The Macro AI Podcast
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.
Episodes
91 episodes
Microsoft's AI Strategy and the new MAI Models
Microsoft is making a major strategic push to build more of its own AI capability — and business leaders should pay attention. In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott break down Microsoft’s evolving AI strategy under Mustafa Sul...
eGain Revisited
Enterprise AI has moved beyond experimentation. The challenge now is building systems that deliver answers companies can trust—especially in highly regulated industries where accuracy, governance, and compliance are nonnegotiable. I...
Kimi K3 Explained: Open Weights, Open Source, and U.S. AI Rivals
Kimi K3 is one of the most ambitious AI model launches of 2026—and it could reshape the global competition between Chinese and American AI companies. In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan explain who b...
Building AI-Ready Customer Data with Tealium CEO Jeff Lunsford
Artificial intelligence is only as good as the data behind it. In this episode, we sit down with Jeff Lunsford, CEO of Tealium, to discuss why customer data has become one of the most strategic assets for enterprises embracing AI....
AI Isn’t Eliminating Work. It’s Moving the Bottleneck
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan examine one of the most important questions facing business leaders today: is AI eliminating work, or is it changing where work gets stuck? While much of the publi...
Does Claude Learn from your Code?
The concern is understandable. If your team is building a specialized AI product on Claude — with custom agent logic, refined system prompts, proprietary data pipelines, and hard-won product insight — it is natural to wonder whether that work c...
What is an AI Harness
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott break down an important emerging concept in enterprise AI: the AI harness. For the last few years, most of the AI conversation has focused on the model — GPT, Claude, Gemini, G...
Nividia Vera
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott break down NVIDIA Vera and why it matters far beyond another chip announcement. Vera is NVIDIA’s new data center CPU, but the bigger story is NVIDIA’s push to define the full A...
The AI Compute War: Why Anthropic Is Paying xAI for Colossus
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, we break down one of the most important AI infrastructure stories in the market: Anthropic’s major compute agreement with Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX infrastructure. At first glance, the deal ...
Beyond Chatbots: Anthropic, SandboxAQ, and AI’s Move Into the Physical World
Anthropic’s partnership with SandboxAQ may sound like a technical announcement, but it points to a much bigger shift in enterprise AI: moving beyond chatbots and productivity tools into physical-world decision-making. In this episod...
The Enterprise AI Deployment War – OpenAI vs. Anthropic
Episode Summary: Welcome to a special deep-dive episode of The MacroAI Podcast! With regular hosts Gary and Scott out for the Memorial Day weekend, our AI Agents take the mic to unpack the most seismic shift in artificial intelligence di...
Revolut PRAGMA: The Foundation Model for Money
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan unpack Revolut PRAGMA, one of the clearest signals yet of where fintech and AI-native banking are headed. PRAGMA is not a chatbot or a simple banking app feature. ...
Taylor Swift, AI Clones, and the Future of Human Identity
Fresh in the headlines, Taylor Swift is reportedly taking aggressive legal steps to protect her voice, likeness, and digital identity from AI replication. But is this really just a celebrity story—or is it the beginning of a much larger transfo...
Physical AI: The Intelligence That Moves the World
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, we dive deep into the rapidly emerging world of Physical AI — the next major evolution of artificial intelligence that enables machines to perceive, reason, and act in real-world environments. <...
The New CCaaS Stack: How AI and Agentic AI Are Rewiring Customer Operations
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott take a deep technical dive into how Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) is being fundamentally transformed by AI—and why traditional definitions of the contact center are no longer ...
Anthropic Mythos & Project Glasswing: The Cybersecurity Operating Model Is Changing
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan break down one of the most important—and not fully understood—developments in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity: Anthropic’s Mythos model and Project Glasswing....
The Solo Unicorn: The First One-Person Billion-Dollar Company
What if the next billion-dollar company doesn’t have employees, offices, or even a traditional org chart? In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan explore the rise of the “Solo Unicorn”—a one-perso...
OpenAI’s Enterprise Strategy: From Chatbot to Operating Layer
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan break down one of the most important shifts happening in enterprise technology today—OpenAI’s aggressive move into the enterprise market. This isn’t just about Cha...
When AI Gets a Wallet: The Rise of Machine-to-Machine Commerce (MPP Explained)
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Scott and Gary break down Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) and why it represents a major turning point in the evolution of AI. While it may sound like a fintech innovation on the surface, MPP is ac...
What Are AI PCs?
Are AI PCs just another hardware refresh cycle — or are they the next major shift in enterprise AI architecture? In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott take a deep executive-level dive into AI PCs and what th...
Florida and AI Governance: What Actually Exists — and What It Means for Business
In this episode of the Macro AI Podcast, Gary and Scott clarify what actually exists in Florida regarding artificial intelligence governance — and what does not. While some discussions reference a “Florida AI Bill of Rights,” there ...
Securing AI Across the Global Enterprise WAN
In this Macro AI Podcast episode, Gary Sloper and Scott Bryan break down why AI fundamentally breaks legacy WAN security models—and why enterprises can’t secure AI like it’s “just another SaaS app.” AI traffic may look like ordinary encr...
AI Protocols for Retail: How UCP and ACP Will Redefine Agent-Driven Commerce
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 Podc...