At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to [email protected]. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment f ...
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AI Proving Ground Podcast: Exploring Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise AI with World Wide Technology
World Wide Technology: Artificial Intelligence Experts
AI deployment and adoption is complex — this podcast makes it actionable. Join top experts, IT leaders and innovators as we explore AI’s toughest challenges, uncover real-world case studies, and reveal practical insights that drive AI ROI. From strategy to execution, we break down what works (and what doesn’t) in enterprise AI. New episodes every week.
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F5 Warns: Enterprises Are Running Naked AI
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36:39AI is moving into production faster than most security teams can govern it. In this episode, F5’s Shawn Womke and WWT’s Chris Konrad break down why enterprises are unintentionally deploying “naked AI” — systems running without adequate data controls, API protection, or governance. Drawing on new F5 research, they explain why only 2% of organization…
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The 2026 AI Forecast: Foundation Models, IPOs, and Robotics with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
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40:46Pundits are screaming about the so-called “AI bubble.” But historically slow-to-adopt industries like medicine and law are actually embracing AI at an unprecedented speed. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil look ahead to 2026, breaking down the major trends that will define the next era of AI technologies. They explore the future of AI foundational models, pre…
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HPE’s AI Factory Is the New Baseline
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46:29HPE's Craig Dillman and WWT's Earl Dodd explain why AI Factories rooted in decades of supercomputing expertise are becoming essential infrastructure for enterprises seeking to operationalize AI at scale, ensure sovereignty and brace for next year's data bottleneck. The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business expertise…
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AI Pilots Are Dead. Now What? Dell Explains.
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52:54Rather than chasing GPUs and one-off pilots, Dell's Allen Clingerman and World Wide Technology's Matt Halcomb argue that the winning AI "factories" will be built on use-case clarity, data sovereignty and flexible, end-to-end infrastructure that can keep pace with a fast-moving market. The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical an…
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NVIDIA's John Gentry and WWT's Derek Elbert outline how AI factories are evolving from isolated GPU clusters into flexible, multi-tiered, distributed systems — and why data strategy, security and ecosystem partnerships now determine whether enterprises can keep pace. The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business experti…
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AI Factories: Built or Broken? With Cisco's Nicholas Sagnes
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45:07Cisco's Nicolas Sagnes and World Wide Technology's Bob Watson outline why the next generation of AI infrastructure must be engineered as a secure, observable, full-stack system — and why enterprises relying on pilots risk falling behind. The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business expertise from within World Wide Tech…
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The Future of Voice AI: Agents, Dubbing, and Real-Time Translation with ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
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41:37Imagine learning chess from a grand master, or negotiating tactics from an expert FBI hostage negotiator. ElevenLabs’ voice AI technology is making that unlock possible. Sarah Guo sits down with Mati Staniszewski, co-founder of ElevenLabs, to explore how the three-year old company is transforming how humans interact with technology through voice. M…
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping software development faster than any shift in the last decade. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT’s Nate McKie and Andrew Brydon break down how AI coding assistants are transforming engineering teams — from productivity gains and data quality improvements to the emerging risks leaders can’t af…
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Inside the New Energy Arms Race to Power Artificial Intelligence
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36:48As enterprises rush to deploy copilots, automation and secure private AI, energy has become the defining constraint. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, visionary leaders including NightDragon's Dave DeWalt, Morgan Stanley's Jeff Holzschuh and Beacon AI Centers' Josh Schertzer unpack the new reality unfolding across the grid. They rev…
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NVIDIA Leaders on Building AI Factories and Driving AI Innovation
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42:54Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of the global economy. Powered by leaps in accelerated computing, digital twins and autonomous systems, a new industrial era is emerging in real time. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, NVIDIA leaders Jay Puri, Charlie Wuischpard and Craig Weinstein break down how the entire AI stack — f…
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Scaling Legal AI and Building Next-Generation Law Firms with Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
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44:17In just over three years, Harvey has not only scaled to nearly one thousand customers, including Walmart, PwC, and other giants of the Fortune 500, but fundamentally transformed how legal work is delivered. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Harvey’s co-founder and president Gabe Pereyra to discuss why the future of legal AI isn’t only about indi…
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Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza and WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh on the Future of Enterprise AI
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50:08In this episode, Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza and WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh talk about how executives are turning artificial intelligence into a true competitive multiplier by building intelligent operations that run faster, cheaper and smarter; create predictive customer experiences that earn real loyalty; and accelerate innovation …
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Microsoft AI Futurist Marco Casalaina on the New Innovation Factory
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15:00As software and data take center stage in the modern enterprise, the combination of purposeful artificial intelligence adoption, skilled teams and disciplined processes is becoming a catalyst for transformation. In this episode, WWT CTO Mike Taylor and Microsoft AI Futurist Marco Casalaina provide real-world examples of how organizations are rethin…
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Cisco President Jeetu Patel and WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh on the Role of AI, Cloud and Cyber in Digital Transformation
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45:52In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh and Cisco President Jeetu Patel break down the real constraints shaping the AI era and explore why platforms will define the next decade of enterprise innovation. They'll also talk about how secure, scalable architectures enable organizations to innovate confiden…
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Alert: A Week of AI via WWT's Business Innovation Summit
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4:21The AI Proving Ground Podcast team is proud to kick off a weeklong series of daily releases from WWT's Business Innovation Summit — bringing you unfiltered conversations with the visionary leaders shaping the next decade of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud and enterprise AI strategy. Featuring insights from executives at Cisco, Google …
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Building Sovereign, National-Scale AI with Core42’s Edmondo Orlotti
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46:41Core42 Chief Growth Officer Edmondo Orlotti dives into how Core42 and G42 are building sovereign, national-scale AI infrastructure and what enterprises can learn as they face their own challenges with data governance, GPU scarcity, fragmented environments and global regulatory pressure. Support for this episode provided by: Thales More about this w…
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Sunday Robotics: Scaling the Home Robot Revolution with Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi
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39:10The robotics industry is on the cusp of its own “GPT” moment, catalyzed by transformative research advances. Enter Memo, the first general-intelligence personal robot, focused on taking on your chores to give back your time. Sarah Guo sits down with Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, co-founders of Sunday Robotics, to discuss the state of AI robotics. Tony a…
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Customer expectations are shifting faster than most organizations can respond. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, leaders from healthcare, utilities and retail break down how AI is redefining what “good” customer experience looks like — and how their industries are rethinking service models, operational workflows and human touchpoint…
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How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
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48:13Bringing new drugs to market is a costly, time-consuming endeavor. On top of that, most medicines fail at some point in the research and development phase. Sarah Guo is joined by Sajith Wickramasekara, co-founder and CEO of Benchling, a company that has not only become the central system of record for biotech R&D, but uses AI agents to assist scien…
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From Hype To Habit: Making AI Work At Work
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57:49Back by popular demand, this encore episode breaks down how to turn AI hype into real results. Aritificial intelligence shouldn’t add more work—it should make work smarter. Jon Duren and Jay Custard share how to turn AI hype into real results: integrate it into daily workflows, tie pilots to KPIs, manage adoption like a product and design for trust…
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Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy
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42:11Snowflake is moving beyond the data warehouse. Its new Snowflake Intelligence is an agentic platform for every employee, not just data teams. Sarah Guo sits down with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy to discuss his first 18 months at the helm, as well as the massive pivot to make the data giant AI-first. Sridhar talks about Snowflake Intelligence, t…
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When AI Starts to Act on Its Own, Who’s in Control?
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42:00As artificial intelligence moves from prediction to action, a new security frontier is taking shape. In this episode, Zscaler’s Head of AI Innovation Phil Tee and WWT’s VP of Global Cyber Chris Konrad explore the rise of autonomous agents, the evolution of Zero Trust and what it means to secure AI itself. From poisoned prompts to quantum threats, t…
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The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
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18:592025 has thus far been a year of great leaps and advances in AI technology. And Sarah and Elad have spoken with some of the most enterprising founders and scientific minds in the field of AI today. So we’re revisiting a few of our favorite conversations on No Priors so far in 2025 – Winston Weinberg (Harvey), Dr. Fei-Fei Li (World Labs), Brendan Fo…
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How AI Agents Are Transforming IT Ops
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45:08AI agents are moving from hype to the heart of enterprise IT. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Eric Jones and Ruben Ambrose — two leading AI experts — explore how intelligent, human-guided systems are transforming IT service management, incident response and operational scale to deliver faster resolutions, stronger security and sma…
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Reinventing the Developer Terminal with Warp Co-Founder and CEO Zach Lloyd
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27:19For decades, the developer terminal has remained largely unchanged. But for Warp CEO and co-founder Zach Lloyd, reinventing this core tool is the key to unlocking AI agents for coding, debugging, and automating the entire development process. Zach joins Elad Gil to discuss how seeing this opportunity for innovation led to Warp’s agentic terminal fo…
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Can AI Be Trusted to Run Critical Networks?
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51:05Artificial intelligence is firmly in the heart of the world’s most critical infrastructure — the massive networks that keep our digital lives running. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, two of our top trusted advisors to the world’s largest network operators — Dave Clough and Yohannes Tafesse — break down the high-stakes reality of a…
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Welcome to The AI Proving Ground Podcast
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1:23Welcome to The AI Proving Ground Podcast — where enterprise meets artificial intelligence in action. Each week, industry leaders, technologists and innovators join us to share real-world lessons on scaling AI responsibly, securely and with impact. From strategy to infrastructure to culture, this is where bold ideas meet practical execution — everyt…
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Unlocking the Road to Energy Abundance with Base Power CEO and Co-Founder Zach Dell
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31:57With demand from AI for energy already exploding, our electric grid is facing a crisis. Base Power CEO and co-founder Zach Dell is ready to re-architect its future from the ground up. Zach sits down with Elad Gil to talk about Base Power’s recent $1 billion fundraise from major investors. Zach discusses the role of energy across industries, as well…
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Artificial intelligence has pushed cloud into overdrive. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, two of our top cloud experts — Jack French and Todd Barron — reset the approach and detail why cloud is the launchpad but portability is the strategy; how to start greenfield with containers and abstraction; what a real FinOps model for AI loo…
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Humans&: Bridging IQ and EQ in Machine Learning with Eric Zelikman
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36:58The AI industry is obsessed with making models smarter. But what if they’re building the wrong kind of intelligence? In launching his new venture, humans&, Eric Zelikman sees an opportunity to shift the focus from pure IQ to building models with EQ. Sarah Guo is joined by Eric Zelikman, formerly of Stanford and xAI, who shares his journey from AI r…
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Artificial intelligence investment is exploding, but adoption often stalls. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Great Place to Work CEO Michael Bush and WWT CTO Mike Taylor unpack the real reason why: trust. They reveal how culture, leadership and access — not just technology — determine whether AI pilots fail or flourish, and why peo…
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The Impact of AI, from Business Models to Cybersecurity, with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora
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58:21Between the future of search, the biggest threats in cybersecurity, and the jobs and platforms of tomorrow, Nikesh Arora sees one common thread connecting and transforming them all—AI. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Nikesh Arora, CEO of cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks and former Chief Business Officer of Google, to talk about a wide ar…
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping business faster than any technology in history. But while employees are already using AI daily, enterprises are struggling to capture value at scale. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh explains why executive leadership is the critical factor in moving beyond pi…
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Reinventing K-12 Education Using AI with Alpha School Principal Joe Liemandt
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1:01:49What if kids could master their academics in just two hours a day and spend the rest of their time developing real-world skills they’re passionate about? Joe Liemandt, founder of the software company Trilogy, is doing just that. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are joined by Joe Liemandt, principal of Alpha School, to discuss his AI-driven vision of reinvent…
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Agents, Copilots and Beyond: Everyday AI's Jordan Wilson on Future of AI in the Enterprise
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58:22In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, we talk with Jordan Wilson, host of the popular Everyday AI Podcast, to unpack the realities of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. From tool sprawl and failed pilots to executive sponsorship and agentic models, Jordan shares lessons from thousands of conversations with enterprise lead…
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AI Agents Talking to AI Agents: Reinventing Commerce with Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang
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31:22The traditional call center may soon be a thing of the past. Jessie Zhang is building AI agents designed to replace monotonous human labor and transform how consumers interact with brands. Elad Gil sits down with Jesse Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Decagon, an AI agent company at the forefront of AI customer service. Jesse talks about how Decagon se…
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From Pilots to Productivity: Unlocking the True ROI of Microsoft Copilot
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34:16Millions of employees now have Microsoft Copilot at their fingertips, but only a small fraction of organizations have scaled it successfully. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, World Wide Technology's Mike Davis and Softchoice's Craig McQueen share hard-won lessons on driving artificial intelligence adoption, overcoming change manage…
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Jared Kushner: BrainCo, Affinity Partners, and the Geopolitics of AI
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58:24From negotiating with world leaders to partnering with top entrepreneurs, businessman and investor Jared Kushner has traveled the unique path of bringing private sector knowledge to government work and back again. Jared Kushner joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to cover a wide range of topics, from his founding of investment firm Affinity Partners, to h…
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AI Acceleration in Action: How Higher Ed Is Balancing Innovation vs. Risk
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48:28Artificial intelligence is transforming higher education — from classrooms to research labs — but with innovation comes risk. How can universities protect sensitive data, meet compliance obligations, and still foster discovery? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Higher Ed Principal Advisor Janet and Principal Cybersecurity Consul…
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A New Operating System for Physicians with OpenEvidence Founder Daniel Nadler
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44:48Af Conviction
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Private AI vs. Cloud: How Enterprise Leaders Can Make Smarter Build-or-Buy Decisions
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40:55Is your organization ready to own artificial intelligence or are you better served by leveraging the speed and scale of the cloud? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT High-Performance Architecture Director Jeff Fonke and VP of Advanced Technology Solutions Jeff Wynn break down the toughest question facing IT leaders today: should …
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Reshaping America’s Economy for the Superintelligence Century with Jacob Helberg
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40:53AI doomers say that the technology will be the ultimate job-killer. But Jacob Helberg wants people to see AI as a tech that will boost, not replace, human workers and give them superpowers. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jacob Helberg joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to talk about AI’s role in reshoring manufa…
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Enterprise AI Adoption: How Workforce AI Is Changing the Future of Work
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49:24Organizations are racing to unlock the potential of workforce AI, but only a few have cracked adoption at scale. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, VP of Digital Experiences Joe Berger and workforce AI expert Kait Miller break down why artificial intelligence pilots stall, how to move from pockets of success to enterprise-wide impact…
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How Agentic AI is Transforming The Startup Landscape with Andrew Ng
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42:11Andrew Ng has always been at the bleeding edge of fast-evolving AI technologies, founding companies and projects like Google Brain, AI Fund, and DeepLearning.AI. So he knows better than anyone that founders who operate the same way in 2025 as they did in 2022 are doing it wrong. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Andrew Ng, the godfather of the A…
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AI Won’t Save You: Easterly, Joyce and CISOs on the Cybersecurity Reality No One Wants to Hear
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20:14At a time when artificial intelligence feels like oxygen — powering every tool, every conversation, every strategy — security leaders at the forefront are sounding the alarm: it won’t fix the fundamentals. In this episode, top voices from government, industry and the next generation of cyber talent share unfiltered perspectives on AI-augmented thre…
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Chips, Neoclouds, and the Quest for AI Dominance with SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
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47:17What would it take to challenge Nvidia? SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel joins Sarah Guo to answer this and other topical questions around the current state of AI infrastructure. Together, they explore why Dylan loves Android products, predictions around OpenAI’s open source model, and what the landscape of neoclouds looks like. They also d…
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The Brutal Truth About AI Data Readiness: How to Slow Down to Move Fast
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47:26Charged with moving fast on artificial intelligence? You might be setting yourself back. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT AI expert and data scientist Ina Poecher and Chief Technology Advisor Bill Stanley break down why the organizations that win with AI won't be the ones spending the most — they'll be the ones that get the fun…
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The Shifting Value of Content in the AI Age with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
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44:47Cloudflare has spent nearly fifteen years making the Internet faster, more reliable, and more secure. So now that AI systems are changing the way we interact with the Internet, Cloudflare wants to help level the playing field for content creators. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare to discuss the e…
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The ‘Dirty Dozen’ AI Risks — And the Framework That Kills Them
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46:07Artificial intelligence isn't just evolving — it's accelerating into every corner of business and society. But while innovation surges ahead, AI policy and regulation is playing catch-up. In this episode of The AI Proving Ground Podcast, two of WWT's foremost AI and cyber experts — Kate Kuehn and Bryan Fite — dive deep into the fragmented and fast-…
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America’s Plan to Dominate the Full AI Stack with Sriram Krishnan
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36:47Sriram Krishnan was never interested in policy. But after seeing a gap in AI knowledge at senior levels of government, he decided to lend his expertise to the tech-friendly Trump administration. Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan joins Elad Gil and Sarah Guo to talk about America’s AI Action Plan, a recent executive order that …
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