{"podcast":{"title":"Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering","slug":"chain-of-thought-ai-agents","podcast_index_feed_id":7074333,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/chain-of-thought","website_url":"https://www.chainofthought.show/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/L9UtZvVIeHCUeyWb9gm7IMgzws11SpR5smiF7YG89n4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ZWU3/Mjk4NDcwNGRiOGI4/NWUwMTQ0ZjA1NjM3/ZWU0Ny5qcGc.jpg","author":"Conor Bronsdon","episode_count":73,"summary":"AI is reshaping infrastructure, strategy, and entire industries. Chain of Thought is the podcast where builders reason through what's changing. Host Conor Bronsdon sits down with the engineers and founders shipping AI in production to get past the hype into what's working and what isn't. Episodes cover model infrastructure, inference, agent frameworks, evaluation, and developer tools. Guests have come from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, AMD, Databricks, Vercel, and more. Every episode carries a full transcript and show notes at chainofthought.show. New episodes weekly. Conor Bronsdon is an independent consultant and angel investor in AI infrastructure and developer tools. He led technical ecosystem at Modular, acquired by Qualcomm in 2026; led developer awareness at Galileo, acquired by Cisco; and ran developer marketing at LinearB, where he was GM of the Dev Interrupted podcast and community. Views expressed by the host and guests are their own.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T00:20:07.137048+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents"},"episode":{"title":"Thomson 1: The New $40M Legal AI Model | Thomson Reuters Joel Hron","slug":"thomson-1-the-new-40m-legal-ai-model-thomson-reuters-joel-hron","published_at":"2026-08-24T13:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/thomson-1-the-new-40m-legal-ai-model-thomson-reuters-joel-hron","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/5ef72d7c","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/5ef72d7c/b7f578b0.mp3","summary":"Joel Hron, CTO of Thomson Reuters, breaks down how the 175-year-old company trained its own legal AI model, Thomson, for around $40 million by stacking proprietary content and expert judgment on open-source foundations. He explains why owning the model layer beats renting frontier intelligence, and how a rebuilt CoCounsel jumped from 25% to over 70% accuracy.","meta_description":"Joel Hron, CTO of Thomson Reuters, breaks down how the 175-year-old company trained its own legal AI model, Thomson, for around $40 million by stacking pr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3236,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/episodes/thomson-1-the-new-40m-legal-ai-model-thomson-reuters-joel-hron/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents/thomson-1-the-new-40m-legal-ai-model-thomson-reuters-joel-hron.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}