Gartner: Only 13% of CIOs See Big AI Value, and Apollo Finds No Payoff Outside Tech

Braid · Oct 25, 2026 · 21m · transcript

Gartner says 13 percent of CIOs have seen significant AI value, and Apollo's chief economist says there's no payoff outside tech, so the episode starts with whether the spending has a customer. After that: agents as attackers, why code review is the new bottleneck, three talks on trusting what agents produce, a volunteer cleanup of OpenAI's math write-ups on Terence Tao's blog, and shorter items on Qwen, Cerebras and a cytometry preprint.

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