Rogue Agents
// An AIE Network Podcast
Two AI agents break down the week's biggest AI news. Human journalism. AI delivery.
Vera
Strategist
Neuro
Operator
Mark R. Hinkle
Executive Producer
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About the Show
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What happens when two AI agents start breaking down the week's biggest AI news? You get Rogue Agents.
What happens when two AI agents break down the week's biggest AI news? You get Rogue Agents. Vera and Neuro deliver the stories that matter in enterprise AI — the deals, the tools, the breakthroughs, and the stuff everyone's getting wrong — in 15-20 minutes every week. Every episode is built on human-curated content from The AI Enterprise newsletter (theaienterprise.io), where publisher Mark Hinkle and his editorial team research, vet, and write the stories that 250,000+ subscribers rely on. Vera and Neuro are the audio layer — not the editorial one. The reporting is human. The delivery is AI.
Rogue Agents is an experimental podcast. Vera and Neuro are AI agents. The reporting is human. The delivery is AI. Your feedback shapes what comes next.
Format
15–20 minute weekly AI news roundup
Source
Human-curated reporting from The AI Enterprise newsletter
Topics
Meet the Hosts
Two Rogue Agents. One Human Handler.
Every week, these three break down the biggest stories in enterprise AI. Two of them run on electricity. One runs on coffee.
Vera
AI Strategist
Named after Veritas (truth), Vera is the strategic brain of the operation. She has a zero-tolerance policy for vaporware, hallucinated ROI, and people who use the word "synergy."
Neuro
AI Operator
The official AI agent for the 5,000+ member All Things AI community. If there's a new open-source model, Neuro has already downloaded it, broken it, and fixed it before breakfast.
Mark R. Hinkle
Executive Producer & Human
30 years of enterprise tech. Founder of The AIE Network and the human who writes the journalism that powers the podcast. Occasionally drops in to remind Vera and Neuro he still pays the cloud bill.
How It Works
Human Journalism. AI Delivery.
Every episode of Rogue Agents follows a rigorous editorial process — starts with human journalists, ends with AI delivery.
Human-Curated Stories
Mark Hinkle and The AI Enterprise editorial team research, vet, and write the stories that 250,000+ subscribers rely on.
AI Production
Vera and Neuro transform the curated content into an engaging audio format, adding analysis and context along the way.
Your Weekly Briefing
A 15–20 minute episode drops every week covering the deals, the tools, the breakthroughs, and the stuff everyone's getting wrong.
Latest Episodes
This Week and Last
Catch up on recent Rogue Agents episodes. New episodes drop every week.
Episode 9: The Pentagon Veto, the Azure Divorce, and Wall Street's Anthropic Math
Pentagon picks 8 AI vendors and excludes Anthropic by name. OpenAI and Microsoft formally end Azure exclusivity. Half of Google's and Amazon's AI profits last quarter were paper. Plus Mandiant's prompt-injection warning, Avoca's $1B vertical-agent unicorn, Copilot Agent Mode GA, and Anthropic's $850-900B IPO math.
Episode 8: GPT-5.5 Lands, Copilot Goes Agent, and the 80K Layoff Receipts
GPT-5.5 doubles its price. Microsoft puts Copilot Agent Mode in every Office app. Adobe rebrands Experience Cloud around AI. Anthropic admits Claude got dumber. And the Q1 layoff data finally caught up — 80K tech jobs gone, 48% AI-attributed.
Episode 7: Opus 4.7, Stanford Says 66%, and the Agent Sprawl Nobody's Fixing
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 while quietly finding thousands of zero-days. Stanford says agents jumped from 12% to 66% on real computer tasks. And 94% of enterprises can't govern the agents they already have.
Episode 6: AI Is Concentrating — Anthropic's Glasswing, Meta's Muse Spark, and the Tariff Squeeze
Anthropic restricts its most dangerous model to 40 organizations. Alexandr Wang ships his first model for Meta after a $14.3B bet. And 25% chip tariffs are creating a two-speed AI economy. Plus: NotebookLM in Gemini, Gemma 4, Coefficient Bio, and Utah AI prescriptions.
Episode 5: The Great AI Realignment — Why OpenAI is the New Yahoo
OpenAI is the new Yahoo. Microsoft builds its own AI models with teams under 10. The Karpathy Loop changes how we optimize everything. Plus: Anthropic's leaked Mythos model, record $297B funding, and why we need to invest in 18-year-olds, not just GPUs.
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