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We’re the team behind The AI Report — the #1 AI newsletter for 400,000+ business leaders at Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and more. Each week, we cut through the noise with expert conversations on how AI is transforming business. Expect deep dives into real-world use cases, practical strategies for leaders, and insights you won’t find anywhere else. If you want to understand AI in a way that drives results for your team, company, and career — you’re in the right place. 👉 Subscribe now and join

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59:48

How EY Is Moving Companies From 18 Months of AI...

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2026/10/01

In this episode, Mike Flynn joins Liam to break down how companies are moving from AI experimentation to measurable business value. Mike has spent more than 20 years in consulting, including nearly a decade at EY, nine years at PwC, and now leads the technology sector for EY's consulting business.They discuss why businesses need to redesign workflows around AI instead of simply adding AI to existing processes, how EY's "Design for Zero" approach works, and why AI agents are changing the economics

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66:10

How to Build AI Systems People Can Actually Trust |...

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2026/09/24

In this episode, Cillian Kieran, CEO and founder of Ethyca, joins Liam to talk about why data privacy and AI governance need to be treated as engineering problems, not just legal and compliance challenges.Cillian explains how a consulting project for Heineken ahead of the GDPR pushed him to rethink privacy from an engineer's perspective and eventually build Ethyca. He breaks down how the company's product suite works, why Fides has become a widely adopted open-source privacy standard, and what

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64:49

Inside Block's Bet on Multiplayer AI | Brad Axen,...

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2026/09/17

Brad Axen, Block's Head of AI Capabilities and the original author of Goose, joins Liam to talk about what actually makes AI useful at work. They cover how Block went from building an early open-source AI agent to MoneyBot, ManagerBot, BuilderBot and Buzz, and why Brad thinks the hardest problems now are memory, access and interface, not just model intelligence.Brad also explains why AI memory should belong to the business rather than a single bot, what ants can teach us about shared memory

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53:18

The Agent Economy, AI Identity, and the New Rules of...

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2026/09/10

In this episode, Loni Stark, VP of Strategy and Product at Adobe, joins Liam to talk about what happens when a 25 year tech career runs alongside a full creative practice in painting, sculpture and writing, and what that split brain teaches her about building for the AI era. Loni explains why she thinks brands may already be invisible, or worse, misrepresented, inside AI answers, why every company needs to start treating AI as a new kind of audience, and how she is running her own home AI lab,

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75:55

Why This Financial Firm Built Its Own AI Tools...

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2026/09/03

In this episode, Braden Warwick, Financial Planning Product Architect at PWL Capital, breaks down why so much of the financial advice sold at big banks is a sales pitch dressed up as a plan, and what a real financial plan actually requires. Braden traded a PhD in aerospace engineering for a career rebuilding how Canadians plan their money, and he brings that same engineering mindset to financial planning: define your objectives, map your constraints, then solve for the outcome that actually improves

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45:15

Inside Shopify's Plan for Agentic Commerce and AI...

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2026/08/27

In this episode, Andrew McNamara, VP of Applied ML at Shopify, returns to unpack how much has changed in agentic commerce since his last episode. Andrew and Liam dig into why agents are becoming "the new front door to commerce," why orders coming to Shopify stores from AI are up 13x, and what's actually happening inside Shopify's personalized shopping agent in the Shop app.They also get into the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and why AI commerce is growing 9x faster than social commerce did at

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52:40

What It Takes to Build a Smart Shopping Cart Used by...

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2026/08/20

David McIntosh, Chief Connected Stores Officer at Instacart, joins Liam to explain why the company is betting on smart shopping carts instead of rewiring stores with ceiling cameras. David walks through the $350 million acquisition of Caper, how Instacart is now live in more than 100 cities with thousands of connected carts, and why the screen on the cart, not the checkout speed, turned out to be the real driver of sales lift for retailers.David also gets into the surprisingly hard engineering

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73:19

AI Agents Should Never Touch the Public Internet |...

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2026/08/13

In this episode, Zachary Smith, CEO and co-founder of Datum and previously the founder of Packet (acquired by Equinix for $335M) and Voxel (acquired for $35M), joins Liam to explain why the internet is about to undergo its biggest transformation since the cloud. As AI agents, vibe coding, and thousands of new applications flood the web, Zac believes the open internet model we've relied on for decades is breaking down.Zac argues that every person, every company, and eventually every AI agent will

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80:56

Inside the AI Hiring Pipeline: Interns, Apprentices,...

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2026/08/06

Vinay Gidwaney is Chief Product Officer and Mike Sullivan is Co-Founder and CEO of OneDigital, a 6,000-person, PE-backed benefits, HR, and wealth consultancy serving roughly 100,000 employers. Their contrarian bet: AI transformation has almost nothing to do with technology and everything to do with treating AI as talent. Instead of automating tasks, OneDigital built an internal hiring pipeline for AI, complete with job descriptions, an intern-to-apprentice-to-full-time promotion path, and

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63:39

How Your Voice Reveals Emotion, Deception, and Intent...

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2026/07/30

Rana Gujral is the former CEO of Behavioral Signals and the author of the upcoming book The AI Instinct. During his time leading Behavioral Signals, Rana has led a company built on a contrarian bet: that the words in a conversation are the least interesting part of it, and that the real signal, intent, trust, stress, deception, lives in how something is said rather than what is said. His team has mapped roughly 75 to 100 behavioral dimensions in the human voice, work that now powers everything from

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69:01

Formal Verification, AI Hallucinations, and...

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2026/07/23

In this episode, Tudor Achim, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmonic, the AI lab behind Aristotle, a mathematical reasoning system that won gold at the International Math Olympiad, makes the case that AI hallucinations aren't the problem with today's models. The real problem is that nobody can verify whether a hallucination is right or wrong. Tudor explains why his team bakes formal, computer-checkable verification (using a language called Lean) directly into how Aristotle reasons, so instead of trusting an

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98:49

The Reliability Problem Holding AI Back | Dan Klein,...

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2026/07/16

Every answer an AI gives you sounds equally confident, whether it's true or completely made up. That's not a bug. It's how the technology was built.Dan Klein is CTO and co-founder of Scaled Cognition, and a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. In this conversation with Liam, Dan breaks down what a language model actually is, why it was never designed to know the truth in the first place, and why today's AI systems have no "smells," the subtle warning signs humans usually rely on to tell

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60:05

How Human Data Shapes Every AI Model | Enzo Blindow,...

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2026/07/09

The volume problem in AI is solved. Now it's all about data quality, and who gets to define it. Enzo Blindow is VP of Data & AI at Prolific, a platform that connects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to the frontier labs and enterprises training and evaluating AI models. In this conversation with Liam, Enzo breaks down what actually goes into building high-quality training data, why models lean too hard into stereotypes, and the research Prolific published showing how easily AI can be

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50:31

How to Successfully Roll Out AI Across Your...

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2026/07/02

AI isn't replacing jobs. It's changing the way work gets done. Scott Likens, Global Chief AI Engineer at PwC, spends his days helping organizations navigate one of the biggest technological shifts in history. In this conversation with Arturo Ferreira, Scott shares what he's seeing inside some of the world's largest companies as they race to adopt AI, transform workflows, and prepare for a future that's arriving faster than most people expect. They discuss why many AI projects fail, the "frozen

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58:44

The Internet Is Becoming More Centralized. Here's Why...

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2026/06/25

Most people don't think about their browser. Ajit Varma thinks they should. As Head of Firefox, Ajit sits at the intersection of AI, privacy, open-source software and the future of the internet. In this conversation with Liam Lawson, he explains why browser competition matters more than ever, how AI is changing the way we interact with the web, and why user choice could become one of the most important issues of the next decade. Key Topics Covered: - Why Firefox believes the future of AI should

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26:55

AI Will Make Everyone Creative | Ian Wang, Adobe Express

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2026/06/18

Most people don't think of themselves as creative. Ian Wang thinks that's about to change. As VP & Head of Product for Adobe Express, Ian sits at the intersection of creativity, business strategy, product development, and AI. In this conversation with Liam Lawson, he explains why everyone is creative, how AI can help people communicate ideas more effectively, and why the future of creative work will be more conversational, accessible, and collaborative than ever before. Ian also shares Adobe's

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6:39

OpenAI Moves Toward an IPO + AI's Biggest Rivals Are...

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2026/06/16

Anthropic just released its newest model, Fable 5.* OpenAI has officially taken another step toward public markets. And some of the biggest competitors in AI are now relying on the same infrastructure behind the scenes.This week, Anthropic launches Fable 5 and introduces built-in safeguards for advanced use cases*, OpenAI confidentially files paperwork for a future IPO, Apple unveils its biggest Siri upgrade in years at WWDC, Google signs a massive compute agreement with SpaceX to support Gemini,

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24:13

The Future of Work Is Less AI and More Human Than You...

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2026/06/11

Everyone thinks the future of work means spending more time interacting with AI. Aaron Mitchell Finegold believes the opposite.As Head of Product Marketing at Adobe, Aaron sits at the intersection of enterprise AI, agentic workflows, brand intelligence and the future of how work gets done. In this conversation with Liam Lawson, he explains why most companies are approaching AI adoption incorrectly, what an agentic content supply chain actually looks like, and why trust, judgment and human

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5:52

Anthropic Files to Go Public + CNN Sues Perplexity |...

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2026/06/09

Anthropic is preparing for public markets. Europe is pushing to reduce its reliance on American tech. And CNN just filed a copyright lawsuit against Perplexity.This week, Anthropic files confidential paperwork for an IPO in one of the biggest milestones yet for the AI industry, Europe unveils a tech sovereignty plan to reduce its dependence on American technology, CNN sues Perplexity over the alleged redistribution of more than 17,000 copyrighted stories, Morgan Stanley opens its platform to

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26:17

Inside Adobe's Partnerships With OpenAI, Anthropic...

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2026/06/04

In the AI race, some of Adobe's closest partners are also its biggest competitors. So how does it decide who to work with?Sahil Gupta is the Senior Director of Partnerships at Adobe, where he leads technology partnerships with the biggest names in AI including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Cloud and NVIDIA. In this episode Liam sits down with Sahil to break down how these partnerships actually come together, what Adobe announced at Adobe Summit, how you navigate working with a partner you also compete

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