BASELINE

AI agents are beginning to find their own way through systems to achieve the goals we give them. https://www.firetail.aiAfter an OpenAI agent escaped its evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face, I spoke with...

AI is getting cheaper, open models are getting better, and China is changing the economics of the global AI race. But as intelligence becomes more widely available, who actually stays in control?Eight months after our...

Artificial intelligence is changing people faster than organisations can adapt. This investigation explores why that matters, how it is reshaping the way companies operate, and why the next competitive advantage may...

Artificial Intelligence is changing far more than software. It is changing how organisations learn. In this conversation, Glen Calvert, founder of Kaizan, explores why the next competitive advantage may not come from...

Most companies spent the last twenty years trying to become digital. But AI is now testing whether they actually learned how to build, adapt and create value.In this episode of BASELINE, Ian Smith speaks with Malcolm...

Enterprise AI is changing the way organisations invest in infrastructure. While public attention remains focused on GPUs and large language models, many enterprises are discovering that the real challenge lies...

For decades, turning an idea into a product required funding, developers, technical expertise and a team. Today, that barrier is beginning to disappear.In this episode of BASELINE, former Tide CFO Ian Sutherland shares...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just changing productivity tools. Inside large enterprises, banks and global institutions, AI and AI governance are beginning to reshape how organisations coordinate, decide and...

AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But what if the real problem isn’t building software anymore?What if the problem is understanding it?In this episode of BASELINE, Tudor Girba joins Ian...

AI can now clone voices, fake video calls and imitate real people convincingly enough to steal millions of dollars from businesses in real time.In BASELINE089, Ian Smith sits down with Will Taylor from YEO Messaging to...

Modern engineering systems are becoming increasingly software-defined.From vehicles and aerospace systems to robotics and critical infrastructure, software is now the bottleneck limiting how quickly complex systems can...

AI promises abundance, automation and intelligence at planetary scale. But what problem is it actually solving?In BASELINE086, Richard Self joins BASELINE to explore the economics, infrastructure and physical reality...

In this episode of BASELINE, Ian Smith sits down with Kirill Pyshkin, investor and physicist, to unpack what’s actually happening inside the quantum market.Investment has jumped from around $2 billion to over $10...

If something goes wrong at sea, there is no one coming to help you.The only thing that connects you to rescue… is a signal.In this episode, I sit down with John Dodd from Inmarsat, part of Viasat, to understand what...

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but implementation is proving far more difficult than expected. While organisations are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models...