# YPO Technology Network AI Brief Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971.md RSS feed: https://media.rss.com/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief/feed.xml Official site: https://rss.com/podcasts/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief Author: Stephen Forte Episodes: 120 ## Resource AI moves fast. Your briefing should move faster. The YPO Technology Network AI Brief is a daily breakdown of the AI developments that actually matter to your business. No hype, no jargon, no filler — just what changed, what it costs you or saves you, and what to tell your team on Monday. Hosted by Stephen Forte for the leaders who don't have time to chase the news but can't afford to miss it. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971.md ## Episodes - [Stop Counting Seats](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/stop-counting-seats) — 2026-07-31T10:00:00+00:00 - [Your Works Council Can Veto Your AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/your-works-council-can-veto-your-ai) — 2026-07-30T10:00:00+00:00 - [Growth and Headcount Just Came Unbolted](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/growth-and-headcount-just-came-unbolted) — 2026-07-29T10:00:00+00:00 - [Europe's AI Delay Does Not Cover You](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/europe-s-ai-delay-does-not-cover-you) — 2026-07-28T10:00:00+00:00 - [Your Pricing Algorithm Just Became an Antitrust Problem](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/your-pricing-algorithm-just-became-an-antitrust-problem) — 2026-07-27T12:00:00+00:00 - [Turn Your IT Team Into Forward-Deployed Engineers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/turn-your-it-team-into-forward-deployed-engineers) — 2026-07-24T10:00:00+00:00 - [If OpenAI Can't Control Its AI, Neither Can You](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/if-openai-can-t-control-its-ai-neither-can-you) — 2026-07-23T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Is Quietly Repricing Your Company](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-is-quietly-repricing-your-company) — 2026-07-22T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Is for Velocity, Not Layoffs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-is-for-velocity-not-layoffs) — 2026-07-21T10:00:00+00:00 - [Your AI Agent Will Lie to You](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/your-ai-agent-will-lie-to-you) — 2026-07-20T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Is Table Stakes, Not a Moat](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-is-table-stakes-not-a-moat) — 2026-07-17T10:00:00+00:00 - [Your AI Logs Are Now Evidence](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/your-ai-logs-are-now-evidence) — 2026-07-16T10:00:00+00:00 - [Nobody Will Insure Your AI Anymore](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/nobody-will-insure-your-ai-anymore) — 2026-07-15T10:00:00+00:00 - [Boring AI Is the AI That Pays](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/boring-ai-is-the-ai-that-pays) — 2026-07-14T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Just Went From Answering to Doing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-just-went-from-answering-to-doing) — 2026-07-13T10:00:00+00:00 - [You Don't Know What AI You're Running](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/you-don-t-know-what-ai-you-re-running) — 2026-07-10T10:00:00+00:00 - [Your AI Bottleneck Was Never the Model](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/your-ai-bottleneck-was-never-the-model) — 2026-07-09T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI's Insiders Just Started Hedging](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-s-insiders-just-started-hedging) — 2026-07-08T10:00:00+00:00 - [Washington Wants Equity, Not Just Rules](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/washington-wants-equity-not-just-rules) — 2026-07-07T10:00:00+00:00 - [From Paying for Seats to Paying for Results](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/from-paying-for-seats-to-paying-for-results) — 2026-07-06T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Is Now on Your Power Bill](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-is-now-on-your-power-bill) — 2026-07-03T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Layoffs Are Outrunning the Technology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-layoffs-are-outrunning-the-technology) — 2026-07-02T10:00:00+00:00 - [Your AI Agents Leak Data and Money](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/your-ai-agents-leak-data-and-money) — 2026-07-01T13:48:30+00:00 - [Frontier AI Got Cheap, Open, and Chinese](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/frontier-ai-got-cheap-open-and-chinese) — 2026-06-30T10:00:00+00:00 - [Graded by Clients, Cloned by Criminals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/graded-by-clients-cloned-by-criminals) — 2026-06-29T10:00:00+00:00 - [Everybody's Building Their Own Stack](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/everybody-s-building-their-own-stack) — 2026-06-26T10:00:00+00:00 - [Inference Just Got Cheaper. The Market Panicked.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/inference-just-got-cheaper-the-market-panicked) — 2026-06-25T10:00:00+00:00 - [From Pilot to Payroll](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/from-pilot-to-payroll) — 2026-06-24T10:00:00+00:00 - [The AI Jobs Story Just Flipped](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-ai-jobs-story-just-flipped) — 2026-06-23T10:00:00+00:00 - [Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/cheaper-tokens-bigger-bills) — 2026-06-22T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Model Is Not the Moat](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-model-is-not-the-moat) — 2026-06-20T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Transformer's Author Just Defected](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-transformer-s-author-just-defected) — 2026-06-19T10:00:00+00:00 - [Who Controls AI Just Got Three Answers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/who-controls-ai-just-got-three-answers) — 2026-06-18T10:00:00+00:00 - [Three Bets on Who Controls AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/three-bets-on-who-controls-ai) — 2026-06-17T10:00:00+00:00 - [Washington Just Restricted Who Can Use an AI Model](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/washington-just-restricted-who-can-use-an-ai-model) — 2026-06-16T10:00:00+00:00 - [Invisible Guardrails and a 24-Hour Reversal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/invisible-guardrails-and-a-24-hour-reversal) — 2026-06-15T10:00:00+00:00 - [Visa Ships the Wallet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/visa-ships-the-wallet) — 2026-06-12T10:00:00+00:00 - [Anthropic Ships the Brain, Perplexity Ships the Body](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/anthropic-ships-the-brain-perplexity-ships-the-body) — 2026-06-11T19:31:44+00:00 - [Anthropic Splits the Meter, Google Kills the Add-On](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/anthropic-splits-the-meter-google-kills-the-add-on) — 2026-06-10T10:00:00+00:00 - [Apple Blinks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/apple-blinks) — 2026-06-09T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Reckoning](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-reckoning) — 2026-06-05T11:08:55+00:00 - [The Agents Are Already Inside](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-agents-are-already-inside) — 2026-06-04T19:16:45+00:00 - [Google Rewrites the Rules](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/google-rewrites-the-rules) — 2026-06-03T11:58:17+00:00 - [AI Moves Onto the Device](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-moves-onto-the-device) — 2026-06-02T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Bill Has Arrived](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-bill-has-arrived) — 2026-06-01T13:42:03+00:00 - [The Receipt Week — Three Things Enterprises Just Confirmed About AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-receipt-week-three-things-enterprises-just-confirmed-about-ai) — 2026-05-29T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Labs Disagree — What To Do When the People Building AI Don't Agree About What AI Will Do](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-labs-disagree-what-to-do-when-the-people-building-ai-don-t-agree-about-what-ai-will-do) — 2026-05-28T10:00:00+00:00 - [The AI Grifter Test — Five Red Flags Before You Sign That Proposal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-ai-grifter-test-five-red-flags-before-you-sign-that-proposal) — 2026-05-27T10:00:00+00:00 - [The ClickUp Test — When the 18-Month Clock Started Ticking](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-clickup-test-when-the-18-month-clock-started-ticking) — 2026-05-26T10:00:00+00:00 - [Polsia's Shape: One Founder, No Employees, Ten Million Dollars](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/polsia-s-shape-one-founder-no-employees-ten-million-dollars) — 2026-05-25T10:00:00+00:00 - [Anthropic's 48 Hours — and the Order That Could Change Everything](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/anthropic-s-48-hours-and-the-order-that-could-change-everything) — 2026-05-22T10:00:00+00:00 - [Agent OS Wars: Your Platform This Quarter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/agent-os-wars-your-platform-this-quarter) — 2026-05-21T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Artisan: The Role Your Org Chart Lacks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-artisan-the-role-your-org-chart-lacks) — 2026-05-20T10:00:00+00:00 - [Your Vendors Just Got Graded — The Agent Report Card](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/your-vendors-just-got-graded-the-agent-report-card) — 2026-05-19T10:00:00+00:00 - [You Cannot Learn This From The Inside](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/you-cannot-learn-this-from-the-inside) — 2026-05-18T10:00:00+00:00 - [Company Brain: The Operating System Your Dashboard Cannot See](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/company-brain-the-operating-system-your-dashboard-cannot-see) — 2026-05-16T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Bill You Haven't Paid Yet: Hidden Cleanup Costs Inside Your Agent Stack](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-bill-you-haven-t-paid-yet-hidden-cleanup-costs-inside-your-agent-stack) — 2026-05-15T10:00:00+00:00 - [Elevate The Adopters. Train The Curious. Phase Out The Refusers.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/elevate-the-adopters-train-the-curious-phase-out-the-refusers) — 2026-05-14T10:00:00+00:00 - [OpenAI Changed The Model. Your Company Didn't Notice. That's The Whole Problem.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/openai-changed-the-model-your-company-didn-t-notice-that-s-the-whole-problem) — 2026-05-13T10:00:00+00:00 - [Eight AI Vendors. One Customer. The Procurement Lesson Hiding In Plain Sight](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/eight-ai-vendors-one-customer-the-procurement-lesson-hiding-in-plain-sight) — 2026-05-12T10:00:00+00:00 - [From Press Release to P&L: Anthropic's Real Story](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/from-press-release-to-p-l-anthropic-s-real-story) — 2026-05-11T10:00:00+00:00 - [Secrets, Identity, And The Blast Radius Of A Helpful Agent](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/secrets-identity-and-the-blast-radius-of-a-helpful-agent) — 2026-05-09T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Humans Behind The Automation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-humans-behind-the-automation) — 2026-05-08T10:00:00+00:00 - [Sierra Just Repriced Customer Service](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/sierra-just-repriced-customer-service) — 2026-05-07T10:00:00+00:00 - [Anthropic Buys Distribution Through Private Equity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/anthropic-buys-distribution-through-private-equity) — 2026-05-06T10:00:00+00:00 - [Inference Got Cheap. Renegotiate Everything.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/inference-got-cheap-renegotiate-everything) — 2026-05-05T10:00:00+00:00 - [Agents Need a Boss](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/agents-need-a-boss) — 2026-05-04T12:00:00+00:00 - [Agents Don't Go Rogue. They Inherit.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/agents-don-t-go-rogue-they-inherit) — 2026-05-02T12:00:00+00:00 - [The Grown-Up Era Of Enterprise AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-grown-up-era-of-enterprise-ai) — 2026-05-01T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Stasi Took Decades. Meta Took A Week.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-stasi-took-decades-meta-took-a-week) — 2026-04-30T10:00:00+00:00 - [MCP Is The Plug. You Still Need The Outlet Cover.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/mcp-is-the-plug-you-still-need-the-outlet-cover) — 2026-04-29T10:00:00+00:00 - [Google Just Built An HR System For Agents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/google-just-built-an-hr-system-for-agents) — 2026-04-28T10:00:00+00:00 - [Twenty Agents, 1.2 Humans, 2.4 Million Closed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/twenty-agents-1-2-humans-2-4-million-closed) — 2026-04-24T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Campfire Protocol: Replacing Your Old Salty Guy Before He Retires](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-campfire-protocol-replacing-your-old-salty-guy-before-he-retires) — 2026-04-23T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Just Made Your Disgruntled Barista Dangerous](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-just-made-your-disgruntled-barista-dangerous) — 2026-04-22T10:00:00+00:00 - [Give Your AI Its Own Identity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/give-your-ai-its-own-identity) — 2026-04-21T10:00:00+00:00 - [AI Just Made Your Company Fully Discoverable](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ai-just-made-your-company-fully-discoverable) — 2026-04-20T10:00:00+00:00 - [The Redesign Layoffs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/the-redesign-layoffs) — 2026-04-18T12:58:00+00:00 - [Saboteurs Are Why Your AI Fails](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/saboteurs-are-why-your-ai-fails) — 2026-04-17T10:00:00+00:00 - [CEO Silence Costs More Than AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/ceo-silence-costs-more-than-ai) — 2026-04-16T12:33:37+00:00 - [A Free AI Tool Just Breached 600 Firewalls](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/a-free-ai-tool-just-breached-600-firewalls) — 2026-04-15T10:00:00+00:00 - [Musk Made Banks Buy Grok. Here's Why You're Next.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/musk-made-banks-buy-grok-here-s-why-you-re-next) — 2026-04-14T10:00:00+00:00 - [Control Is the Illusion AI Sells Best](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/control-is-the-illusion-ai-sells-best) — 2026-04-13T10:00:00+00:00 - [Managed Agents: The Infrastructure Barrier Just Dropped](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ypo-technology-network-ai-brief-7728971/managed-agents-the-infrastructure-barrier-just-dropped) — 2026-04-11T10:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.