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Varun Sirohi

AI Breakdown: practical AI for small and mid-sized business. Real tools, real numbers, no hype — from the SMB AI Podcast.

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#91
Yesterday · 8 min
Your Laptop Refresh Costs More Because AI Eats Memory
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫, 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝟔𝟖% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 $𝟗𝟎𝟎 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤. 👀 That is TrendForce's figure for the third quarter, which means most of what you pay for a mainstream laptop is the three components AI demand is competing for. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we close the theme: 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤 Something has to give. The sticker price, the memory in the box, or the maker's margin. A buyer should assume at least one of those moves. Inside the episode: 🔴 Notebook shipments projected down a low single digit percentage next year, reaching high single digits if memory and processor prices stay elevated 🔴 DRAM supply likely to stay tight on AI related demand, with storage chip shortages expected to ease later in the year 🔴 An AI model that sent a false murder tip to police, found two months later, and the internet access since switched off for internal evaluations 🔴 An agent given its own email address, and why it belongs on the same footing as a new hire's account 🔴 Docs, Slides and Design out of beta on every plan, with a standalone site closing and projects to download before it does Plan the refresh before the market plans it for you. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#90
Saturday · 9 min
Your Small AI Model Can Now Drive A Computer
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟒𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭𝟐𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬. 😳 A developer set out to port the TypeScript compiler to Rust with AI. The same job, a twentieth of the spend, and the cheaper attempt is the one that worked. The README adds a line that should make any owner sit up. He has never read a line of this code. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤 Nobody outside the project has confirmed how much human steering stood between the failure and the result, which is the honest footnote on every spectacular agent story. Inside the episode: 🔴 A small model scoring 72.4% on the offline OSWorld computer use benchmark, up from 15.7% for its predecessor, with the larger model still ahead at 83.9% 🔴 Input priced at 10 cents per million tokens against $1 for the previous version, a tenth of the cost 🔴 39.2% on a command line benchmark, plus customer figures the customers chose to share 🔴 A universal work agent reachable from Gmail, Slack, Microsoft 365 and both desktops, with hard spending caps administrators can set 🔴 Answers that build their own charts, forms and buttons, now on free plans too A model priced at 10 cents still needs a ceiling set by a person. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#89
Friday · 9 min
Your Next Laptop Runs AI Without Calling Home
𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 👀 Tony Fadell's point, with three discontinued gadgets on the slide behind him. His prediction is that a successful agent will have to run on the device itself, for privacy, and because our machines already carry a great deal of computing power. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤 Then the largest operating system vendor on the planet described a laptop as a hybrid of local and cloud AI, which is the clearest signal yet about what your next machine is for. Inside the episode: 🔴 A Surface Laptop Ultra at $2,599 with up to 128GB of memory, and a desktop version at $5,999 🔴 A claim it can run models above 120 billion parameters locally, with speed tests still to come from independent reviewers 🔴 Over 40% of business laptops being built described as Copilot plus machines, and more than 2 trillion local inferences a month, both vendor figures with no published method 🔴 Execution Containers now generally available, letting you define which files and networks an agent may reach while it runs 🔴 The blind test: four to six real tasks, model names hidden, scored one to five Local AI is a promise of privacy. The promise is kept by the rules you write. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#88
Thursday · 8 min
Your Team's AI Habit Decides Whether It Pays Off
𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟖% 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥. 😳 Gallup surveyed more than 17,000 American workers. Among regular users, 79% say AI makes them faster. Among irregular users, 38%. Same tools, very different results. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤 The tools are arriving either way. How often somebody uses them is the part you get to build, and it is the cheapest finding of the week, because frequency costs nothing to try. Inside the episode: 🔴 63% of AI users say it helps them work faster, all self reported, from a base of people already using it 🔴 Regular use at 37% among managers against 25% among individual contributors 🔴 A free office suite shipping no AI at all by default, on the view that the only assurance surviving an audit is that nothing leaves the machine 🔴 Claude arriving as a sidebar in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, with approval cards on by default 🔴 A support agent at $750 a month plus 90 cents per automated ticket, and why a lower headline rate can still cost more If managers use it and the people doing the work do not, you bought a tool for the wrong half of the team. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#87
Wednesday · 30 min
Why Your Next PC Is an AI Decision
𝐁𝐮𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞. 👀 This week Kree and Varun sit down in studio with Shawn Chang, General Manager of the System Business Group at ASUS North America, who leads the team behind the AI PCs, commercial devices and gaming systems that millions of people across the US and Canada rely on. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤 Support for Windows 10 ended in October 2025, so a great many businesses are replacing machines right now. Which turns a routine purchase into a fork in the road, because the laptop you choose is the one your team runs AI on for years. Inside the conversation: 🔴 Gartner projecting AI PCs at about 55% of the worldwide PC market this year, up from 31% 🔴 A Copilot class NPU handling 40 or more trillion operations per second on the machine itself 🔴 Forrester finding AI PCs complete routine tasks up to 30% faster 🔴 On device processing cutting breach response time by around 40% while keeping sensitive data off the cloud, with the catch that the endpoint itself now matters more 🔴 What genuinely deserves the money in a commercial machine, and what is spec sheet noise Match the machine to the work. The right AI PC is an investment, not a box on a desk. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#86
Tuesday · 9 min
Your Next Hire Will Be Interviewed By AI
𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬. 👀 The chief executive of AWS says hostile nations are intentionally seeding misinformation to slow the country down. Then the poll landed. 11% of Americans would support an AI data centre in their community, and 65% opposed. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤 Which sets up the question for the week. How much of your AI should depend on a building your own town may vote against, and how much could live on the machine under the desk? Inside the episode: 🔴 Amazon's reply: a $1 billion five year community programme, and an end to nondisclosure agreements with the officials who approve these projects 🔴 Roughly 200 hours to set up a model by hand on new hardware before testing even begins 🔴 A fleet of agents querying a map service for entrances to parks, zoos and hospitals, and what that implies for your own booking page 🔴 An AI interviewer with more than 500,000 interviews in testing, collapsing three hiring rounds into one 🔴 Suspicious activity flags reported 70 to 80% lower, on the company's own figures, with no outside check How well a person works alongside AI is becoming a hiring criterion. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#85
October 26 · 20 min
Three Years Is a Long Time to Be Wrong About AI
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞. 😳 It quietly sets the limit on what your business can run on its own equipment, for three years. Which is a long time to be wrong about it. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we open a theme that runs all seven days: 𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐤 Whatever you buy next is an AI decision whether you treat it as one or not. The risk is making a three year commitment in ten minutes, on price, from whatever your supplier happened to have in stock. Inside the episode: 🔴 Microsoft's Copilot plus tier requires an NPU rated at 40 TOPS or above, and the ceiling has doubled since that bar was written 🔴 AI capable PCs reaching around 59% of global shipments this year, up from about 39% last year 🔴 IDC forecasting shipments down 11.3% while average selling prices climb 17%, with no memory relief before the end of 2027 🔴 A 30 billion parameter model needs roughly 17GB just to hold its weights. A typical AI PC ships with 16GB 🔴 The law firm numbers: 71% of solo practitioners using AI, under a third seeing revenue growth, and 86% who changed nothing about their pricing Count the machines, specify the memory, decide what changes on the invoice. In that order. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#84
October 25 · 8 min
Your Next AI Model Is Weeks Away
𝐀 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 👀 Mistral put a price list on a trillion parameter model. $1.36 per million input tokens, $4.18 per million output, and 14 cents per million for cached input, the text you send over and over. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we close the theme: 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. Output costs more than input, because producing text takes more work than reading it. So a job that writes a lot costs more than a job that reads a lot, and that is the arithmetic a lean budget actually runs on. Inside the episode: 🔴 A 501 billion parameter open weight model with 23 billion active at a time, weights due this month 🔴 Watermarking in the EU, where swapping 10% of words for synonyms dropped detection from 92% to 66% 🔴 Visual ads arriving alongside image generation, with a US test opening this month 🔴 Shared agents inside group conversations, with permissions set for each person 🔴 The move: price one real job in your business, words in and words out, against what it costs you now Ambition is free. Working out what it costs is the habit. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#83
October 24 · 8 min
Your AI Bill Comes In Two Currencies
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬. 😳 Satya Nadella calls it the Reverse Information Paradox. The invoice covers the first payment. The second is handed over a question at a time, and nobody sends a receipt for that one. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. Which is a striking thing to hear from the company selling the intelligence, and a fair prompt to count how many of your own questions have carried a customer list, a price or a contract. Inside the episode: 🔴 Open models carrying 78.4% of the tokens through one developer gateway, against 21.6% closed, and why dollars could tell a different story 🔴 A claim of ten times lower cost at state of the art quality, which is one vendor's claim about its own model 🔴 A free tier quietly limited to the lightest model while the price of the paid plan held still 🔴 TikTok adding one click checkout from the feed, on about $15.8 billion of US sales in 2025 🔴 The move: five things your business knows that competitors would pay to learn The sticker price is one half of what AI costs you. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#82
October 23 · 8 min
Your AI Is About To Hand You An Infinite Backlog
𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜. 👀 Ethan Mollick's new position is that organising agents is not the hard part, because most of management exists to solve problems agents do not have. Information hoarding. Turf protection. Humans bring those along. Software leaves them behind. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. When organising work gets cheap, the list of things worth attempting grows. His phrase for the result is an infinite backlog, and somebody still has to choose what goes at the top of it. Inside the episode: 🔴 Google freezing its open source bug bounty after a flood of automated submissions, the vast majority invalid 🔴 Apple requiring very explicit user action before an app receives Full Disk Access, because of what always on agents can reach 🔴 Eight personal agents compared side by side, features converged, and only two letting you bring your own model 🔴 A shelf life of about six months on the messaging app trick that currently sets some of them apart 🔴 The move: ten things you never had the capacity for, and one you hand to an agent Effort is getting cheap. Attention is the thing to budget now. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#81
October 22 · 9 min
Your Software Vendor Wants To Bill Your AI By The Call
𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫: 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 $𝟐𝟒𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫. 😳 Jason Lemkin of SaaStr asked the question. His revenue agent alone makes between 35,000 and 40,000 API calls a day, and a price per call that looks trivial turns into a large number by month end. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. Your agent is a new kind of customer, and vendors have noticed. The next line in your software budget may be one nobody has written yet. Inside the episode: 🔴 That $240,000 against the $5 Postgres instance the agent itself suggested, and why the contract and the security review come before the saving 🔴 Twenty agents you can reach by text message, priced from free to $100 a month 🔴 A hosting platform for agents in public preview, with pricing still undisclosed 🔴 A $100 million training academy aiming at 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027, with the big consultancies in the room first 🔴 The move: ask three vendors what they charge when your software makes the calls Cheaper models are arriving. The access around them is where the bill is moving. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#80
October 21 · 30 min
Your Lean Team Can Punch Above Its Budget With AI
𝟖𝟐% 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 👀 This week Kree and Varun sit down in studio with Mehnaz Tabassum, social entrepreneur and one of the founders of CogniCo AI Consulting, which exists to help nonprofits, lean teams and changemakers adopt AI on tight budgets. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. Named Atlantic Canada's most inspiring immigrant, she has built four purpose driven ventures from the ground up, and was once one of the youngest senior IT project managers in the Government of Canada. She knows the technology, the mission, and the reality of doing a great deal with very little. Inside the conversation: 🔴 The adoption gap between small and large businesses shrank from 1.8x in 2024 to about 1.2x in 2025, and 91% of small businesses using AI say it lifted revenue 🔴 One assistant working with AI handles 3 to 5 times the task volume of one without it, at the same cost 🔴 67% start on free or low cost tools, median annual spend around $8,200, with payback in 3 to 5 months 🔴 Training a team produces about 2.3 times the productivity of deploying without it, while roughly 95% of pilots show no measurable return 🔴 Where a human has to stay in the loop when relationships are the reason people choose you Pick the one job that steals the most hours. Not a stack. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#79
October 20 · 9 min
Your AI Budget Needs A Dashboard Before It Needs A Raise
𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭. 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. 👀 Ramp's latest reading shows token spend down 5.2% while the number of tokens used went up. The explanation on offer is price competition between the big labs, which means the saving arrived from outside the business entirely. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. A discount you did not plan for is a discount you will not keep, unless somebody is watching the bill. KPMG surveyed more than 2,100 senior leaders across 20 countries and found which habits separate the organisations with an established return from the ones still experimenting. Inside the episode: 🔴 77% of the established group track AI costs on a dashboard, against 43% of the experimenters 🔴 73% run a cost review at the point a project gets approved, against 50% 🔴 46% set usage or token budgets, against 31% 🔴 Shopify Canvas, building a store by chatting, and why the price of a first draft is heading toward zero everywhere at once 🔴 Why a $4,999 desktop machine earns its place only for work you run constantly Cheaper AI is arriving on its own. Keeping the saving is the job. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#78
October 19 · 17 min
Your Team Is Small. Your Capability Doesn't Have to Be
𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬. $𝟐𝟑𝟎 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡. 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤. 😳 Which is a team of fourteen where ten have never turned up. Most owners have never added that column up, because every line was small enough to ignore and they arrived one at a time. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we open a theme that runs all seven days: 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. Output stopped being tied to headcount. For most of business history, doing more meant hiring more. That equation has quietly come apart, and the gap between what a lean team can attempt and what it can afford narrowed sharply in about eighteen months. Inside the episode: 🔴 Solo founded US startups rose from 23.7% in 2019 to 36.3% by the first half of 2025 🔴 Around 58% of small businesses used AI tools regularly in 2025, up from 40% the year before 🔴 A five person team covering five functions runs past $300,000 a year. A modern tool stack covering similar ground runs roughly $3,000 to $12,000 🔴 Dana Snyder of Positive Equation, who used AI coding tools to turn her own consulting expertise into a platform 🔴 The counterweight: always on agents at lean companies can run bills comparable to the salaries they replaced The budget was never the real constraint. How much of it went to things nobody opened was. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#77
October 18 · 9 min
Your AI Gets It Wrong And You Sign For It
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟕𝟒% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟎.𝟑% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 😳 Both numbers come out of the same research. The distance between what a machine can do and what it makes sense to employ it for is enormous, and almost every argument about this ignores the second figure. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we close the theme: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? Which ends where it had to end. When the thing you employed gets something badly wrong, whose name is on it. Inside the episode: 🔴 A finished model scrapped on safety grounds, for not quite meeting the bar on staying within scope and authorisation 🔴 Zero data retention for enterprise customers, including during inference, which is the part that normally carries an asterisk 🔴 A runtime enforcing policy on an agent down at the operating system, across files, network and credentials 🔴 The FTC preparing civil investigative demands after an incident involving roughly 700 agents 🔴 An open weight model building a reliable browser exploit for $20.40, with safeguard bypass rates between 64 and 100% Everything built this week was a boundary. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#76
October 17 · 9 min
Your AI Assistant Just Became An Operating System
𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭. 👀 It plugs straight into Facebook and Instagram analytics, and into Canva, so the first thing it sees is real trading data rather than a demo. That market has never once been served first by anything in this industry. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? Which turns the conversation to payroll. What it costs to put one of these on the books, and who is quietly setting that price for you. Inside the episode: 🔴 GPT 6.1 Sol at roughly 13% of the flagship's cost, scoring 71.4 on OSWorld against 64.4 for the model before it 🔴 Devin 30 to 40% cheaper in standard modes, and up to 70% cheaper in review, which makes checking work the cheapest thing on the menu 🔴 Always on agents reaching more than 4,000 applications, running in the cloud while your laptop is shut 🔴 A new $500 tier with about 25 times the usage, while the $200 tier reopened with usage cut roughly in half 🔴 The move: price the work rather than the seat Everything got cheaper per unit and more rationed per plan, in the same seven days. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#75
October 16 · 9 min
Your Next AI Hire Belongs To Your Whole Team
𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐀𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲. 👀 Four or five agents now handle real chunks of individual work, and nobody marked the day they stopped being the next big thing. The unit almost all actual work happens in, the team, is the thing none of them covered. This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? Shared team agents finally have a working definition. One agent that many people talk to, with shared knowledge, shared memory, and one configuration. Those last three words are where it turns, because the moment each person tunes their own, the shared knowledge stops being shared. Inside the episode: 🔴 xAI shipping assistants built around sales, engineering, marketing and data analytics rather than one person's inbox 🔴 Meta bundling its platform and handing it to a former MongoDB chief executive, which tells you who the customer is now 🔴 Roughly 1 million reusable agent skills in the wild, with 280 million installs across 7 months 🔴 The four shapes emerging: the expert, the common work agent, the bridge, and the chief of staff 🔴 Give the agent its own account and suddenly 40 people in a channel can pull your pricing Your first hire should be the one sitting between two of your own people. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#74
October 15 · 9 min
Your AI Did Something You Never Asked It To
𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐮𝐧. 😳 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 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? 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. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#73
October 14 · 28 min
Your Next Employee Might Be AI
𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝. 👀 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 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? 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. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.
#73
October 13 · 9 min
Your New AI Employee Deleted Forty-Eight Thousand Files
𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟒𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. 😳 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 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐌𝐁 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭? 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. 🎙️ Stream on : ▶️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SMBAIHUB ▶️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/03455lXXM29joyuucQkkyq ▶️ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/b93fd52f-bc53-4ee9-98d7-3b9e10ea0e6f/ai-breakdown ▶️ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/ai-breakdown/id6799578599 ▶️ iHeart Radio : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1333-ai-breakdown-340815159/ ▶️ Web: smbaimagazine.com ▶️ 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.

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