OpenAI's ChatGPT-4, released in March 2023, was noticeably more intelligent than ChatGPT-3. It reasoned better, answered questions more accurately, and could handle more complex tasks. But LLM advancements have since slowed down. And critics have called OpenAI's latest release — ChatGPT-5 — "overhyped and underwhelming."

In this episode, hosts Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle discuss:

• Whether LLMs are dead
• Why 95% of AI projects are failing
• How enterprises can harness AI without sacrificing data security

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In the age of agentic AI, Kellie Romack knows deploying secure agents needs to be a baseline for enterprises, not an aspiration.

In this episode, host Aaron Fulkerson unpacks how confidential AI agents work and talks to Kellie Romack, CDIO at ServiceNow, about how her company is implementing confidential AI agents across its platform. Since partnering with OPAQUE, Microsoft Azure, and NVIDIA to deploy confidential AI agents, ServiceNow has seen average response times from its sales commission help desk speed up from four days to just eight seconds.

Kellie and Aaron also discuss:

• How ServiceNow, a defining enterprise software company, is approaching AI governance
• Advice for enterprise leaders building out agentic workflows
• Predictions on how companies can gain the most value from AI

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Special thanks to Now Productions for filming this interview at ServiceNow's headquarters in Santa Clara.

Marco Palladino knows that the internet is changing quickly. As the Co-founder and CTO at Kong, an API management platform, he's on the forefront of integrating APIs with AI — and is wrestling with the questions around security and governance that this shift presents.

In this episode, hosts Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle talk to Palladino about:

• LLM gateways and why we need them
• How AI is impacting API development
• Why AI governance is — and will continue to be — a challenge
• How enterprises can prepare for the agentic web

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