Podcast
The AI Files
Hosted by Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain · EN
For less than 30 minutes a week, stay on top of all relevant AI news, launches, perspectives and actions about AI in corporates and enterprises. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.
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#108 - Reverse Information Paradox, GPT-RED, Inkling model, Data Center Moratorium, GPT-Micro & more
2d ago00:42:11Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Satya Nadella’s Reverse Information Paradox, GPT-Red and unsafe agent behavior, Europe opening Android and Search to AI rivals, agent identity and credential delegation, enterprise AI implementation, Apple Intelligence in China, data center regulation, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, OpenAI models on Bedrock, & more
Transcribe →#107 - AI factor in layoffs, GPT5.6 models and CHATGPT work, Meta image and Spark models, & more
1w ago00:34:32Tap to summarizeIs AI still a factor in layoffs, GPT5.6 models are now ungated and ChatGPT Work, Meta Image and Spark models, Grok 4.5, AWS GenAI platform reset, & more
Transcribe →Ep. 106 - GPT-5.6 Sol, AI Model Gatekeeping, Claude in Foundry & the Rise of Enterprise Agents
2w ago00:33:22Tap to summarizeIn this episode of The AI Files, we break down a major week in AI: GPT-5.6 Sol arrives in preview, but the bigger story may be the new era of model-release gatekeeping as frontier AI access becomes more tied to government review, safety controls, and enterprise eligibility. We also cover Anthropic’s Fable 5 return and its proposed jailbreak-severity framework, Claude Sonnet 5 becoming generally available in Microsoft Foundry, Foundry’s agent-to-agent communication with LangGraph, and AWS GovCloud adding OpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron models. Then we look at how AI for science is maturing through OpenAI’s GeneBench-Pro, NVIDIA BioNeMo for Claude Science, and new protein-design workflows on AWS. Plus, we discuss why AI infrastructure is now a capital, geography, sovereignty, chips, energy, and data-center story. Finally, we hit rapid news on ChatGPT adoption, Europe’s AI workforce opportunity, Patronus AI’s agent test worlds, General Intuition’s game-trained agents, Hugging Face evals, Microsoft Foundry memory poisoning defenses, ScarfBench for Java migration agents, and more. This week’s big takeaway: AI is becoming institutional infrastructure — governed, measured, capital-intensive, and deeply embedded into enterprise strategy.
Transcribe →#105 - OpenAI’s Jalapeno Chip, GPT-5.6 Government Delays & the Agent Economy Takes Shape
3w ago00:23:41Tap to summarizeThis week on The AI Files, Jaime breaks down a major shift in the AI race: frontier AI is no longer just about who has the best model — it is about who controls the full stack. OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI’s first custom inference chip, signaling that the model race is quickly becoming a hardware race. At the same time, reports suggest the White House asked OpenAI to slow-roll the release of GPT-5.6, raising new questions about government oversight, national security, and how frontier models may be released in the future. We also cover AWS’s latest Amazon Bedrock AgentCore updates, which bring agents closer to real enterprise production with managed knowledge, live web search, paid content access, trace analysis, evaluations, and A/B testing. Plus, we dig into the growing trust and safety challenges around AI agents, including privacy leakage, agent stress testing, and model capability theft. In rapid news, we cover Amazon’s $13 billion AI infrastructure investment in India, NVIDIA’s continued dominance in supercomputing, OpenAI’s Daybreak security initiative, IBM’s chip architecture claims, Meta’s revived Creator Studio AI companion, and more. The big takeaway: AI is becoming an industrial system — powered by chips, data centers, agents, governance, security, and global infrastructure.
Transcribe →#104 - Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5, NextGen’s AI Fluency, OpenDoor’s exit from offshore, & more
Jun 1300:15:36Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Shadab discusses Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, AI fluency for graduates, human creativity in the AI era, job-market uncertainty, Google’s $50M skilled-trades push, OpenDoor’s India exit by replacing with AI native team closer to customers, & more
Transcribe →#103 - AI Wealth Sharing, Data Center backlash, Microsoft MAI models, WebIQ, Frontier Tuning, etc
Jun 600:32:08Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Bernie Sanders’ proposed AI wealth tax, Microsoft and NVIDIA’s full-stack agentic AI push, Trump’s narrower AI oversight order, data center scrutiny, Anthropic’s IPO ambitions, ChatGPT’s new memory system, bot traffic overtaking human web traffic, Microsoft Scout, Microsoft IQ, new MAI models, Majorana 2, Microsoft Discovery, Frontier Tuning, Project Solara, GitHub Copilot’s standalone app & more
Transcribe →#102 - Pope Leo’s call to disarm ai, Opus 4.8, GenAI in Hollywood, redesigned Copilot & more
May 3000:24:24Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Shadab discusses Pope Leo's call to disarm AI, Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and dynamic workflows, Microsoft’s redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot, Amazon’s AI push in Hollywood and creator backlash, the political fight over AI regulation, YouTube’s automatic AI labels, enterprise AI agents and productivity gains, multimodal advances for documents and diagrams, AI safety audits, and the future of creative production with generative AI & more
Transcribe →#101 - AI in Commencement speeches, ChatGPT for Personal finance, Google IO launches, AI in Spotify etc
May 2300:36:52Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss AI in Commencement Speeches being booed, Google I/O’s agentic AI push, Gemini and Search upgrades, ChatGPT for personal finance, Karpathy joining Anthropic, Anthropic eyeing Microsoft Maia chips, Musk losing his OpenAI lawsuit, Trump pulling back an AI safety order, Spotify’s new AI podcast and audiobook tools, Workshop Buddy’s multi-agent workflow & more
Transcribe →#100 - Jensen's commencement speech, Zero-day exploit using AI, Microsoft’s MDASH, codex mobile etc
May 1600:29:55Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Jensen Huang’s call to run toward AI, Grok’s declining traction, the first AI-assisted zero-day exploit, Microsoft’s MDASH security breakthrough, the fight over pausing AI data centers, Codex on ChatGPT mobile, Perplexity’s Snowflake analytics push, and how you build website using Codex etc
Transcribe →#99 - Work Trend Index, Anthropic Financial Agents, OpenAI Realtime Models, Agent Payments & more
May 900:29:51Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index and the rise of “human agency,” OpenAI and Anthropic’s push to acquire AI services firms, Anthropic’s finance agent templates for modeling/KYC/valuation and month-end close, OpenAI’s new real-time translation and streaming transcription models, GPT-realtime-2 with 128K context and voice reasoning, GPT-chat-latest rolling into Microsoft Foundry, SpaceX’s Colossus GPU deal boosting Anthropic limits, and Amazon AgentCore payments with Coinbase and Stripe & more
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