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Welcome to "The Macro AI Podcast" - we are your guides through the transformative world of artificial intelligence.
In each episode - we'll explore how AI is reshaping the business landscape, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Whether you're a seasoned executive, an entrepreneur, or just curious about how AI can supercharge your business, you'll discover actionable insights, hear from industry pioneers, service providers, and learn practical strategies to stay ahead of the curve.
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AI agents are rapidly moving beyond recommendations and into real retail transactions, and a new layer of infrastructure is emerging to make that possible: AI commerce protocols. In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan deliver a deep, authoritative discussion on AI protocols for retail, focusing on two of the most important early standards shaping agent-driven commerce today: Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP). The ep...
AI isn’t limited by models, talent, or capital — it’s limited by electricity. In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan break down the energy reality behind artificial intelligence, from individual AI usage to hyperscalers and national infrastructure strategy. They explain where AI actually consumes power, why your laptop is just the remote control, and how every prompt to a large language model triggers real energy use inside GPU-powered data centers. T...
In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan revisit the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a topic that continues to generate strong listener interest and real-world enterprise questions. As organizations move beyond AI pilots and demos, many are discovering that AI isn’t failing because of the models—it’s failing because of integration, governance, and cost. This episode explores why enterprise AI so often hits scaling walls and how MCP is emerging as a critical piec...
In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan break down why Amazon’s Trainium chip is not just a hardware announcement, but a signal that the economics of AI are fundamentally changing. They explore how Amazon Web Services is using custom silicon like Trainium to shift enterprises from renting AI to building and owning it—and why that strategy only works when customers go deeper into the AWS ecosystem. This isn’t about winning benchmark battles; it’s about creati...
In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan unpack one of the most consequential—but quietly introduced—AI launches to date: ChatGPT Health. Rather than focusing on hype, the conversation starts with fundamentals. What does ChatGPT Health actually do? What systems can it connect to? How does it stay current with your health information? And how is it architected to operate safely inside one of the most regulated domains in the world? From there, Gary and S...
As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to large-scale deployment, the conversation about jobs is finally shifting—from speculation to evidence. In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott unpack the most important recent research on AI and labor markets, including Vanguard’s 2025–2026 “Job Growth Paradox,” the IMF’s AI preparedness and global stability warnings, and the Roosevelt Institute’s analysis of who really captures AI-driven productivity gains. R...
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott break down the newly announced U.S. Tech Force and explain why it represents a major shift in how the federal government approaches artificial intelligence, technology talent, and workforce strategy. Announced in mid-December 2025 by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management with White House backing, the U.S. Tech Force is designed to recruit highly skilled technologists for time-bound service inside federal agencies. The goal isn’t ...
In this flagship episode, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan deliver the most comprehensive executive briefing to date on Cyber Defense for Generative AI—a real-world, board-level conversation every business and technology leader needs to hear. Generative AI is transforming how enterprises operate, but it also introduces an entirely new attack surface. Traditional cybersecurity models were never built for systems that reason, take action, integrate with sensitive data, and can be manipulated t...
In this episode, Gary and Scott explore how global telecom networks are undergoing the biggest architectural shift since the birth of the internet. For decades, carriers have delivered connectivity as a static, reactive utility. But AI workloads are fundamentally breaking traditional network designs. Large enterprises running global inference pipelines, real-time analytics, digital twins, and distributed training now require deterministic latency, workload-aware routing, and transport l...
n this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott break down Google’s bold entry into the AI-agent space with Google Workspace Studio—a new platform designed to build intelligent agents and automated workflows directly inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, and the broader Workspace ecosystem. The hosts explore how Google evolved from lightweight collaboration apps to a full AI automation platform, what lessons they learned from Duet AI, and how Workspace Studio changes the game for bu...
Smart eyewear is no longer a futuristic concept. From Ray-Ban Meta glasses to advanced AR display systems and enterprise-grade industrial eyewear, AI-powered glasses are rapidly becoming the next major computing platform. In this episode, Gary and Scott dive into how smart eyewear is transforming the way we work, communicate, navigate, and interact with the physical world. We break down where the technology stands today, the breakthrough use cases unfolding in consumer and enterprise en...
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott break down one of the most important — and least understood — topics in American AI policy today: the rise of state-level AI laws. With all 50 states now proposing or enacting AI-related legislation, businesses are no longer navigating a single regulatory landscape — they’re operating inside a growing patchwork. Gary and Scott unpack the three big buckets of state AI rules, from comprehensive frameworks in Utah, Colorado, and Texas...
In this episode, the Macro AI Podcast research agents run the show since Gary and Scott are on vacation for the Thanksgiving holiday. They took recent feedback from our listeners and opted to break down one of the most important developments in global AI: China’s frontier-level model Kimi K2 from Moonshot AI. The Macro AI Podcast research agents explore the model’s architecture, benchmark performance, agentic capabilities, and the surprising academic pedigree of its founders — a Tsinghu...
Jeff Bezos is officially back in an operational role — and he’s betting billions on a new AI venture called Project Prometheus. But this isn’t another chatbot startup. This is AI aimed squarely at the physical economy: manufacturing, materials, engineering, aerospace, supply chain, and the real-world systems that make global industries run. In this episode, Gary and Scott break down: • What Project Prometheus is — and what we actually know so far • Why it’s attracting elite ...
In this episode, Gary and Scott tackle one of the most requested topics from our listeners — what high schools should be doing to prepare students for an AI-powered world. Instead of banning AI or pretending students aren’t using it, we explore how schools can embrace AI responsibly, ethically, and effectively. We break down: Why AI literacy is now a foundational skill How schools can shift from fear to structure The four-tier AI policy every school should adopt Rea...
Episode Description (130 words): In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott unpack why Apple chose Google’s Gemini to power the next-generation Siri — and why the move makes perfect sense when viewed through history. The hosts trace Google’s 20-year journey in artificial intelligence: from Google Brain’s “cat-video” experiment to DeepMind’s AlphaGo and the 2017 Transformer breakthrough by Google Research. They spotlight the engineers, hardware, and research culture that made Goo...
In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott dig into one of the biggest challenges emerging in enterprise AI: securing autonomous agents. As businesses deploy systems that can reason and act independently, a new class of risks emerges — from prompt injection and memory poisoning to identity confusion and tool abuse. The hosts explain why the old cybersecurity playbook no longer works, what “intent security” really means, and how identity-bound autonomy can make AI systems trustwor...
In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott take a deep dive into Palantir Technologies — the company quietly transforming how organizations use artificial intelligence to make real-world decisions. They explain what Palantir actually is (and isn’t), how its four platforms — Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and AIP — work together to fuse data, decisions, and actions, and why its ontology-driven architecture has become the blueprint for operational AI at scale. The conversatio...
Gary and Scott break down Walmart’s groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI — a move that officially launches “AI-first shopping experiences” inside ChatGPT. This is more than a new shopping feature; it’s the dawn of agentic commerce — where AI agents understand intent, plan purchases, and execute transactions autonomously. Listeners will learn how Walmart is leveraging this partnership to expand its digital reach, strengthen its retail-media flywheel, and transform from a traditional re...
In this episode of The Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott dive deep into the emerging concept of Data Commons — shared, governed ecosystems that make data interoperable, trusted, and ready for AI. They explain what a Data Commons is, how it differs from traditional data lakes, and why it’s essential to the next phase of AI transformation. From Google’s global Data Commons and the NIH’s biomedical repositories to emerging “Private Data Commons” inside enterprises, the hosts show how these ...
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