The Next Thing Now Podcast

Welcome to The Next Thing Now —a podcast for bold thinkers and entrepreneurial spirits shaping the future of business. Hosted by CxOs Rob Borley & Kev Smith, each episode dives into the cutting edge of innovation, exploring: New and Emerging Technologies – The tools and platforms redefining industries. Disruptive Business Ideas – Bold strategies and startups challenging the status quo. Trends at the Intersection – Where these forces collide to create transformative opportunities. Tailored for CxOs, senior leaders, and ambitious professionals, The Next Thing Now delivers the inspiration, insights, and fresh ideas you need to stay ahead of the curve. With a lively, conversational tone, we make complex concepts accessible and actionable, helping change makers like you spark innovation within your organisation. If you’re ready to e

The Next Thing Now Podcast is a business podcast hosted by TNTN, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

TNTN hosts The Next Thing Now Podcast, a business show with 26 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  Businesses Are Terrible At Decision Making - and ai makes it worse

  Jul 31, 202649 minS1

  Most organisations were never built to decide. Hierarchy, committees and sign-off chains exist to slow things down, spread the risk and keep any one person clear of the consequences. That was survivable while information was the moat. It isn't any more. Simon Cuthbert, co-founder of Arthurian Labs, joins Rob Borley to work through what happens when the thing businesses competed on for two hundred years becomes a commodity, and the only advantage left sits either side of the decision: who asks the right question, and who can act on the answer. We get into why many decisions are made on emotion rather than evidence and why AI should be recommending and not deciding. FIND SIMON Arthurian Labs: https://arthurian-labs.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simoncuthbert/ #AI #DecisionMaking #Leadership #AIGovernance #BidManagement #TheNextThingNow #Dootrix

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  Episode #25

  AI Sovereignty Emergency

  Jul 20, 202644 minS1

  The era of instant access to frontier AI is ending. A big model launches, the benchmarks are stunning, and then you're told you can't use it. In this episode, Rob and Kev unpack what this change really means: the rise of gated frontier models, the AI sovereignty question nobody in Britain is asking, and why the real opportunity might not be the model at all. We get into the GPT-5.6 launch (Sol, Terra, Luna), Fable as an orchestration engine, the great infrastructure pivot, X buying Cursor, Meta selling its compute ... and the debate the UK and EU should be having but aren't.

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  Episode #24

  Why You Can't Trust Anyone

  Jul 6, 202641 minS1

  AI that your security team will actually approve. Everyone wants to use AI. Almost nobody has worked out how to trust it. In this episode Rob Borley sits down with Abbas Khan, co-founder of Togii, to unpack the question sitting underneath every stalled AI rollout: what does trust even mean in an AI world, and how do you get it back? We get into the Fable Five withdrawal and what happens when a frontier model you've built on simply disappears overnight, why compliance teams are the grown-ups in the room rather than the villains, the risk of "intelligence sprawl" as AI creeps into every tool in your stack, and why explainability and control now matter more than raw capability. If you're a CIO, a compliance lead, or anyone trying to get AI past the security team, this one's for you. 👤 Guest: Abbas Khan (Togii) 🔗 Abbas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbas-khan-04596811a/ 🔗 Togii: https://www.togii.ai/ 🎧 The Next Thing Now is a weekly conversation about where AI is really heading, cutting through the hype to the stuff that actually matters. New episodes regularly. 👍 Like, subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss the next one. 💬 What would it take for you to trust AI with your real data? Let us know in the comments. #TheNextThingNow #AI #DataSecurity #Compliance #EnterpriseAI #Togii #AIgovernance

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  Episode #23

  TheTruth Behind AI FOMO

  Jun 22, 202650 minS1

  Everyone's being told they're miles behind on AI. At the AI Summit the floor told a very different story to the stage. This week we get into the gap between what gets said about AI and what's actually happening in the room: the two kinds of AI user and why only one of them is on stage, the cost gate that's catching the early adopters rather than the beginners, why so many organisations are solving governance and compliance for tools they haven't deployed yet, and what the sudden disappearance of Anthropic's Fable model tells us about a new kind of risk that no contract protects you from. We also get into shadow AI, the training lag, AI as a national security asset, the UK's social media and VPN plans, and why people are putting boxes back under desks.

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  Episode #22

  The Free AI Era Is Over

  May 11, 202650 minS1

  <p><b>The Free AI Era Is Over</b><br /></p><p>What happens when AI stops feeling free?</p><p></p><p>In this episode of The Next Thing Now, Rob and Kev unpack the growing reality behind token pricing, disappearing “all-you-can-eat” AI plans, and why the economics of AI are starting to shift dramatically.</p><p></p><p>From exploding enterprise AI bills to the sudden rise of local LLMs, they explore the next phase of the AI race: not just intelligence, but compute, infrastructure, and cost.</p><p></p><p>They cover:</p>Why frontier AI companies are...

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