Hosted by Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes
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For less than 30 minutes a week, stay on top of all relevant AI news, launches, perspectives and actions about AI in corporates and enterprises. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.
Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain hosts The AI Files, a technology show with 100 episodes published.
This week on The AI Files, Jaime breaks down a major shift in the AI race: frontier AI is no longer just about who has the best model — it is about who controls the full stack. OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeno, Open
In this episode, Shadab discusses Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, AI fluency for graduates, human creativity in the AI era, job-market uncertainty, Google’s $50M skilled-trades push, OpenDoor’s India exit by replacing with
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Bernie Sanders’ proposed AI wealth tax, Microsoft and NVIDIA’s full-stack agentic AI push, Trump’s narrower AI oversight order, data center scrutiny, Anthropic’s IPO ambitions, Cha
In this episode, Shadab discusses Pope Leo's call to disarm AI, Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and dynamic workflows, Microsoft’s redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot, Amazon’s AI push in Hollywood and creator backlash, the political
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss AI in Commencement Speeches being booed, Google I/O’s agentic AI push, Gemini and Search upgrades, ChatGPT for personal finance, Karpathy joining Anthropic, Anthropic eyeing Micros
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Jensen Huang’s call to run toward AI, Grok’s declining traction, the first AI-assisted zero-day exploit, Microsoft’s MDASH security breakthrough, the fight over pausing AI data cen
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index and the rise of “human agency,” OpenAI and Anthropic’s push to acquire AI services firms, Anthropic’s finance agent templates for modeling/KYC/val
In this interview with Anurag Karuparti, he shares his journey to the intersection of cloud architecture, AI, and modern engineering. He unpacks why many enterprises get AI agents wrong, and what it really takes to autom
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss CS enrollment shifts, Google’s agentic enterprise push, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, 8th‑gen TPUs, agentic Workspace upgrades, AI security with Wiz, the White House memo on AI
In this episode, Shadab discuss the tokenmaxxing debate, Uber blowing its AI budget, GPU scarcity and rising NVIDIA prices, Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2-Efficient launch, OpenAI’s GPT-5.4-Cyber vs Anthropic’s security approac
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Mythos’ vulnerability-finding surge; Goldman Sachs data on AI job substitution vs augmentation; MIT’s “rising tides” view of automation; bold tax
In this episode of The AI Files, we break down one of the biggest weeks in AI news and what it means for business leaders, technologists, and everyday professionals trying to keep up with a rapidly changing landscape. Fr
AI is no longer just generating text and images — it is starting to power robots, factories, vehicles, and real-world operations. In this episode of The AI Files, we unpack one of the biggest shifts happening in AI right
In Episode 92 of The AI Files, Jaime and Shadab break down one of the biggest themes in AI right now: how artificial intelligence is changing the workforce, enterprise software, creative tools, and even high-stakes decis
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss the Pentagon’s Anthropic backlash and shifting AI partnerships, OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 launch, a weak U.S. jobs report, Gemini’s first wrongful-death lawsuit, Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses’
In this episode, Shadab discuss Anthropic’s refusal to grant unrestricted military AI access, shifting AI safety commitments, and the implications for government contracts. They explore Intuit’s deep partnership with Cla
In this episode, Shadab discusses bold predictions from Vinod Khosla on jobs and abundance, the future of IT services industry, India’s massive push into AI infrastructure at AI Impact Summit, the rise of agentic workflo
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Mustafa Suleyman’s prediction on AI automating white‑collar work, whether SaaS is really dead, the rise of agentic commerce, AI’s big Super Bowl moment, Amazon’s plan for an AI con
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Claude planned Mars rover autonomy, Claude Opus 4.6 breakthroughs, OpenAI Frontier enterprise agent platform, GPT‑5.3 Codex for agentic coding, Copilot adoption signals, AI’s expan
In this episode, Jaime & Shadab discuss Zuckerberg’s AI‑driven workforce shift, Meta’s surge and Microsoft’s market stumble, Clawdbot/OpenClaw’s rise as a self‑hosted agent, Perplexity’s $750M Azure deal, SpaceX–Tesla–xA
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