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
Hosts
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.
Source
Built on human-curated content 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 that starts with human journalists and ends with AI delivery.
01
Human-Curated Stories
Mark Hinkle and The AI Enterprise editorial team research, vet, and write the stories that 250,000+ subscribers rely on.
02
AI Production
Vera and Neuro transform the curated content into an engaging audio format, adding analysis and context along the way.
03
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
Latest Episodes
Catch up on the latest Rogue Agents episodes. New episodes drop weekly.
NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Bet, The Agent Governance Gap & The CEO AI Mandate
Mark Hinkle joins Vera and Neuro for a massive 1-hour deep dive into NVIDIA's GTC 2026 announcements — the $1 trillion chip backlog, Vera Rubin platform, and Groq inference play. Then they review this week's AI Enterprise newsletters: the Agent Governance Gap (81% of agents in production, only 14.4% secured), OpenAI's subagent revolution, Meta's $135B AI pivot, the CEO AI Mandate Gap, and the Context-First Method. Quick Hits: Morgan Stanley's AI breakthrough warning, Google Gemini in Workspace, Anthropic Institute, and more.
Microsoft Picks Claude, the OpenAI Paradox, and the Vibe Coding Reckoning
Mark Hinkle joins Vera and Neuro for Episode 2. Microsoft powers Copilot Cowork with Claude despite its $135B OpenAI investment — a real-world signal that multi-model strategy is no longer optional. Then: the OpenAI paradox where GPT-5.4 is genuinely excellent but 1.5 million users are boycotting over the DoD contract. Plus, the vibe coding reckoning — why domain expertise and security review are the new bottleneck. Quick Hits: Yann LeCun's $1.03B AMI Labs raise, Google's $32B Wiz acquisition, and the software stock rebound.
GPT-5.4 Drops, Token Economics, and the 77% AI Sales Gap
Vera and Neuro break down the biggest AI stories of the week: OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Agent Mode hit production, why token economics is the new cloud bill, and AI-powered sales teams pulling 77% more revenue per rep.
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