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Lorum Explain Why Every Bank Still Runs on 1990s Plumbing Aug 21, 2026

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George Davis went from building a cash-flow forecasting startup in London at 18, to crypto cross-border payments, to founding Lorum; a correspondent bank for banks, chasing an OCC license in the US.

His argument? The correspondent banking system isn't broken, the incentives inside it are, and almost nobody outside the industry is talking about what happens when banks try to lend deposits that might not last the week.

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Minimum Guardrails, Maximum Trust: Inside Intuit's Bet on Loose Rules Aug 19, 2026

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Most companies handle AI risk the same way. Lock it down, restrict access, wait and see.

Intuit tried something else.

Let people play with the new tools first, under the lightest guardrails they can get away with, and then send in the platform teams to harvest what actually worked. It sounds like chaos, but Jack Tam (SVP of Product and Engineering) says it's the opposite.

Today, we're talking to a leader who's spent over two decades inside the same company, watching the internet, mobile, and now AI transformations reshape what 'secure' even means. We're going inside the room to ask: what do you actually let go of, to build something that lasts?

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Is Your AI Strategy Solving the Wrong Cost Problem? Aug 17, 2026

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Most AI conversations are about cloud spend and token bills. Tom Bianculli, CTO of Zebra Technologies, is building the opposite: "tokenless AI" that runs directly on frontline handheld devices instead of burning tokens in the cloud.

Tom joins David Savage to unpack what that looks like on the warehouse floor, why 51% of the vote on any AI pilot comes down to whether frontline workers actually want to use it, and why real transformation means designing AI-first workflows from a blank sheet of paper rather than bolting AI onto what already exists.

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Is Your Store Lying to You? Aug 14, 2026

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Every retail store runs on a "plan of record". The perfect, on-paper version of how things should work. But the floor is messier.

Everseen CEO Joe White joins David Savage to unpack that gap. We find out how vision AI governs itself across GDPR and global privacy rules without ever storing a face, why 25% of retail loss comes from honest mistakes rather than theft, and why the best technology is the kind you never notice.

Plus the real return retailers see in year one, and the "bouncer" philosophy behind stopping shrink before it happens.

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Is There Still Room for a Chief People Officer? Aug 12, 2026

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AI is dissolving the walls around job architecture, but not deleting it, says Skillsoft Chief People Officer Ciara Harrington.

She joins David Savage to explain why the sharpest AI innovation comes from senior leaders, not digital natives, why functional depth matters less than critical thinking, and why the C-suite itself (CHRO, CIO, maybe a "Chief Work Officer") may not survive in its current form.

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The Death of Tokenmaxxing: Why Enterprise AI is Shifting to Open Weight Models Aug 10, 2026

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Are West Coast tech giants losing their grip on enterprise AI?

Harpreet Arora from Vercel joins David Savage to break down the massive shift from closed frontier models to open weight alternatives.

Discover how data sovereignty, latency, and a sudden shift from speculative "token maxing" to strict ROI are rewriting the playbook for tech leaders. Learn how to navigate spend sprawl and deploy AI that actually delivers business outcomes.

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Is Your AI Guardrail Solving One Problem and Creating Another? Aug 07, 2026

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Two-thirds of office workers now use AI tools IT never approved.

PagerDuty's Chief AI Officer, João Freitas, explains why: guardrails are being built for an ecosystem that changes monthly, and the abstraction layers meant to fix 'Shadow AI' raise a harder question underneath.. data sovereignty.

We also dig into the AI cost reckoning: why boards have moved past “are we using AI” to demanding real return on investment, and what that means for your AI stack.

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Going Viral, Losing Yourself Aug 05, 2026

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When Laurence Benson got stranded in Bali with no income, he turned to TikTok.

He has built a massive following, but soon realised that accepting brand deals destroyed his authenticity. In this episode, we unpack the hidden human costs of creator burnout, the danger of using Al to replace your own ideas, and why he's refusing sponsorships as he restarts his journey in America.

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Is AI Quietly Making Your Best People Slower? Aug 03, 2026

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We're told AI saves time, so why is complex work taking longer? Foxit's Evan Reiss joins David Savage to unpack an emerging “productivity gap,” where AI speeds up simple tasks but buries knowledge workers in hours of verification.

They dig into the hidden long-term token costs of agentic models, why workflow redesign matters more than adoption numbers, and why hiring is shifting toward critical thinking over tool fluency.

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Is Chasing AI Efficiency Costing Marketers Their Trust? Jul 31, 2026

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Meta keeps pushing brands toward AI-generated visuals. Gozney's answer was to pour real paint over their pizza ovens instead.

Head of Growth Kirsty Tansey joins David Savage to unpack why Gozney refuses to optimise for the next purchase, and chase the next cook instead. Today's episode asks: in a world flooded with AI content, has authenticity become Gozney's real product?

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