and unauthorized

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00:31:55

Interview #78 Stelios Andreadis, CPO of Cognichip

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2025/10/15

Join Stelios Andreadis, Chief Product Officer at Cognichip, as he explores how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing semiconductor development by enabling more holistic design processes that can reduce development time by half and costs by 75%. He discusses how AI tackles complex challenges across the entire chip design workflow—from early product definition through manufacturing—including verification, debugging, and hardware-software co-design optimization. Andreadis envisions a near future

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00:38:44

Interview #77 Paul Canetti, CEO of Skej

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2025/10/10

Join Paul Canetti, CEO of Skej, as he discusses the unique challenges of building AI products that operate without traditional user interfaces, instead functioning as virtual humans with email addresses, phone numbers, and Slack handles that interact through natural language. Drawing from his experience in UX design at Apple during the iPhone era, Canetti explains how building non-deterministic AI systems fundamentally differs from traditional software, requiring multiple quality assurance layers to

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00:26:20

Interview #76 Zachary Hanif, VP of AI ML at Twilio

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2025/09/07

Join Zachary Hanif, VP of Data and AI at Twilio, as he discusses the fundamental differences between building AI systems in regulated financial services versus communication platforms, drawing from his experience at Capital One to implement rigorous model governance frameworks that reduce maintenance costs while accelerating development timelines. Hanif addresses the critical balance between explainable AI and high-performing black box models, emphasizing that organizations must identify where their

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