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  • 81: Apple Store Founder on the Future of AI and Retail

    81: Apple Store Founder on the Future of AI and Retail
    2026/09/26
    Ron Johnson spent twelve years building Apple's retail business from scratch, working side by side with Steve Jobs to create the Apple Store and, later, the Genius Bar. In this episode of the Washington AI Network Podcast with host Tammy Haddad, Johnson talks about his first fateful meeting with Jobs and reveals the real story behind naming the Genius Bar — including Jobs's initial rejection of the idea. Johnson also discusses his new book Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple's Genius and gives his take on how artificial intelligence is already transforming both physical and online retail, and why physical stores remain essential even in a digital-first world.
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    40 分
  • 80: “Dark Side of the Boom” Author Patrick Coughlin on AI Scams

    80: “Dark Side of the Boom” Author Patrick Coughlin on AI Scams
    2026/08/20
    On this episode of the Washington AI Network podcast, host Tammy Haddad talks with Savi Security co-founder and CEO Patrick Coughlin, author of “Dark Side of the Boom: How Scammers Hijack the AI Revolution,” about how AI has made sophisticated, personalized scams cheap enough to target ordinary families, not just high-value government or corporate victims. They dig into why digital fraud — now estimated at nearly $200 billion in annual U.S. losses — has become the fastest-growing crime in the country, why Meta reportedly earns 10% of its revenue from fraudulent advertisers, and why Coughlin thinks federal "know your customer" rules for AI access, not a state-by-state patchwork, are the fix Washington keeps avoiding.
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    21 分
  • 79: Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the Infrastructure Powering AI

    79: Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the Infrastructure Powering AI
    2026/08/05
    In this episode of the Washington AI Network podcast, recorded live at the CTA Innovation House in Washington, DC, guest host Sumi Somaskanda interviews Dr. Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens AG, to unpack "industrial AI" – a version of AI built for deterministic, repeatable results on the factory floor – robots, reshoring, and next-gen data centers.
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    17 分
  • 78: AI’s New Cybersecurity Frontier

    78: AI’s New Cybersecurity Frontier
    2026/07/18
    On this episode of the Washington AI Network Podcast, recorded live at Pubkey in Washington, DC, host Tammy Haddad interviews 6 cybersecurity founders and gets a candid look at how AI is reshaping both cyberattacks and cyber defense, AI vulnerabilities, American cyber dominance and how everyday consumers can protect their data, conversations and identities.
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    34 分
  • 77: AI and the New Economic Landscape: Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival

    77: AI and the New Economic Landscape: Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival
    2026/07/02
    At the Aspen Ideas Festival, host Tammy Haddad talks to top AI leaders, economists and energy leaders about whether AI's economic boom is lifting everyone, or just the top. Featuring: Chris Womack, Chairman, President & CEO, Southern Company, Lael Brainard, Former Director, National Economic Council, and former Vice Chair, Board of Governors, and Benedict Macon-Cooney, Chief Innovation Officer, Tony Blair Institute.
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    50 分
  • 76: Silverado Policy Accelerator's Maureen Hinman: A Trade Veteran’s Blueprint for U.S. AI Competitiveness

    76: Silverado Policy Accelerator's Maureen Hinman: A Trade Veteran’s Blueprint for U.S. AI Competitiveness
    2026/06/19
    On this episode of the Washington AI Network Podcast, recorded live at the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI+Expo, host Tammy Haddad interviews Silverado Policy Accelerator co-founder and executive chair Maureen Hinman about the high-stakes race to power America’s AI future. As Congress weighs the 269-page Great American Artificial Intelligence Act and the nation faces an AI-driven energy demand surge, Hinman issues a stark warning: America's ability to lead in artificial intelligence depends not just on software and models, but on solving foundational problems in energy infrastructure, critical minerals supply chains, and a permitting system built for a different era.
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    32 分
  • 75: NVIDIA Engineers Nader Khalil and Carter Abdallah on AI Agents, Open Models, and the Future of Innovation

    75: NVIDIA Engineers Nader Khalil and Carter Abdallah on AI Agents, Open Models, and the Future of Innovation
    2026/05/21
    On this episode of the Washington AI Network Podcast, host Tammy Haddad interviews NVIDIA engineers Nader Khalil and Carter Abdallah. Khalil and Abdallah discuss the rise of AI agents, how new AI tools are becoming more useful in everyday life, and why open models are helping shape the future of innovation.
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    24 分
  • 74: Meta President Dina Powell McCormick and CTO Andrew Bosworth on a "People, Not Products" Approach to AI

    74: Meta President Dina Powell McCormick and CTO Andrew Bosworth on a "People, Not Products" Approach to AI
    2026/05/14
    On this episode of the Washington AI Network Podcast, host Tammy Haddad interviews Meta’s new President and Vice Chair Dina Powell McCormick and CTO and Head of Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth in front of a live audience to discuss the company’s “people, not products” approach to AI. Powell McCormick and Bosworth tell Washington AI Network founder Tammy Haddad that AI's promise lies in human empowerment — from small business owners and veterans to a new generation of skilled trade workers.
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    18 分