AI Rebels

AI Rebels

Jacob and Spencer

Episodes 80
Avg. Duration 52m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jan 2024
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Weekly
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47%
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About This Podcast

The AI Rebels Podcast is dedicated to exploring and documenting the grassroots of the current AI revolution. Every week a new episode is posted wherein the hosts interview entrepreneurs and developers working on the cutting edge. Tune in to benefit from their insight.

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S4E16 Making Insurance Fair: How Tuio Puts Customers First With AI ft. Juan Garcia, Tuio

Mar 05, 2026 55m Transcript

Insurance was built to profit off confusion, and Tuio is proving it doesn't have to be that way. Juan Garcia and his co-founders rebuilt insurance from the ground up as a fully digital, AI-native…

S4E15 Same Effort, 10x Results: How a Neurodivergent Artist Uses AI as a Force Multiplier ft. Victor Varnado

Feb 24, 2026 48m

A billion-dollar liquor company paid a rapper with ADHD low six figures to build them a custom video game, and he delivered it in two weeks. That rapper is Victor, and in this episode he shows two…

S4E14 AI Prototyping at Zero Cost: How Ian Cook Ships What Others Can't

Feb 17, 2026 48m

95% of enterprise AI projects fail, but not for the reasons you think. Ian Cook has spent 16 years shipping AI products across healthcare, physical security, consumer goods, and now cultural data,…

S4E13 Humanoid Robots Are a Distraction (Here's What Actually Works) ft. Grigorij Dudnik

Feb 03, 2026 1h 2m Transcript

What happens when AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world? It breaks.Spencer and Jacob sit down with robotics researcher Grigorij Dudnik, who's been running real experiments with real…

S4E12 The Hidden Tradeoffs of AI Automation (and Why Friction Still Matters) ft. Jakob Ambuehl, Brex

Jan 27, 2026 58m Transcript

How does generative AI actually work inside a large, regulated fintech company when real customers, real money, and real regulations are on the line?The AI Rebels Crew sits down with Jake from Brex’s…

S4E11 From Hype to Controls: Securing AI Before Regulation Catches Up

Jan 22, 2026 54m Transcript

Most companies are racing to adopt AI, but almost none can explain who’s responsible when it goes wrong. Cordell Robinson of Brownstone Consulting joins the AI Rebels crew to unpack the uncomfortable…

S4E10 Inside Dreami.me: Why Safer Companion AI Means Saying “No” More Often ft. Ryan "Zuda" Satterfield

Jan 14, 2026 56m Transcript

Chatbots are starting to feel less like tools and more like something you relate to, and that shift comes with real risks. On AI Rebels, we sit down with Ryan “Zuda” Satterfield, the builder behind…

S4E9 AI Is Getting Cheaper. Human Judgment Is Getting More Valuable ft. Daniel Yoo, Finmate AI

Dec 16, 2025 59m Transcript

AI isn’t magic, and pretending it is may be the biggest risk in tech right now. A former financial advisor turned AI founder argues that most AI products are already becoming commodities, with little…

S4E8 Your Next News Anchor Is AI ft. Nikolai Yakovenko, DeepNewz

Dec 10, 2025 1h 6m

AI is now spotting the news before journalists even know it exists. DeepNewz’ founder reveals how their system scans real-time signals from across the internet to uncover emerging stories faster than…

S4E7 Beating the Machines: How Bot Spot Levels the Playing Field Against Hedge Funds ft. Robert Grzesik

Dec 02, 2025 1h 1m

Most retail traders don’t realize they’re battling algorithms that execute 70–80% of all market activity. Robert Grzesik reveals how Bot Spot turns plain-English instructions into actual Python…

S4E6 The Next Big AI Wave: Context Engines, Not Chatbots - ft. Ping CEO Camden Bean

Nov 13, 2025 55m

AI note-takers are already obsolete, and Camden Bean, CEO of Ping Assistant, explains why the real power is everything that happens before and after the meeting. In this episode, he reveals how Ping…

S4E5 Why Companies Fight Over Engineers Who Don't Write Code ft. Austen Allred

Oct 24, 2025 1h 2m

Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to direct AI systems that…

S4E4 Plotly Thickens — How Open Source Is Powering the Next AI Wave ft. Domenic Ravita

Oct 08, 2025 57m Transcript

What if rebellion looked like collaboration instead of chaos? Plotly’s VP of Marketing Dominic Revita traces his journey from coding the first internet-only bank in the 90s to shaping the next…

S4E3 Practical AI and the One-Click Shift: Making Tech Effortless ft. Derek Crager

Sep 30, 2025 56m Transcript

Derek Crager, founder of Practical AI, joins AI Rebels to explain how voice is set to become the next one-click revolution. Derek shares his journey from industrial construction to Amazon, weaving in…

S4E2 From RAG to Resilience: Building AI-Ready Data Foundations with Jim Liddle of Nasuni

Sep 23, 2025 57m Transcript

What’s the one thing every enterprise overlooks when building AI? According to Jim Liddle, Chief Innovation Officer at Nasuni, it’s not the model, it’s the data architecture. In this episode, Jim…

S4E1 Provalytics: AI, Ads & the Future ft. Jeff Greenfield

Sep 12, 2025 59m Transcript

What do magic tricks and AI marketing have in common? A lot, according to Jeff Greenfield, CEO of Provalytics. In this conversation, we unpack the challenges of data privacy, the rise of Amazon and…

S3E18 Up-Skilling the Nation: Mike Spaeth on AI’s Race Against the Skills Gap

Jun 24, 2025 50m Transcript

AI power-broker Mike Spaeth doesn’t mince words: if we fail to reskill fast, automation will wipe out one in five jobs. He points to Texas’s Alpha School, where AI squeezes a whole school day into…

S3E17 AI at Warp Speed: Work, Video, and What Comes Next

Jun 10, 2025 24m

Take a front-row seat as Jake and Spencer chart AI’s breakneck advance—progress so fast that many observers still look the other way. They highlight Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s forecast that the…

S3E16 The AI That Got Me Dates: Building Tinder GPT and Beyond ft. Grigorij Dudnik

May 27, 2025 1h 3m Transcript

Can AI save us from the toxic digital world it helped create? In this episode, Polish AI engineer Grigorij Dudnik shares how he's building AI agents that handle our digital drudgery—from Tinder GPT…

S3E15 High-Leverage Humans: The Rise of 1-Person Companies Powered by AI

May 20, 2025 46m Transcript

What if your next coworker is an AI agent? In this episode of AI Rebels, developer Nim shares his journey building AI Agent Dot App, exploring how solo entrepreneurs can now harness agents to do the…

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How many episodes does AI Rebels have?

AI Rebels has published 80 episodes since January 2024, covering topics in Business, News.

Is AI Rebels still active?

AI Rebels is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 52m.

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