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Mission Critical | More AI From the Data Centers We Already Have: Abhi Sastri, FLUIX AI (opens the original)
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Everyone's waiting on new nuclear, new grid connections, even data centers in space to power AI. Abhi Sastri thinks some of the fastest capacity is already built: the roughly 5,000 data centers in North America, where every watt saved is a watt for compute. This week's episode is from Mission Critical, our series on the industries American prosperity runs on. We recorded this one a few hours down I-75, in Knoxville. Abhi, co-founder and CEO of Bay Area-based FLUIX AI, joins Logan on the floor of
Mission Critical | How AI Actually Reaches the Factory Floor: Matt Klein of S&K Industrial on Why Factory Floors Still Run on Code You Can Debug (opens the original)
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The automated steel line S&K Industrial built for one of its customers does work that used to take eight to ten operators. Now it takes one. But ask the man who builds these systems whether AI is transforming manufacturing, and you'll get a more grounded answer than the headlines suggest. This week's episode is from Mission Critical, our series on the industries American prosperity runs on: energy, manufacturing, defense and space. In this episode, Matt Klein joins Logan on the floor at S&K Indu
Mission Critical | Inside the Louisville Machine Shop Rebuilding America's Defense Industrial Base: Patrick Malcor & Wesley Sparks of Ajax Defense (opens the original)
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There are 40% fewer small businesses in America's defense industrial base than there were 20 years ago. The machining, welding, and fabrication that turn a program into an actual weapon happen three tiers down from the primes - and that's where the capital has stopped flowing. In Louisville, a veteran-owned holding company is buying those shops and keeping them. This week's episode is from Mission Critical, our series on the industries American prosperity runs on: energy, manufacturing, defense
341 | Tensor Black: Dr. Douglas Flora on Building the GPS for AI in Oncology and AI's Impact on Healthcare (opens the original)
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There are already 700 to 800 FDA-approved AI devices on the market, yet a busy oncologist still has nowhere trustworthy to learn which ones are worth their time. In this episode, Dr. Doug Flora joins us to share how he is closing that trust gap. He is the Executive Medical Director of Oncology at St. Elizabeth's Yung Family Cancer Center and co-founder of Tensor Black, a clinician-led education platform he calls "the GPS for oncology." We discussed the three layers of AI in cancer care, from amb
340 | Builder Backed: Paul Koop on Building the Carfax for Homes from Covington, KY (opens the original)
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Your car has a dealership that knows every service it's ever had. Your house - usually the largest asset you'll ever own - has nothing. In this episode, Builder Backed co-founder and CEO Paul Koop joins us to share how his Covington, Kentucky startup is building what he calls the "Carfax for homes": a permanent, portable service record for a house, created from the day it's built. Paul traces the idea back to buying a home built in 1892, then moving four times in five years and losing access to
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