How Google & PayPal Could Rewrite Agentic Commerce | Invisible Machines S6E5
As Global Head of AI at PayPal, Prakhar Mehrotra is looking deeply at the ways agentic AI is affecting commerce — particularly timely given PayPal and Google’s recent announcement of a multiyear strategic partnership to advance various commerce solutions. He joins Josh and Robb for a layered conversation that speculates on the shape of future marketplaces, where machines are bidding and setting prices on behalf of individuals and businesses. The trio also discuss the ways that AI is reworking the plumbing of technology within organizations and how agent runtime environments hold the key to successful adoption of AI. As the world evolves into one with more AI agents than websites, digital interactions might become simplified for users in ways that add complexity for businesses. Prakahr shares his insights into how humans might interact with technology in the future and how technology will change commerce in ways that are hard to fathom but crucial to confront.---------- Support our show by supporting our sponsors!This episode is supported through partnership with OneReach.ai. Experience the runtime for AI agents — a turnkey private architecture and tools for building enterprise-grade agentic solutions. Use any AI modelsCreate guardrails for organizational alignmentEquipped with enterprise grade security Avoid vendor lock-inOneReach.ai’s award-winning AI agent orchestration platform meets the many requirements for seizing powerful new technologies in this pivotal moment.Interested in implementing an Agent Platform for your organization? Book a Demo: https://onereach.ai/book-a-demo/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast_s6e5&utm_content=1 --------------------> The revised and significantly updated second edition of our bestselling book about successful adoption of AI agents, Age of Invisible Machines, is now available anywhere you buy your books: Amazon — https://bit.ly/4hwX0a5 Chapters -0:00 — Intro & guest: Prakhar Mehrotra, PayPal1:46 — Galaxy Quest, aliens & how LLMs “learn”3:46 — When AI gets a wallet: true agency begins6:42 — Marketing to humans vs marketing to AIs8:19 — From the information age to the intelligence age10:25 — Decision hierarchies: bots, assistants & concierge agents13:05 — Hyper-personalized pricing in the LLM era17:20 — Merchants vs consumers: who wins when agents decide19:09 — Human vs tech today, AI vs AI tomorrow (electricity wars)25:11 — Marketplaces where agents set prices (the PayPal angle)51:41 — Identity, fraud & trust: why payments need a gatekeeper54:27 — Micropayments & sub-penny agent-to-agent economies1:02:04 — PayPal as the “clearing house” of agentic commerce1:17:16 — Closing thoughts & outro#InvisibleMachines #Podcast #TechPodcast#AI #AgenticAI#AIPodcast#DigitalTransformation#AIFirst#AIAdoption#TechLeadership#Commerce#PayPal#Innovation
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You Can’t Fake “AI-First"
Cassie Kozyrkov returns for a deep dive into the decision science behind a truly AI-first approach to technology adoption. Cassie was Google’s first Chief Decision Scientist and currently advises world leaders and executives on how to optimize their most critical decisions. In this episode she explains why AI is now our memory prosthesis and offers sage guidance on how individuals and organizations can become AI-first. This includes an urgent warning to business leaders to avoid the low-hanging fruit of using AI to automate processes there are already clear instructions for. Instead, Cassie explains how to begin looking in the attic and targeting the stuff that always seemed impossible to automate.Introduction to neural networks and deep learning (by Cassie) - https://bit.ly/mfml_113Cassie also offers courses on Maven, including one with Pascal BORNET and Brian Evergreen (Agentic Artificial Intelligence for Leaders) - the next cohort is Sept 8-19, 2025: https://maven.com/the-future-solving-company/agentic-intelligence-for-leaders---------- Support our show by supporting our sponsors!This episode is supported through partnership with OneReach.ai. Experience the runtime for AI agents — a turnkey private architecture and tools for building enterprise-grade agentic solutions. Use any AI modelsCreate guardrails for organizational alignmentEquipped with enterprise grade security Avoid vendor lock-inOneReach.ai’s award-winning AI agent orchestration platform meets the many requirements for seizing powerful new technologies in this pivotal moment.Interested in implementing an Agent Platform for your organization? Book a Demo: https://onereach.ai/book-a-demo/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast_s6e4&utm_content=1 --------------------> The revised and significantly updated second edition of our bestselling book about successful adoption of AI agents, Age of Invisible Machines, is now available anywhere you buy your books: Amazon — https://bit.ly/4hwX0a5 #InvisibleMachines #Podcast #TechPodcast#AI #AgenticAI#AIPodcast#DigitalTransformation#DecisionScience#AIFirst#AIAdoption#TechLeadership#FutureofWork#EnterpriseAI#AIAgents#TechTrends#google
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Why Success Feels Like Failure at NVIDIA
Bryan Catanzaro was instrumental in the adoption of GPUs for powering machine learning, which has effectively turned NVIDIA from a graphics processing hardware company into a $4T AI powerhouse. Bryan joins Robb and Josh to talk about his journey in AI and how the unique psychology and power structures at NVIDIA enables the company to continually meet the moment in surprising ways. They also discuss the impact of Bryan’s plea for help in categorizing data for emerging language models at a 2019 keynote he delivered to librarians at Stanford. Perhaps most importantly, Bryan shares thoughts on how hair was the first technology. ---------- Support our show by supporting our sponsors!This episode is supported through partnership with OneReach.ai. Experience the runtime for AI agents — a turnkey private architecture and tools for building enterprise-grade agentic solutions. Use any AI modelsCreate guardrails for organizational alignmentEquipped with enterprise grade security Avoid vendor lock-inOneReach.ai’s award-winning AI agent orchestration platform meets the many requirements for seizing powerful new technologies in this pivotal moment.Interested in implementing an Agent Platform for your organization? Book a Demo: https://onereach.ai/book-a-demo/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=s6e3&utm_content=1 ------------------ The revised and significantly updated second edition of our bestselling book about successful adoption of AI agents, Age of Invisible Machines, is now available anywhere you buy your books: Amazon - https://bit.ly/4hwX0a5 #InvisibleMachines #Podcast #TechPodcast#AI #AgenticAI#AIPodcast#DigitalTransformation #Coding#TechTrends#EnterpriseAI#GPUs #NVIDIA #AIInnovation #DataScience #LanguageModels #TechLeadership#CUDA
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Why is OpenAI So Obsessed with AGI? Karen Hao (NYT bestselling author of "Empire of AI")
In her instant New York Times bestseller, Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao distills more than a decade of in-depth research into a detailed account of OpenAI’s rise to power and why leadership at the company abandoned their promise to keep their research open. Karen joins Robb and Josh for a deep dive into murkiness surrounding what artificial general intelligence (AGI) actually represents and why AI colonialism and biased systems undercut efforts to create superintelligence that represents the vastness of human learning and experience. Drawing on the work of a nonprofit in New Zealand to preserve the Māori language, the trio also discuss why smaller, focused implementations that use better curated data might be more valuable to businesses trying to integrate AI into their operations.Buy Karen Hao’s book “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI”: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/Learn more about Karen and here work: https://karendhao.com/---------- Support our show by supporting our sponsors!This episode is supported through partnership with OneReach.ai. Experience the runtime for AI agents — a turnkey private architecture and tools for building enterprise AI agents with guardrails. Use any AI modelsWith enterprise grade security And avoid vendor lock-in.OneReach.ai’s award-winning AI agent orchestration platform meets the many requirements for seizing powerful new technologies in this pivotal moment.Learn more at onereach.ai/ai-agents.—---------The revised and second edition of our bestselling book, Age of Invisible Machines, is available now on Amazon! https://a.co/d/axLFOhX Episode Credits:Robb Wilson — Resident expertJosh Tyson — Co-hostVishal Menon — ProducerMykhailo Lytvynov — Audio/Video Editor & Sound EngineerDaryna Moskovchuk — Graphic DesignAlla Slesarenko — Copy Vira Prykhodko — Web Development Elias Parker — Executive Producer#InvisibleMachines #Podcast #TechPodcast#AI #AgenticAI#AIPodcast#KarenHao#OpenAI#AGI#OAGI#EmpireOfAI#AIColonialism#Anthropomorphism#FutureOfAI
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NVIDIA: What's next for the $4T AI powerhouse?
Award-winning journalist Stephen Witt sits down with Josh and Robb to share insights from his latest book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip. There’s a deep connection between Nvidia’s GPU chips and the neural networks powering the LLMs at the center of agentic AI. Witt’s book provides a captivating biography of Huang that details his radical approach to business and innovation, which has made Nvidia the most valuable company in the world (recently reaching a record-breaking market cap of $4 trillion). This episode explores this history of AI as well as the coming Omniverse and what the power of simulation will mean to businesses.Buy Stephen Witt’s book! The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip---------- Support our show by supporting our sponsors!This episode is supported through partnership with OneReach.ai Experience the runtime for AI agents - a turnkey private architecture and tools for building enterprise AI agents with guardrails. Use any AI modelsWith enterprise grade security And avoid vendor lock-in.OneReach.ai’s award-winning AI agent orchestration platform meets the many requirements for seizing powerful new technologies in this pivotal moment.Learn more at onereach.ai/ai-agents.------------------------------------------------------------The revised and second edition of our bestselling book, Age of Invisible Machines, is available now wherever you buy books! Amazon: https://a.co/d/axLFOhXEpisode CreditsRobb WilsonJosh TysonVishal Menon - ProducerMykhailo Lytvynov - Audio/Video Editor & Sound EngineerDaryna Moskovchuk - Graphic DesignAlla Slesarenko - Copy Vira Prykhodko - Web Development Elias Parker - Executive Producer#InvisibleMachines #Podcast #TechPodcast#AI #AgenticAI#AIPodcast#Nvidia#TechTrends#EnterpriseAI#TheThinkingMachine#FutureofWork#TechBooks#Business#Innovation#simulation#omniverse#jensenhuang
"The enemy of nonsense in AI" | The #1 podcast about agentic AI
Join great conversations with experts about the intersections between AI, product design, technology and business.
The bestselling authors of Age Of Invisible Machines are joined by other luminaries to continue the conversations that began in their book—the first bestseller about agentic AI. With a newly revised and updated Second Edition that hit the shelves in spring of 2025, Robb Wilson (CEO and Co-Founder of OneReach.ai) and Josh Tyson expand their explorations of disruptive technology with fellow AI insiders, experts, and luminaries working in adjacent realms.
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