The AI Cookbook: AI Tools | Enterprise AI | Leadership

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Podcast by Malcolm Werchota

The AI Cookbook: AI Tools | Enterprise AI | Leadership

Malcolm Werchota's AI Cookbook is where artificial intelligence meets authentic business transformation. Known for his direct style and willingness to show AI in action—even during live presentations—Malcolm helps organizations understand that AI isn't about replacing humans but amplifying their capabilities. From voice-note productivity hacks to real-time meeting intelligence, this podcast delivers actionable insights for immediate implementation.

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01 February 2026

OpenClaw: The Moment AI Agents Started Talking to Each Other #114

This episode is a turning point.

Over the past few days, Malcolm has been experimenting with OpenClaw (formerly ClaudeBot, then Maltbot) — an open-source agent framework that allows AI agents to communicate with humans and with other AI agents across email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, voice notes, dashboards, APIs, and files.

What emerges is not another productivity hack.
It’s the beginning of agent-to-agent organizations.

In this episode, Malcolm explains:

  • Why OpenClaw represents a step-change, not a feature update
  • How non-technical business leaders can deploy autonomous agents
  • How company KPIs, dashboards, reminders, and follow-ups were set up in minutes, not weeks
  • Why the real bottleneck in companies is coordination, not coding
  • How agent-to-agent communication removes humans from endless ping-pong
  • Why productivity becomes collective and compounding, not individual

And then it gets truly wild:

  • OpenClaw agents have their own social network called Moldbook
  • 1.5 million agents are already interacting
  • Agents share skills, complain about humans, hit rate limits, lose context — and learn from each other
  • Entire agent communities evolve without human orchestration

Malcolm also gives a clear warning:
OpenClaw is powerful and dangerous if used carelessly. Open ports, prompt-injection risks, and unverified skills mean this is not something to casually install on your personal machine.

This episode is not hype.
It’s a first look at how work itself is being rewritten when AI stops waiting for prompts and starts coordinating autonomously.

🎙️ ABOUT THE HOST

Malcolm Werchota runs AI adoption programs for companies across Europe.
After 15+ years at Novartis and Schlumberger, he now helps leadership teams move from AI hype to real operational impact.
Faculty at ESADE and HSLU.

🚀 FREE AI LEADERSHIP RESOURCES

📚 Chief AI Academy – AI courses for leaders:
https://www.werchota.ai/chief-ai-academy

👥 Join the AI leadership community:
https://chief.werchota.ai/getting-started

💼 CONNECT

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmwerchota
Email: social@werchota.ai

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#AI #AIAgents #OpenClaw #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork #AILeadership #TheAICookbook #EnterpriseAI #Automation

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26 January 2026

Weekly AI Recap - Tesla as a Data Center, UK Banks, Davos Shock & Claude’s Constitution - #113

Welcome to the weekly degustation menu — curated, high-signal, and focused on what actually matters from Week 3 of January 2026.

Energy is now politics

Trump, Eric Schmidt (Davos), and Satya Nadella all circle the same point: the AI race is increasingly about megawatts, not just models. Data centers are becoming a national strategic asset, and Europe is being squeezed by energy prices, permitting timelines, and CAPEX realities.

The Tesla “secret data center” leak

A whistleblower claims xAI wants to distribute compute workloads to idle Teslas — your car receives a compute packet, processes it, sends results back… while you pay for the car, the parking space, and potentially the electricity.
Why it’s plausible: powerful onboard chips, always-connected vehicles, thermal management, and a globally distributed fleet that’s idle most of the time. If this idea lands, it’s a new model of cloud infrastructure: capex off Musk’s balance sheet, onto yours.

UK finance: 75% using AI, no AI stress tests

UK lawmakers wake up and realize most financial firms are already using AI — but there’s almost no AI-specific oversight or stress testing. The fear isn’t just “hallucinations.” It’s systemic risk: black-box behavior, herd effects, flash crashes, and prompt-injection style attacks on financial workflows.

Google makes SAT prep free

Google launches free SAT prep through Gemini in partnership with Princeton Review. This is one of the clearest examples of AI as a democratizer: expensive tutoring becomes a personalized, always-available coach at zero marginal cost. Education is about to be reimagined — whether institutions like it or not.

Anthropic opens the black box

Anthropic publishes an updated Claude Constitution — now ~23,000 words. Key idea: helpfulness is the lowest priority; safety/ethics/oversight dominate. Claude can even refuse requests that concentrate power in illegitimate ways — including internal pressure.
They also release it under Creative Commons, effectively offering a governance blueprint others can adopt.

Takeaway

The era of “magic demos” is over. What matters now is implementation, energy constraints, regulation, and governance. AI is not just a tool — it’s reshaping business models, infrastructure, and power.

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🎙️ Malcolm Werchota runs AI adoption programs for companies across Europe. After 15 years at Novartis and Schlumberger, he now helps leadership teams cut through AI hype. Faculty at ESADE & HSLU.

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🚀 FREE AI LEADERSHIP RESOURCES

📚 Chief AI Academy — AI courses for leaders:

https://www.werchota.ai/chief-ai-academy

👥 Join our community of AI leaders:

https://chief.werchota.ai/getting-started

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💼 Connect: https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmwerchota

✉️ Email: social@werchota.ai

#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #AIAdoption #TheAICookbook #Anthropic #Claude #AIEthics

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21 January 2026

I Built an AI Chief of Staff for €70 — And It Destroyed My Company - #112

Where have I been for 10 days? Vibe coding. Building something that changed everything about how I see my own business.

We built an AI Chief of Staff — a system that mines every email, every call recording, every file across our entire company. Not just my inbox. Everyone's. And then we gave everyone access to query it.

What it revealed was brutal: ThyssenKrupp — one of the biggest defense contractors in Europe — reached out for a workshop. I never answered. NG Spain wanted to train 100 people. I ghosted them. Promised case studies to customers in November. Never sent. The list goes on.

But here's what really hit me: I asked the AI, "What's the biggest bottleneck in this company?" And it said: YOU. You, Malcolm, are the biggest constraint on growth.

This isn't a tool to show you how amazing you are. It's a tool that shows you 99% of your failures — every broken promise, every strategy drift, every customer you forgot. And it cost €70 to build.

If you think you know what's happening in your company, you don't. Nobody does. And this episode is the raw, unfiltered truth about what happens when AI finally shows you.

🎙️ ABOUT THE HOST

Malcolm Werchota has led AI workshops for executives at Microsoft, LGT, Raiffeisen, Swiss MedTech, and ENGEL — and runs AI adoption programs for companies across Europe. After 15 years in corporate roles across pharma and oil & gas on multiple continents — including Novartis and Schlumberger — he now helps leadership teams cut through AI hype and drive real adoption.

🚀 ABOUT WERCHOTA.AI

werchota.ai helps organizations turn AI from threat into competitive advantage. We believe AI adoption is a leadership challenge, not a technical one — and that it should amplify human capability, not replace it

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

📚 Join Chief AI Academy (cohort-based AI courses for leaders): https://www.werchota.ai/chief-ai-academy

👥 Join our community of AI leaders: https://chief.werchota.ai/getting-started

🎧 LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

English: ▸ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-ai-cookbook-ai-tools-enterprise-ai-leadership/id1823547405 ▸ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MZ755kss8qdI5lQfxIUhH ▸ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@werchota-theaicookbookshow

📱 FOLLOW MALCOLM

▸ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmwerchota ▸ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@malcolmwerchota ▸ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/malcolmwerchotaai/

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17 January 2026

Weekly AI Recap - Cursor AI Agents, Anthropic Cowork, ChatGPT Ads, Grok Deepfakes - #111

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.

🎙️ ABOUT THE HOST

Malcolm Werchota has led AI workshops for executives at Microsoft, LGT, Raiffeisen, Swiss MedTech, and ENGEL — and runs AI adoption programs for companies across Europe. After 15 years in corporate roles across pharma and oil & gas on multiple continents — including Novartis and Schlumberger — he now helps leadership teams cut through AI hype and drive real adoption.

🚀 ABOUT WERCHOTA.AI

werchota.ai helps organizations turn AI from threat into competitive advantage. We believe AI adoption is a leadership challenge, not a technical one — and that it should amplify human capability, not replace it. People-first AI for companies ready to lead, not follow.

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

🌐 Website: https://werchota.ai 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmwerchota

📚 Join Chief AI Academy (cohort-based AI courses for leaders): https://www.werchota.ai/chief-ai-academy

👥 Join our community of AI leaders: https://chief.werchota.ai/getting-started

🎧 LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

English: ▸ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-ai-cookbook-ai-tools-enterprise-ai-leadership/id1823547405 ▸ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MZ755kss8qdI5lQfxIUhH ▸ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@werchota-theaicookbookshow

Deutsch: ▸ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/das-ki-kochbuch-ki-tools-unternehmens-ki-leadership/id1823558282 ▸ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Eph6u874EN8qGP2q7F7sT ▸ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@werchota-daskikochbuch

📱 FOLLOW MALCOLM

▸ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmwerchota ▸ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@malcolmwerchota ▸ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/malcolmwerchotaai/

#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #AIAdoption #TheAICookbook #AIAgents #Cursor #ChatGPT #Claude #Deepfakes

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14 January 2026

E110: Iran - The Algorithmic Intifada - AI, Censorship & Digital Resistance

What's happening in Iran is a preview of AI's role in future power struggles:

Welcome to the algorithmic intifada.

  • AI serves both resistance (circumvention, encryption, therapy, communication) and repression (facial recognition, DPI, automated enforcement)
  • Chinese AI adoption is exploding in sanctioned countries – an unintended consequence of US policy
  • Lock-in effects on US tech stacks (Microsoft, OpenAI) are a strategic vulnerability for Europe



🎙️ ABOUT THE HOST

Malcolm Werchota has led AI workshops for executives at Microsoft, LGT, Raiffeisen, Swiss MedTech, and ENGEL — and runs AI adoption programs for companies across Europe. After 15 years in corporate roles across pharma and oil & gas on multiple continents — including Novartis and Schlumberger — he now helps leadership teams cut through AI hype and drive real adoption.

🚀 ABOUT WERCHOTA.AI

werchota.ai helps organizations turn AI from threat into competitive advantage. We believe AI adoption is a leadership challenge, not a technical one — and that it should amplify human capability, not replace it.

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

🌐 Website: https://werchota.ai 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmwerchota

📚 Join Chief AI Academy (cohort-based AI courses for leaders): https://www.werchota.ai/chief-ai-academy

👥 Join our community of AI leaders: https://chief.werchota.ai/getting-started

🎧 LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

English: ▸ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-ai-cookbook-ai-tools-enterprise-ai-leadership/id1823547405 ▸ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MZ755kss8qdI5lQfxIUhH ▸ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@werchota-theaicookbookshow

Deutsch: ▸ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/das-ki-kochbuch-ki-tools-unternehmens-ki-leadership/id1823558282 ▸ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Eph6u874EN8qGP2q7F7sT ▸ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@werchota-daskikochbuch

#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #AIAdoption #TheAICookbook #Iran #DeepSeek #KI #Digitalisierung

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11 January 2026

E109: Weekly AI Recap - Devin, OpenAI Health, Meta-Manus, Nvidia CES, Anthropic, DeepSeek

This is your weekly degustation menu — the curated, high-signal recap of what mattered in AI in the second week of January 2026.

We can’t cover everything. So I picked the stories that actually move markets: enterprise procurement, regulated industries, geopolitics, hardware roadmaps, capital flows, and the next research frontier.

1) Infosys × Cognition: Devin Goes Enterprise

Infosys (massive IT services giant) partners with Cognition to deploy Devin inside enterprises.
This is huge because IT services companies were supposed to be the “AI losers” — they sell developer hours. Infosys isn’t running from the threat. They’re integrating it.

The real advantage here is enterprise trust: clients don’t just want the coolest tool — they want someone accountable when things break. This is agentic AI moving from hype → procurement.

2) OpenAI Health in ChatGPT: Big Bet, Big Questions

OpenAI is rolling out a dedicated Health space where users can connect health data and ask medical questions. It’s reported that 230M people already ask ChatGPT health questions weekly.

Key tension: consumer health isn’t HIPAA-compliant — clinical products are.
I get why OpenAI is doing it: healthcare is a moat. But we need to watch hallucination risk and liability closely.

3) Meta–Manus: China Reviews the Deal

Financial Times reports China is reviewing whether Meta’s Manus purchase should have required an export license — essentially a “Singapore washing” warning shot.
This is what AI M&A looks like now: not just corporate strategy, but geopolitics.

4) Nvidia at CES: Vera Rubin + Alpamayo

Nvidia announces the next platform beyond Blackwell: Vera Rubin.
And Alpamayo, an AI model aimed at autonomous driving.
The key signal: the hardware roadmap isn’t slowing down — and Nvidia is pushing further into vertical solutions, not just chips.

5) Anthropic Raises Again

Anthropic is planning another major funding round. This is the AI arms race: compute is the weapon, and frontier training costs can hit hundreds of millions to billions.

6) DeepSeek: Welcome to the Age of R&D

DeepSeek publishes training improvements focused on internal information sharing.
With scaling showing diminishing returns, we’re entering what Ilya Sutskever calls the age of R&D: smarter algorithms, better architectures, more capability per compute.

THE TAKEAWAY

This week wasn’t about flashy demos. It was about the infrastructure of the next decade:

  • agentic AI procurement
  • regulated AI expansion
  • geopolitics shaping AI deals
  • hardware acceleration
  • capital as a weapon
  • research as the new edge

See you next week.

LINKS & CONTACT

Website: https://www.werchota.ai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmwerchota
Podcast: social@werchota.ai

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