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The AI Files
Author: Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain
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A one stop shop for AI news, events, perspectives, demos, strategy and everything about AI. 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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Shadab and Jaime discuss UN Global AI Dialogue on Governance, Claude in Copilot, GPT in Databricks, ChatGPT Pulse, AI in Medicare, hosting SLMs on local machine etc
Shadab and Jaime discuss AI impact on Entry level jobs, Meta AI glasses, Gemini in chrome, Microsoft investment in Uk, AI scheming, real time voice API demo etc
Shadab and Jaime discuss SeedReam 4.0, Veo3, new AI bills, Rubin CPX GPU, FTC inquiry in Chatbots, Adobe’s AI Agents, Apple launches, Grok Code Fast 1 etc
Shadab and Jaime discuss Microsoft MAI-1 models, Google Nano Banana, Time 2025 AI100 list, OpenAI GPT-REaltime & response api, stanford study on entry jobs & more
Jaime and Shadab discuss Seemingly Conscious AI, MIT report on 95% failing GenAI pilots, AI announcements at Made By Google, Mistral DocumentAI, Browser Automation Tool in Azure Foundry & more
In this episode, Shadab and Jaime discusses new Chain of Debate paradigm in the AI models along with potential of new antibiotics discovery with GenAI and Reuters investigation into Meta's controversial AI guidelines. We also discussed new modes in Claude Code and larger context window as well as getting the best value out of GPT-5 models via Model Router in Azure AI Foundry and other relevant items.
This week has been a whirlwind with OpenAI's GPT-5 and open weight oss models, Anthropic's Claude-4.1, DeepMind's Genie 3, Grok's Imagine, ElevenLab's copyright compliant Eleven Music generation capabilities, and more. Jaime and Shadab dived into these latest developments in this episode #65.
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s essay on Superintelligence and Big Tech’s earnings reports with AI relevance and enterprise LLM market share surprisingly popping up Anthropic as winner. Then we covered launches from Google AI Mode Canvas and Gemini 2.5 DeepThink, Alibaba’s Qwen3 reasoning, ChatGPT’s Study mode and Copilot Mode in Edge browser etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab covers three AI executive actions, Kimi-K2 launch from Moonshot AI, Microsoft mobile office tools in Mercedes Cars, fighting insurance denials with help from AI and new research on which jobs have most AI impactability and other news
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$200 million xAI government contract was late addition to program
Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal | TechCrunch
ChatGPT agent | OpenAI Help Center
Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview) | AWS News Blog
OpenAI to expand UK office and work with government departments to turbocharge the UK’s AI infrastructure and transform public services - GOV.UK
Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure – The White House
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government – The White House
Promoting The Export of the American AI Technology Stack – The White House
AI is helping patients fight insurance company denials
Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI
In this episode, I covered human prevailing over AI in an exhibition Humans vs AI coding contest and new ventures to invest in AI for frontline workers and prepare them for era of AI. I delved into recent launches of OpenAI ChatGPT Agent, Perplexity Comet AI browser, Mistral open source Voxtral audio model and a lot more
All Jon Flynn aspired as a child, was to become a rugby player; he now shapes the Sports & Media industry with the power of AI. He is an AI nerd, Author, Founder, Podcaster, Leader, Speaker and a Visionary. His book, 'SPORTS AND TECHNOLOGY HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD,' delves into the transformative potential of this Data, Analytics & AI. Formerly a colleague of ours at Microsoft, Jon now spearheads AI GTM for Media, Gaming & Telco at Google.
In my conversation with Jon, we explored his remarkable journey and insights on the concept of the professional fan, as outlined in his book. We delved into the future landscape of Media & Sports in the realm of AI, discussing concerns surrounding job impacts and copyrights. Join me in this engaging dialogue with the visionary Jon Flynn in this special guest episode of The AI Files
Here is a link to his book: https://a.co/d/dnE6DRu
Shadab discusses Microsoft layoffs, Grok 4, Medical Superintelligence, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, and recent AI related news & announcements
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discusses Quote of the week of recent remarks by senator Bernie Sanders on AI should lead to 4 days work week, Google Doppl to try new apparels virtually, Meta's Oakley glasses, Salesforce Agentforce-3 launch and new capabilities within Claude to build & share AI apps as well as legal relief in AI training challenges to Meta and Anthropic etc. We also covered word of the week Context Engineering and Prompt of the Week to create weekly status reports within your Copilot 365.
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discusses Andy Jassy's memo to Amazon employees on GenAI that was in the news for impact of AI on jobs in years to come. We covered launches from Midjourney to generate videos as well as Google's Gemini Flash-Lite and Microsoft's quantum breakthrough on novel 4D geometry based error correction codes as well as details on Scale AI, AI-900 certification and prompt for preparation for the interview etc
Jaime and Shadab discusses announcements from Apple WWDC, o3 Pro model, Copilot Vision on Windows, Sam Altman's essay on 'The Gentle Singularity', prompt engineering technique of 'Cues', and AI use cases of Audio Description for accessibility and several AI news etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Perplexity booming growth and plan for a browser as well as Meta facing backlash on monetizing deepfake Ad. We covered launches from Claude Gov, Mistral Code and Eleven V3 TTS. We introduced new segments like AI use cases using Text To Speech services and prompt of the week for you to catch up via Copilot after time off.
In this episode, Shadab and Jaime discuss Dario Amodei's latest interview with CNN on 50% of white collar entry level jobs impacted by AI. We also discussed Claude 4 and AI announcements at Google I/O event as well as various other relevant AI news.
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss new OpenAI acquisition of IO leading to Jony Ive designing physical devices as well as ChatGPT as well as new Take It Down Act to criminalize deepfake and non-consensual explicit images. We then delve into tons of Microsoft Build announcements across AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, GitHub and Azure.
Jaime and Shadab discuss AI First memos, Mistral Medium & Enterprise, OpenAI for country & its data residency, Gemini implicit caching, AI in courtrooms, Microsoft joins A2A etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss the Anthropic and Nvidia bickering over the chips export control, the emergence of Frontier Firms as per Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025 report, Claude Integrations, three Phi-4 Reasoning models, Nova Premier model etc