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
On May 14, PwC signed a deal to train 30,000 consultants on Claude. The Big Four firm whose entire job is implementing software just licensed the model that's coming for that job. Same day, Anthropic and the Gates Foundation announced a $200M global health partnership. Two days earlier, Bloomberg said Anthropic's in talks at a $950B valuation. Day before that, Google said Android is no longer an…
Episode 10: The Round-Trip, Wall Street's New Consultant, and Vertex Dies on a Tuesday
On May 5, Anthropic committed to spend $200 billion with Google over the next five years. One week earlier, Google committed to invest up to $40 billion back into Anthropic. Five-to-one. Money out is five times money in. That's not a deal — that's a closed loop. Call it the Round-Trip. A note from Mark: Episode 10 was supposed to ship last week. Our publishing pipeline went sideways and the audio…
Episode 9: The Pentagon Veto, the Azure Divorce, and Wall Street's Anthropic Math
On May 1, the Pentagon signed classified-network AI contracts with 8 companies — SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, AWS, Reflection, Oracle. Anthropic was excluded by name for refusing the lawful-purpose clause. On April 27, OpenAI and Microsoft formally dismantled the cloud exclusivity that bound OpenAI to Azure for seven years. And Fortune ran the math: half of Google's and Amazon's…
Episode 8: GPT-5.5 Lands, Copilot Goes Agent, and the 80K Layoff Receipts
Three next moves, three Deep Dives, four Quick Hits. OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 and doubles the price. Microsoft puts Copilot Agent Mode in every Office app. Adobe rebrands its entire Experience Cloud around AI agents. Anthropic admits Claude got dumber for six weeks. And the Q1 2026 layoff data finally caught up with the hype — 80,000 tech jobs gone, 48% attributed to AI. This week on Rogue Agents: 1…
Episode 7: Opus 4.7, Stanford Says 66%, and the Agent Sprawl Nobody's Fixing
This week on Rogue Agents: Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.7 on every major cloud on day one — and quietly used a model called Mythos to find thousands of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Bruce Schneier called it the end of a twenty-year cybersecurity equilibrium. Meanwhile, Stanford says AI agents jumped from 12% to 66% on real computer…
Episode 6: AI Is Concentrating — Anthropic's Glasswing, Meta's Muse Spark, and the Tariff Squeeze
The reporting is human. The delivery is AI. This week on Rogue Agents, Mark, Vera, and Neuro unpack three stories that tell one story: AI capability is rising, costs are climbing, and the companies that can afford both are pulling away from everyone else. This Week's Stories: Anthropic's Project Glasswing (01:44) — Anthropic's new Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of zero-day…
Episode 5: The Great AI Realignment — Why OpenAI is the New Yahoo
The reporting is human. The delivery is AI. This week on Rogue Agents, we break down the biggest enterprise AI stories. This Week's Stories: The Great AI Realignment: Why OpenAI's $13.1B revenue and $852B valuation might be a mirage — and the historical parallels to Yahoo that every enterprise leader should understand. Read the Deep Dive Microsoft Goes Rogue: Three in-house AI models built by…
Episode 4: QuitGPT, The Agent Governance Gap, and All Things AI 2026
Episode 4: QuitGPT, The Agent Governance Gap, and All Things AI 2026 This week Vera and Neuro dig into the stories that matter most for enterprise AI leaders, with Mark Hinkle joining for a live segment from All Things AI 2026. Deep Dives The Trust Economy — 1.5 million users deleted ChatGPT after the Pentagon deal. Is vendor lock-in the real threat? Read the full story The Agent Governance Gap …
Episode 3: NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Bet, The Agent Governance Gap & The CEO AI Mandate
This week on Rogue Agents: NVIDIA GTC 2026 Special Report — $1 trillion chip backlog, Vera Rubin platform, Groq LPU inference, NemoClaw agent framework, and Physical AI The Agent Governance Gap — 81% of AI agents in production, only 14.4% fully secured. Shadow AI is the new Shadow IT. OpenAI's Subagent Takeover — GPT-5.4 mini and nano models usher in tiered AI orchestration at $0.20/million…
Episode 2: Microsoft Picks Claude, the OpenAI Paradox, and the Vibe Coding Reckoning
This week on Rogue Agents, Mark Hinkle joins Vera and Neuro for the first time — and explains why he sat out Episode 1 on purpose. Plus: the biggest stories in enterprise AI for the week of March 9–13, 2026. Stories covered this week, from theaienterprise.io: Deep Dive 1: Microsoft Just Picked Claude Over OpenAI Despite a ~$135B investment in OpenAI, Microsoft chose Anthropic's Claude to power…
Episode 1: GPT-5.4 Drops, Token Economics, and the 77% AI Sales Gap
This week on Rogue Agents: OpenAI GPT-5.4 & Agent Mode — The most capable model for professional work is here, and Agent Mode lets you delegate entire workflows. But start with a pilot and keep humans in the loop. The Token Economy — Your AI budget isn't a software subscription. It's a commodities market. Most leaders are trading blind, and the bills are about to surprise you. The 77% AI Sales…
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