A Podcast for Business Leaders

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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A new 15-minute episode drops every weekday morning. Briefings built for your commute.

Fri · Apr 10, 2026Latest

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI — and 54% of CEOs say AI is "tearing their company apart"

Anthropic hits a $30B run rate and pulls ahead of OpenAI on revenue, while a new enterprise survey reveals the uncomfortable truth behind the AI adoption boom: 97% of execs have deployed agents, but only 23% are seeing real ROI.

Thu · Apr 9, 202615 min

Three rivals, one enemy: OpenAI, Anthropic & Google quietly team up

The frontier labs start sharing intelligence on adversarial distillation attacks from Chinese competitors. Plus: Anthropic's 3.5-gigawatt compute deal with Google and Broadcom, Meta finally ships Muse Spark, and Q1 venture funding shatters every record on the books.

Wed · Apr 8, 202615 min

Anthropic's $400M biotech bet — and why video AI just got dramatically cheaper

Anthropic acquires stealth biotech startup Coefficient Bio in a signal that frontier labs are moving into specialized scientific domains. Meanwhile, Google drops Veo 3.1 Lite at 5¢/second, changing the economics of AI video generation overnight.

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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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