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Practical AI

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Practical AIVoicesLess about Models; More about Architecture As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise deployment, are organizations thinking too much about models and not enough about architecture? In this episode, Daniel and Chris talk with Chetan Gupta, Chief AI Officer at

September 3
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Practical AIVoicesBuilding the Foundation for the Agentic AI Era How do we build an AI ecosystem where agents, tools, and systems can work together at scale? Angie Jones, VP of the Agentic AI Foundation, joins Chris to discuss the open standards and projects shaping the agentic future

August 28
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Practical AIVoicesAI Proficiency: From Users to Builders As AI continues to reshape how organizations work, companies are increasingly asking what AI proficiency should look like across their workforce, and how they can help employees adapt without simply mandating AI adoption

August 25
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Practical AIVoicesModels, Harnesses, and Multi-Agent Systems AI has moved far beyond chatbots, but what exactly are AI models, agents, agent harnesses, and multi-agent systems, and why do they matter? In this episode, Daniel and Chris break down the terminology behind today's AI l

August 6
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Practical AIVoicesReconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face What happens when AI agents driven by a top frontier model escape their secure sandbox? Join Daniel and Chris as they unpack the AI wonk's equivalent of a murder mystery! OpenAI agents went rogue and successfully attacke

July 30
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Practical AIVoicesSurviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World The agentic transformation isn’t coming. It has already begun. Companies are deploying thousands — and sometimes tens of thousands — of AI agents. Enterprise software giants are watching their old economic moats erode. C

July 23
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Practical AIVoicesThe Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave As AI applications become more complex, the infrastructure powering them needs to evolve. Corey Sanders, SVP of Product at CoreWeave, joins Chris to discuss why AI requires a fundamentally different approach than traditi

July 17
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Practical AIVoicesBuilding Durable AI Agents What does it take to move AI agents from demos to reliable production systems? In this episode, Hamza Tahir explores how MLOps principles are shaping the future of generative AI, covering workflows, agent harnesses, flee

July 9
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Practical AIVoicesImage Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest Labs How has AI image generation evolved from blurry outputs to powerful visual intelligence models? Dustin Podell, Co-Founder and Researcher at Black Forest Labs, explains the progression from diffusion to flow matching, how

July 2
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Practical AIVoicesAIUC-1: Building trust in AI agents How do we build trust in AI agents before the AI hailstorm arrives? Emil Lassen from the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) joins the show to discuss how the enterprise flywheel of standards, certificati

June 25
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Practical AIVoicesZero Trust for AI Agents As AI agents become more capable and autonomous, they also introduce new security challenges. In this 'Fully Connected' episode, Dan and Chris unpack Anthropic’s Zero Trust for AI Agents security framework and what it me

June 11
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Practical AIVoicesBreaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report AI models can win math olympiads… but still struggle to read an analog clock. In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down the latest Stanford AI Index Report and explore what it reveals about the current st

June 4
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Practical AIVoicesRebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and Kubernetes What happens when AI agents start acting less like chatbots and more like coworkers? In this episode, Dan and Chris sit down with Craig McLuckie, CEO of Stacklok to explore MCP, Kubernetes, ToolHive, enterprise AI, and t

May 28
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Practical AIVoicesHermes Agent: Agents that grow with you Open Source AI is entering a new era, one shaped by self-improving AI Agents, recursive learning systems, and rapidly evolving AI Tools that blur the line between software and autonomous collaborators. In this episode, D

May 21
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Practical AIVoicesU.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World U.S. Congressman Don Beyer returns to Practical AI for another far-reaching conversation with Chris about many of the most important AI challenges facing America and the world. Blending political savvy and statesmanship

May 14
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Practical AIVoicesThe Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026 In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down one of the biggest questions in AI today: do open vs. closed models still matter? From the rise of physical AI and edge devices to the shifting landscape of open-

May 7
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Practical AIVoicesThe mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud In this Fully-Connected episode, Dan and Chris start with Anthropic's Mythos frontier model, parsing what is publicly known about its cybersecurity capabilities and projecting its possible implications from " We've been

April 23
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Practical AIVoicesOpen Source Self-Driving with Comma AI Autonomous driving is not just a big tech or closed-source game, it's becoming accessible through open innovation and real-world deployment. Dan and Chris sit down with Harald Schäfer, CTO at Comma AI, to explore how Ope

April 16
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Practical AIVoicesPost-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down the Anthropic Claude Code leak, what went wrong and what it reveals about agentic systems, AI architecture, and AI safety. They also explore how the open source c

April 9
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Practical AIVoicesAgentic Coding and the Economics of Open Source AI is rapidly transforming how software is built, shifting economic incentives from open source code and collaboration toward on-demand, personalized development through agentic coding a.k.a. vibe coding. In this episode

April 2
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Practical AIVoicesAI at the Edge is a different operating environment What does “AI at the edge” really mean in 2026, and why does it matter now more than ever before? In this episode, we’re joined by Brandon Shibley, Edge AI Solutions Engineering Lead at Qualcomm’s Edge Impulse, to discus

March 25
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Practical AIVoicesHumility in the Age of Agentic Coding What happens when an AI hater starts building with AI agents? In this episode, we talk with software engineer Steve Klabnik, known for his work on the Rust programming language, about his journey from criticizing AI to e

March 17
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Practical AIVoicesAI policy and the battle for computing power AI is reshaping global power, from chip manufacturing and computing power to AI governance and US-China relations. In this episode, Ben Buchanan, Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University and former White House

March 9
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Practical AIVoicesCognitive Synthesis and Neural Athletes As AI accelerates innovation and adoption, leaders are facing rising cognitive load, shifting systems, and new emotional realities inside their organizations. In this episode, Deloitte’s Chief Innovation Officer Deborah

February 18