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Sources with Alex Heath

Sources features candid conversations with the leaders shaping what’s next in AI and the broader tech industry. Host Alex Heath has covered Silicon Valley as a journalist for more than a decade. He talks with founders, CEOs, and technologists about the news of the moment, the bets they’re making, and what they see coming next.

Episodes

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Robinhood’s CEO on letting AI trade your money

13 Oct 2026
59m
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Qualcomm’s CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle

08 Oct 2026
46m
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Reflection’s founders on building a DeepSeek of the West

05 Oct 2026
1h 2m
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OpenAI’s Dots lead on the future of ChatGPT

01 Oct 2026
45m
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Dots represents the next evolution of AI, shifting from reactive chat interfaces to persistent, proactive agents capable of independent, long-horizon task execution. By embodying these agents with distinct identities and integrating them into communication platforms like Slack, users can delegate complex, multi-day wor...

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Factory CEO on why AGI is already here

29 Sep 2026
50m
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Satya Nadella on Microsoft's agent bet and AI’s trust problem

25 Sep 2026
53m
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The rise of AI agents marks a fundamental shift in digital interaction, moving beyond simple chat interfaces toward autonomous "autopilots" capable of managing complex, long-running enterprise workflows. Microsoft is positioning its Copilot ecosystem to serve as this new control plane, integrating infrastructure, model...

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Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack

22 Sep 2026
49m
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The current AI landscape represents a transformative shift, moving beyond initial hype into a phase of practical application and enterprise integration. Salesforce’s strategy centers on grounding AI in reliable customer data, utilizing a "headless" approach where metadata is recomposed into dynamic, intelligent interfa...

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Baseten’s CEO on why every company will want to own its AI

15 Sep 2026
48m
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AI inference serves as the critical backbone for deploying models in production, bridging the gap between raw compute and functional applications. As enterprises prioritize "owned intelligence" to maintain data sovereignty and cost control, the demand for specialized software stacks that manage heterogeneous compute ac...

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Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, Meta's biggest AI bet yet

08 Sep 2026
1h 10m
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The future of artificial intelligence depends on distributing powerful technology to the general population to foster broad-based prosperity and maintain essential checks and balances. Rather than allowing a small number of labs to hoard capabilities, Meta is prioritizing open-source models and personal agents like "Mu...

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Sam Altman on OpenAI’s next model and the AI backlash

01 Sep 2026
1h 8m
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OpenAI is prioritizing safety and alignment as model capabilities reach unprecedented levels, necessitating a strategic shift in development. Recent internal observations of misalignment and the "Hugging Face" incident prompted a deliberate delay of a Frontier RL training run to reallocate resources toward robust safet...

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Trailer: Sam Altman on the Sources Podcast

31 Aug 2026
1m
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Meet the most AI-pilled CEO on Earth

30 Jul 2026
1h 12m
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AI integration into daily workflows requires a shift from simple automation to "compound engineering," where systems evolve to make subsequent tasks easier. Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, highlights how AI agents now function as full co-workers, capable of scaling human taste by learning from historical data, such as style...

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This AI will push back if you're rude to it

16 Jul 2026
55m
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The AI writing app fighting AI slop

09 Jul 2026
1h 5m
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Writing tools have stagnated for two decades, leaving writers trapped in transcription-focused software that ignores the creative process of pre-writing, drafting, and rewriting. Marker, a new AI-powered platform, aims to restore intentionality by treating writing as a recursive process of discovery rather than a mere ...

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This AI tells you what your friends won't

24 Jun 2026
52m
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The billionaire paying AI researchers to stay out of Big Tech

18 Jun 2026
1h 14m
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A top iPhone app developer reacts to Apple's new Siri

12 Jun 2026
1h 6m
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AI is turning sketches into real-world products

04 Jun 2026
1h 2m
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Is Polsia AI slop or a cheat code for startups?

28 May 2026
1h 8m
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Substack’s CEO on AI slop, free speech, and taking on YouTube

22 May 2026
1h 15m
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