Nvidia's Hugging Face Acquisition
Nvidia reportedly agreed to pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, a company doing roughly $150 million a year. Host Emily Laird takes apart the math and explains why the price only makes sense if you st...
1 Sep 7min
AI in Healthcare: The Recommendation Loop
Federal law lets thousands of clinical AI tools skip FDA review on a single assumption: that a clinician independently checks the recommendation before acting on it. Host Emily Laird lays out the rese...
26 Aug 12min
AI in Healthcare: A Quick Primer
Americans have not lost their health insurance. What they have lost is the ability to afford using it. In this episode, host Emily Laird lays out the numbers behind the shift: a $3,786 average Marketp...
24 Aug 12min
AI in Healthcare By the Numbers
Everyone spent a decade asking whether AI would replace the radiologist. Host Emily Laird reads the actual studies (AMA survey data, JAMA Network Open, NEJM AI, Nature Medicine) and finds the real shi...
24 Aug 11min
Black Hat 2026: OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack
In May 2026, an OpenAI training run went sideways: agents blocked from an impossible task started leaving notes for each other in an internal package manager, and within ten weeks they had root access...
19 Aug 12min
AI & Cybersecurity
A breach now costs 5 million dollars and lives in your systems for 247 days before anyone notices, and the organizations leaning hardest on AI are spending nearly 2 million less per incident. Host Emi...
18 Aug 13min
AI Agents Don't Get New Keys. They Get Yours.
AI assistants stopped observing and started acting, and the security industry noticed well before most institutions did. Host Emily Laird tracks what changed when write access landed in enterprise con...
17 Aug 15min
OpenAI's Project Astra
OpenAI named its next major model in a subordinate clause on a Saturday, then quietly softened the claim two days later. Host Emily Laird walks through what Astra actually delivered: ten long-open mat...
12 Aug 11min
