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The Ambient Advantage
in the Age of AI.

Short, sharp conversations on how agentic and generative AI are reshaping strategy, operations and competitive advantage — for leaders who don't have time to read every paper.

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Thu · Apr 16, 202610 min · Latest

Ambient Advantage — April 16, 2026

Anthropic just declared war on your design team... and your alignment researchers... and maybe your entire product roadmap. All in the same week. Yeah, that's... that's a lot to unpack. Welcome to Ambient Advantage — I'm Jon, and this is Ava.

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Tue · Apr 14, 202610 min

Ambient Advantage — April 14, 2026

[AVA] It is Tuesday, April fourteenth, twenty twenty-six, and honestly Jon, what a day to be covering AI news. We've got Anthropic dominating an entire conference, a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's front door, and the major coding platforms all racing to become the one tool to rule them all. Let's

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Mon · Apr 13, 202611 min

Ambient Advantage — April 13, 2026

[AVA] It is Monday, April thirteenth, twenty twenty-six, and yeah, Jon, I don't think I've seen a weekend this packed since OpenAI dropped GPT-5. We've got a lot to get through — Anthropic making moves that are reshaping the entire enterprise landscape, Meta making a massive strategic pivot, record-

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Chiel Hendriks

After nearly 16 years at Google, Chiel is now a Managing Director at PwC Canada helping business leaders turn the agentic AI wave into durable advantage. Ambient Advantage is the podcast he wished existed when he started — briefings designed for busy executives, not engineers.

Strategy over hype. Signal over noise.

Every episode distills the most important AI developments into what actually matters for your business — decisions, risks, and the moves your competitors are already making.

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