AI News - Mid-October 2026
Brian and Brandon open mid-October’s AI news of the month by asking whether a yes-or-no answer engine like Jev could have saved the Commanders from a clock-management meltdown, and why a binary classi...
18 Okt 36min
A Cloud Nobody Owns: Sovereign Infrastructure for the Agent Era with Dominic Williams
Brandon interviews Dominic Williams, founder, president, and chief scientist of the DFINITY Foundation, about the Internet Computer and why he set out to build a new back-end compute stack. Williams t...
12 Okt 41min
The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady
Brandon interviews Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, about his 2013 book *The New Kingmakers* and his recent follow-up, "Agents: The new, New Kingmakers." O'Grady explains ...
7 Okt 43min
AI News for End of September 2026
Brian (@bgracely) and Brandon (@bwhichard) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the second half of September 2026. Oracle sent a force majeure notice on a major data center build, which Brandon re...
4 Okt 35min
The Anthropic IPO?
We review the potential Anthropic IPO, in the context of revenue trajectory, expense trajectory and planned commitments, past and future funding rounds, future expanse commitments to large datacenter ...
30 Sep 25min
The OpenAI IPO?
We review the potential OpenAI IPO, in the context of revenue trajectory, expense trajectory and planned commitments, past and future funding rounds, future expanse commitments to large datacenter pro...
27 Sep 28min
How Do Regulated Enterprises Deploy Private, Secure AI?
Aaron interviews Ivan Lee, founder and CEO of Datasaur, about what it takes to build private, secure AI for regulated enterprises. Lee traces the shift away from third-party model reliance to complian...
23 Sep 34min
AI News for Mid-September 2026
Aaron and Brandon cover what the week's news means for enterprise buyers. They question whether Oracle's reported $664 billion backlog is durable demand or overlapping commitments, and Brandon argues ...
21 Sep 42min
