The AI Files

A one stop shop for AI news, events, perspectives, demos, strategy and everything about AI. 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.

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Episodes

4 days ago

In this episode, I covered human prevailing over AI in an exhibition Humans vs AI coding contest and new ventures to invest in AI for frontline workers and prepare them for era of AI. I delved into recent launches of OpenAI ChatGPT Agent, Perplexity Comet AI browser, Mistral open source Voxtral audio model and a lot more

6 days ago

All Jon Flynn aspired as a child, was to become a rugby player; he now shapes the Sports & Media industry with the power of AI. He is an AI nerd, Author, Founder, Podcaster, Leader, Speaker and a Visionary. His book, 'SPORTS AND TECHNOLOGY HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD,' delves into the transformative potential of this Data, Analytics & AI. Formerly a colleague of ours at Microsoft, Jon now spearheads AI GTM for Media, Gaming & Telco at Google.
 
In my conversation with Jon, we explored his remarkable journey and insights on the concept of the professional fan, as outlined in his book. We delved into the future landscape of Media & Sports in the realm of AI, discussing concerns surrounding job impacts and copyrights. Join me in this engaging dialogue with the visionary Jon Flynn in this special guest episode of The AI Files
 
Here is a link to his book: https://a.co/d/dnE6DRu

Sunday Jul 13, 2025

Shadab discusses Microsoft layoffs, Grok 4, Medical Superintelligence, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, and recent AI related news & announcements

Sunday Jun 29, 2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discusses Quote of the week of recent remarks by senator Bernie Sanders on AI should lead to 4 days work week, Google Doppl to try new apparels virtually, Meta's Oakley glasses, Salesforce Agentforce-3 launch and new capabilities within Claude to build & share AI apps as well as legal relief in AI training challenges to Meta and Anthropic etc. We also covered word of the week Context Engineering and Prompt of the Week to create weekly status reports within your Copilot 365.

Saturday Jun 21, 2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discusses Andy Jassy's memo to Amazon employees on GenAI that was in the news for impact of AI on jobs in years to come. We covered launches from Midjourney to generate videos as well as Google's Gemini Flash-Lite and Microsoft's quantum breakthrough on novel 4D geometry based error correction codes as well as details on Scale AI, AI-900 certification and prompt for preparation for the interview etc

Sunday Jun 15, 2025

Jaime and Shadab discusses announcements from Apple WWDC, o3 Pro model, Copilot Vision on Windows, Sam Altman's essay on 'The Gentle Singularity', prompt engineering technique of 'Cues', and AI use cases of Audio Description for accessibility and several AI news etc

Sunday Jun 08, 2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Perplexity booming growth and plan for a browser as well as Meta facing backlash on monetizing deepfake Ad. We covered launches from Claude Gov, Mistral Code and Eleven V3 TTS. We introduced new segments like AI use cases using Text To Speech services and prompt of the week for you to catch up via Copilot after time off.

Sunday Jun 01, 2025

In this episode, Shadab and Jaime discuss Dario Amodei's latest interview with CNN on 50% of white collar entry level jobs impacted by AI. We also discussed Claude 4 and AI announcements at Google I/O event as well as various other relevant AI news.

Friday May 23, 2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss new OpenAI acquisition of IO leading to Jony Ive designing physical devices as well as ChatGPT as well as new Take It Down Act to criminalize deepfake and non-consensual explicit images. We then delve into tons of Microsoft Build announcements across AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, GitHub and Azure.

Sunday May 18, 2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Codex and GPT4.1 in ChatGPT from OpenAI, AlphaEvolve from Google for enhancing algorithms, SWE-1 models from Windsurf, paper on learning improvements with ChatGPT, use of AI to manage risks in complex projects etc

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