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Arsham Ghahramani lives in Toronto, but grew up in rural countryside of UK, out in the middle of nowhere on a farm. He was surrounded by tractors, chickens, and other animals. Over time, he moved to bigger and bigger cities, until 6 years ago, he jumped across the pond to Canada. Outside of tech, he loves team sports, playing a lot of soccer and starting to get into hockey. When he transitioned to hockey, he immediately enjoyed how fast paced it was, and how many tactics carried over from soccer.

In the past, Arsham was the head of machine learning at a prior company. His now co-founder and he worked closely together, and they were both pressured to hire good people quickly. They started to notice some patterns in how they were hiring... including the regular submission of AI generated resumes.

This is the creation story of Ribbon.

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• Braingrid.ai
• Alcor
• Equitybee
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Links

• https://www.ribbon.ai/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/arshamg
• https://arshamg.com

Ryan welcomes Anthony Vinci, former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, to explore AI’s evolving role in intelligence in places like translation and image analysis, the challenges of evolving modern tech into government infrastructure, and the importance of democratized intelligence so citizens can keep themselves and loved ones safe.

Episode notes:

The Fourth Intelligence Revolution details how espionage practices are being transformed by a new global intelligence conflict, driven by AI and competition with China, and what everyday citizens can do to defend their privacy. Learn more at Anthony’s website. 

Connect with Anthony on Linkedin, Twitter, and Substack.

Populist badge winner Orez gets today’s shoutout for their answer to Break or exit out of "with" statement?.

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• GreyNoise IP Check
• tprof: a targeting profiler
• TOAD is out
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: GreyNoise IP Check

• GreyNoise watches the internet's background radiation—the constant storm of scanners, bots, and probes hitting every IP address on Earth.
• Is your computer sending out bot or other bad-actor traffic? What about the myriad of devices and IoT things on your local IP?
• Heads up: If your IP has recently changed, it might not be you (false positive).

Brian #2: tprof: a targeting profiler

• Adam Johnson
• Intro blog post: Python: introducing tprof, a targeting profiler

Michael #3: TOAD is out

• Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal
• Front-end for AI tools such as OpenHands, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and many more.
• Better TUI experience (e.g. @ for file context uses fuzzy search and dropdowns)
• Better prompt input (mouse, keyboard, even colored code and markdown blocks)
• Terminal within terminals (for TUI support)

Brian #4: FastAPI adds Contribution Guidelines around AI usage

• Docs commit: Add contribution instructions about LLM generated code and comments and automated tools for PRs
• Docs section: Development - Contributing : Automated Code and AI
• Great inspiration and example of how to deal with this for popular open source projects
  • “If the human effort put in a PR, e.g. writing LLM prompts, is less than the effort we would need to put to review it, please don't submit the PR.”
• With sections on
  • Closing Automated and AI PRs
  • Human Effort Denial of Service
  • Use Tools Wisely

Extras

Brian:

• Apparently Digg is back and there’s a Python Community there
• Why light-weight websites may one day save your life - Marijke LuttekesHome

Michael:

• Blog posts about Talk Python AI Integrations
  • Announcing Talk Python AI Integrations on Talk Python’s Blog
  • Blocking AI crawlers might be a bad idea on Michael’s Blog
• Already using the compile flag for faster app startup on the containers:
  • RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache uv pip install --compile-bytecode --python /venv/bin/python
  • I think it’s speeding startup by about 1s / container.
• Biggest prompt yet? 72 pages, 11, 000

Joke: A date

• via From Pat Decker

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) What happened at Davos 2) OpenAI’s planned $50 billion funding round 3) Does the money set expectations too high for OpenAI? 4) Will OpenAI ever turn a profit? 5)) How many funding rounds does OpenAI have left? 6) Does OpenAI’s shrinking lead bode poorly for its inevitable IPO 7) OpenAI introduces ads to ChatGPT 8) Why is Google waiting to bring ads to Gemini? 9) Apple is building a wearable AI Pin 10) Wait, is Alexa Plus good? 

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Ryan sits down with Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech to discuss the newest kind of tech debt—AI-generated tech debt. They dive into the uneven productivity results of AI tools, how tech teams are evolving their roles and work in response to these massive technological shifts, and what the nervous developer can do to maintain joy in their work. 

Episode notes: 

Founded by computer and data scientists from the University College London, TurinTech automates your code optimization so you can deploy better AI models. Preview their new Artemis coding agent for free. 

Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.

User Adam Franco won a Stellar Answer badge—and this week’s shoutout—for their answer to How can I delete a remote tag?.

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Sharad Kumar lives in Pleasanton, California with his wife and 2 kids. He enjoys playing all musical instruments, and spending time with his family. He has a 2 year old daughter, and a 14 year old son into robotics. He is also passionate about giving back to the community, through their company foundation.

Harshit Omar lives in San Francisco, and is married with a 4 year old son. He used to be a street racer in his college days, loving fast cars and taking risk. Nowadays, he is a big marvel and comic book fan, along side his son. In fact, his son thinks he is Captain America, regularly wielding his shield and mask.

A fun fact about both of these gentlemen: this is their third company to work together in, their second startup, and their wives are sisters. So they are connected by wives, and united by startups.

In their previous startups, Sharad was leading sales and ops and Harshit was leading on the product side. When the company got acquired, it took them 8-9 months to integrate to a different cloud provider. They realized the model was broken, requiring expensive consulting services, and not convenient at all - and they wanted to figure out a better way.

This is the creation story of Fluidcloud.

Sponsors

• TECH Domains
• Mezmo
• Braingrid.ai
• Alcor
• Equitybee
• Terms and conditions: Equitybee executes private financing contracts (PFCs) allowing investors a certain claim to ESO upon liquidation event; Could limit your profits. Funding in not guaranteed. PFCs brokered by EquityBee Securities, member FINRA.

Links

• https://www.fluidcloud.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharadkumar123/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshito/

Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss where AI progress really stands today, where the next breakthroughs might come from, and whether we’ve hit AGI already. Tune in for a deep discussion covering the latest in AI research, from continual learning to world models. We also dig into product, discussing Google’s big bet on AI glasses, its advertising plans, and AI coding. We also cover what AI means for knowledge work and scientific discovery. Hit play for a wide-ranging, high-signal conversation about where AI is headed next from one of the leaders driving it forward. 

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David Sztykman lives in Paris, but used to live in New York for a time. He has always been into video, streaming and photography. For the latter, as a kid, his Dad had a film developing lab in their basement, so he spent many hours doing that before digital changed it all. As a student, he used to tinker with open source video streaming libraries, and eventually worked for Alkamai, responsible for the streaming media for Europe (think the Olympics or Super Bowl). Outside of tech, he has 2 kids and they like to do a lot of legos together. But in general, they are outside kids so usually, they like to get out of the house and do active things.

In his prior role, David was consistently alerted about poor performance on the video streaming. He started to dig into the data streaming portion of, to be alerted on shifts in the stream itself. After a few other opportunities, he was approached to build real time CDN observability, for distributed infrastructure.

This is the creation story of Hydrolix.

Sponsors

• TECH Domains
• Mezmo
• Braingrid.ai
• Alcor
• Equitybee
• Terms and conditions: Equitybee executes private financing contracts (PFCs) allowing investors a certain claim to ESO upon liquidation event; Could limit your profits. Funding in not guaranteed. PFCs brokered by EquityBee Securities, member FINRA.

Links

• https://hydrolix.io/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsztykman/

Cristiano Amon is the CEO of Qualcomm. Amon joins Big Technology to discuss what the AI device of the future looks like—and why he thinks the next wave of personal computing will move beyond the smartphone. Tune in to hear his vision for AI-powered glasses and wearables, what a truly useful agent experience requires, and why he believes the “winner at the edge” will shape the AI race. We also cover AI PCs and what will actually drive adoption, Qualcomm’s push into AI inference in the data center, the state of robotics and industrial AI, and where China may be pulling ahead. Hit play for a Davos-front-row conversation on where AI is heading next—and the chips and constraints that will determine how fast it gets there.

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