Oct 30, 202630 min
Claire Zau and Josh Machiz are at the New York Stock Exchange for the Fortune Cyber60, in the middle of the stretch people have started calling Black October. Claire explains the PHP vulnerability behind it and the...
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Lightwork
Hosted by Lightspeed · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
There's more AI news than anyone can possibly consume. Lightwork is the filter.Every Monday, Lightspeed's Claire Zau and Josh Machiz break down the one development that mattered most that week — a model release, a funding round, a company structural shift — and work through what changes because of it. They also bring in a guest working at the front of AI to sharpen the picture.By the end of each episode, you'll have a clearer view of where things are going and why it matters to you. New episodes every Monday morning.Have something you want to hear? Email us at lightwork@lsvp.com.
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What is Lightwork about?
There's more AI news than anyone can possibly consume. Lightwork is the filter. Every Monday, Lightspeed's Claire Zau and Josh Machiz break down the one development that mattered most that week, a model release, a funding round, a company structural shift, and work through what changes because of it.
Who hosts Lightwork?
Lightwork is hosted by Lightspeed. The show has published 33 episodes to date.
What has Lightwork covered recently?
Recent episodes include "The End of Event-Based Cybersecurity, AI Science & World Models | Lightwork" (30 October 2026, 30 minutes), "Agents Hacking at Scale, Inside the Interpretability Debate & DeepSeek Gets Banned | Lightwork" (25 October 2026, 22 minutes), and "How Agents Made Hacking Cheap | Lightwork" (23 October 2026, 26 minutes).
How often does Lightwork publish?
Lightwork publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 33 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Lightwork?
Booking probability for Lightwork is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Lightwork requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Lightwork's contact route on record: verified email.
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Lightspeed hosts Lightwork, a technology podcast with 33 episodes published.
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Lightwork
Agents Hacking at Scale, Inside the Interpretability Debate & DeepSeek Gets Banned | Lightwork
Oct 25, 202622 minJosh Machiz is joined by Lightspeed partner Amber Yang for a week where agents turned up on both sides of the security line. A security researcher reported that one hacker used AI agents to break into more than a...
- Oct 23, 202626 min
Josh Machiz is joined by Lightspeed partner Amber Yang for a week where agents turned up on both sides of the security line. A security researcher reported that one hacker used AI agents to break into more than a...
- Oct 16, 202623 min
Meta and Google are making their next moves in the race for frontier AI, Apple is pushing deeper into the smart home, and SpaceX wants to become a major player in mobile. Claire and Josh discuss Meta’s Muse Wonder and...
- Oct 6, 202625 min
Robotics had a big summer, and it is genuinely hard to tell who is doing what. Claire Zau met with Lightspeed partner Amber Yang in front of a whiteboard to draw the whole market on two axes. How general is the model...
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- Oct 1, 202617 minS1
NVIDIA just open sourced the piece it says was missing from the agent stack. Claire Zau talks with Ali Golshan, Senior Director of AI Software at NVIDIA, about OpenShell and Sentry, and why a chip company is giving the...
- Sep 25, 202632 min
Claire Zau and Josh Machiz open with the launch developers spent the week arguing about. TypeSafe AI came out of stealth with Jev, a model that never writes a word. You send it a state and typed questions and it sends...
- Sep 24, 202634 min
Hjalmar Nilsonne, CEO and co-founder of Neko Health, joins Lightwork to explain how a Twitter message from Spotify founder Daniel Ek ultimately led to a new approach to preventive healthcare. Hjalmar breaks down why...
- Sep 22, 202633 minS1
Corporate entertainment is a massive category, but booking client dinners, team events, sports outings, catering, and merchandise is still fragmented across countless systems and vendors. Ande CEO and co-founder Lohit...
- Sep 21, 202641 minS1
Pocket FM co-founder and CEO Rohan Nayak joins Claire Zau and Josh Machiz on Lightwork to explore how AI is changing the economics of entertainment and who gets to create it.Rohan breaks down Pocket FM’s approach to...
Sep 18, 202630 minS1Claire and Josh break down the growing push to “pace the frontier” as Dario Amodei and other AI leaders debate how quickly AI should advance and what new safety guardrails could look like. They also unpack Suno V6’s new...
- Sep 15, 202615 minS1
Profound co-founder and CEO, James Cadwallader, joins Lightspeed’s Claire Zau following the company’s $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation. They discuss how AI agents are changing the way consumers discover...
- Sep 14, 202633 minS1
Santi Nestares joins Claire Zau and Sam Eisler to explain why he rebuilt the ERP from scratch. Santi ran a previous company to about a hundred million, then lost nine months to a legacy ERP migration that left him...
- Sep 14, 202625 minS1
Samar Abbas, co-founder and CEO of Temporal, joins Claire Zau and Lightspeed partner Anoushka Vaswani to break down a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, seven months after a round that valued the...
- Sep 11, 202617 minS1
Mistral has raised €3 billion in a Series D, the largest equity round ever completed by a European tech company, just three years after the Paris AI lab launched. The round brings Samsung and EQT onto the cap table and...
Sep 4, 202628 minS1Tim Cook's fifteen years running Apple ended this week and John Ternus becomes the company's eighth CEO, a hardware engineer who led every iPad, the last five iPhone generations, and AirPods. Claire and Sam argue...
- Sep 2, 202626 minS1
Zack Peng, co-founder and CEO of Seel, joins Lightwork to explain why he treated e-commerce returns as an underwriting problem rather than a logistics one. He was a philosophy and physics major who learned to code at...
- Sep 1, 202656 minS1
Will Johnson joins Claire Zau and Josh Machiz to explain why he buys health insurance agencies instead of just selling them software. Gyde calls itself the first AI-native insurance, wealth and health brokerage. Will's...
Episode #14
Robots Outrun Usain Bolt, Skild's ChatGPT Moment & Google Bids $10M for Spirit Data | Lightwork
Aug 28, 202631 minS1Claire Zau and Josh Machiz break down a week about robot bodies, robot brains, and the data underneath both. Humanoid robots broke three human world records at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, where more than...
Episode #12
Stripe Buys OpenRouter, Grok Bot Arrives, ChatGPT for Teens & AI Designs Proteins | Lightwork
Aug 21, 202638 minS1On this episode of Lightwork, Claire Zau and Josh Machiz break down four stories. Stripe acquired OpenRouter, the model gateway that lets a developer integrate once and reach hundreds of models, routing each request by...
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