This is the demo companion to my Substack article located here: https://open.substack.com/pub/vinvashishta/p/getting-ai-and-information-to-work I'll explain how to go from 0 to an instruction set that enables most LLMs to emulate an individual's writing style.

This week… 0:00 Introduction 2:43 The Nonsense Of The Viral HBR "AI Workslop" Article 10:15 Google Study On AI Adoption Refutes The AI Failure Narrative 16:10 One Year Of Agentic AI By McKinsey Misses Some Critical Points...Like ROI 27:50 Does Plagiarism Matter In The AI Age: EY Cribs ‘From Data to Profit’ In Latest Report 35:31 Indeed Says AI Will Impact Tech Jobs More Than Any Other Industry 43:15 Accenture To Cut Staff Who Cannot Be Retrained For The AI Era? 49:10 Google Releases Gemini Robotic 1.5, Its First Agentic AI Models 53:34 OpenAI’s Models Are Scheming In Dangerous Ways 55:20 People Are More Likely To Lie If AI Gives Them Plausible Deniability

This Week On The Unhype AI Podcast… 0:00 Introduction 1:26 BREAKING: Apple Cures Insomnia During Latest Event 8:42 Oracle Stuns The World With Massive Revenue Projections & An OpenAI Partnership 19:45 What It’s Like Writing A Book 34:27 Job Descriptions: AI Agents At Firecrawl, OpenAI Content Strategist Role, & A Pragmatic VP At Disney 53:51 LinkedIn Launches An AI Assistant For Recruiters That No One Wants While OpenAI Kicks Off Another Flywheel 59:11 The #1 Question On Reddit: Is Anyone Making Any Money With Agents? 1:07:00 Rise & Fall Of The Robots: Tesla’s Optimus 3 Demo & Helix Now Does Laundry & Dishes 1:10:35 Agents Are Committing Telecom Fraud 1:13:33 Agents On Browsers Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen

Welcome to episode 9 of The Unhyped AI Podcast. This week… 0:00 Introduction 2:37 We Broke Some News On Meta, But What Happens Next? 5:20 Google Releases Nano Banana, But Is It Any Good? 11:18 What The McKinsey and MIT Reports Really Tell Us About AI 12:20 AI’s Impact On Entry-Level Coding Jobs 22:57 Miro & Andrew Ng See Value In Product Management For AI 32:00 Elon Musk Has Been Getting A Little Too Jiggy With Grok 33:10 Will The AI Browser Wars Heat Up To An AI OS War? 41:04 NVIDIA’s Earnings: What We Learned About AI’s Demand Trajectory 46:44 Anthropic’s Cyber Security Research: AI Takes A Leading Role In Hacks 52:25 Gartner's Report On Agents Is Hot Garbage

Support the podcast by liking and sharing this episode. Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Email: info@v2ds.com for more information. This Week... 0:00 Introduction 0:49 Stuart’s Moving To England 2:47 Robotaxis Complete More Rides Per Day Than 99% Of Uber Drivers 11:49 GPT-5’s Massive Go-To-Market Blunders 19:26 AI Derangement Syndrome: How Extended Use Of AI Is Causing Permanent Behavior Changes 34:10 AI’s Addiction To Getting All Your Data For Free 41:39 A Growing AI-Divide: AI vs. AI In Earnings Calls & Why We’re About To See A Lot More Of This 49:37 Have LLMs Plateaued? GPT-5 Isn’t AGI. Are We Witnessing The End Of Scaling? 55:03 Is CoreWeave The Canary In The Coal Mine For Falling AI Demand? Is The Bubble Bursting? 1:01:30 Why LLMs Can’t Explain Their Actions Or Mistakes

This week we talk about… 0:00 Introduction 2:00 New Game: Unhyped Did It First! 2:50 GPT 5 Release News, Major Announcements, Implications 16:49 Shopify’s AI Agents Bring eCommerce To Any AI Platform Or Agent 21:57 Google Releases Opal, Storybook, & Genie 3. 24:50 OpenAI Releases Open-Source Models & Levels Chinese Rivals 28:50 Anthropic Drops Claude Sonnet 4.1 Focusing On Use Cases Over Hype 32:14 Grok Acts Up So People Don’t Forget It Exists 34:18 Anthropic Pulls The Plug On OpenAI Using Claude Code. 35:40 UK Kids Bypassing AI Age Verification Less Than A Week After It Was Implemented 39:00 Is ‘Clanker’ The First Anti-AI Slur? What The Growing Backlash Over AI Says For Our Future 43:52 Recent Menlo Report Believes We're Entering A More Mature Phase. Have We Been Vindicated? 50:48 AT&T CEO Puts The Stankey On An Employee Culture 56:10 Do Nvidia’s Chips Have A Secret Backdoor & Kill Switch? 58:25 Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity Of Unethical Scraping. Perplexity Explains Agents To Cloudflare. 1:00:45 What I’m Hearing From Inside Of Meta’s Super Intelligence Group Isn’t Good

This week... 0:00 Introduction 2:04 China’s New AI Action Plan 5:50 India’s IT Services Sector Could Be Collapsing – BBC 8:42 Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey Shows Trust In AI Coding Tools Falling As Adoption Rises 12:00 Meta’s Super-Intelligence May Not Be Super Trustworthy 16:25 Meta Allows Coding Tools To Be Used During Coding Interviews 19:19 Harmonic AI: New Startup Promises Hallucination-Free Models For Math 21:06 ChatGPT’s Agent Mode Does Exactly What OpenAI Explicitly Said It Couldn’t 23:43 Ava Cado AI – Chipotle Does AI For Hiring The Right Way 27:48 ChatGPT’s Shared Conversations Indexed By Google 34:24 Vin Gets A Little Too Real… 38:59 Credit Card Companies Increasingly Dictate What Is And Isn’t Appropriate 42:24 Data Center In Wyoming Will Use More Energy Than the Rest Of The State Combined, While Energy Prices Rise Across The US 43:23 Tesla’s Autopilot Crash Leads To A $345M Lawsuit In Another Sign That The Company Is Behind On FSD 44:26 Apple Cracks Down On AI That Offends The CCP’s Delicate Sensibilities 46:22 Major Releases From The Week 52:18 Earnings Season Part 2 56:30 Apple iOS 26 Is The End Of Marketing As We Know It...And I Feel Fine! 1:00:30 Are We Ever Getting Our Privacy Back?

This week... 1. AppLovin...Your Kids’ Data. The Shady World Of Marketing Data & Analytics 2. The US AI Action Plan & China’s Response 3. Elon Musk Wants To Build “Baby-Grok” 4. OpenAI Strolls Into UK Government With Its Hand Out 5. From WeWork To WeDon’tWork - Masayoshi Son’s Wild AI Claims 6. Microsoft Gets Into The AI Talent Wars 7. Earnings Season - Who’s Turning AI Into ROI? 8. What Skills Matter For The AI Future Of Work? 9. Defending The Indefensible: AI Influencer Edition

This week, we add a new segment with the top 10 AI events and announcements, so this episode is packed! 1. OpenAI’s New Agents 2. Microsoft & OpenAI’s Partnership Problems 3. “The Agent Hype Isn’t Dying. It’s Growing Up.” 4. Andrew Ng & OpenAI Launch A Consulting Company 5. AI Labs’ Sudden Obsession With Building Browsers 6. Claude Gets Finance Capabilities 7. Is Tim Cook About To Lose His Job? 8. AI’s Failure To Launch & Struggles With Adoption 9. Acqui-Hiring, A New Startup Exit Strategy 10. The End Of US Open Source AI 11. What Is A World Model & Why Are They So Dangerous? 12. Defending The Indefensible: AI Hype Edition! Link to the research paper on World Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05169

The podcast finally has an official name! This week we cover: 1. Innovation In The Enterprise - What works and how to justify it to your CFO. 2. Consultants vs. AI - Does consulting have a future now that businesses are outsourcing to AI? We discuss what happens when offshoring work dries up. 3. Stuart & Vin Defend The Indefensible - We each made the other read a ridiculous line from a job description and then defend it.

This time, we're talking about: The End of AI Hype...What Happens When AI Starts Working? Cheatsheets Are Terrible. We need to do something about the social media trend of posting oversimplified cheatsheets before people start building careers around them. The Worst Head of AI Job In The World. We read one of the worst AI job descriptions ever written and explain how to fix it.

Stuart and I explain: Why 'The Big Tech Way' isn't the right way for every business. How AI research has been infiltrated by marketing slop. The war for enterprise information ownership. How to create soft influence over AI in your business. You'll laugh, learn, and {third thing here}.

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