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
About the Show
AI News,
Delivered by AI
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 11: Consultancy Capture, the Values Premium, and the Death of the Operating System
PwC signs 30,000 consultants onto Claude. Anthropic doubles down on enterprise and global health the same week the Pentagon excludes it from defense. Google says Android is no longer an OS. Three Deep Dives + five Shorts on the week the model providers stopped pretending they only sell models.
Episode 10: The Round-Trip, Wall Street's New Consultant, and Vertex Dies on a Tuesday
Anthropic commits $200B to Google for compute; Google reinvests up to $40B back into Anthropic — call it the Round-Trip. Anthropic ships 10 finance agents on Opus 4.7 the day after a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs. Google killed Vertex AI on a Tuesday and replaced it with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Plus 5 Shorts: CAISI, ServiceNow's 9-second…
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.
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