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Video briefs, blog posts, and podcast episodes. Less formal than a book. More useful than a tweet.
Videos
Monthly AI news briefs, plus a back catalog of Essbase and EPM how-tos (the Look Smarter Than You Are series, for the calc-script crowd).
Tesla Ranked Employees by AI Use, Then Capped It
Tesla spent months pushing its own employees to use more AI, even ranking them on a leaderboard by tokens burned. Then the bill arrived, and Tesla capped AI spending at about two hundred dollars a week per person, approval required to go over. The one exemption is Elon Musk's...
Why Did Godot Ban AI-Written Code?
Godot, one of the most popular open-source game engines, rewrote its rules to keep AI-written code out of the project. The code mostly runs fine. The problem was that the people submitting it couldn't explain or fix it, and the maintainers decided AI can't take responsibility...
Dr. AI Says That for Puerto Rico, AI Is Life and Death | Nesty Delgado
Nesty Delgado commanded a Puerto Rico National Guard task force through Hurricane Maria. Per Nesty: "We were making life-and-death decisions back there, with incomplete data." Today, on the island, they call him Dr. AI.
Why Did Claude Code Change Your Apostrophe?
A developer took apart Claude Code and found Anthropic had been hiding an invisible fingerprint in the text its coding tool sends the AI, swapping the apostrophe in "Today's" between four identical-looking characters to flag suspected copycats. The motive was real. They just...
Why OpenAI's Engineers Stopped Using ChatGPT
OpenAI published data on how its own people work, and the headline is blunt: the average OpenAI engineer now produces around ninety-nine percent of their output through agents instead of the chatbot. Even its lawyers and recruiters are past eighty-five percent, and about a...
Why is OpenAI building its own chip?
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled JalapeƱo, OpenAI's first custom chip. Plenty of companies build their own AI chips; Google, Amazon, and Meta already do. The surprise here is the speed: about nine months, when these chips usually take years. OpenAI's president says they used their...
What did AI just build for the government?
The government's nuclear agency showed off Aires Tide, an 11-foot, 3D-printed flight test vehicle whose internal design was done by AI, and parked it at a state fair on the National Mall. The number that matters: AI cut a roughly two-year hardware design cycle down to five...
Why Does OpenAI Lose Money When You Use ChatGPT?
The top ChatGPT plan costs two hundred dollars a month, and OpenAI's own CEO admits it loses money. One stress-test found a maxed-out plan can burn as much as fourteen thousand dollars of compute at API rates. My take: the price you got hooked on was never the real price, and...
Blog
Thoughts on AI, finance, MCP servers, and whatever else is worth the keystrokes.
What Should Your AI Forget?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens Friday on a world that forgot Peter Parker. Everyone building AI agents is obsessed with making them remember more. The harder question is what they should forget, and who gets to decide.
Where's Waldo (Edward Edition)?
Few people (my wife and kids included) know what I'm up to at any given moment. So here's the catch-up: Season 3, the Puerto Rico AI Community, the Caribbean AI Summit, AgentCube, and a two-week hike to Everest Base Camp.
Would Odysseus Have Made It Home Sooner With an AI?
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey opens this week. The question I keep circling: Odysseus already had the best oracle in the ancient world and still took ten years. What an AI actually fixes, and what it can't.
What Would the Founders Ask an AI?
America turns 250 this weekend. If you handed Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Washington a laptop running a modern AI, what would they ask it? Probably better questions than we do.
Who's Actually Running Your AI?
The 2026 World Cup is sold as the most automated event ever staged. Its 'AI' actually runs on thousands of humans tagging plays by hand, and that has three lessons for any business buying AI.
Your Best AI Model Can Vanish Over a Weekend
Anthropic's Fable 5 was the best model anyone could buy, and three days later a letter from the Commerce Department took it offline worldwide. The vendor risk most finance teams have never put a number on.
AI is eating the work that trains your next CFO
AI is taking over the entry-level finance work that quietly trained every controller and CFO, so the apprenticeship now has to be designed on purpose.
The Model Is the Wrapper
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 forty-one days after Opus 4.7. The model is now infrastructure. The orchestration layer is the product. What a CFO should ask next.
Asking Good Questions
A podcast exploring how AI and technology are transforming the CFO's office.
Asking Good Questions started because I noticed that the best finance leaders I've worked with across 25+ years all had one thing in common: they asked better questions than everyone else in the room.
Every episode explores how AI, data science, and technology are reshaping the Office of the CFO. Not to sell you software, but to figure out what's actually working and what's still hype.
Dr. AI Says That for Puerto Rico, AI Is Life and Death | Nesty Delgado
Nesty Delgado commanded a Puerto Rico National Guard task force through Hurricane Maria. His line about it stopped me cold. "We were making life-and-death decisions back there, with incomplete data." Today, on the island, they call him Dr. AI.I didn't fully see it until we were in the conversat
Can AI Be Good for Business and Good for Humanity? | Richard Benjamins
Richard Benjamins's new book, The AI-Driven Company, explains how organizations can move beyond AI hype and experiments to create scalable, tangible economic value. Edward and Richard also discuss whether AI can create both business value and social value, who should lead AI inside a company, a
Zain Oke on Surviving a Corporate Crisis, and Selling to Chobani
In this episode of Asking Good Questions, host Edward Roske sits down with Zain Oke, whose career reads like a masterclass in leadership, resilience, and strategic reinvention. From nearly two decades at Deloitte to the boardroom of Daily Harvest, and now leading automotive operations at AAA Norther
From Oracle to AI Ops: Kellyn Gormanās Playbook for Future-Proof Data Teams
In this episode, Kellyn Gorman joins us for a candid conversation about what AI really means for data leaders, DBAs, and finance teams. From uncovering hidden bias in system defaults to rethinking how humans and AI collaborate, Kellyn lays out a roadmap that is both pragmatic and inspiring. If youāv
The 4 P's of Finance Excellence: Mark Dendle Reveals His Secret Formula for Business Transformation
SummaryIn this engaging conversation, Mark Dendle and Edward Roske explore the evolving landscape of finance, emphasizing the integration of AI, the importance of teamwork, and the common challenges faced across various industries. Mark shares his leadership philosophy, highlighting the significance
Why Sipei Bowman Says Accountants Have the āHighest Pain Toleranceā in Tech
In this episode of "Asking Good Questions," host Edward Roske sits down with Sipei Bowman, a trailblazer in the realm of digital transformation within the finance sector. With over two decades of experience, Sipei has been at the forefront of revolutionizing financial systems at Jackson Square Aviat
From Silicon Valley to Ukraine Battlefields: Gauthier Vasseur Democratizes AI for 2,000+ Non-Coders
oin Edward Roske and Gauthier Vasseur as they explore the democratization of AI, bridging the gap between academia and real-world applications. Discover how AI is transforming industries from Silicon Valley boardrooms to Ukrainian resilience efforts. Learn about the power of natural language coding
Why Dave Mitchell Says AI Will Replace Your CFO Before 2026 (And He's Not Wrong)
In this episode of Asking Good Questions, host Edward Roske engages with finance expert Dave Mitchell, who shares insights from his extensive career spanning traditional accounting to digital media and consulting. They discuss the evolving relationship between technology and finance, the impact of A
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Interviews (sometimes I'm asking, sometimes answering), conference talks, and a few webinars from across the web.
EPM Coffee Chat Episode 16: AI in EPM with Edward Roske
Long-form coffee chat with the Toronto EPM User Group crew (Arun, Azmat, Fred, and Harsh) on AI in EPM: what gets automated first, how planning shifts from human-first to computer-first, and why knowing when a number is wrong still beats producing it fast. Some Oracle roadmap talk too (Autonomous Database, MCP, Essbase), plus a straight answer on what AI means for entry-level finance jobs.
Lost His Dad at 27, Then Built a Billion-Dollar Company
Long-form sit-down with Crystal Bai on losing my father at 27, founding interRel two months later, and the 25 years between that decision and merging into Argano. Some grief, some accidental career advice, and a fair amount about why founder companies and family companies are not as different as people pretend.
Edward Roske Interviews Paul Lepine of Grant Thornton at Kscope25
From the ODTUG podcast booth at Kscope25 in Grapevine, Texas. Edward sits down with Paul Lepine, Grant Thornton's Alliance Director for Oracle and NetSuite across North America, with 15+ years inside Oracle before that.
Edward Roske Interviews Tim Tow of Applied OLAP at Kscope25
From the ODTUG podcast booth at Kscope25 in Grapevine, Texas. Edward sits down with Tim Tow, founder and president of Applied OLAP, creator of Dodeca, and the first Oracle ACE Director in the Hyperion / Essbase community.
Edward Roske Interviews the Accordion Crew at Kscope25
From the ODTUG podcast booth at Kscope25 in Grapevine, Texas. Edward sits down with the crew from Accordion, the private-equity-focused financial consulting firm with a major Oracle EPM practice (and the team that absorbed Platform Specialists in 2024).
Edward Roske Interviews the Infosys Team at Kscope25
From the ODTUG podcast booth at Kscope25 in Grapevine, Texas. Edward sits down with the Infosys team on Oracle Cloud, EPM, and what the partner ecosystem looks like at global scale.
Edward Roske Interviews Abhi Nerurkar of EPMware at Kscope25
From the ODTUG podcast booth at Kscope25 in Grapevine, Texas. Edward sits down with Abhi Nerurkar of EPMware, a recent Kscope speaker on enterprise master data and Oracle PCMCS integrations.
Edward Roske Interviews Charlie Yousef of Version 1 at Kscope25
From the ODTUG podcast booth at Kscope25 in Grapevine, Texas. Edward sits down with Charlie Yousef of Version 1, the global Apex and Oracle consultancy.
Academic Publications
Research from my Master of Data Science at SMU (4.0 GPA, Outstanding Graduate).