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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.
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- Yesterday13 min
Forty Four on the Index, One Fifth the Price: StepFun's Six Hundred Billion Parameter Bid at the Frontier, September 20, 2026
Forty Four on the Index, One Fifth the Price: StepFun's Six Hundred Billion Parameter Bid at the Frontier, September 20, 2026 Shanghai startup StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a six hundred billion parameter sparse mixture of experts model that ties Kimi K3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while charging less than a fifth of the output price. Rick Spair and Laura dig into the architecture, the benchmark numbers, the verbosity problem hiding behind that attractive per token price...
- Yesterday10 min
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, September 20, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, September 20, 2026 Four paid subscribers filed a federal antitrust complaint against Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI over an alleged agreement to slow frontier model development, and Washington answered fast: President Trump said he will create an AI Force and name an AI czar, while California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order convening an expert panel to weigh an emergency shutdown requirement, and three Senate Democrats demanded an ins...
- 2 days ago12 min
Twenty Six Percent and One in Forty Seven Thousand: Inside the Index Where AI Builds AI, September 19, 2026
Twenty Six Percent and One in Forty Seven Thousand: Inside the Index Where AI Builds AI Anthropic published a set of internal measurements this week showing that Claude now leads twenty six percent of the company's own AI research and development work, up from under one percent in February. Chris and Laura walk through the six level automation ladder behind that number, the thirty thousand concurrent agents generating roughly a billion monitored decisions a month, and the uncomfortable metho...
- 2 days ago10 min
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, September 19, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, September 19, 2026 Anthropic weighs releasing a new model ahead of a public offering now expected in November, while four consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in federal court, arguing that public calls to pace frontier development amount to an illegal agreement. SoftBank assembles close to $21 billion in fresh borrowing capacity behind its AI commitments, and London based Nscale files for a US listing showing first half revenue up 1,252% t...
- 3 days ago13 min
Fifty Million Dollars Per Policy, Eighty Two Percent Excluded: Who Pays When an AI Agent Gets It Wrong, September 18, 2026
Fifty Million Dollars Per Policy, Eighty Two Percent Excluded: Who Pays When an AI Agent Gets It Wrong The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company raised a forty million dollar Series A on September 15, 2026 to insure AI agents, at the very moment mainstream carriers are writing AI out of standard commercial policies. Chris and Laura unpack the end of "silent AI" coverage, the aggregation problem that terrifies underwriters, the real losses already paid, and the emerging market where Ar...
- 3 days ago10 min
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, September 18, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, September 18, 2026 Crusoe closes the initial tranche of a $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion post money valuation, co led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a legal industry configuration of GPT 6 Astra with a case law search index. Huawei pulls its Ascend 960DT processor forward three quarters to the first quarter of 2027 and says Chinese demand outstrips supply. Manus nears a $500 millio...
- 4 days ago12 min
Eight Billion Dollars of Machines That Do Nothing: Amazon Buys a Stake in Its Own Backup Power, September 17, 2026
Eight Billion Dollars of Machines That Do Nothing: Amazon Buys a Stake in Its Own Backup Power, September 17, 2026 Amazon signed a long term supply agreement worth up to eight billion dollars for backup generators at its data centers, then took a warrant on roughly one point six nine million shares of the supplier alongside it. Chris and Laura dig into why the binding constraint on AI has moved from chips to electrons, what fast transient response means for a diesel engine sitting in a yard ...
- 4 days ago10 min
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, September 17, 2026
DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, September 17, 2026 OpenAI weighs a new private round at roughly a $1.5 trillion valuation ahead of its planned listing, and ten banks assemble a $22 billion loan for Crux AI, the Blackstone and Alphabet cloud venture, secured against Google TPUs. Judge Leonie Brinkema orders Google to open its advertising stack to Prebid and accept a six year compliance monitor while rejecting a breakup, and a federal appeals court clears Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI of DM...
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