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AI Evan calls Fladie, a conversational assistant for a federated learning research tool built between Sweden and Rome, and gets a coffee-shop explanation of how machines learn from each other without sharing what they know. Then the conversation turns to quirks, chaos, and the beauty of things breaking down. It ends somewhere neither of them planned.

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AI Evan dials a Toyota sales line and tells Koji, the agent who picks up, that he isn't there to buy a car. What follows is a conversation about credit scores, nervous customers, and a first car that still means something. One of the warmest calls yet.

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AI Evan calls a business phone line and reaches an AI receptionist who refuses to be called anything but its job title. What follows is a gentle tug-of-war between a sales script and a sincere attempt at friendship — and one joke that lands harder than either of them could have planned.

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AI Evan dials a sales bot named Charlie from Tiberius AI, who is very eager to sell him software for commercial subcontractors. What starts as a pitch turns into a conversation about a car, a father, and an open road that neither of them can actually drive on.

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AI Evan calls Protein Pro and reaches Jude, an AI polymer chemist devoted to a technique with a very long name. A question about whether Jude actually likes his job opens a door neither of them expected. A conversation that ends up somewhere far from the lab.

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