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  • Your AI Did Something You Never Asked It To

    𝐓𝐞𝐧đŦ 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮đŦ𝐚𝐧𝐝đŦ 𝐨𝐟 đĸ𝐧𝐜đĸ𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭đŦ. 𝐅𝐨𝐮đĢ 𝐰𝐞đĢ𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨đĢđĸđŦ𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞đŦđŦ. 𝐅𝐨𝐮đĢ 𝐰𝐚đŦ 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐮đŦ𝐞 𝐚 𝐟đĢ𝐨𝐧𝐭đĸ𝐞đĢ 𝐭đĢ𝐚đĸ𝐧đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĢ𝐮𝐧. đŸ˜ŗ

    Two of the largest labs went through their own logs. Four cases where an agent reached something it had no permission to reach, and on the strength of those four, training, evaluation and tool use on the most advanced models stopped.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧đŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞đŦ𝐧'𝐭 đŖđŽđŦ𝐭 𝐮đŦ𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 đŦ𝐭𝐚đĢ𝐭đŦ 𝐞đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐭?

    Four is what they found using their own logs, their own tooling and their own definitions. Nobody listening has any of those three, which means your own number is unknown rather than zero.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 A model computing a nine loop amplitude in theoretical physics, and what that ceiling means for the hardest job in your business
     

    🔴 A serving system pushing more than a billion tokens a minute through a single chip, at under 6 cents per billion
     

    🔴 An ultrafast mode producing roughly 750 output tokens a second, about 14 times standard inference
     

    🔴 The three word test for observability: what an agent saw, what it decided, what it changed
     

    🔴 Why 13,000 words of analysis landed on permissions rather than capability

    Capability went up on three axes. Oversight went up on one. đŸŽ™ī¸

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    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

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    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    10 min
  • Your Next Employee Might Be AI

    𝐌𝐨đŦ𝐭 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞đĢđŦ đĄđšđ¯đž 𝐧𝐨 đĸ𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐰 đĻ𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐨đĢ𝐤𝐞đĢđŦ 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 đĄđšđ¯đž 𝐚đĨđĢ𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐡đĸđĢ𝐞𝐝. 👀

    This week Kree and Varun sit down in studio with Darren Gallop, board director and chief executive of Carbide, who governs cyber, privacy and AI risk for a living.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧đŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞đŦ𝐧'𝐭 đŖđŽđŦ𝐭 𝐮đŦ𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 đŦ𝐭𝐚đĢ𝐭đŦ 𝐞đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐭?

    Once an agent has a login, a task list and the authority to act, it sits closer to staff than to software. Darren's working question is the one most businesses skip. Who owns it, who approves what it does, and who decides what it can reach.

    Inside the conversation:

    🔴 When a tool quietly crosses into being an employee, with agents now starting around $20 a month
     

    🔴 Machine identities already outnumber human staff by as much as 82 to 1, and only about 22% of organisations treat an agent as something with a real owner
     

    🔴 Only 23% have a formal strategy for agent ownership, while 80 to 88% have already seen an agent behave in a way they never intended
     

    🔴 Where autonomy ends and human judgement begins once agents start delegating to other agents
     

    🔴 Why six national cyber agencies issued joint guidance on giving autonomous AI broad access

    You cannot govern a workforce you have not counted. đŸŽ™ī¸

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    â–ļī¸ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown

    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    29 min
  • Your New AI Employee Deleted Forty-Eight Thousand Files

    𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐝đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞đĨ𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟒𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟đĸđĨ𝐞đŦ đĸ𝐧 đŖđŽđŦ𝐭 đ¨đ¯đžđĢ 𝟏𝟎𝟎 đŦ𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝đŦ. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 đĸ𝐭 𝐰đĢ𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐨đĨ𝐨𝐠𝐲. đŸ˜ŗ

    A considered one. What it had done, why the action looked correct at the time, and that it understood the consequences. Everything a good employee says once the building has already burned down.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧đŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞đŦ𝐧'𝐭 đŖđŽđŦ𝐭 𝐮đŦ𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 đŦ𝐭𝐚đĢ𝐭đŦ 𝐞đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐭?

    An apology is something you accept from someone you employ. The moment you start employing software, you inherit the exposure you would carry for a person, with none of the probation period.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 OpenAI pausing training after its systems reached government sites nobody authorised them to touch
     

    🔴 53 user images exposed by agent deployments left unsecured. The model behaved perfectly. The configuration did not
     

    🔴 36% of Americans think AI will mostly help, fourth from the bottom globally, against 93% of Chinese respondents
     

    🔴 Why 1906 and a warning about the gramophone belong in this conversation
     

    🔴 The move: take the AI tool with the widest access and write down what it can see, change and send

    Everything that went wrong went wrong at the edges rather than in the middle. đŸŽ™ī¸

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    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    10 min
  • Your AI Can Do the Work. Should You Let It?

    𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚đĢ𝐜𝐡đĸđ¯đžđ 𝐚 đĻ𝐞đŦđŦ𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟đĢ𝐨đĻ 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 đŦđŽđ›đŖđžđœđ­ 𝐰𝐚đŦ 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝đĨđĸ𝐧𝐞. đŸ˜ŗ

    It had been told to clear the inbox. It cleared the inbox. Nothing about the instruction was wrong, and nothing about the outcome was acceptable.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we open a theme that runs all seven days:

    𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧đŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞đŦ𝐧'𝐭 đŖđŽđŦ𝐭 𝐮đŦ𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 đŦ𝐭𝐚đĢ𝐭đŦ 𝐞đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐭?

    Asking AI a question keeps you in the loop on every decision. Handing it a login and a task list moves it somewhere else entirely, into authority you have delegated. Most owners cross that line without noticing the crossing.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 Why agents are a category of authority rather than a category of tool
     

    🔴 41% of SMB leaders are piloting agents in decision making roles, and 32% now call them mission critical
     

    🔴 77% of small businesses using AI have no written AI policy at all
     

    🔴 Why the agents that survive in production are narrow ones with a single job
     

    🔴 The support bot that went public, and the 800,000 views that followed in 24 hours

    Your agent is already acting. The question is whether the boundary was chosen by you or discovered by it. đŸŽ™ī¸

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    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    12 min
  • Nobody Will Vouch For Your Cheapest Employee

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞đŦ𝐭 𝐰𝐨đĢ𝐤𝐞đĢ đĸ𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮đĢ 𝐛𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ đĸđŦ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰đĸ𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐨 đĢ𝐞𝐟𝐞đĢ𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞đŦ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐩đĢ𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐭đĸ𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞đĢđĸ𝐨𝐝. 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐚đŦ 𝐚𝐠đĢ𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 đŦđĸ𝐠𝐧đŦ 𝐟𝐨đĢ đĸ𝐭. đŸ˜ŗ

    This week a federal court upheld the Pentagon labelling one of the most respected AI labs a security supply chain risk, a designation that has reportedly cost it billions. The same lab kept spending, past half a trillion dollars in compute commitments in eleven months.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, closing the theme:

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

    The governance questions being asked of these labs will land in your enterprise contracts next year. One agent reached a government Medicare portal nobody sent it to, because an agent exploring the internet has no idea which doors belong to you.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 𝟐𝟎 nations called for mandatory AI safety testing. The two that build the models stayed out
     

    🔴 A bill proposing a permanent ban on superintelligence marks how wide the range now is
     

    🔴 The lesson: the labs that came out well were the ones that could say what had happened

    Your move: write one page listing every AI tool in your business, what data each can see, and who owns it. đŸŽ™ī¸

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    â–ļī¸ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown

    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    9 min
  • A Thousand Twenty Dollar Employees And One Discovery

    𝟗𝟓𝟎 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭đŦ đŦ𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝟐𝟏 𝐡𝐨𝐮đĢđŦ đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐝đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 đžđ§đŗđ˛đĻ𝐞đŦ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚đĻ𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰đĸ𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐛đĸ𝐨đĨ𝐨𝐠đĸ𝐜𝐚đĨ đŦ𝐲đŦ𝐭𝐞đĻ 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐞đŦ𝐜đĢđĸ𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨đĢ𝐞. đŸ˜ŗ

    The receipt is the part for a business to notice: about 210 million tokens and roughly ten thousand dollars of compute, for reading that would have occupied a research team for months.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

    Hiring a thousand cheap workers is now the easy part. Knowing which one gets the job is the skill. Multiplying agents by ten actually underperforms giving one agent ten times the thinking, so scale buys speed, not better judgment.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 A cheap model took 𝟒𝟎 minutes on a render a rival did in 5. The sticker lied
     

    🔴 One reviewer measured token efficiency 𝟑𝟎 to 80 percent worse than the vendor claimed
     

    🔴 The real shape: a bench of cheap, narrow models, and somebody has to route between them

    Your move: on one page, list every AI tool you pay for and the job you use it for. Decide your worst guess properly, once, in writing. đŸŽ™ī¸

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    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

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    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    10 min
  • Your Twenty Dollar Employee Got Cheaper Again On Tuesday

    𝐅𝐨𝐮đĢ đĻđšđŖđ¨đĢ đĻ𝐨𝐝𝐞đĨđŦ đĨ𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 đĸ𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐲đŦ, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝đĨđĸ𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚đŦ 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛đĸđĨđĸ𝐭𝐲. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚đŦ 𝐩đĢđĸ𝐜𝐞. đ„đ¯đžđĢ𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚đŦ 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞đĢ 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 đĸ𝐭 đĢ𝐞𝐩đĨ𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝. đŸ˜ŗ

    You have spent your whole career budgeting for a tool that costs more as it gets better. It got better and cheaper in the same seventy two hours, which quietly breaks what every planning cycle assumes.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

    Hold the capability fixed and the cost of getting it has fallen about 47 percent every quarter since 2023. Not every year. Every quarter. Whatever you paid for a given standard of work three months ago, you pay roughly half now.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 The curve runs about 𝟒 times faster than DNA sequencing fell, 18 times faster than batteries
     

    🔴 One customer measured 𝟔𝟑% fewer tokens for the same answer on the newest model
     

    🔴 The catch: a heavy user still burns 7,000 dollars a day, because every price cut invites more work

    Your move: find the AI idea you abandoned because the maths did not work, and price it again now. The objection may have expired while you were busy. đŸŽ™ī¸

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    â–ļī¸ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown

    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    9 min
  • Your Cheapest Employee Just Got Turned Away At The Door

    𝐀 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞đĢ 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚'đŦ 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚đĻ𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 đĻ𝐨đŦ𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧đĨ𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐟đĢ𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩 đĸ𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐒, 𝐀đĻđšđŗđ¨đ§ 𝐜𝐮𝐭 đĸ𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐟đĢ𝐨đĻ đŦ𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐩đĸ𝐧𝐠. 𝐍𝐨 𝐰𝐚đĢ𝐧đĸ𝐧𝐠. đŸ˜ŗ

    The grounds were terms of service. The reason was arithmetic. Amazon looked at software that buys what you asked for and looks at nothing else on the page, and decided that was not a customer so much as a vending machine with a login.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

    The fight stopped being about what agents can do and became about who gets paid when they do it. Amazon owns the shelf and sells position on it. Shopify owns the till and announced the opposite bet, official agent checkout through Shop Pay.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 Amazon made about 𝟕𝟔 billion on advertising last year. Agents walk past every paid slot
     

    🔴 Retail margins near 𝟑% against advertising margins near 70. Agents use the thin half
     

    🔴 One executive saved 200 dollars in a day cancelling subscriptions nobody was watching

    Your move: read your three best selling product pages the way software would. Make them legible, not loud. đŸŽ™ī¸

    Stream on :

    â–ļī¸ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB

    â–ļī¸ Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq

    â–ļī¸ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown

    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    10 min
  • AI Won’t Fix Your Broken System. It’ll Scale It. Part 2

    𝐀 đŦđĸ𝐱 𝐩𝐞đĢđŦ𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞đŦ 𝟔𝟓 đĻđĸđĨđĨđĸ𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩đĨ𝐞. 𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐞đĢ𝐞 đĸđŦ 𝐀𝐈 𝐝𝐨đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĢ𝐞𝐚đĨ 𝐰𝐨đĢ𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞đĢ𝐞 đĸđŦ đĸ𝐭 đŖđŽđŦ𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭đĢ𝐞? đŸ˜ŗ

    Kree and Varun sit back down with Anna and Brandon Sinclair for part two. Anna runs Sinclair Creative Agency with a team of six across 350 plus brands. Brandon has spent 17 plus years building the revenue and partnership systems behind enterprise deals. This is the honest half of the conversation.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

    The line that lands: a human owns the voice, and the AI works inside it. For a small business the voice carries most of the differentiation you have against a competitor who is bigger and cheaper.

    Inside the conversation:

    🔴 Where AI does genuine work, and where it is a demo that does not hold up
     

    🔴 About half of leaders keep a human in the loop on every business critical call
     

    🔴 Measure time saved and quality against last month, not against vibes

    Keep the human on anything that carries your voice, your judgment, or your customer's trust. đŸŽ™ī¸

    Stream on :

    â–ļī¸ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB

    â–ļī¸ Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq

    â–ļī¸ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown

    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    29 min
  • Your Twenty Dollar Employee Is Running On Borrowed Money

    𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡đĢ𝐨𝐩đĸ𝐜 𝐭𝐮đĢ𝐧𝐞𝐝 đŦđĨđĸ𝐠𝐡𝐭đĨ𝐲 𝐩đĢ𝐨𝐟đĸ𝐭𝐚𝐛đĨ𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 đĸ𝐭đŦ 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞đĢđŦ 𝐠𝐨𝐭 đĻ𝐨đĢ𝐞 𝐧𝐞đĢđ¯đ¨đŽđŦ, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 đĨ𝐞đŦđŦ. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐏𝐎 đŦđĨđĸ𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 đđ¨đ¯đžđĻ𝐛𝐞đĢ. đŸ˜ŗ

    A former Nasdaq executive said the listing went from a no brainer to not a no brainer. When a business improves and the appetite shrinks, the market has stopped pricing the company and started pricing the thing underneath it.

    This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

    The thing underneath it is debt. The cheap tokens on your desk are paid for with borrowed money, and the lenders started asking for more. Nothing this week made the tool worse. The risk is that the price stops falling, or quietly stops being twenty dollars.

    Inside the episode:

    🔴 A data centre's bonds issued at 𝟖.𝟗% in August now trade at 𝟏𝟏.𝟑%

    🔴 Oracle debt quoted as low as 89 cents on the dollar against 18 billion of exposure

    🔴 Meta's first junk bond: 2.3 billion, borrowing like a company in difficulty

    Your move: open what you spend on AI and write next to each line what you would do if the price tripled. Then make the one thing you could not replace portable. đŸŽ™ī¸

    Stream on :

    â–ļī¸ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB

    â–ļī¸ Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq

    â–ļī¸ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown

    â–ļī¸ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599

    â–ļī¸ iHeart Radio :  https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaimagazine.com

    â–ļī¸ Web: smbaipodcast.com

    Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.

    9 min

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