Episodes: 242
Frequency: Multiple_weekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
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Location: USA
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Paul Roetzer - Founder and CEO of the Marketing AI Institute and co-host of the show, focused on making artificial intelligence practical and actionable for business leaders.
Mike Kaput - Chief Content Officer at the Marketing AI Institute and co-host of the show, covering artificial intelligence developments and their implications for marketing and business.
Jon Dick - Hubspot's AI Transformation, Agentic Go-to-market Strategy, AI Sales Development, Answer-engine Optimization, Organizational Change, And Business Results
Dan Slagen - Zapier's Ai-native Marketing Strategy, AI Adoption, Marketing Automation, Ai-enabled Organizational Change, And Building An Ai-powered Marketing Operation
#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint
September 22, 2026
AI-safety pacing became a political fight this week: Trump versus a bipartisan push, with data centers and the midterms in the middle. Paul and Mike go deeper on the part that matters more: the widening gap between the models labs keep and the ones you can use, Noam Brown's warning about it, and OpenAI's six new rogue-agent disclosures. Plus Paul's surprise book announcement and a full rapid-fire slate. AI-Pulse Survey: Fill out this week’s AI-Pulse Survey here. Show Notes: Access the show ...
#240: How David’s Bridal Is Rebuilding a 76-Year-Old Business Around AI
September 17, 2026
David's Bridal was built around one thing for 75 years: the dress. In this AI Transformations episode, Elina Vilk (President & Chief Business Officer) and Mike Ball (Head of Product) join Mike Kaput to explain how the company is reinventing itself around the whole wedding journey, the "aisle to algorithm" strategy. We get into Pearl Planner, the free AI wedding-planning companion now used by hundreds of thousands of couples with no marketing spend; Pearl Connect, the new vendor-side platform...
#239: Labs Agree to Pace AI, OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, AI Jobs Apocalypse Postponed & Jensen Declares AGI
September 15, 2026
A former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher resigned with a warning that went viral, reigniting the "should we slow down?" debate. Then OpenAI said an internal model solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem - followed by a credit controversy with an NYU mathematician. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down this week’s latest stories, plus new data suggesting an AI jobs boom, Anthropic's 2030 economic scenarios, Jensen Huang declaring AGI has arrived, and a run of "agents gone wil...
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