The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
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The AI Boom Is Impressive. Can It Last?
31 oktober 2026 · 50 min
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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When AI Writes the Code, Who Proves It Works?
29 oktober 2026 · 46 min
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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Let Domain Experts Build the Agents
22 oktober 2026 · 54 min
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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AI Is Coming for Tasks Before It Comes for Jobs
15 oktober 2026 · 57 min
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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Why Build Your Own AI Model When Frontier Models Already Exist?
8 oktober 2026 · 49 min
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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Why AI Makes Games Worse—and How to Make Them Better
1 oktober 2026 · 58 min
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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What Comes After Transformers?
24 september 2026 · 46 min
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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Inside OpenAI's First Chip
17 september 2026 · 35 min
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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Navier-Stokes and AI generated work: If You Can't Explain It, Did You Really Do It?
12 september 2026 · 56 min
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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The Missing Data for Spatial Intelligence
10 september 2026 · 44 min
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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Your AI Agent Is Costing You More Than You Think
3 september 2026 · 30 min
Ben Lorica talks with Abi Aryan, AI engineer, author of LLMOps: Managing Large Language Models in Production, about how deploying generative AI is turning into a distributed systems problem. Lees meer
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Reasoning Doesn't Start With Language
27 augustus 2026 · 40 min
Ben Lorica speaks with Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian AI, about why today’s frontier models still struggle with complex visual reasoning and why simply scaling language-centric architectures may not solve the problem. Lees meer
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An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop
20 augustus 2026 · 35 min
Maarten Grootendorst, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind and co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models and An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, joins Ben Lorica to explain the concepts developers need to understand beneath today’s AI tools. Lees meer
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The Bloomberg Terminal for AI Compute
13 augustus 2026 · 45 min
Steve Hou, Head of Research at Silicon Data, joins Ben Lorica to unpack the data behind the AI compute market: GPU rental indices, forward curves, and token expenditure trends that reveal a market still tightening despite talk of oversupply. Lees meer
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Can China Do to Robotaxis What It Did to Solar?
8 augustus 2026 · 55 min
Ben Lorica talks with Evangelos Simoudis about three forces reshaping AI: why recent “rogue agent” incidents may be more about permissions, identity, and governance than runaway intelligence; how the belief that AGI is near is helping sustain enormous investment in AI models and data centers despite unanswered questions about margins and ROI; and whether Chinese robotaxi companies can challenge Waymo globally by following a playbook similar to China’s rise in solar and batteries. Lees meer
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Why Video Is AI's Next Great Frontier
6 augustus 2026 · 40 min
Yoon Kim, President and Chief Strategy Officer of TwelveLabs, explains why understanding video takes more than bolting a language model onto a stream of frames. He walks through how TwelveLabs’ two foundation models, Marengo and Pegasus, embed and describe video content at scale, and how the company’s new agent, Jockey, orchestrates them for tasks like security investigations, sports film review, and documentary editing. Lees meer
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Your AI Safety Tests Are Lying to You
30 juli 2026 · 26 min
Andrew Burt, CEO and co-founder of Luminos, joins Ben Lorica to unpack Luminos’s new report, A Practical Guide to Agentic and Gen AI Risk Evals. Lees meer
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Enterprise AI Is Moving Slower Than You Think
23 juli 2026 · 37 min
Ben Lorica speaks with Denise Teng, partner at Gradient Ventures, about the real state of enterprise AI adoption, why security and data privacy still slow deployment, and why open weights may become increasingly important for regulated industries. Lees meer
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Why Observability May Be AI’s Next Frontier
16 juli 2026 · 51 min
Ameet Talwalkar, Carnegie Mellon ML professor and Chief Scientist at Datadog, joins Ben Lorica to trace time series foundation models from skepticism to Datadog’s Toto V1 and V2. Lees meer
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AI Is Producing More Code, but Is It Producing More Value?
11 juli 2026 · 56 min
Ben Lorica sits down with Evangelos Simoudis to unpack why open-weights models are closing the gap with frontier labs and pushing enterprises toward “corporate AI sovereignty.” They then apply an attenuation-funnel lens to AI coding tools — more code, but far less shipped software and usage growth — before turning to “neoconsulting,” the outcomes-based services model reshaping Accenture, Palantir, and the big Indian IT firms. Lees meer
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Stop Renting Generic Intelligence for Your Business
9 juli 2026 · 54 min
Manos Koukoumidis, CEO of Oumi, returns to the podcast to make the case that most enterprises are wildly inefficient, using bloated generic AI models for tasks that demand specialized ones. He argues that companies should stop renting intelligence from frontier labs and start owning, customizing, and compounding it. Lees meer
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The Data Layer Enterprise AI Has Been Missing
2 juli 2026 · 51 min
Andrew Moore, CEO of Lovelace, former head of Google Cloud AI, and former dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, joins the podcast to discuss YottaGraph, a knowledge graph growing by a billion facts a week that serves as a context engine for enterprise AI agents. He explains why fully automatic knowledge graph construction is the only viable path at scale, why entity resolution remains a brutal engineering problem, and how graph theory tricks make million-node queries answerable in under a second. Lees meer
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The Hidden Failure Modes of AI Agents
25 juni 2026 · 52 min
Ben Lorica speaks with Helen Gu, CEO of InsightFinder AI and professor at North Carolina State University, about why reliability is becoming a central challenge for enterprise AI. They discuss AI incident response, monitoring agents in production, domain-specific small language models, causal inference for operational data, and why the “last 1%” of accuracy and reliability is often the hardest part of deploying AI systems. Lees meer
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The Data Stack Wasn't Built for AI — Here's What Comes Next
18 juni 2026 · 40 min
Ben Lorica talks with Chang She, co-founder and CEO of LanceDB, about the limitations of traditional analytical data tools like Pandas and Parquet when applied to AI workloads. They discuss the rise of the “multimodal lakehouse,” the unique data storage and retrieval challenges introduced by AI agents, and how LanceDB provides both lightweight embedded memory and massive-scale infrastructure. Lees meer
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The SaaSpocalypse Is Coming — But Don't Count Out the Incumbents
13 juni 2026 · 41 min
Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis for a wide-ranging check-in on how AI is reshaping mobility, enterprise software, and corporate strategy. Lees meer
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AI Agents Are Implemented, Not Adopted
11 juni 2026 · 46 min
Ben Lorica speaks with Hamza Tahir, co-founder of Kitaru, about what it takes to move AI agents from demos to production. They discuss the difference between workflows and agents, why “harness engineering” is becoming a useful frame for application builders, and why long-running agent workloads require orchestration, durable execution, retries, state management, and human-in-the-loop semantics. Lees meer
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Why Your AI Agent Isn't Ready to Ship (And How to Know When It Is)
4 juni 2026 · 43 min
In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Zhou Yu, associate professor of computer science at Columbia University and co-founder of Arklex AI. Lees meer
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Why Foundation Models Haven’t Replaced Classical Machine Learning
28 mei 2026 · 52 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica sits down with Doris Xin and Moustafa Abdelbaky, co-founders of Disarray, to discuss why classical machine learning models remain essential despite the rise of foundation models and LLMs. Lees meer
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When "Garbage In, Garbage Out" Gets It Wrong
21 mei 2026 · 43 min
Ben Lorica speaks with Terrence Lee-St. John, founder of Enli and lead author of From Garbage to Gold: A Data Architectural Theory of Predictive Robustness. Lees meer
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As Code Generation Speeds Up, Who Tests the Output?
14 mei 2026 · 44 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Evan Marshall, CTO of Ito AI, about why software testing and QA are becoming the critical bottleneck in the age of coding agents. Lees meer
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The Gap Between AI Hype and Enterprise Reality
7 mei 2026 · 56 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Richard Garris and Barry Dauber from Databricks, about what enterprises are actually struggling with as they move AI from demo to deployment. Lees meer
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Reading the Tea Leaves: What the World's Top AI Researchers Are Really Working On
30 april 2026 · 57 min
Ben Lorica talks with Nick Vasiloglou, VP of Research at Relational AI, about Nick’s deep dive into NeurIPS 2025 and what people in industry should actually pay attention to. Lees meer
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From Web Video to Real-World Robots
23 april 2026 · 31 min
Ben Lorica speaks with Changan Chen, co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Rhoda AI, about what it takes to build foundation models for robots that can operate in the real world. Lees meer
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Why Your AI Committee Might Be Your Biggest AI Problem
18 april 2026 · 28 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss how enterprises are structuring their internal AI efforts, highlighting the friction between top-down AI governance committees and bottom-up “shadow IT” innovation. Lees meer
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Building Mathematical Superintelligence
16 april 2026 · 33 min
Ben Lorica speaks with Tudor Achim, cofounder of Harmonic, about the fast progress of AI for mathematical reasoning and what it would take to build “mathematical superintelligence.” Lees meer
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Your First AI Employee Is Already Clocking In
9 april 2026 · 46 min
In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Kay Zhu, Co-founder & CTO of Genspark AI, to explore the rapid evolution of autonomous AI agents and the concept of hiring your first “AI employee.” Lees meer
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Are Multi-Agent Systems More Complex Than They Need to Be?
2 april 2026 · 52 min
In this episode, host Ben Lorica sits down with Arun Kumar (Associate Professor at UC San Diego and Co-founder/CTO of RapidFire AI) to explore the rapidly evolving discipline of agent engineering. Lees meer
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Coding Agents Meet Data Science
26 maart 2026 · 42 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica is joined by Mikio Braun, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Zalando, for a wide-ranging conversation about the practical realities of AI-powered coding agents. They explore the unique challenges of using coding agents for data science workflows, the team-level implications of dramatically increased developer velocity, and what skills will matter most in an AI-augmented workplace. Lees meer
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World Models Are Here—But It’s Still the GPT-2 Phase
19 maart 2026 · 44 min
In this episode, host Ben Lorica speaks with Jeff Hawke, CTO at Odyssey, about world models — a category of AI that generates continuous, interactive simulations from images or text prompts. Lees meer
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The Hidden Challenges of Running AI at Scale in Production
12 maart 2026 · 32 min
Chen Goldberg, EVP of Engineering at CoreWeave, joins the podcast to discuss the critical infrastructure shifts required as companies move AI from pilot to production. Lees meer
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What No One Tells You About Staying Employable in the AI Era
7 maart 2026 · 43 min
In this episode, host Ben Lorica is joined by Evangelos Simoudis to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the modern workplace and what knowledge workers must do to adapt. Lees meer
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Adaptation: The Missing Layer Between Apps and Foundation Models
5 maart 2026 · 33 min
Ben Lorica talks with Sudip Roy (Co-founder & CTO, Adaption Labs) about why enterprise AI adoption stalls in the “last 5%” of reliability — and why waiting for the next frontier model release is usually the wrong bet. They unpack “adaptation” as something broader than post-training, including gradient-free, inference-time techniques that can sit above models to route, combine, and continuously improve behavior. Lees meer
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Securing the "YOLO" Era of AI Agents
26 februari 2026 · 52 min
Jason Martin, Director of Adversarial Research at HiddenLayer, returns to discuss the security implications of OpenClaw, a viral open-source AI personal assistant that was entirely vibe-coded and has exploded to 180,000 GitHub stars. Lees meer
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Building the Open Source Alternative to AWS
19 februari 2026 · 50 min
In this episode, Umur Cubukcu, co-founder of Ubicloud, explains what an “open cloud” should mean in practice — starting with an open-source control plane and extending to transparency, portability, and freedom from data lock-in. Lees meer
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Breaking the Memory Wall in the Age of Inference
12 februari 2026 · 46 min
In this episode, Sid Sheth, founder and CEO of d-matrix, discusses the company’s approach to AI inference hardware with a focus on solving the memory bottleneck problem. Lees meer
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Is Waymo Actually Profitable? The Real Cost of the Robotaxi Revolution
7 februari 2026 · 34 min
Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss two critical technology infrastructure topics: the evolving economics of autonomous vehicles and growing local opposition to AI data centers. Lees meer
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Beyond Vibe Coding: Building Your Entire Business with AI
5 februari 2026 · 33 min
Ethan Ouyang, Technical Lead at Atoms, joins the podcast to discuss the rise of “vibe business”: multi-agent AI systems that can research a market, design a product, build and launch it, and iterate toward revenue. Lees meer
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The Rise of the Machine Identity: Securing the AI Workforce and AI Agents
29 januari 2026 · 43 min
Ben Lorica talks with Jason Martin (co-founder of Permiso Security) about what it means to secure AI agents as they proliferate across enterprises. Lees meer
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Why Traditional Observability Falls Short for AI Agents
22 januari 2026 · 43 min
Lior Gavish, CTO and co-founder of Monte Carlo Data, joins Ben Lorica to discuss the critical transition from data observability to agent observability in production environments. Lees meer
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Teaching AI How to Forget
15 januari 2026 · 44 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica speaks with Ben Luria, CEO and co-founder of Hirundo, about the emerging necessity of machine unlearning for enterprise AI. Lees meer
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