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Ep 47 | What AI Is Teaching Us About the Next Great Companies with Alex Kantrowitz

The AI era is redefining what it takes to stay on top. Success won’t come from protecting the status quo, but from embracing the “always day one” mindset—where reinvention, adaptability, and bold experimentation drive progress. Drawing on Big Tech’s playbook, Alex Kantrowitz, former journalist and now founder of Big Technology, joins host Paul Muller on The AI Forecast to discuss why continuous reinvention is the key to thriving in this new landscape, and how leaders can navigate AI’s impact on business, culture, and society.

How Lenses MCP Brings AI to Kafka | Talk to Your Data with Claude & MCP

In this video, Tun Shwe (@DataSurfer), Head of AI at Lenses.io, takes you on a journey through the Lenses MCP Server - the bridge between AI models and Apache Kafka. Discover how engineers, analysts, and compliance teams can now interact with Kafka using natural language.

When Navan Chose to Build, Not Buy: The AI Decision That Changed Everything

In this must-listen episode of The Data Chief, Ilan Twig, co-founder and CTO of Navan, shares why large language models (LLMs) will revolutionize our relationship with technology, comparing the shift to the mouse replacing the keyboard. Ilan provides insight into the critical "Build vs. Buy" decision every company must face and reveals the intense process Navan undertook to launch Navan Cognition, built to ensure zero critical hallucination through supervisor agents.

MOCK AWS SES Locally! Stop Sending Test Emails & Cut Cloud Costs

In this quick guide, Speedscale's Matt LeRay shows you how to free your local development environment from direct AWS SES dependencies. When your application sends an email during local testing, it usually triggers a live AWS transaction, leading to slow tests, unnecessary cloud costs, and sometimes even spam filter issues.