A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.
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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 ...
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 Creden...
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...
In this bonus episode, NLW analyzes key trends from the Agent Madness experiment, showcasing how builders are creating "digital employees" and "AI org charts" while also developing highly specialized "markets of one" software. The discussion highlights the critical infrastructure gap around memory and explores advanced architectural patterns like "argument as architecture" and physical world integration, culminating in a preview of the Elite Eight agent projects.
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—dow...
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 d...
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...
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, ...
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 powerin...
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 potenti...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 Met...
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...
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...
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://maske...
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 portfo...
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 yo...
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 ...
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 framewo...
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 A...
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 – Agen...
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...
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...
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 judg...
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...
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 ...
"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...
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, si...
