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🚀 Welcome to AI Unraveled (February 20th, 2026): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.

This episode is made possible by AIRIA. 🛑 Stop fearing Shadow AI. Orchestrate it. With Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro taking the reasoning crown and OpenAI employees earning an average of $1.5 million in stock, the AI talent and technology wars are reaching a boiling point. Is your organization keeping up or flying blind? AIRIA is the "Control Plane" for your entire enterprise AI stack. It gives you unified security, real-time cost control, and visibility into every agent loop—from the cloud to local workstations.

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Today's Briefing: We analyze the viral "handshake refusal" between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, Google's massive reasoning leap with Gemini 3.1 Pro, and reports of OpenAI developing Jony Ive-designed "smart devices"—including a smart lamp. We also cover Nvidia's $30 billion move into OpenAI equity and why Accenture is now tracking senior staff logins to determine promotions.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Headlines: Google's Reasoning Crown, Nvidia's $30B Stake, & the Accenture Mandate
• 00:13 – Host Intro: Etienne Noumen & the AI Unraveled Flash Briefing
• 00:21 – Google Gemini 3.1 Pro: Crushing Benchmarks at 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2
• 00:34 – Nvidia's $30 Billion Equity Stake in OpenAI
• 00:46 – OpenAI’s Wealth Creation: Average Employee Compensation at $1.5 Million
• 00:52 – The Viral Handshake Refusal: Altman vs. Amodei in India
• 01:05 – Sponsor Message: Secure and Orchestrate with AIRIA
• 01:30 – Full Deep Dive Preview: Jony Ive’s Smart Lamp, AWS Outages, & Meta’s VR Pivot
• 01:46 – Outro: Listen to the Full Strategic Briefing

Keywords: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Google Reasoning, ARC-AGI-2, Sam Altman Handshake, Nvidia OpenAI Equity, OpenAI Smart Lamp, Jony Ive AI, AWS AI Outage, Code Metal Series B, Accenture AI Promotion, AIRIA, Shadow AI, OpenAI Stock Compensation.

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Connect with the host Etienne Noumen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enoumen/

⚗️ PRODUCTION NOTE: We Practice What We Preach: AI Unraveled is produced using a hybrid "Human-in-the-Loop" workflow. While all research, interviews, and strategic insights are curated by Etienne Noumen, we leverage advanced AI voice synthesis for our daily narration to ensure speed, consistency, and scale.

🚀 Welcome to AI Unraveled (February 20th, 2026): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.

This episode is made possible by AIRIA. 🛑 Stop fearing Shadow AI. Orchestrate it. With Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro taking the reasoning crown and OpenAI employees earning an average of $1.5 million in stock, the AI talent and technology wars are reaching a boiling point. Is your organization keeping up or flying blind? AIRIA is the "Control Plane" for your entire enterprise AI stack. It gives you unified security, real-time cost control, and visibility into every agent loop—from the cloud to local workstations.

👉 Secure Your Stack: Get the Airia Demo: https://airia.com/request-demo/?utm_source=AI+Unraveled+&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Q1+2026

Today's Briefing: We analyze the viral "handshake refusal" between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, Google's massive reasoning leap with Gemini 3.1 Pro, and reports of OpenAI developing Jony Ive-designed "smart devices"—including a smart lamp. We also cover Nvidia's $30 billion move into OpenAI equity and why Accenture is now tracking senior staff logins to determine promotions.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Intro: Gemini 3.1 Pro's Reasoning Crown, OpenAI's Smart Lamp, & The Nvidia-OpenAI Equity Megadeal.
• 01:05 – Sponsor Segment: Orchestrate Your AI Stack with AIRIA.
• 02:05 – The Handshake Refusal: Altman and Amodei at the India AI Impact Summit.
• 05:15 – Google Gemini 3.1 Pro: Doubling reasoning performance with 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2.
• 09:40 – OpenAI's Smart Home: Rumors of Jony Ive-designed speaker, glasses, and lamp.
• 13:10 – AWS AI Outages: Agentic coding tools causing 13-hour customer-facing interruptions.
• 15:55 – Investment News: Google's potential $100M Fluidstack stake and Code Metal's $125M Series B.
• 18:40 – Meta's Metaverse Pivot: Horizon Worlds shifting 'almost exclusively' to mobile.
• 22:15 – Nvidia's $30 Billion OpenAI Stake: Equity vs. Infrastructure and the employee windfall.
• 26:30 – Accenture's AI Mandate: Tying senior partner promotions to AI tool logins.
• 31:10 – Conclusion & Outro: Integration as the theme for February 20, 2026.

Keywords: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Google Reasoning, ARC-AGI-2, Sam Altman Handshake, Nvidia OpenAI Equity, OpenAI Smart Lamp, Jony Ive AI, AWS AI Outage, Code Metal Series B, Accenture AI Promotion, AIRIA, Shadow AI, OpenAI Stock Compensation.

🚀 Reach the Architects of the AI Revolution

Want to reach 60,000+ Enterprise Architects and C-Suite leaders? Download our 2026 Media Kit and see how we simulate your product for the technical buyer: https://djamgamind.com/ai

Connect with the host Etienne Noumen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enoumen/

⚗️ PRODUCTION NOTE: We Practice What We Preach: AI Unraveled is produced using a hybrid "Human-in-the-Loop" workflow. While all research, interviews, and strategic insights are curated by Etienne Noumen, we leverage advanced AI voice synthesis for our daily narration to ensure speed, consistency, and scale.

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🚀 Welcome to AI Unraveled (February 19th, 2026): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.

This episode is made possible by AIRIA. 🛑 Stop fearing Shadow AI. Orchestrate it. With Google dropping Gemini 3.1 Pro and Chinese labs flooding the market with low-cost frontier models, your "AI sprawl" is about to accelerate. AIRIA is the Control Plane for your entire enterprise AI stack. It gives you a single secure environment to prototype, deploy, and govern agents—providing unified security, real-time cost control, and model-agnostic flexibility.

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Today's Briefing: We break down Google’s surprise launch of Gemini 3.1 Pro, which doubles the reasoning performance of its predecessor. We also explore Microsoft's "Project Silica" storing data in glass for ten millennia, the Trump administration's plan for Freedom.gov, and the massive $1 billion funding round for Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs as the industry looks beyond LLMs toward "Spatial Intelligence."

Timestamps: Teaser Audio

• 00:00 – Headlines: The Death of the App Store & the Rise of Agent OS.
• 00:13 – Host Intro: A Special Briefing on OpenClaw & OpenAI.
• 00:25 – The Shift: From App-Centric to Intent-Centric computing.
• 00:43 – OpenClaw Insight: From a hobbyist project to an OpenAI Foundation.
• 00:58 – The AI Employee: Proactive autonomy living on your hardware.
• 01:15 – Sponsor Message: Orchestrate the future with AIRIA.
• 01:38 – Full Episode Preview: The "$2 Trillion SaaSpocalypse."
• 01:54 – Outro: Listen to the full report.

Keywords: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Lyria 3, Project Silica, World Labs, Fei-Fei Li, Spatial Intelligence, Freedom.gov, Tavus Phoenix-4, Accenture AI Promotions, AIRIA, Shadow AI, Gemini 3.1 Reasoning, Microsoft Glass Storage.

🚀 Reach the Architects of the AI Revolution

Want to reach 60,000+ Enterprise Architects and C-Suite leaders? Download our 2026 Media Kit and see how we simulate your product for the technical buyer: https://djamgamind.com/ai

Connect with the host Etienne Noumen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enoumen/

⚗️ PRODUCTION NOTE: We Practice What We Preach: AI Unraveled is produced using a hybrid "Human-in-the-Loop" workflow. While all research, interviews, and strategic insights are curated by Etienne Noumen, we leverage advanced AI voice synthesis for our daily narration to ensure speed, consistency, and scale.