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Rowan's Notes

Rowan's Notes

Written by: The Rundown AI
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Rowan's Notes is a podcast where The Rundown's founder, Rowan Cheung, interviews the people shaping the AI industry — breaking down what’s real vs hype and how to leverage it to get ahead in your life, work, and business.© 2025 Rowan's Notes Politics & Government
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  • Dharmesh Shah on AEO, AI Agents, and the ‘AI App Store’
    Dec 16 2025

    Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking.

    It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling.

    In this conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with HubSpot Founder & CTO Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) to unpack:

    • AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): SEO for the AI era
    • How to structure content to get cited in AI answers
    • The hidden risk of low-quality AI content
    • Effectively using AI agents as teammates
    • The coming “AI App Store” for agents

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    57 mins
  • Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, Google Antigravity, Medical-grade AI, and more
    Nov 18 2025

    Google just revealed Gemini 3.0 -- its most intelligent AI model yet with SOTA reasoning and 1501 Elo on the LMArena.

    In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack:

    • Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy
    • Google's new Antigravity tool
    • Medical-grade AI and proactive healthcare
    • The skill of "learning how to learn"


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    20 mins
  • Sam Altman on Zero-Person AI Companies, Sora, AGI Breakthroughs, and more
    Oct 7 2025

    OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora in the API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks.

    In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (@sama) to unpack:

    • Sam's Sora AI deepfakes going viral
    • Zero-person billion dollar companies run by agents
    • AI starting to make scientific discoveries on Twitter
    • ChatGPT's 800M weekly users and the new distribution platform

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    31 mins
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