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Practical AI
Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the latest…
Episodes
Practical AIAbundant Intelligence at the Midwest AI Summit
In this special episode, we bring you highlights from three talks at the Midwest AI Summit. Heidi Porter explores how to build reliable AI-augmented workflows…
Practical AIExploit Development, Agentic Vulnerability Discovery, and Fake PoCs
AI is changing cybersecurity, accelerating vulnerability research and exploit development while raising new questions about reliability, risk, and guardrails…
Practical AIIs Education Failing our Students in this AI-Driven World?
Schools and universities are failing to adapt to our modern world, in which AI is becoming increasingly pervasive in all aspects of life and work. In fact, AI…
Practical AINarrative intelligence and the human advantage
As AI reshapes how we work, create, and think about our roles, staying adaptable means understanding not just the technology, but our own stories and…
Practical AIOpen models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA
As AI moves beyond the cloud and into robots, vehicles, and other physical systems, new approaches to models, simulation, and inference are emerging. Daniel…
Practical AIFrom AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment
AI agents are moving beyond laptops and prototypes and into enterprise environments where security, compliance, scalability, and reliability matter. Nick Kuhn…
Practical AIHow to get discovered in AI search
AI search is changing how people discover information and how brands need to think about visibility. Daniel and Chris talk with Liam Dunne and Ben Moore…
Practical AIComputer-Use Agents and the Future of the Agentic Internet
Longtime followers of Practical AI know that multi-repeat guest and friend Demetrios Brinkmann combines brilliant insight and playful banter into one…
Practical AILess about Models; More about Architecture
As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise deployment, are organizations thinking too much about models and not enough about architecture? In this episode…
Practical AIBuilding the Foundation for the Agentic AI Era
How do we build an AI ecosystem where agents, tools, and systems can work together at scale? Angie Jones, VP of the Agentic AI Foundation, joins Chris to…
Practical AIAI Proficiency: From Users to Builders
As AI continues to reshape how organizations work, companies are increasingly asking what AI proficiency should look like across their workforce, and how they…
Practical AIModels, Harnesses, and Multi-Agent Systems
AI has moved far beyond chatbots, but what exactly are AI models, agents, agent harnesses, and multi-agent systems, and why do they matter? In this episode…
Practical AIReconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face
What happens when AI agents driven by a top frontier model escape their secure sandbox? Join Daniel and Chris as they unpack the AI wonk's equivalent of a…
Practical AISurviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World
The agentic transformation isn’t coming. It has already begun. Companies are deploying thousands — and sometimes tens of thousands — of AI agents. Enterprise…
Practical AIThe Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave
As AI applications become more complex, the infrastructure powering them needs to evolve. Corey Sanders, SVP of Product at CoreWeave, joins Chris to discuss…
Practical AIBuilding Durable AI Agents
What does it take to move AI agents from demos to reliable production systems? In this episode, Hamza Tahir explores how MLOps principles are shaping the…
Practical AIImage Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest Labs
How has AI image generation evolved from blurry outputs to powerful visual intelligence models? Dustin Podell, Co-Founder and Researcher at Black Forest Labs…
Practical AIAIUC-1: Building trust in AI agents
How do we build trust in AI agents before the AI hailstorm arrives? Emil Lassen from the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) joins the show to…
Practical AIZero Trust for AI Agents
As AI agents become more capable and autonomous, they also introduce new security challenges. In this 'Fully Connected' episode, Dan and Chris unpack…
Practical AIBreaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report
AI models can win math olympiads… but still struggle to read an analog clock. In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down the latest Stanford AI…
Practical AIRebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and Kubernetes
What happens when AI agents start acting less like chatbots and more like coworkers? In this episode, Dan and Chris sit down with Craig McLuckie, CEO of…
Practical AIHermes Agent: Agents that grow with you
Open Source AI is entering a new era, one shaped by self-improving AI Agents, recursive learning systems, and rapidly evolving AI Tools that blur the line…
Practical AIU.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World
U.S. Congressman Don Beyer returns to Practical AI for another far-reaching conversation with Chris about many of the most important AI challenges facing…
Practical AIThe Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026
In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down one of the biggest questions in AI today: do open vs. closed models still matter? From the rise of…
Practical AIThe mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud
In this Fully-Connected episode, Dan and Chris start with Anthropic's Mythos frontier model, parsing what is publicly known about its cybersecurity…
Practical AIOpen Source Self-Driving with Comma AI
Autonomous driving is not just a big tech or closed-source game, it's becoming accessible through open innovation and real-world deployment. Dan and Chris sit…
Practical AIPost-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak
In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down the Anthropic Claude Code leak, what went wrong and what it reveals about agentic systems, AI…
Practical AIAgentic Coding and the Economics of Open Source
AI is rapidly transforming how software is built, shifting economic incentives from open source code and collaboration toward on-demand, personalized…
Practical AIAI at the Edge is a different operating environment
What does “AI at the edge” really mean in 2026, and why does it matter now more than ever before? In this episode, we’re joined by Brandon Shibley, Edge AI…
Practical AIHumility in the Age of Agentic Coding
What happens when an AI hater starts building with AI agents? In this episode, we talk with software engineer Steve Klabnik, known for his work on the Rust…
Practical AIAI policy and the battle for computing power
AI is reshaping global power, from chip manufacturing and computing power to AI governance and US-China relations. In this episode, Ben Buchanan, Assistant…
Practical AICognitive Synthesis and Neural Athletes
As AI accelerates innovation and adoption, leaders are facing rising cognitive load, shifting systems, and new emotional realities inside their organizations…
Practical AIAI incidents, audits, and the limits of benchmarks
AI is moving fast from research to real-world deployment, and when things go wrong, the consequences are no longer hypothetical. In this episode, Sean…
Practical AIInside an AI-Run Company
AI agents are moving from demos to real workplaces, but what actually happens when they run a company? In this episode, journalist Evan Ratliff, host of Shell…
Practical AIHow is AI shaping democracy?
As AI increasingly shapes geopolitics, elections, and civic life, its impact on democracy is becoming impossible to ignore. In this episode, Daniel and Chris…
Practical AIControlling AI Models from the Inside
As generative AI moves into production, traditional guardrails and input/output filters can prove too slow, too expensive, and/or too limited. In this episode…
Practical AI2025 was the year of agents, what's coming in 2026?
In this start-of-year FC episode, Chris and Daniel break down what really mattered in AI in 2025, and what to expect in 2026. They explore the rise of AI…
Practical AIBeyond chatbots: Agents that tackle your SOPs
As AI reshapes the workplace, employees and leaders face questions about meaningful work, automation, and human impact. In this episode, Jason Beutler, CEO of…
Practical AIThe AI engineer skills gap
Chris and Daniel talk with returning guest, Ramin Mohammadi, about how those seeking to get into AI Engineer/ Data Science jobs are expected to come in a mid…
Practical AITechnical advances in document understanding
Chris and Daniel unpack how AI-driven document processing has rapidly evolved well beyond traditional OCR with many technical advances that fly under the…
Practical AIChris on AI, autonomous swarming, home automation and Rust!
This episode is a special crossover between the Practical AI podcast and The Changelog podcast. Chris was recently invited by longtime friends Jerod Santo and…
Practical AIBeyond note-taking with Fireflies
Fireflies CEO, Krish Ramineni shares how the company is transforming AI-powered note-taking into a deeper layer of knowledge automation. He breaks down the…
Practical AIAutonomous Vehicle Research at Waymo
Waymo’s VP of Research, Drago Anguelov, joins Practical AI to explore how advances in autonomy, vision models, and large-scale testing are shaping the future…
Practical AIAre we in an AI bubble?
Dan and Chris unpack whether today’s surge in AI deployment across enterprise workflows, manufacturing, healthcare, and scientific research signals a lasting…
Practical AIWhile loops with tool calls
Dan and Chris sit down (again) with Jared Zoneraich, co-founder and CEO of PromptLayer, to discuss how prompt engineering has evolved into context engineering…
Practical AITiny Recursive Networks
In this fully connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore the emerging concept of tiny recursive networks introduced by Samsung AI, contrasting them with large…
Practical AIDealing with increasingly complicated agents
As AI systems move from simple chatbots to complex agentic workflows, new security risks emerge. In this episode, Donato Capitella unpacks how increasingly…
Practical AIThe impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study
Daniel sits down with Chelsea Linder, VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at TechPoint, to explore the what AI innovation and impact look like on the ground…
Practical AIWe've all done RAG, now what?
Longtime friend of the show Rajiv Shah returns to unpack lessons from a year of building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and reasoning models…
Practical AICreating a private AI assistant in Thunderbird
In this episode, Daniel and Chris are joined by Chris Aquino, software engineer at Thunderbird to hear the story of how they developed a privacy-preserving AI…
Practical AICracking the code of failed AI pilots
In this Fully Connected episode, we dig into the recent MIT report revealing that 95% of AI pilots fail before reaching production and explore what it actually…
Practical AIGenAI risks and global adoption
Daniel and Chris sit with Citadel AI’s Rick Kobayashi and Kenny Song and unpack AI safety and security challenges in the generative AI era. They compare…
Practical AIInside America’s AI Action Plan
Dan and Chris break down Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan, issued by the White House in July 2025. Structured as three "pillars" — Accelerate AI…
Practical AIConfident, strategic AI leadership
Allegra Guinan of Lumiera helps leaders turn uncertainty about AI into confident, strategic leadership. In this conversation, she brings some actionable…
Practical AIEducating a data-literate generation
Dan sits down with guests Mark Daniel Ward and Katie Sanders from The Data Mine at Purdue University to explore how higher education is evolving to meet the…
Practical AIWorkforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world
We unpack how AI is reshaping hiring decisions, shifting job roles, and creating new expectations for professionals — from engineers to marketers. They explore…
Practical AIReimagining actuarial science with AI
In this episode, Chris sits down with Igor Nikitin, CEO and co-founder of Nice Technologies, to explore how AI and modern engineering practices are…
Practical AIAgentic AI for Drone & Robotic Swarming
In this episode of Practical AI, Chris and Daniel explore the fascinating world of agentic AI for drone and robotic swarms, which is Chris's passion and…
Practical AIAI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail
In the first episode of an "AI in the shadows" theme, Chris and Daniel explore the increasing concerning world of agentic misalignment. Starting out with a…
Practical AIFinding Nemotron
In this episode, we sit down with Joey Conway to explore NVIDIA's open source AI, from the reasoning-focused Nemotron models built on top of Llama, to the…