
Podcast by Malcolm Werchota
Podcast by Malcolm Werchota
23 July 2025
AI agents aren’t coming – they’re already here. But 90% of companies are failing to use them effectively. In this no-BS episode, Malcolm unpacks 6 brutal truths about AI agents: forgetfulness, hallucination cascades, cost explosions – and exactly how to fix them.
Top 5 Takeaways:
🔹 Break tasks into 15-min chunks
🔹 Use full-context windows (200k tokens!)
🔹 Verify after every step
🔹 Equip agents with read/write tools
🔹 Use KV caching to avoid cost bombs
A must for every CEO and AI leader in 2025.
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23 July 2025
In this episode, Malcolm Werchota explains why AI Overviews appear in nearly 30 % of US searches, why 58.5 % of queries end without a click and CTRs plunge 32–39 %.
He shows how ChatGPT favors Wikipedia (47.9 %), Perplexity leans on Reddit (46.7 %) and GAIO relies on YouTube (18.8 %) —making classic rankings meaningless.
Top 5 insights:
#SEO3 #AIVisibility #DigitalLeadership #AEO #FutureOfSearch
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21 July 2025
The Call That Changed Everything: A MedTech CEO Realizes the AI Revolution
When OpenAI's AI won gold at the International Math Olympiad, a shocked MedTech executive called me. What followed were 2 intense coaching hours about the future of his billion-dollar company.
Top 5 Learnings for Executives:
🎯 Learning 1: It Was Predictable The improvement from 13% (2023) to gold (2025) followed a clear exponential trend. What seems impossible today will be standard in 18 months.
🚀 Learning 2: Test-Time Compute Changes Everything AI now "thinks" for hours about problems. This enables solutions to complex business challenges that were previously impossible.
💡 Learning 3: 5 Game-Changing Use Cases Molecule design with proofs, regulatory intelligence, supply chain 2.0, personalized medicine algorithms, mathematical R&D optimization.
⚠️ Learning 4: DACH Region Is Sleeping Through the Revolution Only 38% of German SMEs actively use AI. Productivity gap to USA: 24%. Time to wake up!
🎬 Learning 5: The Next 6 Months Decide Everything GPT-5 is coming. The IMO model will be available in 6 months. Those who don't act now will be left behind.
#ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #MedTech #DACHRegion #AIStrategy #FutureOfWork #CEOInsights #BusinessTransformation #AIRevolution #DigitalLeadership #TechTrends2025
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20 July 2025
A 6-second kiss cam moment at a Coldplay concert turned into a career-ending nightmare for Astronomer CEO Andy Byron. Malcolm Wechota analyzes how AI tools - from facial recognition to emotion detection - accelerated this personal catastrophe, exposing why the EU AI Act's bans on social scoring and surveillance are powerless against crowd-sourced AI vigilantism.
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18 July 2025
Imagine your most annoying accounting task - the one that usually takes 3 hours - done in 57 minutes. With 100% accuracy. For 200 euros per month.
This isn't science fiction. This happened yesterday at my company.
In this episode, I'll show you:
Plus: The step-by-step guide to launch your first agent tomorrow morning.
Warning: After this episode, you'll wonder why you're still paying humans for reconciliation.
🎯 Perfect for: CEOs, CFOs, accountants, and anyone who spends too much time in Excel.
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17 July 2025
Universities like Columbia, Yale, and KAIST got caught hiding prompts in papers to force "positive review only" from LLM reviewers – a July 2025 scandal that's blowing up AI ethics. Malcolm deconstructs why it works (prompt injection hacks), shares his Bregenz family bot-trick stories, and drops a recipe to ethically test your own systems. Is this cheating or smart survival? Warning: This could change how you submit contracts or resumes forever. Beer recommended for the mind-bend.
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