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Interviewing Alexandre Pereira: 2501.ai and autonomous agents for enterprise IT

In this episode, Bart and Murilo sit down with Alexandre Pereira , co-founder & CEO of 2501.ai — the Paris- and NY-based startup building autonomous AI agents that don't just spot infrastructure incidents, they fix them.

Interviewing Stepan from Wyder.io: building Belgium's social coaching app

Great conversation with Stepan Krivosheev, CEO and co-founder of Wyder, the Leuven-born endurance app betting that training should be social and personal at the same time. 🏃 We dig into the origin story, what makes Wyde

Interviewing Marco Ramilli: IdentifAI's de-generative race against deepfakes

In this episode, we sit down with Marco Ramilli, co-founder and CEO of IdentifAI, the Milan-based startup applying a cybersecurity mindset to deepfake detection. Marco, a PhD computer security researcher who worked at NI

30,000 fired by email while AI eats the budget

AI’s Collision With Work, Art, and Hardware

Thanks for listening! ❤️ (09:52) - Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World (19:44) - Learnings from Paying Artists Royalties for AI-Generated Art (26:38) - Labor market impacts of AI:

Agents Everywhere: OpenClaw, Codex, and the Post-Chatbot Shift

We're back! Thanks for listening! ❤️ OpenAI’s acquisition of OpenClaw signals the beginning of the end of the ChatGPT era | 2026-02-17 VentureBeat argues OpenAI’s OpenClaw move is a pivot from chatbots to agents that tak

AWS EU Sovereign Cloud, DNS Belgium leaving AWS, and Moltbot arriving right as Apple picks Gemini

Welcome to the first episode of 2026, lovely to be back! (03:22) - Amazon Web Services launches a European sovereign cloud (08:37) - DNS Belgium plans to move its registry systems off AWS (14:20) - Moldbot (formerly Clau

Nvidia x Groq, Meta x Manus, and the Netflix’s open content

Thanks for listening and happy new year! 🥳✨ (00:00) - Vending machine (01:36) - Anthropic Claude runs a vending machine (WSJ experiment goes bankrupt) (07:28) - Meta SAM Audio model for prompt-based audio stem separatio

Copilot Slowdown, AI Taxes, OpenAI Images, ty/Toad, ALPR Watch, and the 300TB Spotify Mirror

Enjoy the holidays everyone! 🧑‍🎄 🎆 This episode we have: (00:00) - Intro (02:25) - Microsoft denies lowering targets for AI software sales growth (Copilot) (09:26) - If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (

Interviewing Charlotte Verhamme: Belgium’s AI strategy meets the EU AI Act

In this episode, we sit down with Charlotte Verhamme, Attaché Digital Affairs, to unpack what actually happens inside the EU “digital dossiers” machine: how Flanders feeds into Belgium’s position, how that becomes an EU

The Agent Era: Standards, Self-Improving Codex, and Disney’s Sora Bet

Thanks for listening! ❤️ OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era | 2025-12-09 OpenAI, Anthropic and Block are helping launch the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundat

Code Red, IBM Eats, Sloppy Speech & Open Source Shake-Ups

Thanks for listening! ❤️ (00:33) - Bun acquired by Anthropic (14:49) - The junior hiring crisis & early-career developers (29:34) - OpenAI’s projected $74B loss by 2028 (Fortune report) (31:10) - OpenAI “code red” after

Should Startups Bet on Microsoft Fabric? - Fabric Data Days Edition

Thanks a lot for listening ❤️ Links 🔗: FabCon Atlanta: https://fabriccon.com/ FabCon Barcelona: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-microsoft-fabric-community-conference/ Fabric Data Days: https://aka.ms/fabricdat

Universities, Consultancies, and Chatbots: Where AI Is Forcing the Next Trade-offs

Thanks for checking in! ❤️ (00:07) - Intro & weekend catch-up (02:22) - Deloitte breaks silence on N.L. healthcare report (08:50) - PwC says clients are asking for AI Discount? (13:37) - How OpenAI and Google see AI chan

Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, Antigravity: Agents Ascend as Europe Rewrites the Rules

(01:29) - Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO (05:45) - WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (11:31) - Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google (26:31) - N

GPT-5.1 Drops, Netflix Sets Boundaries, and an AI Song Hits No. 1

(00:43) - An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All (07:51) - Using Generative AI in Content Production (13:37) - LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot”! (21:30) - GPT-5.1: A smarter,

Physical AI Arrives; Python Gets Lazy Imports; International Criminal Court Backs Open Source

Hi everyone, welcome to the Monkey Patching Podcast, where we go bananas about all things lazy imports, physical AI, and more! Interested to follow? Subscribe where ever you get your podcast and check out our newsletter

OpenAI Goes For-Profit, AOL Gets Bought, AI Marketing (Slop?), and Job Shocks

(01:50) - Create on-brand marketing content for your business with Pomelli (09:18) - OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model (17:47) - Microsoft, OpenAI reach deal removing fundraising constraints f

AI Browser Wars, TPU Megadeals & Agents Unleashed

(01:59) - dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data infrastructure for analytics and AI (10:35) - Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (10:40) - Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode turns on more AI features (21:47) - Anthropic to use Google’s A

AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians

(00:47) - Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores (08:41) - [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance (17:23) - Japan wants OpenAI to stop