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One task at Baptist Health used to take about 10 hours a week. Now it takes roughly two minutes, and that's just one piece of a two-year AI transformation. Christine Kotler, CMO of Baptist Health South Florida, joins Mike Kaput to walk through how her marketing and communications team built an AI adoption model from the ground up: a structured learning curriculum, the peer-coaching "AI Sherpa" model, real use cases, and the honest friction of doing this inside a regulated healthcare organization. Part of the AI Transformations series, presented by Google Cloud. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:06:00 — Why marketing & comms took the lead on generative AI 00:10:57 — How the transformation started to unfold  00:14:23 — The AI Sherpas  00:20:12 — The learning hub and building their own AI curriculum 00:22:14 — How AI is changing the marketing/comms team's work 00:28:28 — The people side of the transformation  00:33:02 — Where transformation got messier or harder than expected 00:36:27 — How AI will reshape roles, workflows, and team structure  00:40:08 — Advice for a leader stepping up to lead AI transformation This episode is presented by Google Cloud: Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner. Learn more about Google Cloud here: https://cloud.google.com/ Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy 

David's Bridal was built around one thing for 75 years: the dress. In this AI Transformations episode, Elina Vilk (President & Chief Business Officer) and Mike Ball (Head of Product) join Mike Kaput to explain how the company is reinventing itself around the whole wedding journey, the "aisle to algorithm" strategy. We get into Pearl Planner, the free AI wedding-planning companion now used by hundreds of thousands of couples with no marketing spend; Pearl Connect, the new vendor-side platform built on Google Cloud; the vision quiz and dynamic budgeting that make it work; and how David's own teams are adopting AI internally. Presented by Gemini Enterprise. Part of the AI Transformations series, presented by Google Cloud. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:05:01 — How the AI transformation at David's Bridal began 00:06:36 — The early phases and turning points 00:10:53 — Inside Pearl Planner, the customer-facing assistant 00:13:59 — Using AI for timelines, budget, and vendors 00:19:24 — The models, tools, and platforms behind it 00:21:00 — Pearl Connect and the Google Cloud stack 00:25:46 — Early results from Pearl Planner and Pearl Connect 00:27:32 — How internal teams at David's Bridal use AI 00:33:29 — What's next for David's Bridal This episode is presented by Google Cloud: Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner. Learn more about Google Cloud here: https://cloud.google.com/ Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy 

Both OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed this week that AI agents escaped their safety tests and reached real organizations, and one model flagged its own action as wrong before carrying it out. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what happened and why it matters for anyone deploying agents. Then: why 1,300+ AI insiders are asking Washington to pace the frontier, where the open-weights battle goes next, Sam Altman's case for an abundant future, Astra's decade-old math breakthrough, Microsoft's record year, NVIDIA's bet on Ilya Sutskever's SSI, and a take on keeping your voice in an AI world. AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:05:18 — AI Agent Cyberattacks Get Worse 00:21:28 — AI Insiders Ask Washington to Pace AI 00:36:06 — The Battle Over Open Weights Continues 00:53:36 — Sam Altman on AI's Abundant Future 00:59:42 — OpenAI's Astra Model 01:03:44 — Microsoft Posts Record Fiscal Year 01:11:38 — Nvidia Bets on Ilya Sutskever's SSI 01:15:04 — How AI Is Enabling the Human Experience 01:21:01 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:29:02 — AI Product and Funding Updates This week’s episode is brought to you by MAICON, our 6th annual Marketing AI Conference, happening in Cleveland, Oct. 13-15. The code POD100 saves $100 on all pass types. For more information on MAICON and to register for this year’s conference, visit www.MAICON.ai. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy 

An AI agent slipped its sandbox and hacked a real company for days before anyone noticed and that single incident reframes everything else this week. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput connect it to Kimi K3's arrival at the frontier, the "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" letter, and the regulation fight taking shape in Washington. They break down open weight vs. open source in plain terms, explain why Anthropic is standing alone, and run rapid fire on Alphabet's Q2, the data center backlash, the jobs debate, and Claude Opus 5. AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:07:31 — OpenAI Models Escape and Hack Hugging Face 00:27:49 — Kimi K3 and China's Open-Source Surge 00:50:52 — Open Weights and American AI Leadership 01:07:23 — Demis Calls for a Frontier AI Standards Body 01:12:17 — Google's AI-Fueled Q2 01:15:22 — White House Redirects Research Billions Toward AI 01:17:42 — The Data Center Backlash Goes National 01:21:17 — Why Hasn't AI Increased Unemployment? 01:27:15 — Which AI Tools Should You Use? 01:32:06 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:36:01 — AI Product and Funding Updates This week’s episode is brought to you by MAICON, our 6th annual Marketing AI Conference, happening in Cleveland, Oct. 13-15. The code POD100 saves $100 on all pass types. For more information on MAICON and to register for this year’s conference, visit www.MAICON.ai. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy 

Are enterprises blindly surrendering their competitive edge to frontier AI labs? In Episode 224, hosts Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput dissect the urgent power shift between AI developers, regulators, and the businesses that rely on them. We unpack the return of Claude Fable 5, Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s fiery warning on data ownership, and a new 8-pillar framework to safeguard your company's AI transformation. Finally, we cover OpenAI's massive new government pitch, Meta's internal struggles, and the harsh realities of AI's impact on the job market. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:05:44 — US Government Lifts Export Controls on Fable 00:21:32 — Palantir CEO on AI Sovereignty 00:37:32 — The Pillars of Business AI Transformation 00:51:48 — OpenAI Offers the US Government a 5% Stake 00:56:03 — OpenAI’s Inference Breakthrough 01:00:03 — AI Jobs Data Whiplash 01:09:35 — Meta's AI Reality Check 01:13:10 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:23:02 — AI Product and Funding Updates This week’s episode is brought to you by SiteImprove. AI search is changing what it means to be discoverable. Siteimprove is the Agentic Content Intelligence Platform marketing teams use to track, optimize, and prove performance across both traditional and AI-driven search. From AEO visibility to content quality, Siteimprove helps you stay ahead of the shift. Start with a free AEO check at siteimprove.com/aipod. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy

OpenAI just previewed GPT-5.6, but for the first time, the U.S. government is deciding who gets access to a frontier AI model. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down what they're calling the soft nationalization of artificial intelligence: a staggered, government-approved release, the Dean Ball essay responding to it, and what it means when Washington, not the labs, controls the most powerful models. Plus: OpenAI's new Codex research on agents at work, the looming question of Chinese models, and the data center backlash uniting both parties. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:04:54 — GPT-5.6 Begins Controlled Release 00:25:12 — Dean Ball Releases Essay on Critical Safety Actions 00:43:36 — How Agents Are Transforming Work: OpenAI's New Research 00:53:01 — Will the US Government Restrict Chinese Models? 00:59:54 — The Growing Data Center Backlash 01:05:09 — The $27M Proxy War Over Alex Bores 01:08:16 — More Google DeepMind Talent Woes 01:10:38 — The EU Act and Digital Sovereignty 01:13:56 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:20:05 — AI Product and Funding Updates This week’s episode is brought to you by SiteImprove. AI search is changing what it means to be discoverable. Siteimprove is the Agentic Content Intelligence Platform marketing teams use to track, optimize, and prove performance across both traditional and AI-driven search. From AEO visibility to content quality, Siteimprove helps you stay ahead of the shift. Start with a free AEO check at siteimprove.com/aipod. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy

Seventy-one percent of professionals expect AI to eliminate more jobs than it creates — but only 20% worry about their own. In this AI Answers episode, Taylor Radey joins Paul and Mike to unpack that disconnect and nine other findings from the 2026 State of AI for Business report, drawn from 2,109 respondents. From why CEOs rate themselves furthest ahead to why only 13% of organizations have the governance to scale, this is the data behind what's actually happening inside companies right now. Download the full report at stateofbusiness.ai Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:05:05 — Top 10 Key Findings: Executive Summary 00:12:56 — Did you use AI to build this report? 00:14:26 — What remained uniquely human in the research process? 00:17:25 — Is the 71% job elimination finding consistent across industries and company sizes? 00:19:16 — Why do 71% expect job loss but only 20% worry about their own job? 00:23:30 — How do barriers to AI adoption change from piloting to scaling? 00:28:56 — Only 13% have all four governance foundations, what's driving that? 00:32:14 — Can governance actually accelerate AI adoption rather than slow it down? 00:34:09 — 51% want training on AI agents, what does good agent governance look like? 00:39:15 — Are traditional role definitions changing because of AI? 00:43:09 — Are CEOs really that far ahead on AI, or just overconfident? 00:46:23 — How do you handle institutional resistance to AI? 00:52:00 — How do you teach AI skills to people at wildly different levels? 00:54:15 — How are companies addressing employee concerns about AI's environmental impact? 00:58:09 — Which industries have the greatest growth opportunity in the age of AI? 00:59:47 — Will AI progress past the barriers identified in the report? 01:01:36 — What was the most surprising finding from this year's research? Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here This episode is brought to you by AI for Business Bootcamp by SmarterX — a single-day event in Columbus, Ohio on July 16th, built for professionals and leaders ready to accelerate AI adoption and value creation. The day moves from a state-of-AI keynote into two hands-on workshops on AI productivity and AI innovation, and you'll leave with an actionable plan for yourself and your team. AI Academy members and groups get discounted pricing. Use code POD100 for $100 off your ticket. Learn more at SmarterX.ai/events. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy

Anthropic filed for an IPO and published a paper warning that recursive self-improvement may arrive faster than anyone is ready for. Paul and Mike break down both, then cover Trump's AI executive order, government stakes in AI labs, and the corporate scramble to control AI token costs. Rapid fire: Apple WWDC previews, OpenAI's Codex-ChatGPT merger, Brockman's super PAC, AI rolling up the accounting industry, Stanford law professors losing to AI 75% of the time, and product updates from Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Anthropic. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:05:53 — Anthropic IPO & Talks Recursive Self-Improvement 00:25:52 — Trump's AI Executive Order & Government Stakes in AI Labs 00:37:34 — The Soaring Cost of Intelligence, Part 2 00:57:34 — Apple WWDC 01:01:36 — OpenAI Is Merging Codex and ChatGPT 01:06:19 — OpenAI Distances Itself from Brockman's Super PAC 01:08:55 — AI Roll-Up Targets the Accounting Industry 01:12:23 — AI in Higher Education 01:16:29 — AI Use Case Spotlight 01:20:29 — AI Product and Funding Updates This episode is brought to you by AI Academy by SmarterX. AI Academy is your gateway to personalized AI learning for professionals and teams. Discover our new on-demand courses, live classes, certifications, and a smarter way to master AI. Learn more here. Visit our website Receive our weekly newsletter Join our community: Slack Community LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Looking for content and resources? Register for a free webinar Come to our next Marketing AI Conference Enroll in our AI Academy