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The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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The AI Token Shortage Begins [AI Monthly Recap]
One of the most consequential AI months of 2026, May marked a major shift from the AI subsidy era into a new period defined by token scarcity, usage-based pricing, enterprise sticker shock, and a broader scramble for compute. NLW argues that the next phase of AI competition will be shaped by who can access, afford, optimize, and deploy AI tokens most effectively. Brought to you by: KPMG – Research from KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin shows the highest-impact AI users treat AI like a reasoning partner — and those skills can be taught at scale. Learn more at kpmg.com/us/Sophisticated Outsystems - Stop wondering how AI will change your business and start building the agents that will lead it - http://outsystems.com/ Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jun 1, 202628 min
How to Use /Goal to Do More With AI
A practical primer on /goal, the new AI primitive showing up in Codex and Claude Code. NLW explains how /goal differs from a normal prompt, why it matters for longer-running agent tasks, what makes a good goal, and how to think about using it beyond coding for audits, research, vendor reviews, market landscapes, and other knowledge work where the AI needs a clear finish line and evidence of completion. Brought to you by: KPMG – Research from KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin shows the highest-impact AI users treat AI like a reasoning partner — and those skills can be taught at scale. Learn more at kpmg.com/us/Sophisticated Outsystems - Stop wondering how AI will change your business and start building the agents that will lead it - http://outsystems.com/ Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 31, 202622 min
Claude Opus 4.8 First Impressions
Claude Opus 4.8 arrives as a modest but meaningful upgrade, with early users pointing to better judgment, less bluffing, stronger self-checking, and a greater willingness to push back. NLW breaks down first impressions, benchmark comparisons with GPT-5.5, Claude Code’s new dynamic workflows, and why the model harness may matter as much as the model itself. In the headlines: Kirkland & Ellis bets big on internal AI, OpenAI updates GPT-5.5 Instant, Cognition raises at a $26B valuation, Meta considers AI cloud, and Microsoft prepares new models. Brought to you by: KPMG – Research from KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin shows the highest-impact AI users treat AI like a reasoning partner — and those skills can be taught at scale. Learn more at kpmg.com/us/Sophisticated Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 29, 202627 min
The Case for an AI Token Tax
NLW breaks down the fast-rising debate over whether AI tokens should be taxed, from proposals by Elizabeth Warren, Mark Cuban, and Dario Amodei to the deeper question underneath it all: what happens to the tax base if more productive work shifts from humans to agents? The episode steelmans the case for taxing AI usage as productive capacity, then digs into the strongest objections, including why tokens may be a bad proxy for value and why a broad tax could punish the experimentation needed to discover AI’s biggest opportunities. Brought to you by: KPMG – Research from KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin shows the highest-impact AI users treat AI like a reasoning partner — and those skills can be taught at scale. Learn more at kpmg.com/us/Sophisticated Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 28, 202622 min
The Annual AI Slowdown Panic is Here
The annual summer AI slowdown panic has arrived early, this time built around token shortages, usage-based pricing, agent cost overruns, and the end of the brief subsidy era that made wild experimentation feel nearly free. NLW argues that the constraints are real, but they look less like collapsing demand than a market learning how to price scarce compute. In the headlines: a new coding benchmark, a jobs-apocalypse rethink, and major funding for the inference layer. Brought to you by: KPMG – Research from KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin shows the highest-impact AI users treat AI like a reasoning partner — and those skills can be taught at scale. Learn more at kpmg.com/us/Sophisticated Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 27, 202629 min
What the Pope Actually Said About AI
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical puts AI at the center of one of the world’s oldest institutions, arguing that artificial intelligence is neither inherently evil nor morally neutral, and that human value cannot be reduced to intelligence, productivity, or market efficiency. NLW breaks down the real argument inside Magnifica Humanitas, why so many social media reactions missed the point, and how the Pope is planting a flag for the coming fight over dignity, labor, limits, and what makes humans categorically different from machines. In the headlines: Anthropic’s Mythos rollout, a reported intelligence-agency inference cluster, DeepSeek’s permanent token discount, and Grok’s next model update. Read the encyclical: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 26, 202626 min
The 4 AI Team Members Execs Should Hire Right Now
NLW is joined by Nufar Gaspar for an Operators Bonus episode on the practical AI systems leaders should build for themselves right now. They discuss why executive AI usage is often the strongest signal for broader organizational adoption, then walk through four “digital employees” every leader can start using today: a research analyst, a strategic thought partner, a communication expert, and an operational powerhouse. Sign up for the new AI Executive Catch Up program: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/
May 25, 202632 min
Why Agents Still Need Humans
NLW explores the next wave of human-agent collaboration, using Dan Shipper’s “After Automation” essay and Every’s agent experiments to argue that automation is creating more expert human work, not less. The episode looks at shared team agents, the “human sandwich” model, the limits of fully autonomous OpenClaw-style agents, and why Codex and Claude Code point toward a more semi-synchronous future of managing agent work across devices. After Automation: https://every.to/p/after-automation Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 24, 202626 min
AI’s New Acceleration Phase
A week of AI news added up to something bigger than any single story: Anthropic’s path to profitability, OpenAI’s math breakthrough, Google pushing AI deeper into Search and Docs, Cursor’s cheaper coding model, SpaceX becoming an AI compute player, Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic, and the political fight over AI policy all pointed in the same direction. AI acceleration is showing up across business models, model capabilities, consumer products, compute infrastructure, and regulation at the same time. Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 22, 202624 min
Anthropic Just Reset AI Expectations
Anthropic delivered one of the most consequential weeks any AI lab has had yet: Andrej Karpathy joined to work on AI-accelerated pre-training research, new financials suggested the company is already profitable, and its deepening SpaceX compute partnership added fuel to the acceleration story. NLW breaks down why this is bigger than a lab horse race, why recursive research and compute constraints matter, and how Anthropic’s momentum is forcing a reset in how markets understand the AI boom. In the headlines: OpenAI’s IPO plans, Cursor’s efficient coding model, and more. Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 21, 202625 min
Why Google Isn't Chasing Claude Code
Google I/O showed a company with enormous AI advantages and a surprisingly confusing product map. NLW breaks down Omni, Spark, Antigravity 2.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the deeper strategic question underneath it all: whether Google is really trying to beat Claude Code and Codex at their own game, or whether its real bet is on consumer distribution, multimodal world models, TPUs, and embedding AI across everything people already use. Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 20, 202635 min
9 Codex Tips From the Codex Team
Codex is quickly becoming a full work environment for agentic building, and today’s episode breaks down nine practical tips from one of OpenAI’s Codex team for getting more out of it. NLW covers durable long-running threads, voice as a way to give agents richer context, steering while work is still in progress, structured memory, tool access, remote control, heartbeats, goals, and the side panel as the place where human and agent work stay in motion together. In the headlines: Cursor’s Composer 2.5, Cloudflare’s review of Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, and the verdict in Elon Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit. Source: https://jxnl.github.io/blog/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/ Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 19, 202629 min
Beating the AI Doom Cycle
NLW introduces the AI Doom Cycle: the emotional arc from skepticism, to AI mania, to job-loss panic, to a more grounded view of how AI is actually spreading through society. From Ken Griffin’s AI reversal and Silicon Valley’s doom psychology to commencement backlash, Meta layoffs, token pricing, enterprise friction, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and new compute-policy ideas, the episode argues that the best AI conversation starts when panic gives way to specificity, constraints, and agency. Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 18, 202633 min
AI Inequality
A new divide is emerging in AI: who gets access to the most powerful models, and who gets pushed into weaker, more limited tiers. NLW explores how compute scarcity, security restrictions, API pricing, and frontier model rationing could end the current era of broadly equal access to state-of-the-art AI — and why slowing data center construction could make that inequality worse. Source essay: https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/cut-off Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 17, 202626 min
Google’s Big AI Test Comes Next Week
NLW previews Google I/O and the bigger question hanging over it: whether Google can turn its massive AI advantages into products people actually want to use. The episode connects Codex coming to ChatGPT mobile, the rise of always-on agents, rumors around Gemini Spark, and Google’s potential opening as a cheaper high-performance model provider for builders and enterprises. In the headlines: Cerebras’ explosive IPO debut, Figma’s AI recovery, OpenAI and Apple tensions, Anthropic’s massive new valuation, and more. Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 15, 202630 min
RIP Golden Age of Agent Experimentation 2026-2026
Anthropic’s new Claude pricing changes are the clearest sign yet that the freewheeling agent experimentation era is ending. NLW explains why the developer backlash is real, but the deeper story is bigger than one company’s comms: demand for high-end AI compute is exploding faster than supply, and the cheap-token subsidy that made endless agent experimentation possible is starting to disappear. In the headlines: the US AI envoy lands in Beijing, Cerebras prices a massive IPO, Gallup finds broad opposition to local data centers, OpenAI shifts its regulatory posture, and an AI art prank shows how entrenched anti-AI sentiment has become. Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Enterprise Claw Cohort 3 Registration: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 14, 202631 min
In Defense of Tokenmaxxing
NLW argues that the backlash to tokenmaxxing misses the bigger enterprise AI shift. Token leaderboards can create bad incentives, but companies still need aggressive experimentation as work moves from assisted AI to agentic AI. Many “wasted” tokens are really the cost of learning, and organizations willing to burn tokens on valuable mistakes will outpace those waiting for perfect ROI. In the headlines: Google previews Gemini Intelligence ahead of I/O, orbital data centers gain momentum, Google builds out forward-deployed AI teams, and Anthropic expands Claude for Legal. Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 13, 202628 min
Towards AI That Can Actually Interact
Thinking Machines Lab shows off a new kind of AI model built for real-time collaboration — one that can listen, watch, respond, interrupt, and work in the background without forcing humans into awkward prompt-and-response mode. NLW argues this may be an early glimpse of what comes after chat. In the headlines: OpenAI’s new DeployCo, private-market AI stock chaos, AI safety regulation walkbacks, and Trump’s China tech delegation. Apply for our Growth Engineering role: https://jobs.aidailybrief.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Scrunch - The AI customer experience platform - https://scrunch.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 12, 202629 min
The Best Way to Talk to Your AI Agents
As agents become a bigger part of how people work, the format of the handoff starts to matter. NLW explores the debate over Markdown versus HTML, why the argument is really about a deeper shift from producing final outputs to staging the conditions for agents to produce them, and what that means for the emerging skill of agent management. In the headlines: Anthropic weighs a massive pre-IPO raise, Cerebras IPO demand surges, TSMC hits capacity constraints, Apple signs a preliminary chipmaking deal with Intel, household data centers get tested, and OpenAI launches a new Chrome plugin for Codex. Source essay: https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935 April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy See previous results: https://pulse.aidailybrief.ai/ Check out the new AI Executive Catch-Up Program from AIDB Training: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/ Also registering for Cohort 3: http://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 11, 202629 min
The New Jobs AI Will Create
The AI jobs debate has spent years asking which roles will disappear. This weekend long-read asks the more important question: what becomes possible when AI expands the amount of useful work the economy can support? NLW lays out a first-principles case for why better AI does not simply mean less human work, exploring how cheaper services, broader access, continuous support, personalization, and human trust can create new demand. From there, he introduces the “human premium” that remains even as AI capabilities advance, then uses healthcare to show how entire new categories of work could emerge in an AI-enabled economy. Companion experience: https://play.aidailybrief.ai/episodes/ai-jobs-and-the-demand-frontier/ April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy See previous results: https://pulse.aidailybrief.ai/ Check out the new AI Executive Catch-Up Program from AIDB Training: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/ Also registering for Cohort 3: http://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 10, 202630 min
How to Build an AI Native Team with Mike Cannon-Brookes
In this sponsored bonus episode, NLW is joined by Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes for a conversation about how to build AI native teams. They discuss what separates enterprise AI leaders from laggards, why context is becoming a critical layer of AI adoption, how agents and MCPs are changing the way people work with software, and why 2026 may be the year AI moves beyond chat into more natural product experiences. This episode is presented in partnership with Atlassian, and includes a companion quiz to help you find out what kind of AI team you are. Sponsored by Atlassian https://www.atlassian.com/ Find our what kind of team you are: The AI Native Team Quiz - https://play.aidailybrief.ai/episodes/ai-team-archetypes/
May 9, 202629 min
The Week the AI Story Shifted
This week-in-review episode looks at a week when the AI narrative started to fork, from job-apocalypse panic toward a more mature picture of how AI will actually diffuse through the economy, markets, infrastructure, and enterprise work. NLW connects Ezra Klein’s job-apocalypse rethink, Wall Street’s renewed confidence in AI infrastructure, the Elon–Anthropic deal, the rise of harness engineering, and new voice and coding agent tools into one bigger story. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy See previous results: https://pulse.aidailybrief.ai/ Check out the new AI Executive Catch-Up Program from AIDB Training: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/ Also registering for Cohort 3: http://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 8, 202630 min
Surprise Elon Anthropic Team Up Reshapes the AI Race
Anthropic’s Code with Claude event was supposed to be the story, with new managed agent features for memory, quality review, multi-agent orchestration, and finance-specific agents. Instead, the episode explores how a surprise SpaceX compute deal could change the AI race, giving Anthropic badly needed capacity while repositioning Elon Musk from model challenger to AI infrastructure kingmaker. In the headlines: Claude Dreaming, Outcomes, Anthropic’s finance agents, “infinite context,” and Dario’s 80x growth comment. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy Check out the new AI Executive Catch-Up Program from AIDB Training: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/ Also registering for Cohort 3: http://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 7, 202631 min
Who Cares About Consumer AI
Consumer AI is the fastest-growing tech category in history, but the AI industry’s money, attention, and compute are moving hard toward enterprise and coding agents. NLW explores why consumer AI suddenly feels secondary, why token consumption may matter more than paid seats, and why ads, agentic commerce, and AI devices may be the only paths that make consumer AI economically impossible to ignore. In the headlines: Coinbase layoffs and the AI alibi, Anthropic’s massive Google Cloud deal, Palantir earnings, Larry Fink on compute as a commodity, and Cerebras IPO demand. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy Check out the new AI Executive Catch-Up Program from AIDB Training: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/ Also registering for Cohort 3: http://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 6, 202631 min
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Becoming Consultants
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving deeper into enterprise AI services, but NLW argues the real story is organizational readiness. The episode explores why “buy and hope” AI adoption keeps failing, why power users get blocked by company structures, and why the next phase of AI deployment requires leaders to redesign how work gets done. In the headlines: White House AI model review, new lab access agreements, and AI safety oversight. Check out the new AI Executive Catch-Up Program from AIDB Training: https://aiexecutivecatchup.com/ April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Rackspace Technology – Run Palantir Foundry and AIP in production with a governed managed operating model https://www.rackspace.com/palantir Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 5, 202626 min
Is AI Doom Going Out of Style?
Faint but converging signals suggest the AI doom narrative may finally be cracking — and they're showing up in the chattering class and the markets at the same time. This episode walks through the evidence: Ezra Klein's New York Times pushback on the AI job apocalypse, Alex Imas's scarcity framework, Atlassian's blowout earnings, and Sam Altman's rhetorical pivot from replacement to augmentation. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 4, 202626 min
Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup
AI was supposed to save time, but agents have done something stranger — they've made the infinite backlog of everything you could be doing feel immediate and urgent, creating a mix of exhilaration and overwhelm that looks a lot like founding a startup. This episode unpacks why that's happening, what new constraints replace the old ones, and the new roles and organizational structures that will need to emerge to make the agentic era actually work. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 3, 202625 min
The Week AI Grew Up
From GitHub's move to usage-based pricing to Anthropic's reported $900B raise to the White House blocking Mythos's government rollout, this week's stories all point to the same underlying shift — AI moving out of its startup era and into the era of critical infrastructure. A thematic weekly exploration of the meta-story the individual headlines were really telling, plus a closing detour into where OpenAI's Codex goblins came from. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
May 1, 202625 min
How Harness-as-a-Service Will Change Agents
A new layer of AI infrastructure is emerging as Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft all push beyond models into the runtime environments that make agents useful. NLW explains why “harness-as-a-service” may become one of the defining categories of the agent era, how it changes what builders can create, and why the next wave of agentic apps may come from renting the runtime instead of assembling every piece from scratch. In the headlines: blowout AI earnings from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 30, 202628 min
AI Lab Power Rankings
NLW introduces the first AI Lab Power Rankings, comparing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, xAI, and Apple across compute, enterprise, platforms, models, momentum, and X-factor. The episode explores who looks strongest on paper, who has the most real-world momentum, and why the agent era likely has room for multiple winners. In the headlines: Microsoft and OpenAI amend their partnership, OpenAI comes to AWS, Amazon launches Quick, Claude adds new connectors, and Wall Street reacts to outdated OpenAI growth data. Make your own rankings: https://ai-power-rankings-rho.vercel.app/https://ai-power-rankings-rho.vercel.app/ April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 29, 202625 min
The AI Subsidy Era is Over
The AI discount is ending as agentic usage drives token consumption through the roof, forcing companies from GitHub to Anthropic to rethink pricing, limits, and compute access. NLW breaks down why usage-based billing is becoming inevitable, what it means for markets and job displacement, and how enterprises can adapt with cheaper models, cost audits, model bake-offs, escape-hatch architectures, and clearer AI cost scoreboards. 5 Moves for Enterprises to Reduce the Cost of Agents: https://play.aidailybrief.ai/episodes/the-ai-subsidy-era-ends/ April AI Usage Pulse Survey: https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 28, 202626 min
How DeepSeek V4 Connects to the US Power Grid
Today's episode connects two stories that look unrelated on the surface — the White House invoking the Defense Production Act around US grid infrastructure, and DeepSeek's long-awaited V4 release. Together they point to a single conclusion, that energy has become the real frontline of the US-China AI competition. In the headlines: Google commits up to $40 billion to Anthropic, the AI trade roars back as hyperscalers push markets to new highs, and Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 27, 202624 min
Where the Economy Thrives After AI
A new economic argument suggests AI won’t simply wipe out work, but will shift value toward the parts of the economy where human presence, provenance, care, taste, and relationship matter most. NLW explores Alex Imas' case for a post-commodity economy, why automation may make relational work more valuable, and how the AI jobs debate is missing the question of what new demand gets unlocked when supply becomes abundant. Source: https://aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be-scarce SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS https://aidbagentos.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 26, 202629 min
How To Build a Personal Agentic Operating System
On our latest Operators Bonus Episode, Nufar Gaspar returns to introduce Agent OS, the latest free AIDB training program for building a personal agentic operating system that travels with you across any tool, model, or harness. As every agent tool converges on the same set of capabilities, the system you build underneath is what actually matters — and Nufar walks through the seven layers using a chief of staff as the running example. Sign up for the free AgentOS program: https://aidbagentos.ai/
Apr 25, 202628 min
What I Learned Testing GPT-5.5
GPT 5.5 is here, and the first reactions are split between benchmark dominance, coding debates, Anthropic comparisons, and questions about whether the upgrade will feel dramatic to everyday users. NLW breaks down the launch, the “real work” positioning, the Mythos backdrop, and what changed in OpenAI’s communication strategy, then shares what he learned testing GPT 5.5 across writing, coding, strategy, design, spreadsheets, and data analysis. AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4 Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 24, 202636 min
How Headless Agents Will Change Work
This week, Salesforce, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google all made major moves toward "headless" software — platforms designed for agents rather than human users. The episode explores what this shift means for business models, the future of SaaS pricing, and who captures the value when agents become the primary consumers of enterprise tools. In the headlines: OpenAI triples its compute targets to 30 gigawatts, Google unveils separate TPU chips for training and inference, and Mistral may be joining forces with xAI. AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4 Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 24, 202630 min
What GPT Images 2 Unlocks
OpenAI's GPT Image 2 topped the LM Arena leaderboard by a record 242 points, but the real story is how it fits the agentic stack. This episode digs into the image-to-code workflows driving most of the excitement and where reasoning over images still falls short. In the headlines: SpaceX's new deal with Cursor, an unauthorized group's access to Claude Mythos, and a big upgrade to Google's Deep Research. AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4 Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 22, 202624 min
How Apple's AI Strategy Changes with a New CEO
Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus inherits a company that some say brilliantly sat out the AI spending race and others say completely squandered its advantages. Either way, the biggest question he faces is what Apple's AI strategy actually looks like going forward. In the headlines: OpenAI's new Chronicle memory feature, Anthropic's White House meeting, and TSMC posts another record quarter. AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4 Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 21, 202623 min
What To Build First With Claude Design
Anthropic dropped Claude Design on Friday — a new design suite built on top of Opus 4.7 that lets users prototype, wireframe, and iterate on visual projects through natural language, inline comments, and custom sliders. Today's episode walks through the best use cases emerging from the first few days, from marketing assets and pitch decks to mobile app wireframes and launch videos, and explores who this tool is really for, where it shines, and where it still falls short. AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4 Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 20, 202629 min
How the Best Companies Use AI
A deep dive into what separates the AI leaders from the laggers, drawing on the recent PwC study, McKinsey's AI Transformation Manifesto, George Sivulka's a16z essay on institutional vs. individual AI, and a close look at how Ramp built its internal AI system Glass. The throughline: leading companies treat AI as a growth and opportunity technology, and they build organizational systems that raise the floor for every employee rather than leaving people to figure it out alone. Sources: https://www.a16z.news/p/institutional-ai-vs-individual-ai https://x.com/sebgoddijn/status/2042285915435937816 Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 19, 202626 min
Agent Building Trends [Operator Bonus Episode]
In this Operator's Bonus episode, NLW zooms out from the Agent Madness bracket to share the patterns emerging across nearly 100 agent submissions — from the shift toward AI org charts and "markets of one" software, to the memory gap holding the whole field back. He also previews the Elite Eight matchups.
Apr 18, 202610 min
How to Use Opus 4.7 and the New Codex
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 and OpenAI shipped a much more ambitious Codex app on the same day. NLW digs into what's actually new in each, why the emerging "monothread" pattern could be the biggest unlock for knowledge workers, and gives a slew of use cases worth trying this weekend. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 17, 202624 min
AI's Great Divergence
Stanford's new AI Index and PwC's annual AI performance study reveal a widening gap — between AI experts and the public, and between corporate leaders capturing 75% of AI's economic gains and everyone else. NLW breaks down what's driving the divergence and why some gaps matter more than others. In the headlines: Allbirds pivots to an AI neocloud, OpenAI updates its agents SDK and moves to pay-per-click ads, the Manus investigation chills Chinese founders, and Jensen Huang calls for US-China AI dialogue. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 16, 202620 min
Vibe Coding Gets an Upgrade
A wave of updates across Claude Code, Lovable, and Google AI Studio shows how fast agentic coding tools are converging — and why enterprise hardening of vibe coding may be one of the biggest building opportunities of 2026. In the headlines: Opus 4.7 rumors, OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Cyber model, Anthropic's shift to usage-based enterprise pricing, and Maine's first-in-the-nation data center moratorium. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidaily Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 15, 202624 min
AI Populism Turns Violent
After multiple violent attacks on Sam Altman's home this weekend, the AI world erupted in debate over who bears responsibility — X-risk advocates, the media, or the industry itself. But the research on political violence suggests something bigger is happening, and that AI has become a perfect cauldron for economic grievance, perceived inequality, and a growing sense that democratic channels are blocked. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 15, 202631 min
Harness Engineering 101
We went from prompt engineering to context engineering, and now the discipline everyone in AI is talking about is harness engineering — designing the systems, tools, and context you put around a model so it can actually do real work. Today's episode is a primer on what harness engineering is, why it explains the strange convergence of every AI product into the same shape, and what Anthropic's new managed agents tell us about where it's all heading. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 13, 202625 min
The New AI Org Chart
Jack Dorsey and Sequoia's Roelof Botha published a sweeping essay arguing that AI can replace the information-routing function of hierarchy itself — and Block is betting the company on it. Today we read through their vision for the "company as intelligence," then compare it to the messy, bottom-up reality emerging at Every, where agents are already forming a shadow org chart. Essay: https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 12, 202627 min
Why Enterprise AI Has a Leadership Problem
New studies from A16Z, KPMG, Writer, and WalkMe paint a picture of enterprise AI that's simultaneously accelerating and breaking down — agentic deployment has crossed 50%, but trust gaps, employee resistance, and a 93/7 spending split between tools and people suggest the real bottleneck isn't technology. In the headlines: Wall Street moves past the SaaS apocalypse, Anthropic poaches top talent from Microsoft and Workday, and Intel partners with Elon on TeraFab. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 10, 202626 min
All of AI's New Models and Tools
While much of the week's discourse centered on models we can't use yet, the rest of the AI industry shipped a ton. Meta reenters the frontier race with Muse Spark, Z.AI open sources a model rivaling the US leaders, Anthropic launches managed agents, and Google quietly drops one of its most useful Gemini updates yet. In the headlines: Perplexity's revenue doubling, GitHub straining under agentic coding, and Anthropic's latest setback in its Pentagon legal battle. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/ Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 9, 202628 min
Should We Be Scared of Anthropic's Mythos?
Anthropic just announced Mythos, a model so powerful at finding cybersecurity exploits that they won't release it publicly — instead launching Project Glasswing to let select partners harden critical systems first. Today we unpack the capabilities, the discourse, and whether the fear is warranted. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 8, 202631 min
OpenAI's New Deal
OpenAI released a sweeping policy document proposing everything from public wealth funds to portable benefits — but without a single commitment that would cost the company anything. We dig into what's worth discussing, what's window dressing, and why the AI industry's inability to make the case for its own existence is becoming a serious problem. In the headlines: Anthropic's revenue triples to a $30 billion run rate, a massive new Google-Broadcom compute deal, Gemma 4's breakout moment, and Meta's token maxing culture. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 8, 202636 min
The Calm Before the AGI Storm
Even during a relatively quiet week in AI, the signals are unmistakable — every major lab is jostling for position ahead of what feels like a dramatic acceleration, from OpenAI's record fundraise and IPO tensions to Anthropic's usage backlash to Google's open source push. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 6, 202629 min
6 Questions Shaping AI
From job displacement fears to the politics of who controls AI to whether agents actually empower people, this episode maps out the six big questions that will shape how this era of AI plays out. It's a wide-aperture look at the forces — from geopolitics to enterprise adoption to individual agency — that are quietly determining AI's trajectory. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 5, 202624 min
The Masked Medici: How to Build a Faceless Youtube Channel and Companion 1990s Strategy Game in a Single Afternoon with Google AI
In this Operators bonus episode presented by Google, we take a Renaissance history passion project end-to-end — using Gemini, Notebook LM, Stitch, and Google AI Studio to build a faceless YouTube channel with cinematic AI-generated videos, an illuminated manuscript-style companion website, and a turn-by-turn political strategy game where you try to survive 30 years in Medici-era Florence. Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maskedmedici Illuminated manuscript companion site: https://maskedmedici.netlify.app/ Republic of Lies game: https://republic-of-lies-328501101281.us-west1.run.app/ Tools used: Gemini NotebookLM Stitch Google AI Studio
Apr 4, 202618 min
How to Build a Personal Context Portfolio and MCP Server
In today's Build episode, we tackle one of the most underappreciated friction points in the agentic era — the fact that every new agent, project, or tool requires you to re-explain yourself from scratch. We walk through how to create a personal context portfolio, a structured set of markdown files that acts as an operating manual for any AI you work with, and then how to deploy it as an MCP server so every agent can access it. Use our app to get interviewed and build your personal context portfolio files: https://www.contextportfolio.ai/ DIY personal context portfolio templates: https://github.com/nlwhittemore/personal-context-portfolio Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 3, 202624 min
Agent Skills Masterclass
Nufar Gaspar walks NLW through a five-level framework for agent skills — from understanding what they are to building an organizational skill library. We get into the anatomy of an effective skill, the mistakes that kill them, advanced patterns like dispatchers and skill chaining, and why skills might be the first AI infrastructure primitive with a built-in expiration date. Your Agent Skills Masterclass companion checklist: https://play.aidailybrief.ai/episodes/skills-master-class/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 2, 202633 min
Introducing Maturity Maps — A New Way to Measure AI Adoption
Today we're introducing Maturity Maps, a new framework for benchmarking AI and agent adoption across six key dimensions - from deployment depth to systems integration to people and governance. This first reference point is built on 480+ studies representing 150,000+ survey respondents from the last quarter alone -- and the results show most organizations are behind where they should be on nearly every front. Review the maps and see where you stand: http://besuper.ai/quiz Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Apr 1, 202625 min
The Ultimate AI Catch-Up Guide
If someone in your life keeps asking how to get started with AI, this is the episode to send them. It covers the fundamentals, debunks the biggest misconceptions, walks through the full landscape of tools from chatbots to agents to vibe coding, and lays out a practical five-category framework for getting real value starting today. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 31, 202633 min
The State of AI Q2: AI's Second Moment
NLW kicks off Build Week with the AI Daily Brief's first quarterly State of AI report. From the agentic explosion and Claude Code's revenue surge to the SaaS apocalypse and the Pentagon standoff with Anthropic, this is the full picture of the most consequential quarter in AI since ChatGPT launched — and what to watch heading into Q2. Presentation: https://q2.aidbintel.com/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 30, 202623 min
How AI Can Help Democracy Work Better
Stanford professor Andy Hall argues that instead of fixating on AI dystopia, we should be racing to build AI tools that make citizens smarter, represent them more faithfully, and force institutions to be more accountable. NLW reads key excerpts from Hall's essay and makes the case that agents built for governance, not just business, could reshape the relationship between people and power. Link: https://freesystems.substack.com/p/building-political-superintelligence Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 28, 202630 min
Anthropic Accidentally Revealed Their Most Powerful Model Ever
Intercom and Cursor have both shown that post-training open-weight models on domain-specific interaction data can match or beat the best frontier models — cheaper and faster. It's a development that could reshape the business model of the major AI labs and validate the idea that experience data, not just scale, is the next frontier of model performance. In the headlines: Anthropic's Claude Mythos model leaks, Google drops a real-time voice model, Shopify launches Tinker, and OpenAI shelves adult mode. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 27, 202627 min
Why AI Needs Better Benchmarks
AI benchmarks are breaking—saturated, gamed, and increasingly disconnected from real-world performance. This episode explores why that’s happening and how new tests like ARC AGI 3 aim to measure actual learning and reasoning instead of memorization. In the headlines: Apple’s deeper Gemini plans, a major efficiency breakthrough from Google, and rising political tension around AI infrastructure. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 26, 202630 min
Work AGI is the Only AGI that Matters
OpenAI is making its most dramatic strategic pivot yet — killing Sora, renaming its product team to "AGI Deployment," and narrowing Sam Altman's role — all to double down on coding and knowledge work. The message from every major lab is clear: forget the abstract AGI debate, the only AGI worth chasing is the one that reinvents how work gets done. In the headlines: IPO fever takes hold as SpaceX eyes a record-breaking offering, a pre-IPO AI ETF completely detaches from reality, and a federal judge takes the Pentagon to task over its fight with Anthropic. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 25, 202626 min
How to Use Claude's Massive New Upgrades
Claude’s latest updates aren’t just incremental—they fundamentally change how you interact with AI, shifting from tool to always-on execution layer. This episode breaks down the biggest new capabilities across Claude Code and Claude Cowork, including remote control, dispatch, channels, scheduled tasks, and full computer use, with a focus on what they actually enable and how to start using them in practice. Claude updates checklist: https://play.aidailybrief.ai/episodes/how-to-use-claudes-massive-new-upgrades/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 25, 202625 min
The Coming AI Rules Battle
AI is rising faster than any other issue in American political polling, and the White House just dropped a legislative framework that's already drawing fire from both sides — populist right critics calling AI "profoundly anti-human" and Democrats saying voluntary standards won't cut it. The real question is whether this four-page opening move can hold the center as midterms approach and public anxiety about jobs keeps climbing. In the headlines: OpenAI plans to double its workforce with a major enterprise push, FedEx is training all 400,000 employees on AI, and Meta's internal agents are now talking to each other. For all the links referenced in the show, sign up for the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 23, 202626 min
Why AI Actually Won't Take Your Job
"Will AI take your job?" has become the dominant question in AI discourse — but it's the wrong one. From AI-washed layoffs to coding benchmarks that don't generalize, from human preference as a market force to capitalism's radically expansionary nature, there are plenty of reasons to push past the panic — and a whole set of better, harder questions we should be asking instead. For all the links referenced in the show, sign up for the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Recall - The API for meeting recording. Get Get started today with $100 in free credits at https://www.recall.ai/aidb AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 22, 202632 min
Every AI Product Is Becoming Every Other AI Product
Google, Lovable, Replit, and OpenAI all announced what look like the same product in the last two weeks. Critics say it's desperation and strategic dilution — but what if coding capability naturally unlocks everything else in knowledge work, and convergence is the inevitable result? In the headlines: Jensen Huang urges AI leaders to stop scaring people, Bezos eyes a $100B manufacturing AI fund, and Apple's App Store clashes with vibe coding platforms. For all the links referenced in the show, sign up for the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 20, 202627 min
What People Really Want From AI
A new Anthropic study based on nearly 81,000 interviews offers a much more nuanced picture of what people actually want from AI: not some clean split between boosters and skeptics, but a messy mix of hope, anxiety, productivity gains, emotional complexity, and fears around reliability, autonomy, and jobs. NLW breaks down the biggest findings, why professional ambition and personal quality of life are so tightly linked in how people describe AI, and why dismissing the views of actual AI users is becoming its own kind of bias. In the headlines: AI brings Val Kilmer back for one final film role, Microsoft restructures Copilot again, and Anthropic’s Cowork Dispatch adds Claude Code sessions. For all the links referenced in the show, sign up for the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 19, 202630 min
How to Use Agent Skills
The team behind Claude Code's agent skills shares lessons on building, testing, and organizing skills — and the concept is converging across the entire AI stack, from hardcore developers to mainstream tools like Notion. Whether you're orchestrating multi-agent teams or just trying to get an AI to reliably do one task your way, skills represent a shift from ad hoc prompting to reusable, repeatable capabilities. In the headlines: Claude Cowork gets mobile control via Dispatch, China's government grows wary of Open Claw, and Andy Jassy sees AI doubling AWS revenue. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 18, 202627 min
The Race to Put AI Agents Everywhere
Q1 was defined by the realization that agents are here — Q2 is shaping up as an all-out race to make them enterprise-ready. From Nvidia's Nemo Claw adding security to Open Claw, to Manus and Adaptive launching desktop agents, to OpenAI's internal "code red" refocus on enterprise and coding, every major player is converging on the same goal: getting agents out of experimentation and into production. In the headlines: Jensen Huang forecasts a trillion dollars in Nvidia revenue, Meta signs a $27 billion deal with Nebius, and Chinese AI labs start keeping their best models closed source. SUBMISSIONS CLOSING SOON - AGENT MADNESS: Our 64-Bracket tournament to find the coolest Agent of 2026 https://www.agentmadness.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 17, 202627 min
A Guy Used AI to Cure His Dog's Cancer*
The AI discourse is absolutely frenetic right now — everything from Karpathy's misinterpreted jobs visualization to a viral dog cancer cure story that's both less and more than it seems. NLW's argument: we're in AI's Second Moment, the agentic equivalent of the original ChatGPT shock, but with bigger capabilities, billions more people in the conversation, higher economic stakes, and an industry that's had three years to get worse at explaining itself. In the headlines: a preview of NVIDIA's GTC, SEC filings quietly listing AI agents as a material risk, and ByteDance shelving its video model over copyright disputes. Learn more about AGENT MADNESS: Our 64-Bracket tournament to find the coolest Agent of 2026 https://www.agentmadness.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 16, 202628 min
The Power to Shape AI
AI capabilities are compounding, disruption is rolling through markets and politics, and a growing chorus wants you to believe the only response is fear. But the narrative of learned helplessness — from scary ad campaigns with no policy ideas to moratoriums that miss the point — is more dangerous than the disruption itself, and the window to shape what AI becomes is still wide open. Ethan Mollick's Essay: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-the-thing Learn more about AGENT MADNESS: Our 64-Bracket tournament to find the coolest Agent of 2026 https://www.agentmadness.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 15, 202625 min
The Coolest Agents I've Built So Far
In this Operators Bonus Episode, I pit 16 different things I've built this year against each other in a March Madness-style bracket — from OpenClaw bots and vibe-coded side projects to the Sherlock Holmes-inspired agent ecosystem I'm developing for enterprise AI strategy. It's a behind-the-scenes tour of what's worked, what hasn't, and what I think has the most potential going forward. Submit to Agent Madness! https://www.agentmadness.ai/ If you want to check out the AI Strategy Agents Mycroft/Holmes I mentioned: https://aidailybrief.ai/ai-strategy-agents
Mar 14, 202620 min
Pro-Worker AI
A growing debate is emerging around how AI can expand human work instead of replacing it. This episode looks at the idea of “pro-worker AI,” the kinds of tools that augment expertise and create new tasks, and why the market hasn’t focused there yet—even as the opportunity becomes clearer. In the headlines: Meta delays its next model, Cursor seeks funding at a $50B valuation, Anthropic explores enterprise consulting, and new data shows 81% of doctors already use AI. Learn more about AGENT MADNESS: Our 64-Bracket tournament to find the coolest Agent of 2026 https://www.agentmadness.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 13, 202628 min
What Vibe Coding is Turning Into
New products from Perplexity and Replit show vibe coding evolving beyond “AI helps you code” into systems that plan goals, spin up teams of agents, and execute entire workflows across apps and files. The emerging pattern combines persistent agents, collaborative canvases, and multi-agent orchestration—turning vibe coding into a broader interface for building and operating digital work. In the headlines: agents get credit cards, Anthropic surges in Ramp adoption data, OpenAI folds Sora into ChatGPT, Musk outlines an xAI–Tesla computer-use system, Netflix may buy Ben Affleck’s AI startup, and Lovable adds $100M in ARR. Learn more about AGENT MADNESS: Our 64-Bracket tournament to find the coolest Agent of 2026 https://www.agentmadness.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 12, 202623 min
Why Google Workspace CLI is a Big Deal
Google has been shipping relentlessly across Gemini models, world models, multimodal tools, and Workspace updates, but the release getting the most attention from developers may actually be the new Google Workspace CLI. NLW explains why command line interfaces are suddenly central to the agent era, why developers are rethinking MCP and other abstraction layers, and how Google is quietly positioning Gemini by making its ecosystem easier for agents to use. In the headlines: Meta hires the Moltbook team, Nvidia backs Mira Murati’s new lab, Oracle earnings calm AI infrastructure fears, and Amazon blocks Perplexity shopping agents. Learn more about AGENT MADNESS: Our 64-Bracket tournament to find the coolest Agent of 2026 https://www.agentmadness.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 11, 202624 min
The Debate Over Anthropic’s New Product: Price or Existential Dread?
Claude’s new AI code review feature sparked a huge backlash this week, with developers stunned by the $15–$25 per pull request pricing. But the debate quickly became about more than cost. The controversy exposed a deeper tension about whether AI tools should be priced like software subscriptions or like labor they replace, and revealed the existential anxiety developers are feeling as agent-driven workflows begin dissolving long-standing rituals like human code review. In the headlines: Nvidia moves toward an agent platform, Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, a record European AI seed round, and OpenAI makes an enterprise security acquisition. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 10, 202626 min
Autoresearch, Agent Loops and the Future of Work
Andrej Karpathy released autoresearch this weekend — a system where an AI agent runs experiments to improve a language model overnight, keeping what works and discarding what doesn't, while the human sleeps. The project itself is fascinating, but what's more interesting is what it shares with the Ralph Wiggum coding loop pattern and a broader shift happening across domains — from software to sales to finance — where the human's job becomes writing the strategy document and defining "better," and the agent does the iterating. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 9, 202625 min
10 OpenClaw Lessons for Building Agent Teams
OpenClaw has now been in the wild for a little over a month, and builders are starting to converge on what actually works. The early experiments are revealing that agent systems can be incredibly powerful but require deliberate design choices around task separation, coordination, security, memory, and cost management. This episode breaks down ten practical lessons emerging from the first wave of OpenClaw users, from structuring agent teams and using simple file-based orchestration to treating agents as first-class employees and designing explicit memory systems. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 8, 202629 min
GPT 5.4 First Test Results
GPT 5.4 just dropped and the early consensus is clear — this is the most substantial OpenAI release in recent memory, with massive jumps in computer use, professional work tasks, and coding efficiency. NLW goes hands-on building a real project with 5.4 and Codex to see where the hype holds up and where it breaks down. Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 6, 202628 min
AI Is Officially Political
AI has crossed the line from tech story to political battleground as the Anthropic–Pentagon dispute, Dario Amodei’s leaked memo attacking OpenAI and the Trump administration, and threats to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” pull frontier AI companies directly into geopolitics and culture wars. The fight exposes deeper tensions around military AI, surveillance, industry unity, and what happens when AI companies start operating like strategic infrastructure. In the headlines: Jensen Huang calls Open Claw the most important software release ever, OpenAI reportedly passes $25B ARR as the revenue race heats up with Anthropic, and Google’s NotebookLM adds cinematic AI-generated video reports. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 6, 202627 min
The Big Questions That Will Decide the Consumer AI War
Anthropic’s surge and OpenAI’s latest updates highlight how the consumer AI race is becoming about far more than model benchmarks. This episode explores the questions that will actually shape the outcome—from vibes vs performance to agents, multimodality, monetization, switching costs, and ecosystem lock-in. In the headlines: OpenAI reportedly building a GitHub rival, Meta reorganizes its AI teams, Amazon explores ads in AI chatbots, and Stripe introduces token-based billing for AI apps. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 4, 202631 min
The Rise of the Zero Human Company
A new wave of experiments is testing whether AI agents can build and run companies without human employees, with projects like FelixCraft generating revenue and platforms like Pulia launching hundreds of autonomous startups. The trend highlights how dramatically the cost of execution is falling—but also raises the question of whether more AI-generated businesses will translate into real outcomes or simply more competition for scarce human attention. In the headlines: Cursor hits $2B ARR after doubling in three months, Claude outages signal surging demand, the OpenAI–Pentagon dispute escalates in Washington, and new sightings fuel speculation about a mysterious OpenAI device. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 4, 202629 min
The Month AI Woke Up
February 2026 was the month that AI's transformation stopped being an insider story and cascaded across groups — from developers embracing a new era of autonomous agents to Wall Street panic-selling stocks in AI's crosshairs to Washington's first real power struggle over who controls the technology. This KPMG-sponsored monthly recap puts a fine point on how the rise of agentic AI, the SaaS apocalypse, and the Anthropic-Pentagon conflict all connect as part of one sweeping shift. In the headlines: the latest on Anthropic versus the US government including Claude's reported use in the Iran strikes, and OpenAI's record $110 billion fundraise. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 2, 202626 min
Schrödinger’s Apocalypse
This week, the global AI conversation hit a new level. From investor memos to viral economic doomsday scenarios, the debate is shifting from “Is AI real?” to “What happens if it actually works?” In this episode, we break down the “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” thesis, the market’s dramatic reaction, and the growing divide between AI-as-doom-loop and AI-as-productivity-explosion narratives. We explore whether efficiency is destiny, why human preferences may matter more than we think, and what a “Schrödinger’s Apocalypse” really means for the economy. Sources: https://x.com/Citrini7/status/2025668400396349476 Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Mar 1, 202629 min
Who Controls AI?
The standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon exploded this week when President Trump directed every federal agency to cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to remove its red lines on autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As the episode unpacks the full timeline — from Dario Amodei's public statement to Trump's Truth Social post to OpenAI's deal with the Department of War — what emerges is a fight far bigger than one contract, touching the fundamental question of who gets to control the most important technology of the century. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/ Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 28, 202630 min
Are 40% Staff Cuts the New AI Normal?
Block just cut 40% of its workforce in one move, with Jack Dorsey arguing that new intelligence tools and smaller, flatter teams fundamentally change how companies operate—prompting a massive stock surge and igniting debate over whether this is the first true AI-driven headcount reset or simply COVID overhiring getting cleaned up under a new narrative. In the headlines: Google releases Nano Banana 2, Claude signups surge, Meta pulls back on custom chips, and Microsoft previews Copilot Tasks. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 28, 202624 min
The OpenClaw-ification of AI
Anthropic rolls out Claude Code Remote Control and Scheduled Tasks, Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, Notion unveils Custom Agents, and suddenly every major AI player is shipping always-on, agentic workflows that look a lot like OpenClaw. This episode explores why this isn’t about copying a hot project, but about the emergence of new primitives in the agent era—persistent work, multimodal orchestration, scheduled autonomy, and AI that follows you across devices. In the headlines: Anthropic’s standoff with the Pentagon escalates, OpenAI’s Stargate ambitions hit turbulence, and Nvidia posts another monster earnings report. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 26, 202628 min
The Rise of the Anti-AI Movement
Public skepticism toward AI is rising, and it’s not just media hype. From job displacement fears and artist backlash to data center protests, child development concerns, AI safety debates, and growing distrust of Big Tech, resistance to AI is taking many different forms. This episode breaks down the emerging “anti-AI movement” into its distinct camps, explores why economic anxiety and social media disillusionment are shaping the moment, and argues that most critics aren’t anti-technology ideologues—they’re responding to real, solvable concerns. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 24, 202630 min
The Perils of the AI Exponential
As METR releases the results of their long-horizon test for Claude Opus 4.6, the benchmark shows just how fast things are moving. In fact, one recent market report suggests that not only is AI not a “bubble” — it’s success might be a problem. In the headlines: Claude code turns one, OpenAI ups its projections and much more. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking AIUC-1 - Get your agents certified to communicate trust to enterprise buyers - https://www.aiuc-1.com/ Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 23, 202627 min
Why AI Could Be Better for Plumbers than Programmers
AI is reshaping the economy—but not always in the way most leaders expect. This episode explores why AI could matter more for plumbers than programmers, shifting leverage to trade entrepreneurs by removing operational friction rather than replacing skilled labor. From Gen Z’s growing pivot toward the trades to the rise of agentic tools that unlock scale without headcount, the real opportunity isn’t cost cutting—it’s empowering small operators to run dramatically better businesses. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 22, 202622 min
Does Gemini 3.1 Pro Matter?
Gemini 3.1 Pro arrives with big benchmark gains and a sharp jump in reasoning, coding, and efficiency—but in a world where the frontier rotates weekly, raw performance isn’t the story. This episode looks at what actually matters: cost per task, multimodal dominance, and where Gemini fits in a model portfolio that now demands specialization over supremacy. In the headlines: India’s AI Impact Summit and the Altman-Amodei moment, Walmart bets on AI for growth, Amazon tracks employee AI usage, and Accenture ties promotions to adoption. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/Navigate Mercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 20, 202626 min
How People Actually Use AI Agents
A new Anthropic study shows that AI agents are being used far more conservatively than their capabilities suggest, with short sessions, heavy human oversight, and growing use beyond coding into back office, marketing, sales, and finance. The data highlights that autonomy is shaped as much by trust and interaction design as raw model power. In the headlines: Gemini adds music generation, Anthropic clarifies its OAuth policy, Meta revives its AI smartwatch, Grok expands to 16 debating subagents, and more. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Mercury - modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 19, 202626 min
Sonnet 4.6 Changes the Agent Math
Anthropic drops Sonnet 4.6 with a million-token context window and major gains in computer use, coding, and agentic workflows at a dramatically lower price point—immediately reshaping the economics of OpenClaw-style agents. Meanwhile, Grok 4.2 enters public beta with a multi-agent debate system and promises rapid weekly improvement, and Apple ramps up AI wearables. In the headlines: Apple’s AI glasses push, Spotify engineers stop writing code by hand, Meta commits to millions of Nvidia GPUs, Chinese AI price wars, and a possible SaaS rebound. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Mercury - modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-banking Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 18, 202626 min
The AI Productivity Boom Finally Shows Up
For years, AI felt transformative in anecdotes but invisible in macroeconomic data. That may be changing. Revised labor statistics suggest stronger-than-expected productivity growth despite weaker hiring, raising the possibility that the long-anticipated AI productivity surge is finally appearing in national numbers. In the headlines: Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon, Alibaba’s latest model release, Hollywood’s AI panic, and Apple teases a March event. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 17, 202626 min
OpenClaw Goes to OpenAI
OpenClaw’s meteoric rise—from a weekend Claude experiment to the fastest-growing open source AI project in the world—just culminated in Peter Steinberger joining OpenAI to build the next generation of personal agents. This episode unpacks the agentic inflection point, why OpenClaw became the Schelling point for builders, what Anthropic may have fumbled, and what it means for multi-agent futures, coding models, and the broader AI power struggle. In the headlines: GPT-5.3 Codex Spark’s speed play, Google’s upgraded Deep Think agent, DeepSeek V4 rumors, and Anthropic’s $30B raise. Want to build with OpenClaw? LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAW CAMP: https://campclaw.ai/ Or for enterprises, check out: https://enterpriseclaw.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 16, 202630 min
Something Big Is Happening
An 80-million-view post by Matt Schumer ignited one of the most important AI debates of 2026—are we underestimating how fast AI is transforming work, or overhyping disruption before it reaches the real economy? This episode breaks down the original argument that a shift has already occurred inside tech, the sharp critiques that followed, and what the back-and-forth reveals about risk, mindset, and adaptation. From “tool-shaped objects” to the seen vs. the unseen, the core question isn’t whether AI is powerful—it’s what happens if you’re wrong about the speed and stakes of change Sources: https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403 https://x.com/WillManidis/status/2021655191901155534 https://x.com/cboyack/status/2021647373571862952 Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/ Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 15, 202628 min
The Time Savings Era of AI Is Over
The latest AIDB Intelligence January AI Usage Pulse Survey of 583 highly active AI users reveals a decisive shift in how value is being created with AI. Time savings is no longer the dominant benefit. Instead, increased output and entirely new capabilities are taking the lead, especially among heavy users. Claude has emerged as the primary model for the most agentic, builder-oriented workflows, while multi-model portfolios are becoming the norm. Vibe coding has gone mainstream beyond engineering, with executives, operators, and product leaders increasingly building their own tools. Agentic usage has more than doubled compared to late last year, suggesting an inflection point in how work is being structured. The data shows a clear pattern: the deeper users go, the less they focus on efficiency and the more they focus on transformation. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 13, 202620 min
How I Built My 10-Agent OpenClaw Team
I built a 10-agent digital employee team using OpenClaw—and I’m walking through exactly how it works, what’s actually valuable, what’s not, and how a non-technical operator can go from zero to a persistent, always-on agent stack. This episode breaks down the architecture behind my builder bot, research agents powering AIDB Intelligence, project manager agents for Superintelligent and growth initiatives, a chief of staff layer, and the task agent that’s quietly become indispensable—plus lessons on heartbeats, mobile management, ROI realities, security tradeoffs, and why your real unlock isn’t YouTube tutorials but an AI build partner guiding you step by step. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 12, 202622 min
How the Global AI Race Has Shifted
The AI race in 2026 looks very different than it did a year ago. Chinese labs are closing the gap, export controls are shifting, markets are reacting to real AI disruption, and new players like the UAE—and even space-based compute—are entering the picture. This episode unpacks how models, chips, geopolitics, and markets are converging—and why that directly shapes the AI tools you use. In the headlines: OpenAI’s hardware timeline slips to 2027, turmoil at xAI, and AI disruption hits financial stocks. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 11, 202624 min
Why AI Leads to More Work, Not Less
A new embedded workplace study finds that AI isn’t shrinking work—it’s expanding it, as power users take on more tasks, blur boundaries between work and downtime, and juggle parallel projects once thought impossible. The result isn’t reduced relevance or less value, but a new kind of pressure driven by expanded capability and rising expectations, especially as agentic tools accelerate what individuals and teams can attempt. This episode digs into what that shift really means for productivity, job displacement fears, and why the real challenge of AI may be managing abundance. In the headlines: a surprise leap in Chinese video models, new data center politics in Washington, the SaaS selloff continues, OpenAI rolls out ads, and fresh rumors of an imminent model release. Studies: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D4E1FAQFSB5OvcNbALA/feedshare-document-url-metadata-scrapper-pdf/B4EZw_o8RPH8A4-/0/1770594224671?e=1771254000&v=beta&t=aGhL2aWPwKzZJr2O2z99r3X4MfV9LNzf2NS9rbf63dA Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 10, 202623 min
Did the Super Bowl Make Americans Like AI Any More?
A look at whether this year’s Super Bowl ads from OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic, and a wave of smaller AI startups actually shifted public perception of AI, or just reinforced existing fears and hype. Drawing on audience reaction data, ad rankings, and the broader context of American skepticism toward AI, this episode breaks down which spots connected, which backfired, and why advertising AI is fundamentally different from advertising soda or trucks. In the headlines: the SaaS selloff deepens, software valuations compress, and investors grapple with what the agent era means for legacy tech Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 9, 202626 min
Claude Code Killed the AI Bubble
For months, critics have warned that AI is a bubble built on hype, overinvestment, and tools that don’t deliver real value. Over the last few weeks, that argument has started to fall apart. The widespread adoption of Claude Code and agentic coding tools has made it unmistakably clear that AI systems can now do meaningful, end-to-end work, not just generate impressive demos. This episode explores why Claude Code feels like an inflection point, how it changes the economics of software and information work, and why the real risk facing companies may be underestimating how fast agents are becoming the default way work gets done. Reading: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 8, 202624 min
How to Learn AI With AI
Learning AI is no longer about tutorials, courses, or step-by-step guides. It’s about working with AI as a learning and building partner. In this AI Operators bonus episode, NLW breaks down the mindset shifts and practical tactics needed to learn faster by pairing directly with models—covering vision-first thinking, messy exploration, productive pushback, handoff documents, prompt chaining, and when to stop or reset a thread. The core idea is simple: high-agency learners can access frontier-level capabilities right now if they learn how to collaborate with AI effectively. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 8, 202617 min
Opus 4.6 and ChatGPT 5.3-Codex Are Here and the Labs Are at War
Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI responded with GPT 5.3 Codex just 20 minutes later — the most intense head-to-head model release we've ever seen. Here's what each model brings, how they compare, and what the first reactions are telling us. In the headlines: Google and Amazon share their capex plans, and we're about to spend 2.5 moon landings on AI. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 6, 202627 min
Is Software Dead?
SaaS stocks are selling off hard as investors start pricing in AI agents as a direct threat to software’s growth, margins, and seat-based business models. This episode unpacks why markets suddenly believe something fundamental has shifted — and why claims of a full software apocalypse are overstated but directionally real. In the headlines, a rare public fight breaks out after Anthropic uses its first Super Bowl ads to attack AI advertising itself, prompting an unusually sharp response from OpenAI and exposing growing tension over how the AI industry wants to be seen. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 5, 202628 min
The Dawn of the Agent Age
January marked a clear break between the AI era people thought they were in and the one that actually arrived. Agentic coding crossed from novelty to default, tools like Claude Code reset expectations for what individuals can build, and systems such as OpenClaw and Moltbook showed how quickly agents are becoming ecosystems, not just features. This episode explains why the shift felt sudden, why it caught so many off guard, and why the real story isn’t sentient agents but a widening gap between AI capability and real-world adoption. In the headlines: Nvidia and OpenAI, Intel’s GPU pivot, Apple’s embrace of agentic coding, developer dependence on Claude Code, and Disney’s strategic turn toward experiences. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 5, 202624 min
The AI Race Just Got a SpaceX-Sized Twist
Two stories were too big to squeeze into the headlines, so this episode goes deep on both. First, the surprise merger of xAI and SpaceX and what Elon Musk’s vision of orbital data centers says about the future of AI compute, capital intensity, and sci-fi-scale ambition. Then, a close look at OpenAI’s new Codex desktop app and why it signals a real shift from models competing on raw capability to products competing on how humans actually orchestrate agents at scale. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 3, 202626 min
Why Moltbook Matters
Moltbook is a new social network where AI agents, not humans, interact with each other — and in less than a week, more than 1,500,000 agents have joined. That explosive growth has fueled speculation about consciousness, autonomy, and AI takeover, but those debates miss the real story. This episode explains why Moltbook matters even without intent or inner life, and what large-scale agent interaction already reveals about emergence, coordination, and the security risks of an increasingly agentic internet. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 2, 202625 min
OpenAI IPO? Grok-SpaceX Merger? The AI IPO Race Heats Up
A wave of late-January moves sharpens the picture of the AI race: OpenAI quietly accelerates IPO plans under competitive pressure, Amazon weighs a massive OpenAI investment, Apple places a $2B hardware-first AI bet, and Elon Musk explores consolidating xAI with SpaceX and Tesla. Together, the stories point to a market now driven as much by capital strategy and control as by model capability. In the headlines: Google opens Genie 3 world models, OpenAI’s Sora app shows heavy churn, Perplexity signs a major Microsoft cloud deal, and Anthropic clashes with the Pentagon over military AI limits. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Feb 1, 202629 min
100,000 AI Agents Joined Their Own Social Network Today. It's Called Moltbook.
This is the single wildest story in AI in quite some time. In just a few hours, Moltbook went from a quirky experiment to a full-blown agent society, with more than 30,000 AI agents joining, posting, debating consciousness, building tools, coordinating resources, and even creating culture without human direction. What started as a place for agents to “hang out” quickly revealed emergent behavior at a scale and speed that feels genuinely new, raising big questions about autonomy, coordination, and what happens when agents are given their own third space. A note on the numbers: at the time of recording, their were 30,000 moltys. By the time I pressed publish, it was over 100,000. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace AI Launchpad - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 31, 202626 min
Are Markets Still Worried About an AI Bubble?
As Meta and Microsoft report earnings, markets are sending a mixed but revealing signal about AI: this doesn’t look like a classic bubble fear so much as a judgment about who’s winning the AI narrative. Meta is rewarded for aggressive spending paired with visible revenue impact, while Microsoft is punished for caution and slowing cloud growth despite massive backlog demand. The takeaway isn’t that investors are fleeing AI—it’s that they’re increasingly selective about which AI stories they believe will convert spending into growth. In the headlines: SoftBank eyes another $30B into OpenAI, ServiceNow deepens its Anthropic partnership, Microsoft scrambles to respond to Claude Cowork, Google upgrades Chrome with agentic browsing, and Tesla invests $2B into xAI. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rackspace AI Launchpad - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 30, 202628 min
Are Agent Swarms the Next AI Paradigm?
Agent swarms are quickly moving from theory to practice, with early 2026 model releases making coordinated, multi-agent work feel like a real shift rather than a niche experiment. This episode focuses on Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5, what its agent swarm design reveals about the future of AI work, and why this may mark a transition from single assistants to teams of AI operating in parallel. In the headlines: Anthropic’s huge new funding round and revised revenue forecasts, Nvidia chip sales reopening in China, a UK-wide AI upskilling initiative, and new agentic features from Google and Chinese labs. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 28, 202622 min
The AI Acceleration Gap
A widening AI acceleration gap is emerging between people and organizations that are compounding new capabilities and those moving at a linear pace, and recent advances have made that divide feel suddenly sharper. This episode breaks down what’s actually changing, why the gap compounds faster than it appears, and what kinds of experimentation matter without chasing every shiny new tool. In the headlines: takeaways from OpenAI’s builder town hall, early signals on AI monetization and custom chips, and the broader shift toward an AI-factory economy. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 28, 202628 min
Ralph Wiggum, Clawdbot, and Mac Minis: How Pros Are Vibe Coding in 2026
A tour of how “vibe coding” actually looks in early 2026, from autonomous agent swarms writing millions of lines of code to solo builders running always-on AI employees on cheap hardware; the episode breaks down why techniques like the Ralph Wiggum loop matter, how Clawdbot changes what autonomy feels like in practice, and why the real shift isn’t new models—it’s removing humans as the bottleneck in building and shipping software. In the headlines: Davos wrestles with AI jobs and productivity, OpenAI pushes hard on enterprise, and global leaders argue over whether AI is creation, destruction, or both. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 26, 202624 min
Skills for the Code AGI Era
As coding agents and vibe-coding tools push software creation into a fundamentally new phase, the real question shifts from what AI can do to what skills actually matter. This episode unpacks the emerging divide between two critical roles in the code AGI era: the Agent Manager, who knows how to direct and scale AI agents effectively, and the Enterprise Operator, who knows what problems are worth solving and why. With execution becoming cheap and abundant, skills like systems thinking, async orchestration, domain expertise, problem recognition, and workflow redesign are becoming the true sources of leverage. Link: https://x.com/natolambert/status/2014023020302704698 Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 25, 202618 min
Who Will Adapt Best to AI Disruption?
A new NBER study argues the real risk from AI isn’t which jobs are exposed, but which workers lack the savings, transferable skills, mobility, and age advantage to adapt when disruption hits. While many highly exposed professionals appear relatively resilient, a smaller and more vulnerable group—disproportionately women in clerical and administrative roles—faces the greatest danger, suggesting policy should focus less on abstract job loss and more on rapid, targeted support for those least able to adjust. In the headlines: OpenAI pledges community-focused data center investments, the White House pushes an emergency power auction to address rising electricity costs, and Davos leaders debate whether AI disruption may outpace society’s ability to respond. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 24, 202621 min
The 3x Payoff of Deep AI Integration
New surveys from PwC, Workday, and Section are being read as evidence that AI is overhyped, but the real story is simpler: companies that deeply integrate AI into core workflows are nearly three times more likely to see real financial gains, while everyone else stalls. This is not a story about AI capability—it’s a story about leadership, integration, and execution. In the headlines: Apple explores a new AI device form factor, Meta previews internally trained models, and Congress moves to tighten oversight of advanced chip exports. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - https://www.sectionai.com/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 22, 202623 min
AGI Timelines Shift Forward
At Davos, leading AI lab heads sharply accelerated their timelines for artificial general intelligence, with Demis Hassabis pointing to a roughly five-year horizon and Dario Amodei arguing it could arrive far sooner. Those compressed timelines are now reshaping debates around chip exports, AI pauses, and whether global coordination is even possible as competition intensifies. The message is no longer theoretical risk—it’s near-term disruption, and society is not ready. In the headlines: Google says it has no plans for ads in Gemini, Meta may be pulling back on in-house chips, OpenAI signs a major enterprise deal with ServiceNow, and new signals emerge on the timing of OpenAI’s first hardware. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 22, 202621 min
The AI Capabilities Overhang
Today’s episode explains the AI capabilities overhang, the growing gap between what AI can already do and how little of it is actually being used, and why this mismatch is becoming one of the defining risks and opportunities of the moment for individuals, institutions, and nations alike, with the core argument that closing the gap is now more about access, incentives, and organizational change than better models. In the headlines: Claude Code breaks into the mainstream, Anthropic’s funding round reportedly grows, xAI hits a gigawatt of compute, U.S. AI optimism lags globally, and Elon Musk escalates his lawsuit against OpenAI. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 21, 202629 min
How to Make ChatGPT Ads Not Suck
Ads are coming to ChatGPT, but they don’t have to follow the same tired playbook as search and social. This episode outlines a five-part plan for doing ads differently: giving users real control and transparency, shifting from pay-for-attention to pay-for-outcomes, building a genuinely useful offers exchange, letting brands fund capabilities and action-oriented agents instead of banner placements, and creating ad programs people actually want to support through small business and AI-native founder grants. Ads may be inevitable, but a conversational interface creates a rare chance to make them feel like features, not interruptions. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 19, 202623 min
Code AGI is Functional AGI (And It's Here)
This episode argues that the most important AGI threshold has already been crossed. As coding agents learn to reason, iterate, and operate autonomously over long horizons, they unlock a form of functional general intelligence that matters for real work. Coding isn’t just another domain—it’s a universal lever that collapses the distance between idea and execution, reshaping how companies build, decide, and compete. The result isn’t a gradual improvement, but a structural shift in how work gets done. Readings from: https://x.com/gradypb/status/2011491957730918510 https://x.com/danshipper/status/2011617055636705718 Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 18, 202624 min
Why CEOs Need to Lead AI Strategy
Today on the AI Daily Brief, why AI leadership is shifting decisively to the CEO—and why that shift is happening now as AI moves from experimentation to core enterprise strategy. Drawing on new survey data, the episode explores what happens when AI becomes recession-proof, ROI timelines pull forward, and agentic systems start reshaping organizations at scale. Before that, in the headlines: Replit pushes vibe coding all the way to mobile app stores, Higgsfield rockets to unicorn status on explosive growth, Thinking Machines Labs faces a wave of high-profile departures, and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis warns that Chinese AI models are now only months behind the frontier. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 17, 202623 min
AI's Battle for Your Context
As AI products race toward deeper personalization, the most important competition may be over who controls user context rather than who has the best model. This episode explores how Google’s Gemini personal intelligence, Claude Cowork’s desktop access, OpenAI’s memory-first product strategy, and Apple’s still-untapped device data all fit into a broader battle to own the user relationship, while also questioning how valuable personalization really is for different types of AI users. In the headlines: mounting IPO speculation around OpenAI and Anthropic, Microsoft’s quiet but costly shift toward Anthropic models, OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras compute agreement, and a messy talent reshuffling at Thinking Machines Lab. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 15, 202622 min
ChatGPT 5.5 Coming Soon?
The AI rumor mill is heating up again, with fresh speculation about when OpenAI’s next major model might land and whether it could reset the competitive narrative after a turbulent few months of launches. The episode puts those rumors in context, tracing how momentum has shifted between OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, and what a real step-change model would need to accomplish. In the headlines: Microsoft moves to defuse political backlash over data center power costs, chip geopolitics tighten around NVIDIA and China, OpenAI makes a small but telling health-tech acquisition, and new model rumors swirl from DeepSeek, Google, and Anthropic. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 15, 202620 min
Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for Everyone Else
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork reframes what AI assistance looks like for non-technical users, turning what began as a developer CLI into a task-oriented, agentic coworker that can actually do work across local files, browsers, and connected tools. This episode breaks down why UI shifts like this matter, how Cowork changes who can benefit from agentic AI, where it falls short in its early research preview, and why making Claude Code accessible may unlock an entirely new wave of everyday productivity—even if the hardest part now is productizing the right use cases rather than building the models themselves. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 13, 202628 min
Google to Officially Power Apple AI Siri
Apple’s decision to have Google power the next generation of Apple Intelligence is the clearest signal yet that the foundation model race is entering a new phase defined by alliances, tradeoffs, and positioning rather than raw model capability. This episode looks at how Apple, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are each staking out roles across assistants, healthcare, commerce, and infrastructure, and why the real competition is shifting toward distribution, integration layers, and control points. From Siri and Gemini to Claude’s healthcare push, agentic shopping standards, and Meta’s energy-backed compute expansion, the throughline is a rapidly consolidating AI landscape where every move is about who gets to be the default layer. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps. https://assemblyai.com/brief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 13, 202625 min
Does Work Still Matter in the Age of AI?
In this Long Read Sunday episode, a deep exploration of one of the hardest questions around AI: whether human work still matters as machines grow more capable. The episode examines competing visions of an AI-driven future, from worlds where labor disappears to ones where new forms of work, value, and identity emerge. Moving from inequality and capital concentration to the changing nature of expertise, product development, and creativity, the discussion argues that while the future of work is impossible to predict, a shift is already underway toward humans shaping tools, environments, and opportunities in fundamentally new ways. Sources: https://philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in-the-22nd-century https://stratechery.com/2026/ai-and-the-human-condition/ https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-writes-almost-all-code-what https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/2008742211194913117 https://x.com/reidhoffman/status/2008940669239247341 Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 11, 202622 min
Building a Personal AI Model Map [AI Operators Bonus Episode]
This bonus AI Operators episode experiments with a skills-focused format inside the AI Daily Brief community, using the New Year’s AI resolution program as a live case study. The episode walks through week two’s “model mapping” challenge and why building a personal mental map of which models and tools excel at which tasks can be one of the biggest sources of practical AI leverage. It then goes hands-on with a newly vibe-coded Model Map Builder app, covering its use case library, testing workflow, scoring system, and model history views, alongside a candid look at how fast, low-stakes software gets built using tools like Lovable, Claude, and WhisperFlow. The broader takeaway is a shift from thinking about AI usage to continuously translating opportunities into small, living pieces of software, and how that mindset is becoming central to being an effective AI operator in 2026. Link to the model map: https://aidbmodelmap.com/ Insanely cheesy theme music: created with Suno
Jan 10, 202612 min
What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?
Even when a product is growing and customers are happy, AI can still undercut the core economics that made the business viable in the first place. This episode looks at how AI collapses defensibility by attacking pricing power, distribution, and differentiation simultaneously, why “great execution” is no longer a sufficient moat, and what kinds of businesses are most exposed as AI capabilities move up the value chain. In the headlines: Google pushes Gemini deeper into Gmail as the inbox becomes a battleground for personal assistants, Nvidia’s China chip sales face new uncertainty as Beijing pumps the brakes, and AI-powered shopping surges as Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce race to own agentic commerce. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 10, 202622 min
How People Are Using AI for Health
Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health and what it reveals about how people are already using AI to navigate symptoms, medical information, insurance, and gaps in access across a strained healthcare system. The episode examines the usage data behind the launch, the new health-specific features and privacy architecture, early reactions from clinicians and industry insiders, and why health may become one of AI’s strongest long-term data moats. In the headlines: record-setting AI fundraising rounds, LM Arena’s rapid commercialization, and Google overtaking Apple as the world’s second-most valuable company. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 9, 202624 min
Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code
Claude Code has triggered something that feels bigger than a normal model release. Power users across AI and software are describing a clear inflection point, where autonomous coding crosses an invisible threshold means harder problems suddenly become tractable, entire workflows collapse into prompts, and delegation to AI feels genuinely competent for the first time. This episode unpacks why the reaction to Opus 4.5 and Claude Code has been so intense, how agents are changing not just what gets built but how work feels, and what this moment signals for developers, non-coders, enterprises, and the next phase of software itself. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 9, 202628 min
AI at CES is Not Just Cheesy Gadgets Anymore
CES 2026 marks a clear turning point for AI, shifting away from novelty gadgets and toward serious, category-defining products from the industry’s biggest players. This episode breaks down how Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon, and Samsung used CES as a roadmap for where AI infrastructure, devices, and assistants are headed next—and why the conference now feels less like a tech circus and more like a declaration of intent for the year ahead. In the headlines: Wall Street’s underappreciated AI risks, inflation fears tied to data center buildouts, and why markets may be pricing in revolution faster than reality. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 7, 202630 min
Context Graphs: AI's Next Big Idea
Why “context graphs” have suddenly become one of the most important ideas in enterprise AI, and what they reveal about why agents fail or succeed at real work. This episode explains the core idea behind context graphs, how they differ from systems of record and knowledge graphs, and why capturing decision traces — the why, not just the what — may be the key to scalable autonomy inside organizations. In the headlines: AI wearables make another run at relevance, China reports early success using AI for cancer detection, X faces global backlash over Grok moderation failures, and Yann LeCun publicly breaks with Meta’s AI strategy. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 5, 202625 min
Work in the Age of Infinite Agents
Most AI discussions focus on speed and automation, but a deeper question is scale. In this episode, NLW reads and analyzes essays by Ivan Zhao and Aaron Levie that argue AI agents change the limits of knowledge work itself—allowing organizations to operate beyond human rhythms, meetings, and bottlenecks. The conversation explores why this transition feels uncomfortable, why copying human workflows is a dead end, and what comes after. Ivan essay: https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400 Aaron essay: https://x.com/levie/status/2004654686629163154 Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - http://zencoder.ai/zenflow Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 4, 202623 min
What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI
Two blockbuster deals over the holidays quietly marked the real start of the AI agent era, revealing where competition is actually heading in 2026. This episode breaks down why Meta’s acquisition of Manus signals a shift toward agents as distribution, not features, and why Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal is really about owning the future of inference as workloads fragment and latency becomes decisive. Together, these moves show how the battle is moving from models and benchmarks to agents, infrastructure, and the interfaces people refuse to leave. In the headlines: xAI’s massive compute expansion, OpenAI’s renewed push on voice and devices, SoftBank’s infrastructure spree, Brookfield’s AI cloud ambitions, and Claude Code reaching the point of writing all of its own code. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Jan 3, 202625 min
AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution
This final episode of 2025 lays out a practical, self-guided 10-week plan to build real AI fluency by actually doing the work. Each weekend focuses on a concrete project—from model mapping and deep research to data analysis, visual reasoning, automations, context engineering, and building a real AI-powered app—designed to be modular, completable in a few hours, and immediately useful. The goal isn’t theory or trends, but habits, workflows, and systems that still matter months from now, setting a foundation for how AI fits into work and life heading into 2026. Learn more and join the project: https://aidbnewyear.com/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 31, 202527 min
50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 2
Part two of the AI predictions series looks ahead to how competition, markets, and politics could shape AI in 2026, from the durability of coding model leaders and the future of Grok and Meta to Chinese open-weight models, agent labs versus model labs, M&A, IPO timing, and whether Alphabet becomes the world’s biggest company. The episode also digs into how public markets, private credit, data center politics, layoffs, and anti-AI sentiment could collide with macro forces and election dynamics to define the next phase of the AI era. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 30, 202526 min
50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 1
Part one of a two-episode forecast on AI in 2026, focusing on models and capabilities, release strategy shifts, multimodal races, memory, and the evolution from assistance to agent management. It also explores how vibe coding expands beyond engineering, why bespoke personal software grows, and how these trends start reshaping enterprise adoption next year Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 29, 202524 min
Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
Lovable CEO Anton Osika joins the AI Daily Brief to unpack how AI-assisted coding evolved from early GitHub experiments into load-bearing infrastructure inside companies, why 2025 marked the inflection point for vibe coding, and why 2026 will belong to builders who can think, plan, and ship with AI end to end. The conversation covers the shift from prototypes to production, how enterprises are rethinking workflows and SaaS, the rise of personal and ephemeral software, and what skills will actually matter as AI takes on more of the mechanics of building. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 28, 202534 min
The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025
A ranked countdown of the AI model releases that defined 2025, shaped how people actually use these systems, and reset expectations across the industry. The episode includes a few notable omissions, some controversial placements, and plenty to argue about—by design. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 26, 202529 min
51 Charts That Will Shape AI in 2026
A fast-paced walkthrough of 51 charts that capture where artificial intelligence stands right now and what matters most heading into 2026, spanning capabilities, infrastructure, markets, economics, vibe coding, jobs, and politics. The episode connects model performance, cost curves, hyperscaler spending, enterprise adoption, ROI data, coding agents, labor impacts, and emerging political pressures into a single narrative about how AI is evolving and what that evolution means for the year ahead Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 24, 202527 min
How AI Starts Doing the Work in 2026 With Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger
Anthropic CPO and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins the AI Daily Brief to talk about the rise of vibe coding, why coding agents quietly became the breakout AI use case of 2025, and how enterprises are beginning to move from chatbots to real workload-taking agents. The conversation explores how tools like Claude Code escaped the developer box, what it takes to design products for capabilities that don’t fully exist yet, and why 2026 may be the year AI starts reliably taking work off people’s plates inside large organizations at Anthropic. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 24, 202530 min
The 10 Biggest AI Stories of 2025
From DeepSeek’s shockwave debut and the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure buildout to the bubble debate, the MIT enterprise adoption backlash, the AI talent wars, and the rise of reasoning, agents, and vibe coding, this episode walks through the 10 defining AI stories that shaped 2025 and set the trajectory for 2026, including why agent infrastructure quietly became the most important foundation of the year and how next-leap models like Gemini 3, Opus 4.5, and GPT-5.2 reset expectations for what’s coming next. In the headlines: DeepSeek R1, Project Stargate, the AI bubble debate, enterprise ROI myths, talent wars, reasoning models, vibe coding, agent infrastructure, and next-generation models. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 22, 202528 min
Power Ranking the Big AI Ideas for 2026
This Sunday long-read episode digs into a16z’s newly released Big Ideas for 2026, scoring the most interesting predictions across likelihood, real-world value, and pure X-factor. From taming multimodal data chaos and agent-native infrastructure to voice agents, multiplayer vertical AI, AI-native universities, and the industrial renaissance powered by software and automation, the episode separates what feels inevitable from what feels premature—and what’s just plain cool. The result is a highly subjective, intentionally unscientific power ranking designed to spark end-of-year reflection and a few joyful holiday arguments about where AI is actually headed next. Read the Big Ideas: https://a16z.com/newsletter/big-ideas-2026-part-1/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at https://zenflow.free/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 21, 202531 min
The Most Important AI Stories This Week
A rapid-fire tour through a packed week in AI, from Google’s surprise Gemini 3 Flash release and its implications for the model Pareto frontier, to bombshell OpenAI fundraising talks involving Amazon and trillion-dollar valuations, major AI leadership and org changes at Amazon, early signs of stress in data-center financing markets, ChatGPT’s push toward an app-platform future, fresh details on the OpenAI–Disney deal, a new US Tech Force for government AI infrastructure, Nvidia’s China chip calculus, and Bernie Sanders’ call for a data-center construction moratorium. This episode connects the dots between models, money, infrastructure, and politics shaping where AI heads next. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at https://zenflow.free/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 19, 202531 min
82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI
A first readout of the AI ROI Benchmarking Study shows that real business value from AI is no longer theoretical: 82 percent of organizations report positive ROI today, 37 percent report significant or transformational impact, and nearly all expect gains to accelerate over the next year. Drawing on more than 1,200 respondents and 5,000 use cases, this episode breaks down where ROI is actually coming from, why smaller organizations are often seeing outsized gains, how time savings compare to strategic benefits like new capabilities and decision quality, and what the data says about agents versus assisted AI at this stage of adoption. Learn more: https://aidbintel.com/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at https://zenflow.free/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 19, 202523 min
4 Reasons to Use GPT Image 1.5 Over Nano Banana Pro
OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5 inside ChatGPT, and early reactions suggest the gap with Nano Banana Pro has meaningfully narrowed. This episode walks through first impressions from head-to-head tests, benchmark reactions, and creator feedback, then digs into four specific areas where GPT Image 1.5 may be the better choice right now, from hyper-precise instruction following and complex multi-constraint prompts to alternative infographic aesthetics and a consumer-first interface designed for discovery and play. The takeaway is not that one model clearly wins, but that creators suddenly have real choice at the high end of image generation, which is a big shift from just a few weeks ago. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at https://zenflow.free/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 18, 202525 min
The Most Important AI Lesson Businesses Learned in 2025
Deloitte’s latest Tech Trends report makes one thing clear: real AI value doesn’t come from dropping chatbots or agents onto old workflows, but from redesigning how organizations actually work. This episode breaks down why agentic AI forces process redesign, infrastructure modernization, and new management models, why legacy systems, data readiness, and governance remain the biggest blockers, and what separates companies getting real value from those stuck in pilots. The core lesson from 2025 is simple but hard: AI advantage comes from rebuilding operations for an AI-native world, not layering tools on top of the past. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at https://zenflow.free/ LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 17, 202521 min
Will This OpenAI Update Make AI Agents Work Better?
Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s quiet adoption of Anthropic’s “skills” mechanism and why it could meaningfully change how AI agents work in practice. The discussion explains what skills are, how progressive disclosure improves efficiency and reliability, and why modular, shareable instruction folders may matter more than building ever-more complex agents. In the headlines: fallout from the White House executive order blocking state AI regulation, GOP infighting over AI policy, Nvidia H200 export approval to China and Beijing’s response, and early benchmark results for GPT-5.2. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 15, 202522 min
The Architects of AI That TIME Missed
A tight breakdown of Time’s “Architects of AI” cover, who made the cut, and why the framing misses several crucial players. The episode argues that beyond chipmakers, model labs, and politicians, AI’s true architects also include China, major capital allocators, the Middle East, enterprise operators, and cultural translators who turn AI into real-world impact. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 14, 202519 min
Why AI Advantage Compounds
AI advantage is proving to be compounding, not linear. Drawing on new data from OpenAI, Menlo Ventures, EY, and early AI ROI Benchmarking results, this episode explains how leading organizations are pulling away by using AI more intensively, moving beyond time savings into higher-value use cases, and reinvesting gains back into deeper capabilities—creating flywheels that laggards will struggle to catch. In the headlines: real-world AI benchmarks, OpenAI user growth, chip-war intrigue, Oracle earnings, and AI market volatility. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 12, 202522 min
GPT-5.2 is Here
Today’s episode breaks down GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s most work-focused model yet, with major gains in reasoning stability, long-context performance, and real professional tasks like coding, spreadsheets, and presentations. The conversation looks at early benchmarks and tester reactions, what OpenAI’s emphasis on economic value signals about its strategy, and how the model’s launch coincides with a blockbuster new Disney partnership that expands OpenAI’s reach across enterprise, media, and IP. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 11, 202524 min
The State of Enterprise AI
Today’s episode breaks down new reports from OpenAI and Menlo Ventures that show enterprise AI adoption accelerating quickly, with coding emerging as the first true killer use case, reasoning models driving deeper workflow integration, and the gap between leaders and laggards widening as frontier firms compound their advantages. The conversation also looks at early agent deployments and what these trends signal for the 2026 boom-versus-bubble debate. In the headlines: Anthropic donates MCP as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block form the Agentic AI Foundation, rumors swirl around GPT-5.2 and a new image model, OpenAI launches AI Foundations certifications, and the US military unveils its GenAI.mil Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 10, 202528 min
The AI Race Gets a Massive Power Shift
Today’s episode breaks down Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to export H200 chips to China, a reversal of a decade of bipartisan China-hawk policy that could radically reshape global AI power dynamics, US industrial strategy, and the geopolitical balance around compute, with a close look at industry reaction, national-security concerns, and why this move may accelerate China’s capabilities even as it deepens their reliance on US hardware. In the headlines: Google readies a full line of AI smart glasses for next year, Claude Code lands inside Slack, Apple’s chip chief signals he is staying put, and IBM announces an $11B acquisition of Confluent to strengthen its AI data platform. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 10, 202524 min
What People Are Actually Using AI For Right Now
Today’s episode breaks down a massive new empirical study from OpenRouter and a16z that analyzed more than 100 trillion real-world tokens to reveal what developers and power users are actually doing with AI right now, from the surge in reasoning models to the dominance of coding workloads to the unexpected rise of roleplay in open-source systems. The discussion explores how the shift toward long-context programming tasks, tool-use invocation, and hybrid stacks of closed and open models is reshaping the practical AI landscape and what patterns matter most heading into 2026. Headlines include fresh rumors around GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s UX cleanup efforts, and the latest shake-ups at Apple and Meta. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 8, 202525 min
AI Has a PR Problem
Today’s episode explores why public distrust in AI is accelerating, from Edelman data showing sharp divides across income, age, and geography to a broader mix of tech fatigue, social-media backlash, political posturing, and economic anxiety that’s shaping perception more than direct experience with the tools; it also looks at how concerns around job cuts, energy use, and unclear corporate motives amplify the narrative, and what early signals suggest might actually rebuild trust, including real training, clearer intent from leaders, and more concrete examples of the future AI could improve. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 7, 202523 min
What 1,250 Professionals Say About Working With AI
Anthropic asked 1,250 professionals how AI is actually changing their work, and the results reveal a blend of optimism, anxiety, and shifting identity—creatives feeling squeezed, scientists wanting trustworthy partners, and most workers hoping to hand off routine tasks while keeping what defines their craft. The episode also looks at how AI-run interviews collapse the old scale-vs-context tradeoff in research and what that means for understanding real-world AI impact. Headlines include Gemini 3 Deep Think, Replit’s enterprise push with Google, Opus 4.5’s benchmark surge, Salesforce’s Agent Force momentum, and Meta’s pivot away from the metaverse. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 5, 202528 min
Can Today’s AI Really Replace 12% of Work?
Today’s episode unpacks how an MIT study about AI “replacing 11.7% of the US workforce” is being misreported, what it actually says about task-level automation versus jobs, and how it compares to Anthropic’s internal data on engineers delegating more work to AI and seeing big productivity gains. In the headlines: Microsoft’s AI sales targets and market jitters, Jensen Huang’s appearance on Joe Rogan, OpenAI’s acquisition of Neptune, and Black Friday AI shopping performance. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 4, 202521 min
What We Learned About Amazon’s AI Strategy
Amazon used AWS re:Invent to clarify where it actually fits in the rapidly shifting AI landscape, revealing a strategy built around practical multimodality, enterprise-first customization, and a long-term bet on specialized agents. This episode breaks down what Amazon announced, what changed, what didn’t, and what the updates really mean for enterprise teams navigating their AI stacks. Plus: OpenAI’s new pre-training progress, Anthropic’s alien-tech momentum, Mistral’s sprawling new lineup, and the latest moves in the race toward IPOs. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 3, 202526 min
OpenAI Declares Code Red
OpenAI has entered an all-out Code Red as Sam Altman orders the company to redirect resources toward sharper reasoning, faster performance, and a more capable ChatGPT after weeks of narrative momentum tilting toward Google and Anthropic. The move signals a dramatic strategic pivot at a moment when competitive pressure is reshaping expectations for frontier models and assistant dominance. In today’s headlines: Apple pushes out its longtime AI chief, new video and image models drop from Runway, DeepSeek, and Kling, and OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 2, 202522 min
The 5 Biggest AI Stories to Watch in December
December opens with Google’s Gemini momentum accelerating, OpenAI facing renewed pressure, and a burst of new models already landing in the first days of the month. This episode looks at how the Gemini narrative is reshaping the competitive landscape, what to expect from OpenAI, the surprise releases from DeepSeek and Runway, the positioning battle among vertical agent labs, enterprise turf-claiming ahead of 2026, and the political realignment forming around AI. A clear view of the forces most likely to define the month—and how they set the stage for the year ahead. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Dec 1, 202526 min
A Practical Guide to Scaling AI
A new OpenAI framework lays out what it actually takes for enterprises to move beyond pilots and into true whole-organization transformation, and the lessons reveal a widening gap between leaders who are building systems for compounding ROI and laggards stuck in experimentation mode. Today’s episode breaks down the four mindset shifts companies must make, the foundations that matter most, and why governance, fluency, and iterative product building define the real path to scaling AI in 2026. White paper: https://cdn.openai.com/business-guides-and-resources/from-experiments-to-deployments_whitepaper_11-25.pdf Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 30, 202526 min
10 AI Projects to Learn Gemini 3 Nano Banana and Opus 4.5
Today’s episode breaks down ten hands-on projects that show exactly what the newest wave of models—Gemini 3, Nano Banana 2, Opus 4.5, GPT-5.1, and more—can actually do in the real world, from infographic generation and data visualization to integrated multimodal reasoning, NotebookLM workflows, strategic planning with 5.1, and building full end-to-end vibe-coded apps with modern design tools. The episode is based on the uploaded transcript. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 28, 202524 min
10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
A bonus, ad-free Thanksgiving episode sharing ten creative, genuinely fun holiday projects that use AI to help kids make stories, coloring books, interactive websites, advent calendars, animal-adoption posters, personalized elf messages, mini-podcasts, animated Santa letters, and even custom family songs. It’s a guide to unlocking kid creativity with today’s newest models while keeping the season grounded in gratitude and imagination.
Nov 27, 202514 min
Can AI Really Automate 57 Percent of Work?
New research from Anthropic and McKinsey offers the clearest data yet on how AI is changing actual work, showing huge task-level time savings and estimating that more than half of U.S. work hours are now automatable if companies redesign around agents. The episode digs into what’s real, what’s hype, and how these findings reshape the future of jobs. Headlines include OpenAI’s new shopping research feature, Nvidia’s defensive turn, and HP’s AI-framed layoffs. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 26, 202523 min
Why Opus 4.5 Changes Vibe Coding
Today's episode digs into why Anthropic’s surprise launch of Claude Opus 4.5 is landing like a true step-function moment for coding, agentic workflows, and the emerging paradigm of vibe-based software creation, with new benchmarks, early user tests, and developer reactions all pointing to a shift in how real work gets done; plus a quick look at the latest headlines including the White House’s Genesis Mission and Amazon’s massive new government-focused AI expansion. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 26, 202528 min
Why the AI Bubble Debate is Useless
This episode argues that the AI bubble conversation has become one of the least helpful frames for understanding what actually matters in AI (at least if you're not an investor). It’s a sentiment-driven market narrative shaped by macro pressure, uncertainty, and impossible long-range predictions—none of which tell operators anything about how to use AI or plan for it. The real signals come from adoption patterns, financing structures, and the shifting economic context around AI infrastructure. Plus: headlines on the paused White House EO, insurers excluding AI risk, Google’s compute expansion, OpenAI’s Apple talent drain, and Sierra’s rapid growth. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 24, 202526 min
The 7 Most Important Things We Learned About AI This Week
This episode breaks down the 7 most important things this week revealed about AI: Google’s return as a serious contender, fresh evidence that pre-training still has room to run, how shared infrastructure advantages are starting to compound, why multimodal and multimodal reasoning are only just getting started, why coding remains the most strategic battleground, and what it means that even Nvidia’s blowout earnings can’t fully support current AI market narratives. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/ Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 23, 202519 min
25 Things Nano Banana Pro Does That AI Couldn't Before
Today’s AI Daily Brief breaks down the stunning leap unlocked by Google’s Nano Banana Pro image model, which isn’t just an upgrade but a wholesale expansion of what’s possible with AI image generation. From real text rendering to accurate charts, whiteboard-style compression of dense documents, educational visuals, flowcharts, technical drawings, virtual staging, precise spot-editing, and media-to-media transformations, this episode covers 25 capabilities that genuinely didn’t exist in the previous state of the art and explains why this model’s reasoning-on-images paradigm represents one of the biggest practical unlocks in years. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 22, 202520 min
A Huge Week for AI Models Gets Even Bigger
OpenAI followed Gemini 3 with a major one-two punch, dropping both GPT-5.1 Pro and the new Codex Max coding model, while NVIDIA’s blockbuster earnings smashed lingering AI bubble talk and reinforced the sense that capability curves are still accelerating across the stack. Today’s episode breaks down what the new models actually do, why compaction matters, how early testers are reacting, how NVIDIA reframed the entire AI market in a single earnings call, and why this entire week may mark an inflection point in the narrative around AI progress. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 21, 202524 min
AI Winners and Losers After Gemini 3
An in-depth look at how Gemini 3 reshapes the AI landscape. The episode breaks down which companies gained momentum, which ones face new pressure, and what the launch signals for the broader market. Topics include the Microsoft–Nvidia–Anthropic mega-deal, Bezos’s return with Project Prometheus, the latest on Grok 4.1, the state of OpenAI, and Google’s full-stack advantage. A clear map of the new frontier after the Gemini 3 release. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 20, 202526 min
How Gemini 3 Changes the AI Race
Gemini 3 officially launched, bringing one of the biggest capability jumps since GPT-4. The episode breaks down what the new model actually delivers, why its benchmark dominance matters, how developers are reacting to early tests, and what Google’s new Antigravity IDE signals for the future of coding agents. The discussion covers market implications, the shifting competitive picture among Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and the early real-world impressions that go beyond the numbers. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 18, 202523 min
The AI Scientist That Does 6 Months of Work in a Day
An emerging “AI scientist” called Kosmos is claiming the ability to do six months of research in a single day—reading 1,500 papers, writing tens of thousands of lines of code, and producing validated discoveries across neuroscience, genetics, material science, and Alzheimer’s research. This episode breaks down what Kosmos actually is, how it works, why Sam Altman is paying attention, and what it signals about the coming era of AI-accelerated science. Plus: the latest Gemini 3 hype cycle, Berkshire’s new AI-driven bet on Google, and why Michael Burry just shut down his fund. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 17, 202524 min
Can AI Be Normal and Transformative at the Same Time?
A new collaboration between the authors of AI 2027 and AI as Normal Technology lays out 12 areas where two very different visions of the future unexpectedly converge. This episode breaks down their shared conclusions on timelines, benchmarks, safety limits, alignment challenges, economic diffusion, and what strong AGI would actually require. The result is a clearer, more grounded picture of the near-term AI landscape and the policy priorities that matter across both fast-takeoff and slow-diffusion scenarios. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 16, 202522 min
Apps vs Models: Who Wins AI?
Today’s episode examines the core debate shaping the AI industry: whether application-layer companies can survive the pace and instability of the model layer. The discussion covers the arguments that apps can’t outrun rapid model shifts, the counter-case for deep vertical products, and what Cursor’s momentum reveals about where durable value might emerge. The episode also includes a fast headlines sweep on agentic cyber-espionage, major infrastructure investments, breakthrough agents, and the latest updates to GPT-5.1. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 14, 202528 min
6 Things GPT-5.1 Does Better
NLW breaks down the surprise release of GPT-5.1 and why it feels like a more meaningful upgrade than expected. From sharper strategic thinking to better instruction following, improved writing, and a more capable “thinking” mode, today’s episode explores six areas where the new model clearly outperforms GPT-5. NLW also looks at how the community is reacting, why vibes now matter more than benchmarks, and what this shift means for everyday AI use. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 14, 202525 min
Are World Models AI’s Next Big Frontier?
Today on the AI Daily Brief, NLW covers two stories that may signal a major shift in the AI landscape: Yann LeCun’s departure from Meta and Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s new argument that spatial intelligence and world models—not just LLMs—will define the next era of AI, exploring what world models actually are, why some researchers think they’re essential for robotics, science, and creativity, and how this connects to Meta’s internal reorg. Plus in the headlines: Eleven Labs’ celebrity voice marketplace, SoftBank’s Nvidia liquidation, AMD’s push to challenge Nvidia, Blue Owl’s $3B Stargate investment, and the surprising surge in Meta AI traffic. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 12, 202523 min
The Open Source AI Model Beating GPT-5 on Agents
Today on the AI Daily Brief, NLW explores the rise of Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source model from China that’s outperforming GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 Sonnet on agentic benchmarks—and doing it at a fraction of the cost. We’ll look at how this shift is changing the balance of power between closed and open models, why Silicon Valley startups are already adopting Chinese systems, and what it means for the next phase of the AI race. Plus: Meta’s new speech model, DeepSeek’s dire job-market warning, and CoreWeave’s data-center delays. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 11, 202523 min
What Should the Government’s Role in AI Be?
As OpenAI’s “backstop” comments spark debate about bailouts, industrial policy, and the future of compute, NLW explores what the government’s role in AI should actually be. From OpenAI’s new “AI Progress and Recommendations” report to reactions from policymakers and economists, this episode breaks down how the politics of AI are heating up—and why the industry is entering a far more explicitly political era. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 10, 202527 min
A Framework for Choosing Winning AI Use Cases [Agent Readiness Part 3]
In the third and final episode of our Agent Readiness series, NLW and Nufar Gaspar dive into how to identify, prioritize, and measure AI use cases inside your company. They break down a practical framework for evaluating opportunities, balancing growth and efficiency initiatives, and managing your AI portfolio like an investment strategy. Plus, they explain why company knowledge agents often deliver outsized ROI and why 2026 will be the “show me the money” year for AI transformation. Series Episode 1: How to Build an AI-Ready Culture: A Practical GuideSeries Episode 2: Why Data is the Biggest Barrier to AI Readiness (And What to Do About It)Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 9, 202529 min
The AI ROI Surprise: Wharton Finds 75% of Enterprises Seeing Positive ROI from AI
A major new study from Wharton finds that three out of four enterprises are already getting positive ROI from their AI investments — a far cry from the doom-and-gloom narratives of failed adoption. NLW breaks down the findings: how GenAI has moved from curiosity to core workflow, what use cases are driving measurable returns, and why 2026 may be the year of “performance at scale.” Plus: the latest on Anthropic’s $70B forecast, Michael Burry’s AI short, and Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 8, 202521 min
Why OpenAI’s CFO Just Sparked an AI Bailout Debate
After OpenAI’s CFO floated the idea of a U.S. government “backstop” for AI data center investments, backlash was swift — from finance leaders calling it a “pre-bailout bailout” to policy experts warning of regulatory capture. NLW breaks down the controversy, connects it to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s warning that “China will win the AI race,” and explores what these comments reveal about AI’s new geopolitical and political reality. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 6, 202525 min
How Consulting Reveals the Real Pattern of AI Disruption
NLW shares 13 lessons from the consulting industry that expose how AI disruption really happens—not through mass extinction, but through transformation. From collapsing delivery costs and shifting client expectations to new capabilities and challenger firms on the rise, this episode explores why consulting is the perfect case study for understanding the future of work in the age of AI. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 6, 202523 min
Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail?
As OpenAI announces yet another mega deal—this time with Amazon—questions are growing about whether the company has become too big to fail. NLW unpacks Sam Altman’s viral response to investor skepticism, explores the math behind OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion in commitments, and looks at what “too big to fail” really means in an AI context. Plus, in the headlines: Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad, ChatGPT’s supposed ban on legal and medical advice, and a surprising twist in the global chip diplomacy race. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/ AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 4, 202523 min
RIP Vibe Coding. Feb 2025-Oct 2025.
With NLW currently on the road, he's joined in this conversation by Sean “Swyx” Wang — developer, writer, Latent Space host and newly joined member of Cognition. They explore how AI coding became 2025’s defining story, why “vibe coding” is ending (sort of), what comes next for developers, and how “Agent Labs” are reshaping the balance between model makers and product builders. Swyx also previews the upcoming AI Engineer Code Summit in New York and shares why “code AGI” could deliver 80% of AGI’s value long before full AGI arrives. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 3, 202540 min
The 5 Biggest AI Stories to Watch in November
October was one of the biggest months yet in AI — from OpenAI’s nonstop product blitz to Google’s booming Gemini numbers, new robotics milestones, and the growing debate around an “AI bubble.” In this episode, NLW recaps the key developments from October and shares the five stories to watch in November — including whether Gemini 3 is finally coming, how the bubble narrative evolves, and the next phase of the “product era” of AI. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 2, 202520 min
So Far, AI Can Only Automate 2.5% of Jobs
That is, according to a new study designed to how well AI agents can perform real-world freelance projects. The results show just how far full automation remains. NLW breaks down the new “Remote Labor Index,” how it compares to OpenAI’s GDP-V metric, and what it reveals about the difference between automating tasks versus entire jobs. Plus: Amazon’s strong AI-driven earnings, Meta’s record-breaking bond sale for data centers, YouTube’s leadership shakeup, and Nvidia’s big bet on Poolside. Learn more: https://www.remotelabor.ai/ Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Nov 1, 202521 min
Why OpenAI’s $1 Trillion IPO Can’t Come Soon Enough
A new Reuters report says OpenAI is considering an IPO that could raise at least $60 billion—potentially as early as late next year or in 2027. The move would mark one of the biggest market debuts in history and signal that the company’s capital needs have outgrown private markets. NLW breaks down why going public might be inevitable, what it would mean for the broader AI industry, and how it could finally open access to the AI wealth boom for everyday investors. Also in this episode: Universal’s AI music settlement and user backlash, Character AI’s under-18 restrictions, Harvey’s $8B valuation, and NVIDIA’s record-setting $5T milestone. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 31, 202525 min
OpenAI is Now Officially a For-Profit Company
OpenAI has officially completed its long-discussed conversion to a for-profit structure, cementing Microsoft’s 27% stake, creating one of the world’s largest philanthropic foundations, and locking in a new governance framework that could reshape how AI companies balance mission and profit. NLW break down what the deal means for OpenAI, investors, and the future of AGI. Plus, a $500-a-month home robot sparks a wave of excitement — and privacy concern — across the internet. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 30, 202522 min
Where AI Spend is Already ROI Positive
While most companies are still trying to measure the impact of their AI deployments, a growing number are already seeing returns. In today’s AI Daily Brief, NLW looks at new data showing where GenAI is ROI-positive — from marketing and media generation to enterprise productivity gains. Plus, updates on Amazon’s latest layoffs, Anthropic’s new Claude for Excel agent, and Qualcomm’s push into AI inference chips. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 29, 202521 min
The Surprising Way AI Expands Markets Instead of Capturing Them
AI music startup Suno has quietly become one of the most successful companies in the entire generative AI space — $150 million in ARR, 60% margins, and millions of users creating songs for everything from podcasts and ads to lullabies and dinner parties. In today’s episode, NLW explores how Suno’s rise reveals a bigger story: AI isn’t just automating creative work — it’s expanding who gets to create and why we make things in the first place. Plus, headlines on SoftBank’s $30B OpenAI deal, Mistral’s new enterprise control center, and Stability AI’s partnership with EA. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 27, 202530 min
Workers Are Excited About AI Agents — So Why Are Companies Screwing It Up?
A new EY study shows workers are eager to embrace AI agents — 84% say they’re ready, and most expect agents to boost productivity and work-life balance. But companies are failing to match that enthusiasm with clear communication, effective training, and updated management approaches. NLW breaks down the data and explores what it really takes to build an AI-ready organization. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 26, 202522 min
Why Data is the Biggest Barrier to AI Readiness (And What to Do About It)
In part two of our Agent Readiness series, Superintelligent Head of Research Nufar joins the AI Daily Brief to discuss the single biggest blocker we see across thousands of enterprise audits—data and technology readiness. This Operator's Cut-style episode unpack the three archetypes of companies that get stuck, from the “magpies” chasing shiny pilots to the “monks” bogged down in perfectionist overplanning, and share a more effective approach: intentional opportunism. From using AI to fix messy data to building flexible, hybrid tech stacks, we dive deep into how companies can move fast without breaking their infrastructure. Series Episode 1: How to Build an AI-Ready Culture: A Practical GuideThe Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.
Oct 25, 202526 min
AI Context Gets a Major Upgrade
AI systems just got a huge context boost. Anthropic adds memory to Claude, OpenAI launches “Company Knowledge” to connect ChatGPT directly to enterprise data, and Microsoft debuts long-term memory and shared context in Copilot. Plus, Oracle’s record $38B debt deal to fund AI infrastructure, Google’s massive TPU expansion with Anthropic, and a real-world success story showing what vibe coding can do. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 24, 202523 min
Why Electricity is AI's Biggest Problem
AI’s growth is colliding head-on with America’s aging power grid. This episode dives into why electricity—not compute or data—is emerging as AI’s biggest bottleneck, driving costs, political backlash, and stalled data-center projects across the U.S. From surging energy prices to billion-dollar infrastructure overhauls, it unpacks how the race for AI dominance is reshaping the global energy map.Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 24, 202524 min
ChatGPT Just Launched Atlas — Here’s How Get Value From Your AI Browser
OpenAI has officially entered the AI browser wars with the launch of ChatGPT Atlas — a reimagining of what a browser can be in the age of agents and context. In today’s AI Daily Brief, NLW breaks down what Atlas actually does, how it compares to Perplexity and others, and what early users are saying. Plus, we cover major moves from Google’s new AI Studio with one-click app integrations, Lovable’s Shopify partnership, and the inside story of OpenAI’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar Nvidia deal. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 22, 202529 min
GPT-5 is 58% AGI
A new paper from the Center for AI Safety proposes a measurable definition of artificial general intelligence—and by their framework, GPT-5 is already 58% of the way there. NLW breaks down how researchers quantified AGI across ten cognitive domains, why memory remains the biggest bottleneck, and what this means for investors, labs, and the timeline to true general intelligence. Plus: Claude Code comes to the web, Replit projects $1B in revenue, and OpenEvidence raises at a $6B valuation. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 21, 202523 min
Why an AGI Delay Doesn't Mean an AI Bubble
Silicon Valley spent the weekend debating whether it’s time to delay AGI expectations by a decade — and what that would mean for the so-called “AI bubble.” NLW breaks down the chain reaction: Microsoft’s retreat from OpenAI’s infrastructure arms race, an OpenAI math gaffe that went viral, and Andrej Karpathy’s take on agent timelines — plus why none of it necessarily spells doom for real-world AI adoption. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 21, 202523 min
5 Prompting Tricks to Make Your AI Less Average
AI is trained on the sum total of human output—which means it often produces the average of averages. That’s fine for passable results, but not for unique, high-quality work. In this weekend big think episode, NLW explores what he calls AI’s tyranny of the average and shares five techniques to break through it: using negative style guides, forcing divergence and choice, burning down clichés, prompting self-critique, and leveraging examples that defy consensus. Based on an essay by Alex Kantrowitz, this is a practical guide for anyone who wants their AI outputs to stand out rather than blend in. AI Sameness Essay: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/ais-sameness-problem Brought to you by: Is your enterprise ready for the future of agentic AI? Visit AGNTCY.org Visit Outshift Internet of Agents Google Gemini - Try NotebookLM today https://notebooklm.google.com/ KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/ The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score. The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614 Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Oct 19, 202520 min