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The Artificial Intelligence Show

The Artificial Intelligence Show

By: Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput
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The Artificial Intelligence Show (formerly The Marketing AI Show) is the podcast that helps your business grow smarter by making AI approachable and actionable. The AI Show podcast is brought to you by the creators of the Marketing AI Institute, AI Academy for Marketers, and the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). Hosts Paul Roetzer, founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and Mike Kaput, Chief Content Officer, break down all the AI news that matters and give you insights and perspectives that you can use to advance your company and your career. Join Paul and Mike on The AI Show as they work to accelerate AI literacy for all.All Rights Reserved 2023, 384248 Economics Marketing Marketing & Sales
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  • #214: Musk v. OpenAI Round 2, Coinbase AI Layoffs, AI “Soft Nationalization & xAI Folds Into SpaceX
    May 12 2026
    The second week of Musk v. OpenAI delivered texts, secret Tesla AI plots, and backstage chaos around Sam Altman's 2023 firing. Paul and Mike also break down Coinbase's AI-native restructuring memo, the White House's very brief flirtation with model vetting, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's prediction that AI will autonomously train its own successors by 2028, and the bizarre Anthropic-SpaceX compute deal that emerged from out of nowhere. Rapid fire covers GPT-5.5 Instant, Claude Managed Agents updates, Sierra's $950M raise, and more. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:05:37 — Musk v. OpenAI Round 2 00:23:27 — Coinbase AI Layoffs 00:33:09 — AI "Soft Nationalization" 00:47:10 — State of AI for Business Report Preview 00:54:14 — xAI Folds Into SpaceX, Does Compute Deal with Anthropic 01:00:49 — Has Recursive Self-Improvement Arrived? 01:09:38 — Anthropic and OpenAI Enterprise Joint Ventures 01:15:11 — Stripe's New Forward Deployed AI Accelerator Role 01:20:48 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:24:15 — AI Product and Funding Updates This episode is brought to you by AI Academy by SmarterX. AI Academy is your gateway to personalized AI learning for professionals and teams. Discover our new on-demand courses, live classes, certifications, and a smarter way to master AI. Learn more here. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • #213: AI Answers - What AI Should Never Do, Enterprise Scaling, Governing AI & Navigating IT Roadblocks
    May 7 2026
    Leadership wants AI everywhere. IT security can't keep up. Marketing is racing ahead while legal and finance dig in. And every week brings another story of an AI agent doing something nobody told it to do. Paul Roetzer and Cathy McPhillips answer 15 listener questions on how to actually move organizations forward and where the real opportunities lie for individuals, SMBs, and enterprises right now. 00:00:00 — Intro 00:07:01 — How do you move a company out of AI policy paralysis? 00:08:54 — How should regulated, hands-on teams introduce AI? 00:12:30 — When companies are stuck, what tends to get them moving? 00:15:00 — Should IT security evolve to adopt AI quicker or should businesses slow down? 00:17:43 — What changes an AI-skeptic employee's mind? 00:21:18 — How should early-career professionals prioritize what to learn? 00:23:29 — Is there a point where you should stop learning and start building? 00:27:29 — Where do companies get stuck scaling AI across departments? 00:29:42 — Where is AI having the highest impact in HR? 00:33:04 — Do SMBs need a different AI playbook than enterprises? 00:35:55 — What should AI never take over? 00:39:43 — Who should be setting AI guardrails? 00:44:01 — If building software is commoditized, where is the real opportunity now? 00:47:48 — Could companies win by marketing themselves as AI-free? 00:50:15 — As generations grow up with AI, what different kinds of intelligence or capabilities do you think they’ll develop? Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here This episode is brought to you by the 2026 State of AI for Business Report webinar. We surveyed more than 2,000 professionals on how they're actually using AI, what's working, and what's keeping them up at night. Join Paul Roetzer, Mike Kaput, and Taylor Radey on Thursday, May 14 at noon ET for a live walkthrough of the findings, plus Q&A. \ Register at smarterx.ai/webinars for live and on-demand access — and you'll also receive the ungated report. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy
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    55 mins
  • #212: Musk v. OpenAI Trial Begins, OpenAI-Microsoft Partnership, Big Tech Earnings & Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation
    May 5 2026
    Elon Musk's federal trial against OpenAI opened this week, and he admitted under oath that xAI distills OpenAI's models. That's just where Episode 212 starts. Paul and Mike cover the full story: the Musk-OpenAI trial and its implications for every company built on ChatGPT, the abrupt rewrite of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and the removal of the AGI clause, blockbuster Big Tech earnings (Google Cloud up 63%, Azure AI at $37B run rate), an AI agent that wiped a startup's entire production database in nine seconds, Anthropic eyeing a $900B valuation, a real and growing populist AI backlash, and a powerful segment on former Senator Ben Sasse's terminal cancer diagnosis and what his parting words on AI and Congress mean right now. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:04:45 — Elon Musk vs. OpenAI Trial Begins 00:14:49 — OpenAI and Microsoft Revise Their Partnership 00:30:33 — Big Tech Earnings 00:39:39 — Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation 00:43:53 — Trump's Anthropic Reversal and Mythos Fight 00:52:48 — Agents Gone Wrong 00:56:47 — Myths We Tell Ourselves About AI and Jobs 01:06:15 — Why Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke Says “Saying The Thing Matters” 01:11:20 — AI's Public Backlash Problem 01:15:16 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:22:59 — AI Academy Spotlight 01:25:58 — Ben Sasse's Parting Words on AI 01:31:56 — AI Product and Funding Updates This episode is brought to you by AI Academy by SmarterX. AI Academy is your gateway to personalized AI learning for professionals and teams. Discover our new on-demand courses, live classes, certifications, and a smarter way to master AI. Learn more here. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy
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    1 hr and 40 mins
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