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Why AI Could Be Better for Plumbers than Programmers
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 programm...
Does Gemini 3.1 Pro Matter?
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 week...
How People Actually Use AI Agents
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A new Anthropic study shows that AI agents are being used far more conservatively than their capabilities suggest, with short sessions, heavy human ov...
Sonnet 4.6 Changes the Agent Math
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The AI Productivity Boom Finally Shows Up
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For years, AI felt transformative in anecdotes but invisible in macroeconomic data. That may be changing. Revised labor statistics suggest stronger-th...
OpenClaw Goes to OpenAI
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
OpenClaw’s meteoric rise—from a weekend Claude experiment to the fastest-growing open source AI project in the world—just culminated in Peter St...
Something Big Is Happening
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Time Savings Era of AI Is Over
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
How I Built My 10-Agent OpenClaw Team
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, an...
How the Global AI Race Has Shifted
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why AI Leads to More Work, Not Less
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Did the Super Bowl Make Americans Like AI Any More?
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 shi...
Claude Code Killed the AI Bubble
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
How to Learn AI With AI
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Opus 4.6 and ChatGPT 5.3-Codex Are Here and the Labs Are at War
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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'...
Is Software Dead?
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
The Dawn of the Agent Age
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The AI Race Just Got a SpaceX-Sized Twist
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why Moltbook Matters
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 jo...
OpenAI IPO? Grok-SpaceX Merger? The AI IPO Race Heats Up
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A wave of late-January moves sharpens the picture of the AI race: OpenAI quietly accelerates IPO plans under competitive pressure, Amazon weighs a mas...
100,000 AI Agents Joined Their Own Social Network Today. It's Called Moltbook.
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Are Markets Still Worried About an AI Bubble?
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 mu...
Are Agent Swarms the Next AI Paradigm?
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Agent swarms are quickly moving from theory to practice, with early 2026 model releases making coordinated, multi-agent work feel like a real shift ra...
The AI Acceleration Gap
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A widening AI acceleration gap is emerging between people and organizations that are compounding new capabilities and those moving at a linear pace, a...
Ralph Wiggum, Clawdbot, and Mac Minis: How Pros Are Vibe Coding in 2026
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Skills for the Code AGI Era
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ski...
Who Will Adapt Best to AI Disruption?
24 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
The 3x Payoff of Deep AI Integration
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 integ...
AGI Timelines Shift Forward
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At Davos, leading AI lab heads sharply accelerated their timelines for artificial general intelligence, with Demis Hassabis pointing to a roughly five...
The AI Capabilities Overhang
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, a...
How to Make ChatGPT Ads Not Suck
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 do...
Code AGI is Functional AGI (And It's Here)
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode argues that the most important AGI threshold has already been crossed. As coding agents learn to reason, iterate, and operate autonomousl...
Why CEOs Need to Lead AI Strategy
17 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 experimentatio...
AI's Battle for Your Context
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As AI products race toward deeper personalization, the most important competition may be over who controls user context rather than who has the best m...
ChatGPT 5.5 Coming Soon?
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 competi...
Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for Everyone Else
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Google to Officially Power Apple AI Siri
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Apple’s decision to have Google power the next generation of Apple Intelligence is the clearest signal yet that the foundation model race is enterin...
Does Work Still Matter in the Age of AI?
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Building a Personal AI Model Map [AI Operators Bonus Episode]
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This bonus AI Operators episode experiments with a skills-focused format inside the AI Daily Brief community, using the New Year’s AI resolution pro...
What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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. Thi...
What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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. Thi...
How People Are Using AI for Health
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, medi...
Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Claude Code has triggered something that feels bigger than a normal model release. Power users across AI and software are describing a clear inflectio...
AI at CES is Not Just Cheesy Gadgets Anymore
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
CES 2026 marks a clear turning point for AI, shifting away from novelty gadgets and toward serious, category-defining products from the industry’s b...
Context Graphs: AI's Next Big Idea
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Work in the Age of Infinite Agents
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Aar...
What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Two blockbuster deals over the holidays quietly marked the real start of the AI agent era, revealing where competition is actually heading in 2026. Th...
AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 2
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 mode...
50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 1
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of a two-episode forecast on AI in 2026, focusing on models and capabilities, release strategy shifts, multimodal races, memory, and the evol...
Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lovable CEO Anton Osika joins the AI Daily Brief to unpack how AI-assisted coding evolved from early GitHub experiments into load-bearing infrastructu...
The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A ranked countdown of the AI model releases that defined 2025, shaped how people actually use these systems, and reset expectations across the industr...
51 Charts That Will Shape AI in 2026
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A fast-paced walkthrough of 51 charts that capture where artificial intelligence stands right now and what matters most heading into 2026, spanning ca...
How AI Starts Doing the Work in 2026 With Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The 10 Biggest AI Stories of 2025
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From DeepSeek’s shockwave debut and the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure buildout to the bubble debate, the MIT enterprise adoption backlash, the A...
Power Ranking the Big AI Ideas for 2026
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Sunday long-read episode digs into a16z’s newly released Big Ideas for 2026, scoring the most interesting predictions across likelihood, real-w...
The Most Important AI Stories This Week
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
4 Reasons to Use GPT Image 1.5 Over Nano Banana Pro
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5 inside ChatGPT, and early reactions suggest the gap with Nano Banana Pro has meaningfully narrowed. This episode wal...
The Most Important AI Lesson Businesses Learned in 2025
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...
Will This OpenAI Update Make AI Agents Work Better?
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s quiet adoption of Anthropic’s “skills” mechanism and why it could meaningfully change how AI agents wor...
The Architects of AI That TIME Missed
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Why AI Advantage Compounds
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI advantage is proving to be compounding, not linear. Drawing on new data from OpenAI, Menlo Ventures, EY, and early AI ROI Benchmarking results, thi...
GPT-5.2 is Here
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The State of Enterprise AI
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down new reports from OpenAI and Menlo Ventures that show enterprise AI adoption accelerating quickly, with coding emerging a...
The AI Race Gets a Massive Power Shift
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What People Are Actually Using AI For Right Now
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
AI Has a PR Problem
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores why public distrust in AI is accelerating, from Edelman data showing sharp divides across income, age, and geography to a b...
What 1,250 Professionals Say About Working With AI
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic asked 1,250 professionals how AI is actually changing their work, and the results reveal a blend of optimism, anxiety, and shifting identity...
Can Today’s AI Really Replace 12% of Work?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-l...
What We Learned About Amazon’s AI Strategy
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon used AWS re:Invent to clarify where it actually fits in the rapidly shifting AI landscape, revealing a strategy built around practical multimod...
OpenAI Declares Code Red
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The 5 Biggest AI Stories to Watch in December
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
December opens with Google’s Gemini momentum accelerating, OpenAI facing renewed pressure, and a burst of new models already landing in the first da...
A Practical Guide to Scaling AI
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new OpenAI framework lays out what it actually takes for enterprises to move beyond pilots and into true whole-organization transformation, and the ...
10 AI Projects to Learn Gemini 3 Nano Banana and Opus 4.5
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bonus, ad-free Thanksgiving episode sharing ten creative, genuinely fun holiday projects that use AI to help kids make stories, coloring books, inte...
Can AI Really Automate 57 Percent of Work?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 esti...
Why Opus 4.5 Changes Vibe Coding
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wor...
Why the AI Bubble Debate is Useless
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The 7 Most Important Things We Learned About AI This Week
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-tr...
25 Things Nano Banana Pro Does That AI Couldn't Before
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wholesa...
A Huge Week for AI Models Gets Even Bigger
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 earnin...
AI Winners and Losers After Gemini 3
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How Gemini 3 Changes the AI Race
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gemini 3 officially launched, bringing one of the biggest capability jumps since GPT-4. The episode breaks down what the new model actually delivers, ...
The AI Scientist That Does 6 Months of Work in a Day
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Can AI Be Normal and Transformative at the Same Time?
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 unexpe...
Apps vs Models: Who Wins AI?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode examines the core debate shaping the AI industry: whether application-layer companies can survive the pace and instability of the mo...
6 Things GPT-5.1 Does Better
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 bett...
Are World Models AI’s Next Big Frontier?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
The Open Source AI Model Beating GPT-5 on Agents
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What Should the Government’s Role in AI Be?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As OpenAI’s “backstop” comments spark debate about bailouts, industrial policy, and the future of compute, NLW explores what the government’s ...
A Framework for Choosing Winning AI Use Cases [Agent Readiness Part 3]
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ins...
The AI ROI Surprise: Wharton Finds 75% of Enterprises Seeing Positive ROI from AI
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why OpenAI’s CFO Just Sparked an AI Bailout Debate
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After OpenAI’s CFO floated the idea of a U.S. government “backstop” for AI data center investments, backlash was swift — from finance leaders ...
How Consulting Reveals the Real Pattern of AI Disruption
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NLW shares 13 lessons from the consulting industry that expose how AI disruption really happens—not through mass extinction, but through transformat...
Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 un...
RIP Vibe Coding. Feb 2025-Oct 2025.
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With NLW currently on the road, he's joined in this conversation by Sean “Swyx” Wang — developer, writer, Latent Space host and newly joined...
The 5 Biggest AI Stories to Watch in November
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
October was one of the biggest months yet in AI — from OpenAI’s nonstop product blitz to Google’s booming Gemini numbers, new robotics milestone...
So Far, AI Can Only Automate 2.5% of Jobs
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 automat...
Why OpenAI’s $1 Trillion IPO Can’t Come Soon Enough
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...