AI Proving Ground Podcast: Exploring Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise AI with World Wide Technology
by World Wide Technology: Artificial Intelligence Experts · 120 episodes
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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.
Latest episodes
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26 min
AI Cyberattacks, Anthropic’s $500B Bet and the New Cost of AI Agents
AI-powered cyberattacks are accelerating. Anthropic is making enormous bets on computing capacity. And Salesforce could change how enterprises pay for AI agents.In this episode of…
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37 min
The End of Untouchable Software
For years, enterprises have been stuck with aging software that's too expensive, too complicated or too risky to replace. AI is changing that equation. But faster code doesn't nece…
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28 min
Frontier AI Expands, Microsoft CEO Urges ‘Emergency Brake' as Anthropic Signals Self-Replication
Is your enterprise ready for AI it can't fully control? WWT CTO Mike Taylor breaks down the week's biggest AI news: Bank of America's patching push, Satya Nadella's call for an AI…
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29 min
AI Wants the Keys to Your Network
For decades, network engineers have been the ones keeping everything running. Now AI is learning to do the job itself. And in some cases, it's already doing it better.As AI agents…
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26 min
Anthropic Expands Access to Most Powerful Models as South Korean Banks Are Hacked by AI Agent
AI-powered cyberattacks are getting faster, billions are pouring into compute infrastructure and the promised productivity gains are still difficult to measure. Is enterprise AI mo…
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30 min
AI Is Getting Cheaper. Where’s the ROI?
AI is getting cheaper, faster and easier to put to work. So why are so many companies still struggling to show a return?Purdue University’s Richard Ryffel and Mohammad Saifur Rahma…
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26 min
OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft Race to Put AI to Work Inside Your Organization
OpenAI is giving AI agents more work to do. Meta is making a bigger push into enterprise AI. And the industry is racing to connect those systems to company data — and control what…
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32 min
Cisco’s Jeetu Patel: Everyone Is About to Manage AI Agents
AI agents are consuming more tokens than humans, and Jeetu Patel thinks we’re only at the beginning.The Cisco president and chief product officer joins the AI Proving Ground Podcas…
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26 min
Cheaper AI Models Are Here: Can Enterprises Keep Up With AI’s Release Cycle?
AI was on the agenda for world leaders this week as OpenAI and Anthropic released cheaper models and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called for stronger testing and verification before dev…
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38 min
The Leadership Behaviors That Drive AI Adoption
The AI Proving Ground podcast teamed up with Great Place to Work’s Better podcast for a conversation that puts the technology in the background and the people navigating it front a…
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36 min
AI Slowdown Calls Mount as Enterprises Push Ahead With Agents
AI safety warnings are intensifying, frontier labs are calling for a slowdown and businesses face growing pressure to keep agent security and spending under control. What should en…
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41 min
AI Doesn’t Transform a Business. People Do. | WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh
AI investment is rising fast, but figuring out what actually creates value is still a work in progress. For WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh, that uncertainty isn't a reason to slow down. It'…
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35 min
AI Moves Weekly, Your Company Doesn’t
AI is changing by the week. Most companies are still planning by the quarter.Softchoice CEO Andrew Caprara joins the AI Proving Ground Podcast with a refreshingly practical take on…
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30 min
What Your AI Spend Is Really Telling You
AI spending is climbing fast. But the number itself may be less important than what it reveals about how an organization is actually using AI.WWT CFO Tom Strunk and CIO Kevin Dana…
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46 min
Eli Lilly & Company Built an AI Supercomputer to Ask Bigger Questions
What changes when scientists stop thinking about how much compute they can afford to use and start thinking about what they could discover with more of it?That question sits behind…
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50 min
The Greatest Risk Isn't Failure. It's Standing Still.
Most organizations don't fail because they aren't working hard enough. They fail because they spend too long preparing for yesterday's problems.Retired General Mike Minihan has sp…
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41 min
How to Escape AI’s 'Open Bar' Era: Intelligent Token Routing
For the past few years, enterprise AI had an open tab. Experiment. Build. Give teams access. Put agents to work. Now those agents are running 24/7 and someone has finally looked at…
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34 min
The Robot Is Waiting on Your Data.
Humanoid robots have become the poster child for AI. They're dancing, running, stocking shelves and making headlines almost weekly. It's easy to look at them and think the future h…
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44 min
AI Adoption Was the Easy Part. Now Comes the Hard Decision.
For the last two years, the conversation has been about getting AI into the enterprise. That chapter is starting to close.Now comes the harder part.Where should AI go first? Which…
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44 min
AI Adoption Was the Easy Part. Now Comes the Hard Decision.
For the last two years, the conversation has been about getting AI into the enterprise. That chapter is starting to close.Now comes the harder part.Where should AI go first? Which…