The Future-Proof Pod

Anthony Batt, Harry DeMott

Future-Proof is a podcast for entrepreneurs, operators, and technologists navigating the AI shift. Hosted by Harry DeMott, Wall Street analyst, former VC, digital media founder, and cofounder of CO/AI, alongside Anthony Batt, Craigslist founding team, Buzzmedia founder, cofounder of Wevr, and strategic advisor to Nura Studios. Two operators. One AI shift. No hedging.

18 Episodes

EP 19 - AI Doom Is the Magic Trick. The Real Story Is Vercel's 10 to 1.25
9/18/2026
58:27
Every great magic trick has three parts. Michael Caine lays them out in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige: the pledge, the turn, and the prestige. Harry DeMott and Anthony Batt use that structure for this episode. AI is the pledge, a technology that doe...
Ep 18 - The Circle and the Swarm: Circular AI Money and Agents That Vote Without Us
9/7/2026
53:38
Meta just told you what your data is worth. Its new model comes in two prices: pay full freight and keep your prompts private, or take a 95% discount and let Meta train on everything you type. Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott call this episode the circle ...
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EP 16 - Google's Dream Team Just Quit, and Nobody Can Find the AI Bear Case
8/17/2026
1:04:59
Four of Google's top AI researchers walked out the same day, on top of others who left earlier this summer, including Jeff Dean after 25 years at the company. Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott open by asking what that exodus actually signals to a business ...
Ep 15 - China's Open-Source AI Models Are Winning And Google Still Can't Fix Gemini
7/23/2026
1:03:27
afraid of? Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott dig into the open-source (really, open-weights) boom coming out of China with models like Kimi K3, DeepSeek, and GLM, and why the frontier labs asking for "regulation" might be less worried about safety than abo...
EP 14 - Google Is Stalling, Elon Bought Cursor for $60B, and AI Still Has No User Manual
7/14/2026
1:09:47
Google just lost multiple AlphaFold co-authors to Anthropic, delayed Gemini again, and shed $200B+ in market cap — despite owning the chips, the research, and arguably the best raw talent in AI. Harry and Anthony dig into why: is it focus, management, ...
Ep 13 - GPT-5.6 Is Gated to 20 Companies. Entry-Level Jobs Are Gone. You're On Your Own.
6/30/2026
1:07:08
The most powerful AI model in America shipped last Friday — and almost no one can touch it. OpenAI's newest models (Sol, Luna, Terra) are gated to twenty government-approved companies, same as Anthropic's Mythos. Harry's take: frontier models are Formu...
Ep 12 - Own Your Stack: What the Claude Fable 5 Shutdown Should Teach Every Founder
6/13/2026
57:20
Claude Fable 5 has been dark for over a week. Amazon — an $8B investor in Anthropic — flagged a guardrail breach to the US government, and the model got pulled from export entirely. 48 hours later, China shipped a frontier model that topped the benchma...
EP 11 - The $3.5 Trillion Bet: AI IPOs, Backlash & the Open Source Threat
6/6/2026
1:10:39
Three of the biggest AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX — are racing toward public markets at a combined valuation of $3.5 trillion. Not one of them is profitable. So who ends up holding the bag? In this episode, Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott...
EP 10 - The Walk-Back: Who Actually Wins the AI Era
6/1/2026
1:10:00
The AI job apocalypse was oversold — and the same people who sold it are quietly walking it back. So what's actually true? And more importantly, who wins? In episode 10, Anthony Batt and Harry DeMott cut through the hype and doom cycle to get to the so...
The Surprising Role of Experience and Domain Knowledge in AI-Driven Businesses
5/26/2026
1:05:03
The future of work isn't what you think — and most companies are missing the biggest shift happening right now. AI isn't here to just automate tasks; it's rewriting the rules of talent, leadership, and organizational advantage. If you're a CEO, manager...

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The Future-Proof Pod

Anthony Batt, Harry DeMott

18 Episodes

EP 19 - AI Doom Is the Magic Trick. The Real Story Is Vercel's 10 to 1.25

Ep 18 - The Circle and the Swarm: Circular AI Money and Agents That Vote Without Us

EP 16 - Google's Dream Team Just Quit, and Nobody Can Find the AI Bear Case

Ep 15 - China's Open-Source AI Models Are Winning And Google Still Can't Fix Gemini

EP 14 - Google Is Stalling, Elon Bought Cursor for $60B, and AI Still Has No User Manual

Ep 13 - GPT-5.6 Is Gated to 20 Companies. Entry-Level Jobs Are Gone. You're On Your Own.

Ep 12 - Own Your Stack: What the Claude Fable 5 Shutdown Should Teach Every Founder

EP 11 - The $3.5 Trillion Bet: AI IPOs, Backlash & the Open Source Threat

EP 10 - The Walk-Back: Who Actually Wins the AI Era

The Surprising Role of Experience and Domain Knowledge in AI-Driven Businesses