MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 73: In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Sean Neville, the co-founder of Circle.com (the company behind the USDC stablecoin) and founder of Catena Labs, a bold new startup helping AI agents use crypto to work for humans.

Neville takes us from his early tech days at Macromedia to the birth of Circle, sharing how USDC went from an experiment to a cornerstone of the global crypto economy. We dig into the big questions: What is a stablecoin, really? How will “AI money” change the way machines and people interact? And should governments even try to compete in the stablecoin space? This is a front-row look at the collision of finance, technology, and intelligence.

Guest website: CatenaLabs.com

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MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 72: Google and Yandex veteran Anna Veronika Dorogush joins Adario Strange to explain why her growing London-based startup, Recraft AI, is able to compete with tech giants like Adobe, how experienced designers can painlessly integrate AI into their workflow, and where AI design tools are most likely to dominate soon. 

Then the two explore the world of European tech startups, a rapidly unfolding landscape of newcomers securing tens of millions of dollars in funding and even a few billion-dollar valuations, even while their U.S. counterparts get all the headlines. Finally, Anna and Adario discuss the outlook for human jobs, now that AI and robotics are becoming a reality that no corporate workplace can ignore. 


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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 71: AI security expert Christopher “Tito” Sestito, the CEO and co-founder of Austin-based Hidden Layer, joins Adario Strange to uncover what’s really happening in the world of AI when is comes to fighting hackers, malicious code, and threats from other AI systems.  

Sestito has been working within the realm of cybersecurity for many years, but AI security presents new challenges, and we get into them, as well as discuss the threat of AI being harnessed via deepfakes, generative AI audio, and even social media to scam unsuspecting victims. 

Guest website: HiddenLayer.com

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When Google unveiled Veo 3 a few weeks ago, even AI insiders were shocked at just how realistic the AI-generated videos were. Additionally, some from the Hollywood elite were taken off guard by the tool's ability to generate convincing audio dialogue for its human characters. All the previous AI video tools were just the warm-up, this is the beginning of the real race to transform the movie business. 

In this episode, we've revisited seven of the elite AI video filmmakers and pioneers who have been helping us educate our audience and explain exactly how and why AI video will revolutionize the traditional film and video business. In this episode, we welcome back Dave Clark (co-founder of Promise Studios), Blaine Brown, Nem Perez (founder of Storyblocker), Ben Nash, Caleb Ward (co-founder of Curious Refuge), Michael Mitchell, and Andrew Gibbs.

 
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While OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others dominate the AI news, there’s a rapidly growing wild west of open source AI software and developers also pushing the technology boundaries forward, sometimes in unexpected ways. 

Manos Koukoumidis, the founder of Oumi.AI and a veteran of Microsoft, Meta, and Google, joins Adario Strange to explain how he’s working to organize the open source AI community to help create a safer AI future, whether it’s guarding against malicious code or addressing fears about potential future rogue AI systems. 

Guest website: Oumi.ai
 
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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 68. In this episode, Adario Strange is joined by Sarah Chardonnens, the author of the new book “The Learning Revolution: AI’s Influence on Intelligence and Education.” Chardonnens used her Ph.D. in Learning Sciences to exhaustively research and brilliantly explain the emergence of AI in education, from high school up to the top universities, and how this change will impact the very future of education. 

Later, the two also tackle some of the latest AI news stories, including how Duolingo recently made waves by declaring a new AI policy on its staffing as it seeks to teach humans various languages. Finally, Strange and Chardonnens address the idea that a humanities education may soon be coming back into vogue as STEM degrees face the reality that AI will increasingly execute coding previously done by humans, forcing educators to revamp a broad range of foundational learning at the university level. 

 
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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 67: In this episode, Adario Strange is joined by veteran marketing and public relations expert Aaron Kwittken, the founder of Prophet, a new tool that helps brands harness the power of AI to market to the public more efficiently. Kwittken isn’t a newcomer to using data to leverage brands to shape their message, but the power of AI is taking his efforts to new levels, and he explains how the industry will impact everyone. Then the two dive into the topic of AI in guiding public sentiment via social media, and how AI is already transforming the realm of education, from students to the professors instructing the world’s young minds. 

 
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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 66: In this episode, Adario Strange meets Ph.D. AI expert Kirill Solodskikh, the founder of TheStage.ai, a new AI startup that just raised $4.5 million to help other AI companies optimize how they deploy their models. After discussing Kirill’s unique experience as a researcher at China’s Huawei technology giant, he explains why he thinks humans will be able to not only peacefully coexist with AI but eventually merge with it. 

Then the two dive into the latest AI news, including the recent dustup around Shopify’s CEO and his decision to push AI even harder instead of more human workers, and how Waymo’s recent headlines point toward how AI is becoming virtually unavoidable in every facet of daily life. 

Guest website: TheStage.ai

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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 65: In this episode, computer scientist and author Andriy Burkov joins Adario Strange to unpack the secrets of AI that many have overlooked. In his new book, “The Hundred-Page Language Models Book,” Andriy breaks down what AI actually means, how the space has developed over the last few decades, and how even non-AI engineers can begin to understand even the most complicated aspects of AI.

Later, the two attack the topic of AI moving into the realm of superintelligence, and what Andriy thinks of the many predictions from other AI experts regarding thinking machines and the risks they pose to humanity. Finally, they delve into recent actions taken in Europe no the legal front against AI, as well as one research group has highlighted the potential danger of the internet being flooded with inaccurate AI information, making finding real information ever more difficult.

Guest website: theMLbook.com

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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 64: The stock market has been rocked! But that hasn’t stopped AI startups from raising billions in new funding as the wave of innovation refuses to be slowed by economic uncertainty. Investing expert Jeffrey Fidelman joins Adario Strange to explain what’s happening in the market, whether it’s the beginning of a larger downturn, and if AI companies are in peril just as they’re gaining traction. 

The two also touch on the massive investments recently landed by Anthropic, as well as former OpenAI executives Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati for their two new startups designed to compete with their former boss. 

Guest website: fidelmanco.com

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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 63: AI progress is only speeding up, leading some to wonder what place humans may have in a new world dominated by AI agents. Host Adario Strange is joined by Irreverent Labs insiders Chloe Loughridge, a machine learning researcher with experience at MIT and Harvard, and Thomas Tobin, a veteran of the 3D development space, previously of Unity and Ubisoft. The two experts join us to debate whether our AI future will deliver utopia or the complete deconstruction of modern daily life.   

The panel also tackles the changes AI has delivered to the world of higher learning at our top universities, and then they explore what the recent AI Action Summit in Paris means for the global state of affairs and the near future of AI. To keep an eye on what Loughridge and Tobin are working on, visit supermodel.ai for updates! 

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In this episode, we are joined by the fascinating Andrew Mayne. A former OpenAI team member, he has also hosted documentaries on the Discovery Channel and worked with some of the world's most famous illusionists. 

Along with host Adario Strange, the two explore what China’s DeepSeek AI effort really means to Silicon Valley tech giants, whether OpenAI, Meta, and Google can catch up, and if this major development will continue to impact hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in AI models and GPU chips, accelerate the path to AGI, and force U.S. AI players to work even harder to develop the next big breakthrough. 

Guest website: AndrewMayne.com 

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and others promise that 2025 will be a pivotal year for AI. So does that mean that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is here? Is AI superintelligence coming soon? And when these milestones do occur, what will humans be able to do to compete? Which, if any, jobs will be left? Will AI take over, or will it continue to serve us? In this episode of the Hundred Year Podcast, we present some of the leading AI experts, tech founders, and academic scholars tackling these questions head-on. 

Appearing in this episode are Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World,” Edward Saatchi, founder and CEO of Fable Studios, Ian Swanson, CEO of Protect AI, Flo Crivello, CEO of Lindy, Dr. Christopher DiCarlo, author of “Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It,” Duncan Eddy, Executive Director of Stanford’s Center for AI Safety, science fiction author Alex Shvartsman, who recently edited the AI fiction anthology “The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI,” Dan Siroker, founder and CEO of Rewind AI, and Patrice Simard, a Microsoft veteran and now Distinguished Scientist at Irreverent Labs. 

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The next phase of artificial intelligence is agents and robotics, but in the real of tangible scientific and medical breakthroughs, quantum computing combined with AI is where the future is headed. To introduce us to this new frontier of super-powered AI, SandboxAQ vice president Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga joins the pod to explain the possibilities. 

From new medicines and treatments for disease, to improving defenses against AI-enabled cybersecurity attacks, to peeling back the fabric of our universe, Fernando unpacks how quantum computing paired with AI is about to change our world. 

Guest website: SandboxAQ.com 


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The year 2025 is guaranteed to reveal new surprises and advancements in artificial intelligence, but what about the human hands guiding that progress? Can we trust ourselves to wield this new power responsibly? Dr. Christopher DiCarlo, the author of “Building A God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It” has a few answers to these important questions. 

Host Adario Strange and Dr. DiCarlo investigate the current state of AGI (artificial general intelligence), which companies are making the most progress toward it, and what this will mean for humanity in the new year. 

Guest website: ConvergenceAnalysis.org

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The year 2024 experienced an explosion of AI video tools from existing players, Chinese tech giants, and even European startups. But how can you pick which one is right for you? Viral AI video creator Blaine Brown returns to The Hundred Year Podcast to help us pick the best AI video creation tools released this year, as well as what we can expect in the year 2025.

Guest website: Blizaine.com

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Artificial intelligence can optimize our work and social lives, but without security measures, it can potentially destroy both. Joining Adario Strange is Ian Swanson, the founder and CEO of Protect AI, a company devoted to helping major companies and individuals alike guard against malicious AI models and other nefarious exploits attempting to leverage AI against its users. After testifying in front of the U.S. Homeland Security committee on AI last year, Swanson and his startup raised an additional $60 million, valuing the company at $400 million.  

The two also dig deep into all the major AI stories moving the business world including the OpenAI executive exodus, how Elon Musk’s new role with the White House might impact AI policy, the growing effects of AI in education, why nuclear power is now a pillar of the AI space, and what they think actor Ben Affleck knows about AI after going viral for his his take on the future of Hollywood. 

Guest website: ProtectAI.com 

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The recent election season proved that many traditional mainstream media businesses have lost their way, as social media and independent creators suck up much of the attention and revenue. The rise of generative artificial intelligence would seem to threaten to deepen the news media’s woes, but Nota CEO Josh Brandau has a different vision for how journalists and publishers can harness the power of AI to evolve into the next era of news production. 

Adario Strange gets Josh to dive into what moved him from traditional media into the AI startup world, then the two explore the current state of major newsrooms using AI to pivot, publishers fighting AI in court to ensure future profits, and how audiences will need to revamp how they consume information to avoid being pulled into the growing vortex of fake news.

Guest website: https://www.heynota.com/

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Hugging Face is one of the leading names in artificial intelligence and now they've launched an initiative to harness AI in the medical field. Leading these efforts is Dr. Cyril Zakka, a fellow at Stanford's Hiesinger Lab where a team of researchers have been creating new intersections between AI, cardiac imaging, and robotic surgery. 

Dr. Zakka joins Adario Strange to explain his childhood experience as a coder and later his entry into the medical field, which set him up to be the perfect bridge between AI and medicine. Later, the two unpack the future of medical treatment with AI, what Hugging Face is doing to impact that outcome, and what AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton winning the Nobel Prize means for how the world perceives and engages the rapidly changing AI space. 

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Veteran security expert Perry Carpenter joins Adario Strange to talk about his new book "FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions." The book is an in-depth but easy-to-grasp dive into how hackers, criminals, and even governments are using AI to deceive you and what you can do to defend yourself as AI keeps improving. 

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In this episode, Adario Strange, who began researching and testing smart glasses over a decade ago, and Farbod Shakouri, the UK-based founder of AI smart glasses startup Phantom, join forces to break down the recent past, present, and near future of the emerging market of smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence.
 
The two delve into the many AI smart glasses offerings from Snapchat, Meta, Amazon, as well as the newest entry into the face race called Snap Spectacles, and what Apple may have planned for the more affordable smart glasses space after releasing the Apple Vision Pro. Then Farbod takes us on an in-depth tour of the features of the Phantom Journey Lens, a new AI smart glasses product set for release in the first quarter of 2025. 




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This episode brings us to the often-overlooked tech startup region of Western Europe, where Letz.ai founder Misch Strotz is building an AI social network that puts the power of creating AI models in the hands of mainstream users. Bootstrapped from Luxembourg, Misch and his team have leveraged AI open source tools to create a commercial business that has already gone viral for its ability to perfectly put people, animals, and products in nearly any generative AI image composition. This is the AI product that could change advertising forever. 

Adario Strange also gets Misch to address the potential innovation hurdles of the EU’s new AI Act, what it looks like to compete with Silicon Valley from the richest Western European country most people have never heard of, and what surprises 2024 has already delivered to the AI space.

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Aside from AI engineers, the next best guess at how AI will impact humanity will likely come from science fiction authors. Alex Shvartsman is tackling this mission through an elite collection of science fiction short stories called “The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI.” 

Among the science fiction masters included in the book are Ken Liu, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Auston Habershaw, Taiyo Fujii, and many others. Alex joined Adario Strange to explore the book, its theme, as well as how AI is already changing how we create. 

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One of the pioneers of digital imaging joins us to unpack the secrets Adobe has in store for AI imaging in 2024 and beyond. Alexandru Costin is Adobe’s Vice President of Generative AI and he’s been helping to lead the company’s digital art mission for decades. Adario Strange gets Costin to compare the early ‘90s concerns over Photoshop possibly destroying art to the new fears around AI art and video.

Then the two take a deep dive into FireFly, Adobe’s generative AI tool that competes with the likes of Midjourney, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion, and show how FireFly and third-party AI generators will work with Adobe Premiere for video. Finally, they debate what impact the EU’s AI Act will have on AI business as it now comes into effect.

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Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 49: Peter Cohan is a veteran of the tech book publishing space with 17 titles to his name that map out the past and future of the technology business landscape. In his latest book, "Brain Rush: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Generative AI," he offers the ultimate cheat sheet for those still discovering how to succeed in business using generative artificial intelligence. In this episode Adario Strange speaks with Peter to pull out the best of the book's hidden gems, then they take a trip back into the the Dot Com era, dissect Mark Zuckerberg's new open source AI push, look into the emerging AI cold war with China, and discuss how AI is permanently changing book publishing.

You can check out Peter Cohan's book here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.100...

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