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AI Neanderthal
Malcolm's daily news podcast: ten or eleven stories a day, three explained slowly and the rest fast. No jargon and no breathless futurism. Just what happened, what it costs and who gets handed the bill.
Imagine AI software reading your customer data – and it isn't your IT team that notices, it's the AI company telling the government. That's what India's cyber agency published this week.
You tell ChatGPT you want to buy your wife a watch – and the next morning the jeweller calls? Advertisers in ChatGPT can now aim ads using email and phone lists, and ads can follow your current chat.
AI puts its bills on the table: Anthropic makes $16.8 billion in three months – and investors say "not enough". A bank brings in 1,000 people because AI found too many holes. And Germany says yes to Nvidia.
A new episode every weekday. Every episode on aineanderthal.com →
And how not to die out with them. The book by Maria and Malcolm Werchota on why AI adoption stalls: everyone thinks the bottleneck is the tools. It's the fear.
Auf Deutsch: KI-Neandertaler, bald verfügbar.
Sophia, 8, was handed the same AI tool as a room of senior professionals and got a better result in minutes. Her whole technique: keep talking to it like a person. The professionals had better degrees, better data and the same software. What they didn't have was permission to look stupid while learning.
“Make it fresh, dude.”Sophia, age 8
Everyone thinks the bottleneck is the tools. It's the fear.
Ten questions that give you your coordinates: how many tools you actually use, and how much room you have to be wrong in front of other people. No score inflation, no personality quiz.
Most people score worse than an eight-year-old. That is the point.
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Builds the systems that make AI adoption actually stick, turning executive intent into working process across regulated industries.
Has delivered AI keynotes and workshops to thousands of executives across DACH, and hosts the daily podcast AI Neanderthal.
Malcolm and guests on what actually works when companies put AI to work: use cases, failures, tools and the people side. The long deep dives, next to the daily AI Neanderthal.
This episode is a turning point.Diese Episode ist ein Wendepunkt.
Welcome to the weekly degustation menu — curated, high-signal, and focused on what actually matters from Week 3 of January 2026.Eric Schmidt sagt es ohne Umschweife: Europa wird chinesische KI-Modelle nutzen müssen – nicht aus Ideologie, sondern aus wirtschaftlicher Notwendigkeit. Die Energiekosten sind zu hoch, Genehmigungen zu langsam, der Aufbau eigener KI-Infrastruktur kaum noch finanzierbar.
Where have I been for 10 days? Vibe coding. Building something that changed everything about how I see my own business.Wo war ich die letzten 10 Tage? Vibe Coding. Ich habe etwas gebaut, das alles daran verändert hat, wie ich mein eigenes Unternehmen sehe.
AI agents just built a complete web browser — 3 million lines of code — in ONE WEEK. But first, they failed spectacularly. The lesson? It's not about smarter AI. It's about smarter AI organization. Plus: OpenAI adds ads, Google mines your Gmail, and the UK makes deepfakes illegal overnight.KI-Agenten haben gerade einen kompletten Webbrowser gebaut — 3 Millionen Codezeilen — in EINER WOCHE. Aber zuerst sind sie spektakulär gescheitert. Die Lektion? Es geht nicht um schlauere KI. Es geht um schlauere KI-Organisation. Plus: OpenAI bringt Werbung, Google macht aus Gmail einen KI-Agenten, und Großbritannien macht Deepfakes über Nacht illegal.
What's happening in Iran is a preview of AI's role in future power struggles:Iran ist heute eines der deutlichsten Beispiele dafür, wie KI gleichzeitig Unterdrückung und Befreiung ermöglichen kann.
This is your weekly degustation menu — the curated, high-signal recap of what mattered in AI in the second week of January 2026.Diese Woche zeigt, wie sehr sich KI von Tools zu Strategie verschiebt.
Original reporting from our AI adoption projects with companies across the DACH region.
Interviews and guest appearances, such as "Erklär mir die Welt" with Andreas Sator.
