AI is rapidly transforming consulting and professional services, fundamentally changing how firms operate and deliver value. Explore 13 key ways AI is set to revolutionize consulting and professional services in this insightful overview. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai...
May 09, 2025•18 min
AI search engines like OpenAI and Perplexity are changing how we find information online, moving users away from traditional links toward instant summaries. Apple is preparing Safari for this shift, potentially threatening Google's dominant role and its ad-based revenue model. Plus, the Trump administration is rolling back the Biden-era AI diffusion rule that limited AI chip exports, aiming for a simplified approach. Meanwhile, OpenAI introduces the "AI for Countries" initiative to...
May 09, 2025•22 min
Companies have moved past the phase of simply experimenting with AI. Enterprises like IBM now view AI as necessary infrastructure, integrating AI agents directly into business operations. NLW argues that there is a broader shift happening that business leaders to take notice of. Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected] Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
May 08, 2025•22 min
OpenAI has stopped its plan to switch from a nonprofit to a for-profit company after months of debate and legal issues. Instead, it will keep the nonprofit structure controlling its business, but remove limits on profits for investors. In the headlines, Cursor raises $900m while OpenAI comes to terms to buy Windsurf for $3b. Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected] Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Broug...
May 07, 2025•20 min
OpenAI shared a short report with seven things they’ve seen work for companies using AI. These lessons come from real examples with firms like Morgan Stanley, Indeed, Klarna, BBVA, and Mercado Libre. The report reads like a blueprint for interested firms. Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected] Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
May 06, 2025•19 min
NLW looks at a recent prediction for what a true AGI company will look like. Are we radically underthinking the scale of the potential disruption? Inspired by: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ai-firm Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected] Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai...
May 04, 2025•20 min
A growing rift between Nvidia and Anthropic has spilled into public view over U.S. AI export rules. As the U.S. prepares to enforce stricter chip controls through the “diffusion rule,” Anthropic is pushing for tighter limits to keep China from advancing. Nvidia is pushing back, arguing that China already has top researchers and strong local talent. Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected] Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief...
May 03, 2025•20 min
A new global survey shows 57% of employees still hide their AI use at work, and half present AI-generated work as their own. Despite growing adoption, most companies are not keeping up. Only 60% have an AI strategy, and less than 30% offer training. Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected] Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
May 02, 2025•16 min
Meta’s LlamaCon event showed progress but left many wondering if open source is losing ground. Meta released a new API, a standalone chatbot app, and shared plans for developer tools and infrastructure. But newer models from DeepSeek and other groups are outperforming Meta’s on benchmarks. Plus up to 30% of Microsoft's code has now been written by AI. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
May 01, 2025•18 min
A new report from Anthropic shows people are using Claude mostly for coding, especially simple apps and interfaces. Startups make up a big part of these users, and the tool is often used more to get things done than to help someone write code manually. Meanwhile a Harvard Business Review article looks at the use cases people talk the most about online. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Apr 30, 2025•20 min
Recent updates to GPT-4o have sparked criticism for making the model overly agreeable, leading to concerns about trust and reliability. Sam Altman acknowledged the issue, promising fixes. Many users reported that the model now excessively validates even harmful or nonsensical statements. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to htt...
Apr 29, 2025•23 min
NLW builds off an essay by Replit's Gian Segato arguing that in a world where AI is the ultimate specialist in everything, agency becomes the most important determinant of success. Source: https://www.piratewires.com/p/agency-is-eating-the-world Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai ...
Apr 27, 2025•17 min
AI agent pricing influences how companies plan and allocate their spending. Windsurf initiated a price cut, reducing rates for coding agents to $15 per month and eliminating tool call charges. This move pressures rivals like Cursor. NLW explores how agent pricing could shape the development of the industry. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Apr 26, 2025•21 min
Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index reveals a major shift in enterprise AI: we’re entering the era of the Frontier Firm, where every employee is on track to become an “agent boss.” The report outlines a rapid evolution across three phases: from using AI assistants to managing multi-agent systems. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to htt...
Apr 25, 2025•21 min
New research suggests that AI agents are improving at a rate far faster than expected, and their task complexity is doubling every four months. AI Digest confirms this by adding OpenAI’s O3 and O4 Mini to the curve, showing tasks that take humans 1.5–1.7 hours are now within reach. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai...
Apr 24, 2025•21 min
NLW covers the intense debate around AI startup "Clearly." Founded by 21-year-old Roy Lee, the company sparked controversy with its provocative manifesto, "We Want to Cheat on Everything." The startup promotes real-time AI assistance to give users instant answers during job interviews, exams, and meetings. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Apr 23, 2025•25 min
Enterprise adoption of AI agents surged significantly, with pilots nearly doubling from 37% to 65% in just one quarter, according to KPMG's latest AI Pulse survey. Companies are rapidly moving from experimentation to active deployment. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG c...
Apr 21, 2025•16 min
From the launch of o3 and o4-Mini to the US considering a DeepSeek ban, these are the biggest stories from the last week in artificial intelligence. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions. Vanta - Simplify compliance - ht...
Apr 20, 2025•21 min
In this episode, Eddie and Chris from Fractional AI discuss building a practical voice agent. They share real world examples, problems solved, and valuable insights about developing voice systems, including making user experiences seamless, handling unexpected interactions, and ways companies successfully utilize voice agents today. Check out Fractional: https://www.fractional.ai/ Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Apr 19, 2025•27 min
In this discussion, AI strategist Nufar Gaspar explains the top AI agent use cases companies currently use successfully. Examples include customer service automation, coding assistants, sales agents, voice-enabled workflows, and deep research. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can h...
Apr 18, 2025•35 min
What's at the top of AI engineers' minds? Swyx, organizer of the AI Engineer Summit and host of Latent Space, joins us to discuss MCP (Model Context Protocol), the rise of AI agents, and how the role of AI engineers is evolving. Find our guest online: https://x.com/swyx https://www.ai.engineer/ https://www.latent.space/ Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Apr 17, 2025•46 min
Companies keep repeating these costly mistakes when adopting AI and agents. Nufar Gaspar, an AI adoption strategist formerly at Intel, breaks down seven critical errors organizations make, including unrealistic expectations, unclear strategies, poor data access, and mismanaged communication. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai...
Apr 16, 2025•47 min
Riley Brown joins AI Daily Brief to explain Vibecoding, an accessible way to build software with AI. Riley shares how he went from content creator to Vibecoder, the tools that made coding easy for anyone, and the types of apps people build. Riley also reveals how Vibecoding might evolve and his goal of making app development as simple and fun as Canva made graphic design. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Apr 15, 2025•36 min
OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy makes an argument that the normal patterns of technology diffusion have been upended with AI, to the benefit of regular people. Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1909308143156240538 Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solut...
Apr 14, 2025•15 min
Stanford's 2025 AI Index reviews 2024's artificial intelligence trends. Performance benchmarks improved as AI appeared more in daily life and business, leading to high US corporate investment and adoption. China is rapidly closing the AI model performance difference. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KP...
Apr 12, 2025•19 min
Google Cloud Next was all about one thing: agents. Google officially backed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool use and introduced a new Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication standard to make multi-agent systems easier to build. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI ...
Apr 11, 2025•19 min
The new explosion of US tariffs (alongside the broader trade tensions between the U.S. and China) could reshape the AI industry dramatically. GPU costs, data center construction, AI startup funding, and even jobs in tech face significant uncertainty as trade wars escalate. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG...
Apr 10, 2025•17 min
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke generated some serious buzz with a leaked internal memo where he laid out 6 mandates regarding "reflexive AI usage" inside the company, including the media attention capturing pronouncement that no teams would be able to hire new employees until they had demonstrated that AI couldn't do the job. Plus, Cursor hits 1m users. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to ...
Apr 09, 2025•26 min
Meta’s new Llama 4 models have a massive 10 million token context window and a fresh architecture using a mixture of experts. Scout and Maverick are out now, and Behemoth is still training. Despite strong benchmark scores, many users report underwhelming real-world performance. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG ca...
Apr 08, 2025•24 min
AI and agents aren't just competing for software budgets. In today's episode, NLW reads and discusses a piece by VC Ethan Batraski about how AI-native firms will increasingly out-compete legacy professional services firms. Source: https://ethanjamesb.substack.com/p/the-great-legacy-extinction-ais-20t Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief Brought to you by: KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to l...
Apr 06, 2025•12 min
