Australia has a new AI strategy, but does it match the speed of the moment? Dr Tom Kelly, CEO of Heidi Health, and Anish Sinha, founder of UpCover, sit at the coalface of deploying AI in two of the most regulated industries in the country: healthcare and insurance. They have both built companies where safety, compliance, and real-world adoption are not optional, and they bring that builder perspective to a frank assessment of the government’s latest plan.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie sits down with Tom and Anish for a practical conversation on what Australia’s AI strategy gets right, what it completely misses, and what it would take to move from vague principles to measurable outcomes. They argue the plan needs sharper priorities, clearer success metrics, and a more decisive approach to accelerating adoption in industries where AI can lift productivity quickly.

Tom unpacks why Australia is non-competitive on energy and compute, why chip availability and latency matter if we want world-class AI experiences locally, and what policy levers could make Australia a serious data centre and infrastructure contender. Anish explains why tech-neutral regulation is a relief for startups, why government should focus on long-term market-making rather than short-term accelerators, and why Australia should look to Canada for inspiration instead of trying to copy the US or China.

This is a sharp, builder-led episode for anyone trying to understand what Australia should actually do next in AI, from infrastructure and sovereignty to education, public sector productivity, and stopping bad actors without slowing innovation.

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Heidi Health has quietly become one of the most widely used AI products in Australia, powering nearly two million clinical visits a week and transforming how doctors document care. In this re-release of the year’s most downloaded episode, Georgie sits down with Heidi cofounder and CEO Dr Tom Kelly to unpack how this runaway success was built, why clinicians trust it, and what the rise of medical agents means for the future of healthcare.

Tom shares the technical decisions that shaped Heidi’s accuracy advantage, including the surprising reason they ditched live transcription, how batch processing boosts note quality, and why a two percent gain in transcription accuracy can unlock a forty percent jump in adoption. He also breaks down what non technical founders absolutely must understand about LLMs, how he evaluates off the shelf models, and why compliance and regional infrastructure shape every product decision.

The conversation stretches far beyond medical notes. Tom dives into why rag is failing many real world use cases, how giant context windows could reshape patient care, and which AI startups may struggle as models get faster and cheaper. There are hot takes on personal branding, the attention hacking era, and the types of B2B SaaS companies he believes will not survive. Plus, Georgie and Tom play Late Stage Startup Bingo and share two very usable AI hacks.

This episode is a sharp, founder friendly deep dive into building AI products people rely on in the real world. A perfect refresher as we head into a huge 2026 for Australian AI.

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Amy Saper sits at the intersection of Silicon Valley’s AI boom, early-stage company building, and deep operator experience. Now a General Partner at Uncork Capital in San Francisco, she cut her teeth at Twitter, Uber, and Stripe before becoming one of the most sought-after seed investors backing the next generation of AI infrastructure and applications.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie sits down with Amy for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is rewriting early-stage investing, what real moats look like in an era of fast-moving models, and why she evaluates founders on slope, not pedigree.

Amy breaks down how she invests in AI-enabled apps and infra, why Gamma’s “overnight success” actually took five years, how non-technical investors can still win deeply technical deals, and what founders get wrong about market size. She also shares candid advice about hiring top AI talent (hint: bring your walking shoes), how to stand out as a seed-stage company, and why she’s bullish on cities and policies that embrace innovation.

This is an energising, thoughtful, and highly tactical episode for anyone building or backing AI in 2025.

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2025 was the year AI stopped being hype and started showing up in the real world, in our phones, our homes, our hospitals, and even our holidays. But with the pace of change accelerating, how do you separate the genuine life-changing tools from the noise?

To close out a huge year of In The Blink of AI, Georgie has hand-picked the top ten AI hacks shared by founders, CTOs, designers, researchers, and creative experimenters on the show so far. These are the tools and prompts they actually use every day, to travel smarter, remove mental load, make better decisions, get up to speed fast, and even check their own blind spots.

In this special holiday edition, you’ll learn how to turn an AI into your personal tour guide, save hours of context-setting with one drag-and-drop move, let your kids solve the dinner dilemma, challenge your thinking before you hit publish, and unlock the real power of voice mode for deeper, more personalised results. Whether you’re a total beginner or already living in the multi-agent future, these hacks are your shortcut to a smarter 2026.

Grab your phone, open your favourite LLM, and try these out for yourself.

00:00 — Why AI hacks matter more than ever

01:25 — Hack 1: A tour guide in your ear with voice mode (Dr Thomas Kelly)

03:59 — Hack 2: Poke, the life-organising bot hiding in iMessage (Maddie D Reese)

05:37 — Hack 3: Making personalised music with Suno

07:25 — Hack 4: Drag-and-drop context files to save hours (Isaac Peiris)

09:18 — Hack 5: AI-powered art hunts in Rome

11:46 — Hack 6: No more “What’s for dinner?” with fridge-vision prompts (Katherine Boiciuc)

14:49 — Hack 7: Why everyone is sleeping on voice for prompting (Mike Keating)

18:29 — Hack 8: Using AI to reveal your own blind spots (Sarah Kaur)

22:31 — Hack 9: The party-table prompt that gets personal fast (Kunal Gupta)

25:40 — Hack 10: Stress-testing technical architecture as a non-technical founder (Frank Greeff)

38:22 — What to expect from In The Blink of AI in 2026

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AI is lowering the barrier to software development faster than anyone expected, and GitHub’s APAC VP Sharryn Napier has a front row seat. In this conversation, she shares how she built a personal to-do list app in under an hour with GitHub Copilot and Spark, despite not writing code herself. Georgie and Sharryn explore why millions of new developers are joining the platform, how 80 percent of new signups use Copilot within their first week, and what the explosion of no-code experimentation means for both beginners and seasoned engineers.

They also unpack the chaos and opportunity of the multi-agent era, where GitHub’s new Agent HQ aims to keep developers productive, secure, and in control. From open source culture and the next wave of technical talent to enterprise adoption, risk, and the future of software creation, this episode offers an inside look at how AI is transforming who builds software and how it gets made.

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping everything from work to healthcare to the way we interact online, but it’s also exposing deep gender gaps that we can’t afford to ignore. At the eSafety Summit in Canberra, Georgie sits down with award-winning researcher and gender equality expert Dr Elise Stephenson for a live conversation on the uncomfortable truth behind AI’s gender problem.

Only 22% of the global AI workforce is women.

Only 2% of Australian startup funding goes to female founders.

And when generating images of British women, some AI models label them as models or prostitutes 30% of the time.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie and Elise dig into how bias creeps into AI systems, who’s responsible, and what needs to change, from data collection to funding incentives to the way we teach young people about online safety. They also explore the surprising ways women are using AI, why representation matters at every layer of the stack, and what a truly gender-responsive AI future could look like.

This is one of the most important episodes we’ve made, equal parts confronting and constructive, and a must-listen for anyone who cares about building tech that works for everyone.

00:00 — Intro

02:31 — What AI actually is (and what it definitely is not)

04:00 — How AI is showing up in daily life: usage trends among women and men

06:40 — Physical AI, robotics, and Grace Brown’s loneliness-fighting invention

08:44 — The hidden gender power imbalances behind AI development

09:29 — A history lesson: how women were pushed out of computing

11:19 — Privacy, consent, and the fear of being recorded by your own doctor

12:35 — Deepfakes, blackmail, and why women are disproportionately targeted

14:45 — The “ghost workforce”: who actually labels the data AI learns from

15:26 — How unrepresentative datasets become harmful outcomes

16:35 — When Google Photos labeled a Black man as a gorilla

18:04 — The case for optimism: can AI reduce bias if we design it right?

21:32 — Who’s responsible for gender-safe AI: companies, funders, or users?

23:30 — The Inclusive Innovation Playbook: how to build fairer AI ecosystems

25:40 — Why regulating AI is so hard (and why countries disagree wildly)

27:23 — Dual-use tech, human oversight, and what companies like Unilever get right

29:03 — AI we should be excited about: healthcare, diagnostics, and robotics

31:39 — When an AI coworker goes rogue: who’s accountable?

32:56 — What a gender-responsive AI future actually looks like

34:08 — Top recommendations: feminist tech diplomacy and moving beyond critique

36:28 — Where to find Georgie and Elise

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Justin Tauber has spent nearly a decade inside one of the world’s biggest tech companies, first in strategic innovation, now leading Salesforce’s global work on ethical and human use of AI. With a background in cognitive science and design thinking, he’s become one of Australia’s most insightful voices on how technology and ethics can (and must) evolve together.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Justin to unpack what “agentic AI” really means beyond the hype, and how enterprises can adopt it responsibly. Justin shares how scenario planning helps teams prepare for unpredictable futures, why prediction matters less than rehearsal, and how ethical constraints often spark the most original innovations.

They also dig into the growing problem of “shadow AI” inside companies, the trade-offs between startups and enterprises, and why Australia’s best AI opportunity might not be moving fastest, but safest.

If you’ve ever wondered what trust, transparency, and technology look like when they collide, this episode is your blueprint.

00:00 - Intro

05:20 - The rise of multimodal thinking

08:05 - Scenario planning and future rehearsal in AI

09:01 - Inside Salesforce: what an ethical AI team actually does

11:47 - Strategy vs policy: why most “AI strategies” aren’t strategic

13:00 - Safe hammers, safe chainsaws, and the real meaning of safety

15:45 - Trust = character + competence

17:15 - Prediction is less important than rehearsal

19:39 - Why ethics often drives innovation (bendy straws, accessibility, and more)

24:50 - Training ethical thinking like a muscle

26:01 - Shadow AI: the hidden risk inside every company

28:39 - Where bias really comes from, and how to design around it

32:12 - When to use generative vs deterministic AI

36:01 - The privacy paradox: consent, choice, and control

39:00 - Agentic AI explained through drum machines and creativity

46:13 - Startups vs enterprises: who’s taking bigger risks with AI

52:48 - Australia’s AI opportunity: becoming the world’s “safety lab”

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When Maddie Reese discovered AI tools in June, she’d never written a line of code. Six months later, she’d won multiple hackathons, built viral projects like Startup Obituary and Pet Hero Comics, and quit her job to go full-time as a vibe coder.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Maddie to unpack what “vibe coding” actually is, and why joy might be the best productivity hack of all. From debugging API keys with ChatGPT to using Lovable, Cursor, and Replit to build entire web apps in hours, Maddie shares her exact workflow, her biggest “LLM gaslight” moment, and how she’s turning play into a career.

Expect practical tips for no-coders, hilarious guinea-pig side quests, and a refreshingly real take on the future of AI creativity.

00:00 – Welcome to In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy

03:50 – AI Hack of the Week: Poke bot + Suno music app

08:37 – Maddie’s first project: cloning Google Drive in 4 hours

14:03 – Startup Obituary: a memorial for your failed startup 💀

15:35 – Debugging 101: what to do when API keys break everything

19:15 – Roast My App: Guinea Pig of the Day 🐹

22:24 – Using ChatGPT + Cursor + Lovable together

27:06 – Snog / Marry / Avoid: Lovable, Replit & Cursor

28:36 – Quitting her family business to go full-time in AI

30:46 – Getting through frustration (and proving ChatGPT wrong)

33:45 – Why you should hit “Publish” even if it’s not perfect

37:24 – How to recover when a prompt breaks your build

38:44 – Which tool to use: Lovable vs Cursor vs GitHub

39:33 – Is vibe coding dying or hotter than ever?

41:45 – What happens if vibe coding actually does die?

42:46 – Hot Takes 🔥 Non-engineers are the future of tech

49:10 – What’s next for Maddie Reese

🙋‍♀️ Maddie Reese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddiedreese

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