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In this episode, Emma and Jack open with the enormous financial momentum behind Big Tech’s AI expansion. Hyperscalers including Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are set to spend a combined $720 billion on capital projects this year. The hosts describe how this surge is raising business technology costs, with Microsoft 365 prices increasing by as much as 43% and AWS GPU r...

In this episode, Emma and Jack begin by exploring the remarkable financial and technological changes reshaping artificial intelligence. They start with Anthropic’s record-setting public filing, which seeks a valuation of up to $2 trillion, then discuss Canada’s unprecedented $1.6 billion sovereign equity investment in Cohere as a way to safeguard the country’s digital economi...

In this episode, hosts Emma and Jack dive into the rapidly evolving worlds of autonomous AI agents, life-sciences advances, and enterprise computing. They start with Anthropic’s new proactive assistant, Claude Duet, which operates in cloud-based virtual machines and can independently handle invoices, payroll, and workflows across thousands of connected marketplace apps. The c...

In this episode, hosts Emma and Jack dive into the fast-changing fields of agentic intelligence and cellular discovery. They start with Meta’s release of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which include Active Memory and Active Focus to support complex, multi-step reasoning in areas such as law, finance, and software engineering. The hosts discuss how enterprise software desig...