The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
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The Humanoid Hype Cycle: Separating “Shiny Objects” from Real Utility
10 januari 2026 · 33 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners to break down the most significant developments from CES 2026. They explore the explosion of humanoid robotics and the transition toward software-defined vehicles before diving into a deep analysis of the shifting US-China export controls on AI chips. Lees meer
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The Junior Data Engineer is Now an AI Agent
8 januari 2026 · 55 min
Matthew Glickman, Co-founder and CEO of Genesis Computing and former VP of Product at Snowflake, joins Ben Lorica to discuss the emergence of AI data agents tailored for the data engineering persona. Lees meer
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The Truth About Agents in Production
31 december 2025 · 26 min
In this panel discussion from the PyTorch conference, Ben Lorica speaks with Samuel Colvin (Pydantic), Aparna Dhinakaran (Arize AI), Adam Jones (Anthropic), and Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex) about the current state of Agentic AI. Lees meer
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The best books we read this year 📚
24 december 2025 · 15 min
To mark the season, we’re sharing twelve non-fiction selections for the twelve days of Christmas. These are books we enjoyed and found worth passing along, ranging from deep dives into semiconductor history to fresh looks at creative collaboration. Whether you’re looking for a companion for a long-haul flight, a thoughtful gift idea, or simply a quiet escape during the holidays, we hope you’ll find something in today’s episode worth your time. Lees meer
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The Developer’s Guide to LLM Security
18 december 2025 · 40 min
Steve Wilson, Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam and lead of the OWASP GenAI Security Project, discusses the practical realities of securing Large Language Models and agentic workflows. Lees meer
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Is AI a Utility? Defining Usability and Public Trust
13 december 2025 · 44 min
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners explore the complex reality behind AI-driven layoffs, from automation and upskilling gaps to strategic shifts in R&D. They also dive into the massive capital investments in AI, discussing the growing pressure for ROI and the emergence of LLMOps as a form of financial management. The conversation highlights practical strategies for enterprises, emphasizing the need to break down organizational silos to succeed in the AI era. Lees meer
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How to Build AI Copilots That Teach Rather Than Automate
11 december 2025 · 30 min
In this episode, host Ben Lorica talks with Sakana AI research scientist Stefania Druga, formerly a research scientist at Google DeepMind, about building AI tools for young learners and what that teaches us about AI design for everyone. Lees meer
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The AI Revolution Finally Comes to Structured Data
4 december 2025 · 48 min
Stanford professor and Kumo.ai co-founder Jure Leskovec introduces the concept of a relational foundation model for structured enterprise data. Lees meer
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Building the Knowledge Layer Your Agents Need
26 november 2025 · 48 min
This episode features Philip Rathle, CTO of Neo4j, discussing the real-world state of Graph RAG and its journey from prototype to production in enterprise AI systems. Lees meer
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How Language Models Actually Think
20 november 2025 · 26 min
Emmanuel Ameisen, an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, joins the podcast to demystify how large language models work. Lees meer
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How AI Is Reshaping Jobs, Budgets, and Data Centers
15 november 2025 · 33 min
Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners explore the complex reality behind AI-driven layoffs, from automation and upskilling gaps to strategic shifts in R&D. They also dive into the massive capital investments in AI, discussing the growing pressure for ROI and the emergence of LLMOps as a form of financial management. Lees meer
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Making Data Engineering Safe for Automation and Agents
13 november 2025 · 50 min
Ciro Greco, Co-founder & CEO at Bauplan, joins the podcast to discuss a new paradigm for data engineering rooted in software engineering principles. He explains how treating the data lakehouse like a software project — with version control, branching, and transactional pipelines — creates a robust and safe environment for development. Lees meer
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Is Your Database Ready for an Army of AI Agents?
6 november 2025 · 56 min
Mike Freedman and Ajay Kulkarni, founders of Tiger Data, join the podcast to unveil Agentic Postgres, a database re-imagined for AI agents. Lees meer
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Beyond the Dashboard: Collaborative Analytics in Slack
30 oktober 2025 · 46 min
Nick Schrock, CTO of Dagster, discusses the critical role of data orchestration in the AI era, framing “context pipelines” as the new data pipelines that form the foundation of any AI strategy. He introduces Compass, a new Slack-native tool for collaborative, exploratory data analysis designed to replace the 80% of ad-hoc BI dashboards. Lees meer
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Stop Piloting, Start Shipping: A Playbook for Measurable AI
25 oktober 2025 · 30 min
Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss AI-bubble signals (runaway revenue multiples, circular financing), why many enterprise pilots stall, and what separates leaders (use-case matrices, cross-functional ownership, hard metrics). They also examine U.S.–China tech competition in robotics and semiconductors, and offer a pragmatic view on humanoid robots — what works now versus what’s still research-grade. Lees meer
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Databases for Machines, Not People
23 oktober 2025 · 28 min
Luke Wroblewski of Sutter Hill Ventures joins the podcast to discuss the paradigm shift in building AI applications. He explains how the traditional model of “code + database” is being replaced by “URL + model,” where the AI agent itself becomes the application logic. Lees meer
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When AI Agents Need to Talk: Inside the A2A Protocol
16 oktober 2025 · 29 min
Heiko Hotz and Sokratis Kartakis of Google Cloud discuss the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, a new standard for enabling collaboration between AI agents built on different frameworks. Lees meer
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The Infrastructure for Production AI
9 oktober 2025 · 48 min
Zhen Lu, CEO of Runpod, joins the podcast to discuss what it means to build an “AI-first” cloud, moving beyond the architectures of the Web 2.0 era. Lees meer
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How to Make Your Data Truly AI-Ready
2 oktober 2025 · 46 min
Yoni Leitersdorf, CEO of Solid, joins the podcast to demystify why simply pointing an LLM at a database for text-to-SQL doesn’t work. He explains the critical need for a semantic layer to provide business context, turning raw data into a “Rosetta Stone” that AI can actually understand. Lees meer
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Beyond the Agent Hype
27 september 2025 · 30 min
Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss some takeaways for AI practitioners from the recent AI Conference. They cover the disconnect between the hype and reality of AI agents in the enterprise, the critical importance of building reliable and trustworthy AI applications, and the potential impact of new H-1B visa policies on tech startups and innovation. Lees meer
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How to Build and Optimize AI Research Agents
25 september 2025 · 39 min
Jakub Zavrel, CEO of Zeta Alpha, joins the podcast to discuss the practical evolution from traditional enterprise search to powerful “deep research” systems. Lees meer
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Why Digital Work is the Perfect Training Ground for AI Agents
18 september 2025 · 42 min
Andrew Rabinovich, CTO and Head of AI at Upwork, discusses how digital work marketplaces serve as ideal testing grounds for AI agents, exploring their custom reinforcement learning approach called RLEF (Reinforcement Learning from Experience). Lees meer
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Beyond the Chatbot: What Actually Works in Enterprise AI
11 september 2025 · 38 min
Jay Alammar is Director and Engineering Fellow at Cohere and co-author of the O’Reilly book “Hands-on Large Language Models.” Lees meer
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Why China's Engineering Culture Gives Them an AI Advantage
6 september 2025 · 53 min
Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss three critical topics for AI practitioners: the complexities of AI regulation, with debates over foundation model oversight versus domain-specific regulations and concerns about IP protection in AI training data. Lees meer
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Predictability Beats Accuracy in Enterprise AI
4 september 2025 · 44 min
In this episode, Anant Bhardwaj, CEO of Instabase, provides a pragmatic guide for AI practitioners building enterprise solutions. Lees meer
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2025 AI Governance Survey
28 augustus 2025 · 39 min
Ben Lorica and David Talby present findings from the 2025 AI Governance Survey of 350+ respondents, revealing that while 30% have AI models in production, there are significant gaps in risk management practices. Lees meer
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The Fenic Approach to Production-Ready Data Processing
21 augustus 2025 · 47 min
Kostas Paralis, co-founder of Typedef , discusses Fenic, an open-source data frame framework designed specifically for AI applications that treats inference as a first-class operation within the query engine. Lees meer
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When AI Eats the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder
16 augustus 2025 · 28 min
Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss three critical trends shaping the AI industry: the “Great Hollowing Out” where AI automation is eliminating entry-level positions and disrupting talent pipelines, the financial implications of rapid AI hardware depreciation versus traditional accounting practices, and OpenAI’s shift to router-based model selection as foundation model providers search for sustainable business models. Lees meer
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From NotebookLM to Audio Companions: Why Google’s AI Team Went Startup
14 augustus 2025 · 33 min
Raiza Martin, co-founder of Huxe and former leader of Google’s NotebookLM team, discusses leaving Google at the height of NotebookLM’s success to build an audio-first personal AI companion. Lees meer
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The AI-Native Notebook That Thinks Like a Spreadsheet
7 augustus 2025 · 42 min
The discussion with CEO Akshay Agrawal covers how Marimo’s AI integration provides runtime context to LLMs for superior code generation, its adoption across industries from cybersecurity to DevOps, and the technical innovations that make notebooks viable for production environments. Lees meer
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How Agentic AI is Transforming Wall Street
31 juli 2025 · 40 min
Josh Pantony, CEO of Boosted AI, discusses Alfa, an agentic AI platform that creates persistent AI workers for finance professionals, moving beyond traditional prompt-response AI to proactive, autonomous systems. Lees meer
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The Quantum Advantage Is Real—But Where's the Infrastructure?
24 juli 2025 · 46 min
Jennifer Prendki explains that while universal quantum computers are a decade away, specialized quantum accelerators are already tackling AI problems in finance and pharma. She argues the biggest hurdle isn’t the hardware but the profound software and infrastructure gap, as fundamental principles like the “no-cloning theorem” break traditional MLOps. Lees meer
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From Human-Readable to Machine-Usable: The New API Stack
17 juli 2025 · 38 min
Sagar Batchu, CEO of Speakeasy, joins the podcast to discuss the critical shift in API development as AI agents become primary consumers. Lees meer
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Why Voice Security Is Your Next Big Problem
10 juli 2025 · 42 min
In this episode, Yishay Carmiel and Roy Zanbel of Apollo Defend discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of voice AI and its emerging security threats. Lees meer
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Unlocking Unstructured Data with LLMs
3 juli 2025 · 28 min
Shreya Shankar is a PhD student at UC Berkeley in the EECS department. This episode explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the processing of unstructured enterprise data like text documents and PDFs. It introduces DocETL, a framework using a MapReduce approach with LLMs for semantic extraction, thematic analysis, and summarization at scale. Lees meer
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Building Production-Grade RAG at Scale
26 juni 2025 · 31 min
Douwe Kiela, Founder and CEO of Contextual AI, discusses why RAG isn’t obsolete despite massive context windows, explaining how RAG 2.0 represents a fundamental shift to treating retrieval-augmented generation as an end-to-end trainable system. Lees meer
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Unlocking AI Superpowers in Your Terminal
19 juni 2025 · 45 min
Zach Lloyd, Founder/CEO of Warp, joins the podcast to discuss how Warp is revolutionizing the command-line terminal by integrating AI. Lees meer
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From Vibe Coding to Autonomous Agents
12 juni 2025 · 51 min
Jackie Brosamer and Brad Axen from Block discuss codename goose (Goose), their open-source AI agent designed to automate complex engineering and knowledge work. Lees meer
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How a Public-Benefit Startup Plans to Make Open Source the Default for Serious AI
5 juni 2025 · 49 min
Oumi Labs CEO Manos Koukoumidis lays out a vision for “unconditionally open” foundation models—where data, code, weights, and recipes are all transparent and reproducible—arguing this is the only path to production-grade, trustworthy AI. Lees meer
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The Highly Uncertain Future of OpenAI’s Dominance
29 mei 2025 · 54 min
Dan Schwarz (CEO & Co-Founder, Futuresearch) explains why his firm finds OpenAI’s $125 billion revenue projection highly implausible, citing fierce competition, pressure on ChatGPT/API revenue, and fleeting technical advantages. Lees meer
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Beyond Guardrails: Defending LLMs Against Sophisticated Attacks
22 mei 2025 · 45 min
Jason Martin is an AI Security Researcher at HiddenLayer. This episode explores “policy puppetry,” a universal attack technique bypassing safety features in all major language models using structured formats like XML or JSON. Lees meer
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Navigating the Generative AI Maze in Business
15 mei 2025 · 50 min
Evangelos Simoudis is Managing Director at Synapse Partners, a firm that helps corporations apply AI and invests in startups developing data-driven AI applications. This episode explores the current state of enterprise AI adoption, distinguishing between the steady progress of traditional AI and the experimental phase of generative AI. Lees meer
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The Practical Realities of AI Development
8 mei 2025 · 38 min
Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, dives into the practical challenges AI developers face, from UX/DX hurdles to complex systems engineering. Discover key trends like the convergence of open-source and proprietary models, the rise of agentic workflows, and strategies for optimizing quality, speed, and cost. Lees meer
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Beyond the Demo: Building AI Systems That Actually Work
1 mei 2025 · 28 min
Hamel Husain is the founder of Parlance Labs. He discusses how successful AI implementation requires fundamental data science skills often overlooked in current educational resources that focus too heavily on tools and frameworks. Lees meer
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Vibe Coding and the Rise of AI Agents: The Future of Software Development is Here
24 april 2025 · 37 min
Steve Yegge is an evangelist at Sourcegraph, a startups that is industrializing software development with AI agents. This episode explores the paradigm shift in software development with the rise of “vibe coding” and AI agents, moving beyond traditional code completion. It discusses how developers are transitioning from line-by-line coding to orchestrating AI, emphasizing the crucial need for trust, verification, and new skill sets like AI engineering and humanities. Lees meer
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2025 Artificial Intelligence Index
17 april 2025 · 52 min
Nestor Maslej is a Research Manager at Stanford's HAI, and editor-in-chief of the 2025 AI Index Report. Lees meer
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How AI is Transforming Talent Development
10 april 2025 · 28 min
Workera founder, Kian Katanforoosh, discusses how skills verification has evolved into a critical market focused on both assessment and professional development. Lees meer
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Prompts as Functions: The BAML Revolution in AI Engineering
3 april 2025 · 39 min
David Hughes, Principal Data & AI Solution Architect at Enterprise Knowledge. Our discussion centers on BAML, a domain-specific language that transforms prompts into structured functions with defined inputs and outputs, enabling developers to create more deterministic and maintainable AI applications. Lees meer
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Building the Operating System for AI Agents
27 maart 2025 · 46 min
Chi Wang is co-creator of AG2, and a Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind. This episode explores AG2, an open-source “agent OS” that provides infrastructure for developers to build sophisticated multi-agent AI systems. Lees meer
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Bridging the AI Agent Prototype-to-Production Chasm
20 maart 2025 · 39 min
Ilan Kadar is co-founder and CEO of Plurai. This episode introduces IntellAgent, an open-source platform designed to address these challenges through synthetic data generation, knowledge graph construction, and reinforcement learning for agent optimization. Lees meer
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