The Deep View: Conversations

Coding agents can drastically accelerate how fast developers build, but defaulting to the most powerful models gets expensive fast. But what if your coding assistant could route to less expensive models when they don't need high-end frontier intelligence?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Kyle Daigle, GitHub’s chief operating officer, at GitHub Universe in San Francisco to explore how the company's new Copilot Fusion can route between models and reduce token costs.

Daigle explains how Fusion can start with a less expensive model, move to a more capable on...

The AI agents helping employees work faster also open up new risks for a company's most sensitive data. So how do businesses keep up with the opportunities and the risks?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Cristian Rodriguez, CrowdStrike's field CTO for the Americas. We talked to Rodriguez at CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026 event to explore what one of the world's largest cybersecurity companies is learning about how AI is rapidly changing the cybersecurity landscape.
 
Rodriguez explains why defenders need to respond at machine speed, what the OpenAI and Hugging F...

Your next big AI win may come from someone your leadership team would never think to pick.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Todd Earwood, CEO of Betra Works and an AI investor at HalfCourt Ventures, to explore what it takes to deploy AI for useful work inside organizations.
 
Drawing on his work with 1,200 leaders and executives, Todd explains why the people closest to the work often see AI opportunities that executives miss. He shares how a university athletics sales rep used AI to uncover new ticket buyers, how a...

AI is making it easier for employees to work beyond their specialties and that has big implications for the future organizations of all sizes. 

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Bill Barton, chief operating officer at Rokt and the former leader of the Alexa team at Amazon. Rokt has gotten called out by some of the biggest tech companies in the world for its innovative use of AI inside the company. 

In fact, several of them have had Rokt come and talk to their teams about how they do it...

Companies want to own the intelligence that makes their business valuable. So what will that mean for the AI models they use, and the systems they build around them?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Justin Boitano, VP of enterprise AI at Nvidia, to explore why NVIDIA is investing in open models and how enterprises are turning them into specialized intelligence.
 
Boitano talks about why NVIDIA makes Nemotron's datasets, training techniques and model weights openly available, how proprietary business knowledge can become a competitive advantage, and why lower token c...

AI agents can act faster than humans can review them. So how do companies keep control without slowing everything down?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, Jason Hiner sits down with Blake Brannon, chief innovation officer and a co-founder of OneTrust, to explore why AI governance needs to evolve from static rules to decisions made in real time.

Brannon explains why an agent can inherit an employee's identity and access without inheriting their trust. He makes the case for independent guardian agents that evaluate what other agents are trying to do, apply...

AI is accelerating cyberattacks. Could it also give defenders the upper hand?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sat down with Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike's head of counter adversary operations, at Fal.Con 2026 to explore how AI is changing the balance of power between attackers and defenders.
 
Meyers explains why he believes security teams can now match the speed and scale of their adversaries, how CrowdStrike is training offensive and defensive AI models against each other, and why the harness that guides an AI model can matter just as much as the model i...

Nearly every smartphone launched in the past year features agentic AI capabilities, offering users an early look at what a fully agentic smartphone future could do for them. Of course, the tech powering it is driven by the chipsets.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we talked with Vinesh Sukumar, Qualcomm's VP of AI at the Snapdragon Summit, the company's annual conference where it launches its latest processors. This year, the launch included the mobile platforms Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 for phones and Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for wearables.

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Can AI move fast and still be safe? As the debate over AI safety and innovation grows more polarized, we explore the practical work of making powerful systems accountable.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Navina Singh, CEO of Credo AI, to talk about what AI governance means for frontier labs, enterprises, and policymakers. They explore why governance is broader than regulation, how organizations can test and verify their AI systems, and what happens when capabilities advance faster than oversight.

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• Why Navrina sees AI...

What does it take for companies to use agentic AI to transform the enterprise, without losing control of the technology?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Shibani Ahuja, SVP of data and AI strategy at Salesforce, to discuss how one of the world's leading software companies is applying AI with practical use cases, matching governance to risk, and building toward larger transformations ahead. 

Salesforce has surprisingly embraced a "headless" AI strategy that lets customers use any AI to access their Salesforce data safely and securely. That includes its o...

Apple's first foldable iPhone makes the case that a bigger screen is better for nearly everything in the AI era. Its new Apple Watch features raise a harder question: how much of our conversations should AI remember?

In this special episode of The Deep View Conversations, we record from Apple's campus in California following its September 2026 event to unpack the iPhone Duo, the new Audio Intelligence features in Apple Watch, and what Apple's latest devices mean for AI.

We share our first hands-on impressions of the Duo, explain why...

AI is transitioning from just answering questions to doing valuable work. The next challenge is making agents more accessible and simple enough that the technical details fade into the background.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with two members of OpenAI's ChatGPT Work team, Tara Seshan and Ty Geri, to dig into ChatGPT Work and what OpenAI is doing to make advanced agent capabilities useful to a lot more people. We also dig into some of the current challenges and how the team is approaching them. 

Seshan and Geri e...

AI makes software easier to create, but the harder and more valuable challenge is controlling what gets built, proving that it works, and managing it over time.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Florian Douetteau, CEO and co-founder of Dataiku, to explore how large organizations can turn AI agents from impressive demos into safe, maintainable systems that deliver measurable business results.

Douetteau explains why enterprise AI models are becoming commoditized, why companies may buy 90% of their agents but build the 10% that differentiates their business, and why the...

AI's appetite for compute keeps growing, but so does the pressure to deliver more intelligence per watt and per dollar. Can AMD's first rack-scale AI system open up an ecosystem dominated by Nvidia?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Andrew Dieckmann, AMD's general manager of its data center GPU business, to unpack the company's Helios platform and the rapidly changing economics of AI infrastructure. 

Dieckmann explains why frontier AI requires more than just GPUs. It demands tightly engineered racks that combine GPUs, CPUs, networking, software, cooling and serviceability. T...

AI's next power shift isn't gonna happen in a data center. 

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sat down with Jeff Morgan, co-founder and CEO of Ollama, to explore why open models are gaining momentum, and why enterprises and developers increasingly want more control over their AI.

Morgan explains how Ollama grew from a two-week experiment into software used across 80% of the Fortune 500, how the economics of coding agents are pushing teams toward open models, and why cost, privacy and control are becoming decisive advantages. He also breaks down the h...

For almost a decade, foldable phones have been a product looking for a problem to solve. They may have found their lane.

In a special episode of The Deep View Conversations, we make sense of Google's and Samsung's latest hardware and the AI announcements that came with them. But mostly, we talk about the new folding phones, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold and the Z Fold 8.  

While folding and flip phones have existed for years, this summer both Google and Samsung upped the ante by launching new experiences that let A...

AI bubble talk is rearing its head again, but the context is very different from the conversations in late 2025. 

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we unpack the common arguments about an AI bubble and explain why reality naturally falls somewhere in between the doomsayers and AI absolutists. 

We look at AI's "Tinker Bell problem": the boom depends partly on people continuing to believe in AI's potential, even as public skepticism grows. Beneath that belief cushion, enterprise contracts drive most of AI labs' revenue, while strong hyperscaler ea...

The smartphone has been built around apps and taps for nearly two decades. Google thinks AI will fundamentally change that.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we talked with Sameer Samat, president of Android ecosystem at Google, about what the company means when it says it's transforming Android from an operating system into an intelligence system. 

Samat explains why the next generation of computing could shift us from micromanaging our devices to simply telling them what we want to accomplish. We dig into how AI agents could navigate apps a...

What comes after large language models?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we talked with Zuzanna Stamirowska, CEO of Pathway, to explore why her team believes today’s dominant AI architecture has fundamental limits, and what it could take to move beyond them.

Pathway is developing Dragon Hatchling, a new architecture designed to give AI native memory, continual learning, and a different approach to reasoning. Stamirowska explains why today’s LLMs can appear to remember without actually internalizing what they learn, why reasoning through language creates its own constraints and...

What happens when powerful AI no longer has to live in the cloud?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we talked with Mark Papermaster, CTO of AMD, about why the next major shift in AI could happen on the device sitting on your desk.

Papermaster explains how computers could soon run sophisticated models and teams of private AI agents locally, offering greater speed, security and control without recurring token costs. He also makes the case that AI will be even more transformative than the smartphone because it will be...

AI systems almost always have an answer, even when they should say, “I don’t know.”

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, senior reporter Sabrina Ortiz speaks with Ruchir Puri, chief scientist at IBM Research, about why uncertainty modeling may be AI’s most urgent technical challenge.

Puri explains why today’s models struggle to recognize the limits of their own knowledge, how that failure contributes to hallucinations, and what researchers must solve before AI can become more reliable. He also explores the need for self-improving models, the enormo...

Is it possible for enterprises to build AI agents they can actually trust?

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, Senior Reporter Sabrina Ortiz sat down with Priya Srinivasan of IBM to discuss Sovereign Core, IBM’s software designed to enable enterprises to deploy AI in a secure, compliant, and sovereign way.

As AI moves from chatbots to agents that can take real action inside organizations, companies need more than speed. They need to know where their data lives, where their models run, who has access, and whether th...

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sat down with Caroline Ingeborn, COO of Luma, an AI lab dedicated to omnimodal intelligence, to discuss where generalized physical AI could take us. 

Rather than focusing only on video models, Luma takes an omnimodal, or multimodal, approach, creating models that understand text, video, images and audio. This, said Ingeborn, is because humans don't think in one modality. 

These kinds of models have many potential use cases and could even help researchers achieve general intelligence. Luma's primary audience right now is...

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Yossi Matias, head of Google Research, to explore how AI is transforming the way science gets done.

Rather than replacing scientists, Google is building AI systems designed to amplify human ingenuity. From searching millions of research papers to generating new hypotheses and accelerating experiments, these tools aim to help researchers move from ideas to discoveries faster than ever before.

Yossi explains why he believes we're entering a new era where AI can democratize scientific research, empower the...

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel joins The Deep View Conversations to discuss SPECS, Snap's long-awaited augmented reality glasses and why he believes they represent a new era of computing.

Senior reporter Sabrina Ortiz interviewed Evan at Augmented World Expo immediately after the SPECS unveiling and Spiegel explained why Snap spent more than a decade building toward this moment, how SPECS differ from AI smart glasses and mixed reality headsets, and why he sees AR glasses as the future beyond smartphones.

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Perplexity has become one of the most important AI companies in the world, but its ambitions now stretch far beyond AI-powered search.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity, to discuss how the company evolved from an AI answer engine into a platform for AI agents and digital coworkers. Dmitry explains why Perplexity has focused so intensely on accuracy, how AI is changing the nature of work, and why he believes the future belongs to small, highly leveraged teams.

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At Apple Park, Jason Hiner and Sabrina Ortiz sat down for a special episode of The Deep View Conversations at the end of WWDC 2026 to break down Apple's biggest AI announcements.

After two years of delays, promises, and mounting pressure, Apple finally delivered the Siri and Apple Intelligence experience we've been waiting for. But the bigger story may be how Apple is bringing AI to everyday users without forcing them into chatbots, new apps, or complicated workflows.

In this conversation, Jason and Sabrina unpack the most important announcements from...

Ahmad Al-Dahle has been at the center of some of the biggest technology and societal shifts of the past two decades. He helped develop the early iPhone at Apple, spearheaded the open-source Llama models at Meta to help decentralize AI power and influence, and now serves as CTO of Airbnb, where he's using AI to help people spend more time in the real world.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sat down with Ahmad to discuss Airbnb's vision for AI, why he believes AGI is coming, how AI agents are revolutionizing...

Behind the current AI boom is a developer community that both uses and builds powerful tools. Google recently released a wave of new developer-focused AI tools at Google I/O, but one person has gone further: fostering an entire online community.

Google's Logan Kilpatrick joined Sabrina Ortiz on The Deep View Conversations podcast straight from Google I/O, not only to share more insights on the new products but also to draw on his rich quilt of experiences to address the broader AI space, the future of software engineering, the developer community and more. 

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, senior reporter Nat Rubio-Licht sits down with Ian Silber, Head of Product Design at OpenAI, to explore how ChatGPT is evolving for the future. 

Silber explains why designing for AI requires a different mindset than designing traditional apps. Instead of treating the model as something behind the interface, he says designers now have to think of the model itself as part of the material they work with. That shift changes everything from product decisions and user experience to ethics, safety, and human judgment. 

This is a special episode of The Deep View Conversations podcast, recorded at Google I/O on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. 

AI smart glasses have quietly built momentum over the past several years, promising to put artificial intelligence directly in your line of sight. Now, Google has shown us the final product of its first AI glasses, which appear to have a clear competitive edge. 

Juston Payne, Google's director of product management for XR, joins The Deep View Conversations straight from Google I/O, where the company pulled the curtain back and gave the wo...

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Robert Brooks IV, chief commercial officer at Lambda, to talk about the massive AI infrastructure buildout now underway.

Lambda’s mission is to build supercomputers for superintelligence. But Brooks argues that the story is bigger than GPUs, data centers, and rising demand. It is about why compute is becoming one of the most strategically important resources in the AI economy, and why Lambda believes compute is not a commodity.

The conversation goes deep on Lambda’s vision for...

Android’s latest AI update is less about flashy demos and more about solving everyday problems.

In this special episode of Deep View Conversations, senior reporter Sabrina Ortiz sits down with Mindy Brooks, VP of Product Management for Google Android, for an exclusive interview on Gemini Intelligence for Android.

Brooks explains why Google is focusing its Android AI strategy on saving users small amounts of time across daily tasks. The conversation explores how Android is evolving from an operating system into a more personalized, context-aware "intelligence system" powered by Ge...

What happens when AI moves from cloud-only to running everywhere, including on your laptop, your phone, and other devices around you?

In this episode of Deep View Conversations, senior reporter Sabrina Ortiz sits down with Olena Zhu, who leads AI for the client computing group at Intel, to explore one of the biggest shifts underway in AI: the move toward accessible, affordable, and privacy-first AI systems.

Zhu explains why the economics and infrastructure demands of cloud-only AI may not scale indefinitely, and why on-device AI could become a critical...

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Alex Rinke, co-founder and co-CEO of Celonis, to unpack one of the most overlooked truths in enterprise AI.

Rinke and his co-founders started Celonis 15 years ago in Munich with just $15,000. What followed was a grind, including thousands of handwritten letters to land early customers, and a steady evolution from process simulation to what is now known as process intelligence.

Today, Celonis works with roughly half of the world’s 200 largest companies. Its platform acts like an MRI fo...

Analysts, marketers, and business owners face the same question: How do you reach audiences in an era when AI is reshaping how people search and find information they need? That’s a top-of-mind issue for Pat Brown, SVP of global marketing, growth, analytics, and platform at Adobe.

Brown joins The Deep View Conversations to share his unique perspective on the issue, with the expertise of someone who was doing marketing science before it was even called that, and who, in his current role, is responsible for global marketing execution across various forms of media an...

In this episode of Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Dave Horton, VP of Solutions Engineering at Airia, to explore one of the biggest tensions in enterprise AI today: how to move fast without losing control.

Airia is building a platform designed to plug AI into every corner of an organization while keeping data secure and systems governed. Dave breaks down why that balance is harder than it looks, and why many companies are underestimating the complexity of deploying AI agents at scale.

We also dig into the...

What happens when AI agents outnumber humans in the enterprise? 

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, Senior Reporter Sabrina Ortiz sits down with Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, to explore how the rise of AI agents is reshaping cybersecurity, software development, and enterprise strategy. 

Jeetu makes a bold prediction: today’s 150 million developers could expand to 3 billion agent builders within the next year. But that explosion comes with serious risk. As nation-states and bad actors deploy autonomous agents at scale, traditional, human-centered security models begin to break down. 

Thi...

What happens when a startup's mission perfectly aligns with the biggest trend in tech? That's exactly where Guild AI finds itself in 2026. 

James Everingham, CEO of Guild AI, joins The Deep View Conversations to talk about building a safety layer for AI agents. The product launched in fall 2025 and found itself at the center of the most important movement in enterprise AI just months later. 

In this conversation, James breaks down how Guild's platform deploys dozens of workflow-specific agents across different parts of a business, while giving developers the to...

Snowflake has been a stalwart of the SaaS economy and a leader in enterprise data for the past decade. But the company is deep in the middle of a transformation that most people haven't recognized yet.

In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, senior reporter Nat Rubio-Licht talks with Baris Gultekin, vice president of AI at Snowflake, for a candid look at how the company is navigating the AI era and what it's learning in real time.

Gultekin talks openly about how the entire team inside Snowflake is...