The Penta Podcast Channel

What's at Stake is the flagship show on the Penta Podcast Channel, and it works the way a good analyst briefing works. A Penta partner opens, introduces a guest who has spent years inside one subject, and then gets out of the way. Brian DeAngelis and Ilan Mui both take the host chair. The subject matter moves across artificial intelligence, climate, digital currencies, macroeconomics, and leadership, and the connective tissue is always the same question: what does this mean for the people who have to make decisions about it. On the AI side, Andrea Christensen heads Penta's global AI task force and appears both as a co-host and as the anchor of Artificially Intelligent Conversations, a recurring series she makes with Chris Meagan from the firm's Brussels office. That segment compares developments on each side of the Atlantic each month. One installment brings in Nicole DeCario from the Allen Institute for AI, who reads a newly released Senate AI roadmap and says plainly that a thirty-page document with an appendix did not meet her bar for action. Elsewhere, Francisco Martin-Rayo of Helios AI explains what his team calls vertical AI, an agentic platform fed proprietary climate and pricing data alongside USDA and European Commission reports, built to answer specific questions about where crop prices are going. His point is that the technology works best beside experienced procurement people who already know which questions matter. Climate coverage lands at scale too. Ryan Pechensarum and Anjali Grover of Speed and Scale, a climate action platform founded by venture capitalist John Doerr, come on after New York Climate Week with a mixed report: solar is having a standout year, deployment is up sharply, and the sobering material is right there alongside it. Ananya Kumar from the Atlantic Council's Geoeconomics Center covers central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, and payment systems, drawing on earlier years in capital markets. Julia Boorstin, CNBC's senior media and tech correspondent, discusses her book on women in leadership and the gap between the founders she interviewed and the statistics about how rare they are. Then there is Macrocast, a separate strand with a Friday morning rhythm, where the conversation turns to Fed press conferences, higher for longer messaging, energy prices bleeding into core inflation, and the latest non-farm payrolls print. The voice across all of it is even and collegial. Guests are given room to think out loud, hosts ask follow-ups rather than gotchas, and nobody raises their voice.