Best Spark Enterprises Podcasts (2025)

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Popup Porn, LoveSense, Tea, Fire Ant, Scatterede Spider, AI Pricing, Josh Marpet... - SWN #498 31:06

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Popup Porn, LoveSense, Tea, Fire Ant, Scatterede Spider, AI Pricing, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-498

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Enterprise AI Adoption Challenges 1:05:00

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Building AI Agents that work is no small feat. In Agents in Production [Podcast Limited Series] - Episode Six, Paul van der Boor and Sean Kenny share how they scaled AI across 100+ companies with Toqan—a tool born from a Slack experiment and grown into a powerful productivity platform. From driving adoption and building super users to envisioning A…

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How Product-Led Security Leads to Paved Roads - Julia Knecht - ASW #341 1:04:11

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A successful strategy in appsec is to build platforms with defaults and designs that ease the burden of security choices for developers. But there's an important difference between expecting (or requiring!) developers to use a platform and building a platform that developers embrace. Julia Knecht shares her experience in building platforms with an …

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That custom gift for your mom takes more work than you think 37:59

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Etsy is a global marketplace that keeps human connection at the heart of commerce. Connect with Mahir on LinkedIn. This week’s shoutout goes to user jsignell, who won a Populist badge for their answer to How do I tell if a column in a pandas dataframe is of type datetime? How do I tell if a column is numerical?.…

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tj-actions Lessons Learned, US Cyber Offense, this week's enterprise security news - Dimitri Stiliadis - ESW #417 1:42:01

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Interview Segment - Lessons Learned from the tj-actions GitHub Action Supply Chain Attack with Dimitri Stiliadis Breach analysis is one of my favorite topics to dive into and I’m thrilled Dimitri is joining us today to reveal some of the insights he’s pulled out of this GitHub Actions incident. It isn’t an overstatement to say that some of the less…

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20VC: a16z's Martin Casado on Anthropic vs OpenAI: Where Value Accrues | Cursor vs Replit vs Lovable: Who Wins and Who Loses | The One Sin in AI Investing | Why Open Source is a National Security Risk ... 1:10:37

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Martin Casado is a General Partner @ a16z where he leads the firms $1.25BN infrastructure fund. At a16z, Martin has led investments in companies like Cursor, dbt Labs, and Fivetran to name a few. Before joining a16z, he co-founded Nicira, acquired by VMware for $1.26B. At VMware, he served as CTO of Networking. Widely regarded as a visionary in ent…

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20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes ... 1:07:26

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Fernando Fanton is one of the most respected product leaders in Europe, having held Chief Product Officer roles at Monzo and Just Eat. He previously led product and tech at Rappi, one of Latin America's most valuable startups. Today, Fernando is the CPO @ Property Finder; one of the biggest breakout unicorns from MENA. Agenda: 00:00 – Is “having a …

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Core question: Have Cardinals identified Chaim Bloom's starting foundation or is an overhaul ahead? 35:31

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Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 As the Cardinals approach the onrushing July 31 trade deadline, what if the moves made (or not made) are just prelude to a larger overhaul of the organization in the opening months of Chaim Bloom's tenure leading baseball operatio…

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Forget the standings. Can future-focused Cardinals let offers shove them off the fence at trade deadline? 48:37

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Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 As Major League Baseball's July 31 trade deadline rapidly approaches, so does another opportunity for the Cardinals to choose a side. Are they riding this "runway" toward the future, or are they going to tighten the race for the N…

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Total Recall, Steam, Storm-2063, Unmarker, Altair, Josh Marpet, and More... - SWN #497 33:07

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Total Recall, Steam, Storm-2063, Unmarker, Altair, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-497

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Real-time Feature Generation at Lyft // Rakesh Kumar // #334 58:04

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Real-time Feature Generation at Lyft // MLOps Podcast #334 with Rakesh Kumar, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Lyft. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract This session delves into real-time feature generation at Lyft. Real-time feature generation is critical …

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Saving the world with speed and at scale 26:40

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The Speed & Scale Plan is a global initiative to move leaders to act on the climate crisis, tracking progress towards net zero by 2050. Explore Speed & Scale’s resources for combating climate change, and connect with Ryan on LinkedIn and X. Congratulations to Stellar Answer badge winner Christian C. Salvadó who won the badge for answering the quest…

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Protecting G-Suite/MS365 and Security News - Abhishek Agrawal - PSW #884 2:11:14

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We chat with Material Security about protecting G Suite and MS365. How else are you monitoring the most commonly used cloud environments and applications? In the security news: Google Sues Badbox operators Authenticated or Unauthenticated, big difference and my struggle to get LLMs to create exploits for me Ring cameras that were not hacked Malicou…

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Mid-Year Review: Staying Disciplined Amid Mixed Signals 17:35

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In this mid-year edition of The Wealth Enterprise Briefing, Michael Zeuner and Sam Sudame of WE Family Offices revisit the macro themes shaping 2025 and assess whether their core investment strategy still holds. What began as a year marked by policy uncertainty is starting to crystallize. Tariffs, once assumed to be negotiation tools, have become r…

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20VC: Lovable Raises at $2BN & Hits $100M ARR | Is Cursor Worth $28BN at $1BN in ARR | How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk | Are Seed Funds F******: Have Mega Funds Won | Figma IPO ... 1:21:38

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Agenda: 00:00 – Did Jason Just Kill Replit? 03:45 – Why Claude Lies To You and Cannot Be Trusted 06:50 – You Cannot Trust Agents. Period. 10:20 – Why Windsurf Was Dead Without Claude 12:30 – Cursor vs. Lovable: What’s the Better Bet? 14:40 – Should You Still Invest in Cursor at $28B? 18:05 – Would You Bet on Anthropic at $100B or OpenAI at $300B? 2…

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85. Karim Benammar: Why This Amsterdam Philosopher Is Revolutionizing How We Think About Hiring 57:33

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Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Amsterdam-based philosopher Karim Benammar, who's challenging the very foundations of how we recruit and think about talent. In this episode, Karim shares his radical ideas about hiring – from why you should consider candidates who 'hate' your company to why university degrees might be completely ir…

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Getting Consensus as a CISO, While Calculating Cybersecurity ROI and Building a Team - Khaja Ahmed - BSW #405 1:03:11

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How do we get security right? The answer varies by many factors, including industry, what you're trying to protect, and what the C Suite and Board care about. Khaja Ahmed, Advisor at CISO Forum, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how to get consensus on your security program. CISOs, executives, and the Board need to be aligned on the risks a…

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{Replay} AI Risks, Ethics & Law — with Christina Montgomery Chief Privacy Officer, General Motors and former IBMer 44:35

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Send us a text She’s the legal powerhouse behind IBM’s AI ethics strategy — and she makes law fun. In this encore episode, we revisit a fan favorite: Christina Montgomery, formerly IBM’s Chief Privacy and Trust Officer, now Chief Privacy and Trust Officer, GM. From guarding the gates of generative AI risk to advising on global regulation, Christina…

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Donatello, SharePoint, CrushFTP, WordPress, Replit, AllaKore, Rob Allen, and more... - Rob Allen - SWN #496 41:57

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Donatello, SharePoint, CrushFTP, WordPress, Replit, AllaKore, Rob Allen, and more on the Security Weekly News. Segment Resources: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/matanbuchus-loader-ransomware-infections This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them! Visit https://ww…

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AI Agent Development Tradeoffs You NEED to Know 57:06

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Sherwood Callaway, tech lead at 11X, joins us to talk about building digital workers—specifically Alice (an AI sales rep) and Julian (a voice agent)—that are shaking up sales outreach by automating complex, messy tasks. He looks back on his YC days at OpKit, where he first got his hands dirty with voice AI, and compares the wild ride of building vo…

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Rise of Compromised LLMs - Sohrob Kazerounian - ASW #340 1:06:35

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AI is more than LLMs. Machine learning algorithms have been part of infosec solutions for a long time. For appsec practitioners, a key concern is always going to be how to evaluate the security of software or a system. In some cases, it doesn't matter if a human or an LLM generated code -- the code needs to be reviewed for common flaws and design p…

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“AI has been the wild west”: Creating standards for agents with Sean Falconer 31:04

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Confluent is an all-in-one, real-time platform that allows you to stream, connect, process, and govern your data. Connect with Sean on Linkedin, and listen to the Software Engineering Daily podcast, where he co-hosts. Do you know the answer to Loadrunner lr_get_attrib_string always returns null? If so, you can help out Trncvs and receive the bounty…

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The Cyber Canon, ditching the SOC 2, and the weekly enterprise news - Helen Patton - ESW #416 1:49:28

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Segment 1 - Interview with Helen Patton: Introducing the Cybersecurity Canon Did you know that there’s a hall-of-fame for cybersecurity books? Over the past decade, the Cybersecurity Canon has published reviews on dozens of cybersecurity books and established a hall of fame. Hall of fame books are defined as titles that all cybersecurity profession…

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20VC: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with No Funding: Surge AI | The Most Insane Scaling Story in Tech | 1:06:20

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Edwin Chen is the Founder and CEO of Surge. Founded in 2020, Surge has scaled to $1BN+ in revenue with zero external funding. At the same time, their competitor, Scale.ai raised over $1.3BN to reach $850M ARR. Today, Surge have the world’s largest model providers as customers and have just 120 employees. Agenda: 00:00 — “Everyone Else Is Just a Bod…

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Existential Dread, MCP, Cloudflare, ESXI, QR Codes, Salt Typhoon, Aaran Leyland... - SWN #495 33:42

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Existential Dread and Seawater, MCP, Cloudflare, ESxi, QR Codes, Salt Typhoon, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-495

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20VC: Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale | Did Google Overlook a Goldmine in the Core Asset and Did Founders Leave a Sinking Ship | How Cursor and Cognition ... 48:08

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Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind Devin, the world’s first AI software engineer. On Friday last week they pulled off the acquisition of the year, acquiring Windsurf, following their licensing agreement with Google. Previously a world-class competitive programmer, he was a gold medalist at the International Olympiad…

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How to do your job happier 22:42

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Read more findings from the Developer Success Lab here. Find John at his website and connect with him on LinkedIn. Congrats to user Matthieu M. who won a Populist badge for answering the question struct with 2 cells vs std::pair?.By John Flournoy, Ryan Donovan

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Hackers On A Train - PSW #883 2:02:07

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In the security news: The train is leaving the station, or is it? The hypervisor will protect you, maybe The best thing about Flippers are the clones Also, the Flipper Zero as an interrogation tool Threats are commercial and open-source Who is still down with FTP? AI bug hunters Firmware for Russian drones Merging Android and ChromOS Protecting you…

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Buy? Sell? Both! Neither?! Forecasting the Cardinals' trade winds as deadline nears 1:10:43

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Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 With Major League Baseball's July 31 trade deadline rapidly approaching, the Cardinals are still considering what direction they'll head. The front office has wished for "tough decisions" at the deadline and "excitement," while ac…

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Christopher Scalia: Literary Fiction for the Conservative Mind 32:17

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Stories are the way we communicate our values, explore complex ideas, and learn to empathize with those who fundamentally differ from ourselves. Christopher Scalia’s most recent book, 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read), delves into the particular benefit conservatives may find in literature they likely hadn’t considered. …

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20VC: Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not | Lovable vs Replit: Will These Be $100BN Businesses | Why Elon Could Beat Sam Altman with the New Grok | Why Every S&P ... 1:21:58

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Agenda: 00:00 Windsurf was dead—then this deal changed everything 05:00 The Windsurf x Google x Cognition saga explained 09:00 The OpenAI deal collapsed—what really happened 15:00 FTC rules forced a brutal deal structure—who lost? 17:00 The investors’ returns: who actually made money? 21:30 Will Google’s corp dev team get fired over this? 23:00 Cog…

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Minimize SAP Migration Challenges, Cybersecurity Maturity, and Radical Transparency - Christopher Carter - BSW #404 58:31

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Are you running SAP? The clock is ticking... Standard maintenance end-of-life is set for the end of 2027. Migration to S/4HANA must be completed by then (or 2030 if you buy into SAP’s special three-year reprieve). While that may appear to be enough time, companies currently working toward an S/4HANA transition are finding the journey challenging, a…

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Beyond the Buzz: Mastering Prompts & Agents with Jonathan Mast 39:29

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Send us a text The AI Advantage: Get Better Results from LLMs with the Perfect Prompt On this episode of Making Data Simple, we’re joined by Jonathan Mast, AI consultant and coach at Whitebeard Strategies and creator of the Perfect Prompting Framework™. Jonathan’s not just riding the AI wave—he’s teaching business leaders and everyday users how to …

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AI meltdowns, Gigabyte, NCSC, Rowhammer, Gravity Form, Grok, AsyncRat, Josh Marpet... - SWN #494 30:02

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AI meltdowns, Gigabyte, NCSC, Rowhammer, Gravity Form, Grok, AsyncRat, Josh Marpet and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-494

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From the Legal Trenches to Tech // Nick Coleman // #332 35:51

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From the Legal Trenches to Tech // MLOps Podcast #332 with Nick Coleman, Attorney/Founder of LexMed. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract Nick Coleman shares his journey from high-volume Social Security disability practice to founding LexMed, a legal tech sta…

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Getting Started with Security Basics on the Way to Finding a Specialization - ASW #339 1:07:50

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What are some appsec basics? There's no monolithic appsec role. Broadly speaking, appsec tends to branch into engineering or compliance paths, each with different areas of focus despite having shared vocabularies and the (hopefully!) shared goal of protecting software, data, and users. The better question is, "What do you want to secure?" We discus…

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Where we’re going, we don’t need fossil fuels 37:21

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Realta Fusion is making fusion real and tackling today’s clean energy issues with innovative technology. Follow them on LinkedIn. Connect with Kieran on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner zathura, who was awarded the badge for answering Type of triangle in MySQL.By Kieran Furlong, Ryan Donovan

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Monzy Merza, How Much AI is Too Much, and the Weekly News - Monzy Merza - ESW #415 1:43:41

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Segment 1: Interview with Monzy Merza - There is a Right and Wrong Way to use AI in the SOC In the rush to score AI funding dollars, a lot of startups build a basic wrapper around existing generative AI services like those offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. As a result, these services are expensive, and don't satisfy many security operations teams' p…

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20VC: Vlad Tenev on Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence | Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI | Building Nine Revenue Lines Over $100M | Why Crypto Will Be Robinhood's Biggest Revenue Line | Why Stablecoins Will Replace ... 57:52

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Vlad Tenev is the Founder and CEO of Robinhood, the greatest story on Wall St of the last decade. In the previous 18 months, Robinhood has increased its net revenue by 58% to nearly $3B; a $500M loss in 2023 turned into a $1.1B profit in 2024. Robinhood’s stock is up roughly 4x, lifting their market cap to north of $80B. Today, Robinhood has nine l…

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Tapjacking, ZuChe, PerfektBlue, McHacking, OT in the IT, Add Ons, Josh Marpet... - SWN #493 33:42

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Tapjacking, ZuChe, PerfektBlue, McHacking, OT in the IT, Add Ons, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-493

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The Rise of Sovereign AI and Global AI Innovation in a World of US Protectionism // Frank Meehan // MLOps Podcast #331 54:13

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The Rise of Sovereign AI and Global AI Innovation in a World of US Protectionism // MLOps Podcast #331 with Frank Meehan, Founder and CEO of Frontier One AI. Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // Abstract “The awakening of every single country is that they have to cont…

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20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025 1:15:51

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Kieran Flanagan is the CMO at HubSpot, where he’s led the transformation of their growth strategy from SEO-led to multi-channel and AI-powered. Formerly SVP of Marketing, he helped scale HubSpot’s user base to millions and revenue past $2B. Before HubSpot, he drove breakout growth at Marketo and Salesforce. Kieran is one of the most respected voice…

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How your favorite movie is changing language learning technology 23:28

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Koel Labs uses classic movies to help learners master pronunciation. You can join the waitlist for their closed beta launch now. Check out their open-source community project for Koel Labs on GitHub. Check out their project on the Mozilla Builders site. Connect with Aruna on LinkedIn. Connect with Ruslan on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Populous badge winn…

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Citrixbleed 2, Hardware Hacking, and Failed Bans - PSW #882 2:06:05

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This week in the security news: Citrixbleed 2 and so many failures Ruckus leads the way on how not to handle vulnerabilities When you have no egress Applocker bypass So you bought earbuds from TikTok More gadgets and the crazy radio Cheap drones and android apps Best Mario Kart controller ever VSCode: You're forked Bluetooth earbuds and vulnerabili…

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20VC: Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | OpenAI’s SBC Bombshell: More Stock Comp Than Revenue | Privat Equity is Back: Olo Bought for $2BN | Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 People: Is This Just ... 1:07:29

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Agenda: [00:00] The AI Talent Crisis No One’s Ready For [03:00] Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Why Two Legendary VCs Walked Away From $1B to Join Meta [12:00] Meta’s AI Talent Magnet: Will It Actually Work? [15:00] Cursor Is Breaking the Market: Can Anyone Compete? [18:30] OpenAI’s SBC Bombshell: More Stock Comp Than Revenue [22:00] CoreWeave’s Pow…

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There is no golden path anymore: Engineering practices are being rewritten 36:43

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow, and Loïc Houssier, CTO at Superhuman, dive into how engineering teams can navigate paradigm shifts in a world of constant technological change. They discuss the importance of leadership in an ever-shifting industry and highlight the concept of aligne…

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Lottery ticket: Can Cardinals score a transformative talent with No. 5 pick in MLB Draft? 43:51

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Post-Dispatch podcasts page: https://go.stltoday.com/0hfn43 Please consider subscribing: https://go.stltoday.com/9aigz5 It has been more than a generation since the Cardinals picked in the top five for the MLB Draft, and in a week the Cardinals have a chance for a transformative selection that could come define their next era. A confluence of event…

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A New Way of Building with AI 1:04:49

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Thanks to MLflow for supporting this episode — the platform helping teams track, manage, and deploy ML and GenAI projects with ease. Try it free at mlflow.org. What if AI could build and maintain your software—like a co-worker who never forgets state? In this episode, Jiquan Ngiam chats with Demetrios about agents that actually do the work: parsing…

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SolarWinds Settlement, Upgrade Your Leadership Instincts to Build Your Legacy - BSW #403 51:58

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SEC settles with SolarWinds. We react! In the leadership and communications section, The Skills and Habits Aspiring CEOs Need to Build, Why People Really Quit — And How Great Managers Make Them Want to Stay, The Small Actions That Become Your Legacy, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https:/…

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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Dave Garrison on the Science of Motivation (Part 2) 25:37

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Send us a text We’re back with Part 2 of our must-listen conversation with Dave Garrison, leadership strategist and veteran CEO, on what it really takes to unlock performance through engagement. In this episode, we go deeper into the psychological drivers of motivation — autonomy, mastery, and purpose — and explore how to stop employee churn, comba…