The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

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1. The AI Boom Is Impressive. Can It Last?

   31 oktober 2026 · 50 min

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   Ben Lorica and investor Evangelos Simoudis discuss the opportunities and risks revealed in Anthropic’s S-1, from explosive revenue growth and improving economics to mounting compute commitments, competition from open-weight models, and dependence on coding. They also examine SpaceX’s emerging neocloud business and whether access to cheap capital and growing demand can sustain it. Finally, they debate proposals for regulating frontier AI labs, including restrictions on AI self-improvement, independent testing, and mandatory disclosure of security incidents. Lees meer

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2. When AI Writes the Code, Who Proves It Works?

   29 oktober 2026 · 46 min

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   Ben Lorica speaks with Leo de Moura, creator of Lean, VP and Distinguished Scientist at AWS, and Chief Architect of the Lean Focused Research Organization, about how AI is making formal verification more accessible and potentially transforming software engineering. Lees meer

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3. Let Domain Experts Build the Agents

   22 oktober 2026 · 54 min

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   Akshay Sharma, ML Engineer at Lyft, and Nick Ung, Staff Applied Scientist at Lyft, explain how their team is building a platform that lets domain experts create customer-facing AI agents while engineers provide the underlying tools, guardrails, and evaluation infrastructure. Lees meer

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4. AI Is Coming for Tasks Before It Comes for Jobs

   15 oktober 2026 · 57 min

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   MIT FutureTech director Neil Thompson joins Ben Lorica to discuss how AI is reshaping work, the economy, and the future of automation. Drawing on recent research, Thompson explains why AI’s impact on most occupations may unfold gradually rather than arrive as a sudden shock, why adoption continues to lag behind technical capabilities, and why the fixed costs of implementation favor larger firms. Lees meer

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5. Why Build Your Own AI Model When Frontier Models Already Exist?

   8 oktober 2026 · 49 min

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   In this episode, we talk with Joel Hron, CTO of Thomson Reuters, about the company’s decision to develop its own frontier AI model, Thomson, using open-weight models and decades of proprietary content and expertise. Lees meer

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6. Why AI Makes Games Worse—and How to Make Them Better

   1 oktober 2026 · 58 min

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   Piero Molino, CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico, joins Ben Lorica to discuss what happens when AI becomes a core game mechanic rather than a cost-cutting tool. Lees meer

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7. What Comes After Transformers?

   24 september 2026 · 46 min

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   Ben Lorica speaks with Zuzanna Stamirowska, CEO of Pathway, about the company’s push beyond transformers toward models that reason in latent space, learn from experience, and maintain state over long time horizons. Lees meer

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8. Inside OpenAI's First Chip

   17 september 2026 · 35 min

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   Richard Ho, VP of Hardware at OpenAI, explains how the team built Jalapeño, its first custom AI accelerator, and why controlling more of the hardware stack could lower inference costs and improve performance. Lees meer

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9. Navier-Stokes and AI generated work: If You Can't Explain It, Did You Really Do It?

   12 september 2026 · 56 min

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   Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis for a wide-ranging discussion on how AI is reshaping knowledge work: from the Navier-Stokes controversy and the need to protect intellectual property to whether workers should still be expected to understand and defend AI-generated work. Lees meer

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10. The Missing Data for Spatial Intelligence

    10 september 2026 · 44 min

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    Ben Lorica talks with David Fattal, founder and CTO of Leia Inc., about why stereo data could become an important ingredient for AI systems that need to understand the physical world. Lees meer

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