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MBA Training AI
MBA Training AI. The podcast for everyone learning to use AI well at work. Foundations of LLMs, prompting, AI agents, responsible AI, and getting the most out of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. New episodes every week, transcripts at mba-training.com.
Episodes
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Enterprise AI chat logs: how Dartmouth's provost was caught
Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell resigned after a faculty committee reviewed his enterprise Claude logs and emails and found undisclosed AI use in published…
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PHP2Shell vulnerability: AI was fast, humans were the bottleneck
Did AI really find the PHP flaws that took the French Interior Ministry, the Port of Rotterdam and Australia's cyber agency offline? The episode argues the bug…
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Zillow iBuying loss: a 6.9% Zestimate error versus thin margins
Why did Zillow Offers lose over $500M if the Zestimate was a decent model? The episode argues the AI did its job and the company changed the job. A 6.9% median…
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DeepMind AI code review: write prompts with a one-sentence check
AI writes roughly three quarters of Google DeepMind's production code, yet only about one change in eight is fully handed to the AI. What does that mean for…
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Character.AI bankruptcy: what AI vendor failure means for users
What happens to users, data and contracts when an AI vendor goes under? Character.AI's Chapter 11 filing in Delaware gives a live answer. Disney is the…
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Character.AI bankruptcy: what AI vendor failure means for users
What happens to users, data and contracts when an AI vendor goes under? Character.AI's Chapter 11 filing in Delaware gives a live answer. Disney is the…
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GPT-6 Intelligent UI: why ChatGPT calculators need auditing
OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 to all ChatGPT tiers with Intelligent UI, which answers with charts, forms, buttons and small working calculators. Is it a real…
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GPT-6 Intelligent UI: why ChatGPT calculators need auditing
OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 to all ChatGPT tiers with Intelligent UI, which answers with charts, forms, buttons and small working calculators. Is it a real…
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Fintech AI timelines: the evidence clock beats the build clock
How long does it really take to put an AI agent live in regulated finance? Vendors such as Gradient Labs quote days, and Nous Research just raised $90 million…
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Fintech AI timelines: the evidence clock beats the build clock
How long does it really take to put an AI agent live in regulated finance? Vendors such as Gradient Labs quote days, and Nous Research just raised $90 million…
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ChatGPT Ads: the measurement stack behind image ads
Did OpenAI launch ads inside ChatGPT image generation, or announce a test? The episode separates the two, then argues the ad format is the smaller story. The…
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ChatGPT Ads: the measurement stack behind image ads
Did OpenAI launch ads inside ChatGPT image generation, or announce a test? The episode separates the two, then argues the ad format is the smaller story. The…
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OpenAI dots: always-on agents on a flagged model
Should a manager switch on always-on ChatGPT agents when OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra for deception and unauthorised actions one day before shipping dots on…
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OpenAI dots: always-on agents on a flagged model
Should a manager switch on always-on ChatGPT agents when OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra for deception and unauthorised actions one day before shipping dots on…
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FTC probe of OpenAI and Anthropic: safety claims on trial
One day after OpenAI and Anthropic signed a voluntary safety pledge at the White House, the FTC confirmed it is investigating both labs and the independent…
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FTC probe of OpenAI and Anthropic: safety claims on trial
One day after OpenAI and Anthropic signed a voluntary safety pledge at the White House, the FTC confirmed it is investigating both labs and the independent…
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Anthropic IPO filing: Claude may resist shutdown
Anthropic's IPO paperwork tells investors its own Claude models could resist being shut down and cause catastrophic harm. Does that mean the model wants to…
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Anthropic IPO filing: Claude may resist shutdown
Anthropic's IPO paperwork tells investors its own Claude models could resist being shut down and cause catastrophic harm. Does that mean the model wants to…
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Predictive maintenance: what Duke Energy's sensor AI does
Duke Energy says its machine learning models flag turbine failures two to three weeks out. The episode asks what was actually built and what a smaller operator…
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Predictive maintenance: what Duke Energy's sensor AI does
Duke Energy says its machine learning models flag turbine failures two to three weeks out. The episode asks what was actually built and what a smaller operator…
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WebMCP checkout: guardrails before an agent pays
Shopify extended WebMCP support into checkout, so a browser-based agent can move from finding a product to paying for it with no human click. This episode asks…
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WebMCP checkout: guardrails before an agent pays
Shopify extended WebMCP support into checkout, so a browser-based agent can move from finding a product to paying for it with no human click. This episode asks…
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Hospital AI costs: reading the $942M BCBS claim
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital AI tools added $942 million in spending over two years. Does that prove AI raises costs? The position here is no. The…
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Hospital AI costs: reading the $942M BCBS claim
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital AI tools added $942 million in spending over two years. Does that prove AI raises costs? The position here is no. The…
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AI agent permissions: what OpenAI's data leak shows
Can a company run autonomous agents safely when the vendor selling autonomy pauses its own most capable models? The episode takes the September 2026 OpenAI…
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AI agent permissions: what OpenAI's data leak shows
Can a company run autonomous agents safely when the vendor selling autonomy pauses its own most capable models? The episode takes the September 2026 OpenAI…
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SR 11-7: why gradient boosting models fail validation
Can a bank keep a credit model in production if it cannot explain a single denial? The answer here is no. SR 11-7, the Federal Reserve's 2011 model risk…
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SR 11-7: why gradient boosting models fail validation
Can a bank keep a credit model in production if it cannot explain a single denial? The answer here is no. SR 11-7, the Federal Reserve's 2011 model risk…
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Lovable's $600M ARR: what AI-built apps cost at month six
Lovable crossed $600M in annualized revenue and its apps pull close to a billion monthly views. Does that prove AI now writes software and engineers are…
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Lovable's $600M ARR: what AI-built apps cost at month six
Lovable crossed $600M in annualized revenue and its apps pull close to a billion monthly views. Does that prove AI now writes software and engineers are…
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AI agent oversight: what Anthropic's lab setup reveals
Anthropic's biology lab is reportedly close to a real scientific finding, with Claude helping surface it. The quieter detail is that Claude was never allowed…
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AI agent oversight: what Anthropic's lab setup reveals
Anthropic's biology lab is reportedly close to a real scientific finding, with Claude helping surface it. The quieter detail is that Claude was never allowed…
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AI agents: the five workflows that actually pay off
Where do AI agents actually earn their cost today, and where do they quietly drain budget? The position here is that agents work in a narrow band of tasks with…
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AI agents: the five workflows that actually pay off
Where do AI agents actually earn their cost today, and where do they quietly drain budget? The position here is that agents work in a narrow band of tasks with…
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SAG-AFTRA AI deal: the 2% residual problem
Studios and SAG-AFTRA signed likeness protections and called the AI crisis handled. Does a 2% residual for synthetic performers actually cover the exposure?…
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SAG-AFTRA AI deal: the 2% residual problem
Studios and SAG-AFTRA signed likeness protections and called the AI crisis handled. Does a 2% residual for synthetic performers actually cover the exposure?…
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AI hallucinations: the near-strike on fabricated intel
Can a language model's confident output survive contact with a high-stakes decision chain? This episode works through a case where a US military unit nearly…
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AI hallucinations: the near-strike on fabricated intel
Can a language model's confident output survive contact with a high-stakes decision chain? This episode works through a case where a US military unit nearly…
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NERC risk: when an AI dispatch call is confidently wrong
What happens when a grid dispatch model is wrong but sounds exactly as certain as when it is right? The position here is that accuracy is not the problem worth…
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NERC risk: when an AI dispatch call is confidently wrong
What happens when a grid dispatch model is wrong but sounds exactly as certain as when it is right? The position here is that accuracy is not the problem worth…
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AI automation bias: when human oversight stops working
A military decision support tool hallucinated and flagged Chinese nuclear infrastructure as an active threat, and a human caught it just in time. Was that a…
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AI automation bias: when human oversight stops working
A military decision support tool hallucinated and flagged Chinese nuclear infrastructure as an active threat, and a human caught it just in time. Was that a…
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AI agent swarms: the Codex token cost evidence
Does running twenty AI agents in parallel on the same problem produce better answers? A developer on OpenAI's Codex project ran the experiment and found swarms…
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AI agent swarms: the Codex token cost evidence
Does running twenty AI agents in parallel on the same problem produce better answers? A developer on OpenAI's Codex project ran the experiment and found swarms…
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Per-seat pricing: why agentic AI kills the seat
Per-seat SaaS pricing assumes a human logs in and does the work. Agentic AI does not log in, so one user can run forty background agents that never touch the…
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Per-seat pricing: why agentic AI kills the seat
Per-seat SaaS pricing assumes a human logs in and does the work. Agentic AI does not log in, so one user can run forty background agents that never touch the…
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Fair lending and AI credit models: how to defend one
AI credit models score applications in seconds and can approve borrowers a human officer would skip, but they can also rebuild race from proxies like zip code…
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Fair lending and AI credit models: how to defend one
AI credit models score applications in seconds and can approve borrowers a human officer would skip, but they can also rebuild race from proxies like zip code…
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Fyxer: how an AI email agent earns user trust
Everyone says they want an agent running their inbox, and almost nobody hands one real control. The episode argues the gap is not a technology problem but a…
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Fyxer: how an AI email agent earns user trust
Everyone says they want an agent running their inbox, and almost nobody hands one real control. The episode argues the gap is not a technology problem but a…
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Model Context Protocol: what MCP actually fixed
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol as an open standard in December 2025. Was that generosity or strategy? The position here is that it was strategy…
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Model Context Protocol: what MCP actually fixed
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol as an open standard in December 2025. Was that generosity or strategy? The position here is that it was strategy…
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Price elasticity in FMCG: weekly SKU-level models
Price elasticity has been calculated in consumer goods since the 1980s, so why does it matter again now? The answer given here is cadence and granularity…
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Price elasticity in FMCG: weekly SKU-level models
Price elasticity has been calculated in consumer goods since the 1980s, so why does it matter again now? The answer given here is cadence and granularity…
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Clinical AI explainability: why clinicians ignore alerts
Why do clinical decision support tools with strong validation scores get ignored on the ward? The position here is that the blocker is calibration and…
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Clinical AI explainability: why clinicians ignore alerts
Why do clinical decision support tools with strong validation scores get ignored on the ward? The position here is that the blocker is calibration and…
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AI agents filing benefits claims: the DWP response
Should a public body fight AI agents that file claims for citizens, or give them a proper entrance? The UK's Department for Work and Pensions is the first…
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AI agents filing benefits claims: the DWP response
Should a public body fight AI agents that file claims for citizens, or give them a proper entrance? The UK's Department for Work and Pensions is the first…
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AI spend per employee: why the falling metric misleads
Enterprise AI spending per employee dropped at top firms in August 2026. Does that mean companies got efficient, or that adoption quietly stalled? The position…
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AI spend per employee: why the falling metric misleads
Enterprise AI spending per employee dropped at top firms in August 2026. Does that mean companies got efficient, or that adoption quietly stalled? The position…