The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

OpenAI is Now Officially a For-Profit Company

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has officially completed its long-discussed conversion to a for-profit structure, cementing Microsoft’s 27% stake, creating one of the world’...

Where AI Spend is Already ROI Positive

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Dail...

The Surprising Way AI Expands Markets Instead of Capturing Them

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Workers Are Excited About AI Agents — So Why Are Companies Screwing It Up?

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ba...

Why Data is the Biggest Barrier to AI Readiness (And What to Do About It)

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

AI Context Gets a Major Upgrade

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI systems just got a huge context boost. Anthropic adds memory to Claude, OpenAI launches “Company Knowledge” to connect ChatGPT directly to ente...

Why Electricity is AI's Biggest Problem

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 A...

ChatGPT Just Launched Atlas — Here’s How Get Value From Your AI Browser

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

GPT-5 is 58% AGI

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new paper from the Center for AI Safety proposes a measurable definition of artificial general intelligence—and by their framework, GPT-5 is alrea...

Why an AGI Delay Doesn't Mean an AI Bubble

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 “...

5 Prompting Tricks to Make Your AI Less Average

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fo...

How to Build an AI-Ready Culture: A Practical Guide

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special Operator’s Cut bonus edition, NLW kicks off a new three-part Agent Readiness series with Superintelligent Head of Research, Nufar Ga...

15 Business Model Questions for OpenAI and Anthropic

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explores the massive revenue growth of OpenAI and Anthropic and what it means for their business models. With Anthropic hitting a $7 bill...

Maybe AI Will Cure Cancer After All

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the AI Daily Brief, Google may have just shown us how AI can actually help cure cancer. We break down a groundbreaking new discovery from Goo...

The Problem with ChatGPT Erotica

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI will soon let verified adults access mature content in ChatGPT—including erotica and customizable personalities—under its new “treat adul...

The Next AI Platform Isn't a Model -- It's Your Context

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the AI Daily Brief, we explore why the next great AI platform war isn’t about models at all—but about context: who owns it, how it’s or...

These Are the Jobs People Actually WANT AI to Automate

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on The AI Daily Brief, Nathaniel Whittemore explores new research revealing which jobs people actually want AI to automate—and which they find...

What 1,000+ Execs Told Us About AI Agents

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this special long-read episode, NLW digs into insights from thousands of executive interviews about AI and agents in the enterprise. Based on data ...

Why the Future of AI Has a Body

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explores why the next era of artificial intelligence will take physical form. It examines the rise of humanoid robots, breakthroughs in e...

Sora 2 Prompting Guide

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW breaks down five ways businesses are already using OpenAI’s Sora 2 model — from product design and e-commerce video automation to creative mar...

5 Reasons AI is a Bubble (And 5 It’s Not)

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode digs into a question that has been with us since ChatGPT launched: is AI a boom or a bubble? The conversation has surged this week a...

Why OpenAI's AMD Deal Could Be Bigger News than DevDay

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI’s massive new deal with AMD could reshape the AI hardware race — and may prove even more significant than DevDay itself. The episode explor...

Did OpenAI Just Kill a Bunch of Agent Startups? OpenAI DevDay 2025 First Reactions

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bonus Episode! OpenAI’s 2025 DevDay just redefined the agent landscape — and maybe wiped out a slew of startups in the process? In this instant re...

The Top 50 AI For Work Apps You Haven't Tried Yet

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new report from Andreessen Horowitz and Mercury reveals where startups are actually putting their AI budgets — the top 50 applications, the trends...

I Tested ChatGPT As My Cofounder for a Week - Here's Everything I Learned

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AI Daily Brief puts ChatGPT’s new Pulse feature through its paces to see if it can truly act like a proactive startup cofounder. This episode ex...

The Era of Agentic Shopping

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has introduced Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT, allowing purchases to happen directly in the conversation. The update challenges the traditiona...

When Will AI Make Scientific Discoveries?

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s AI Daily Brief asks when artificial intelligence will begin making real scientific discoveries. We look at Periodic Labs, which just raised ...

Sora 2 and the Brainrot Rebellion

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, NLW goes deep on OpenAI’s release of Sora 2—its next-generation video generation model—and the launch of the new Sora social ap...

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Can Code Autonomously for 30 Hours 🤯

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 reportedly demonstrates groundbreaking autonomy by coding for up to 30 hours non-stop, significantly outpacing prior...

Learn AI or Be Replaced - Accenture’s 11,000 Layoffs Are a Warning

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Accenture’s earnings call sparked major discssuin after leadership confirmed plans to cut staff who can’t transition into AI-focused roles. The fi...

Don't Blame AI for Workslop

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone is suddenly talking about workslop—AI-generated content that looks polished but lacks substance. This episode argues that the problem isn’...

How ChatGPT Pulse Could Change AI

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Pulse, a new proactive background agent that shifts AI from reactive answers to daily, personalized insights. Pulse curate...

Could Gemini 3.0 and Claude 4.5 Be Coming Soon?

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AI lab rivalry is heating up as rumors swirl about Gemini 3 and Anthropic 4.5. Anthropic faces reputational struggles after coding model stumbles ...

AI Adoption Lessons from 5000 Devs

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google Cloud’s new Dora research report offers the most in-depth look yet at how developers are using AI—surveying nearly 5,000 professionals worl...

Nvidia and OpenAI Up the AI Stakes with $100B Deal

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nvidia and OpenAI's new $100B deal is one of the more massive moves of the new AI infrastructure era, securing massive compute capacity with billi...

How Apple Could Get Their AI Revenge

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The debate over AI wearables is heating up, with OpenAI exploring new device concepts (and poaching Apple leaders to do so), Meta doubling down on sma...

The Truth About the AI Bubble

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is AI in a bubble, or just experiencing one of history’s biggest booms? This episode breaks down Azeem Azhar’s 5-guage framework for evaluating wh...

AI Agent Deployments Quadruple in 2025

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The latest KPMG AI Pulse survey offers a real-time report card on enterprise AI adoption, showing how fast large organizations are moving from explora...

AI Just Beat the World's Best Coders

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI just scored a historic win in the International Collegiate Programming Contest, with OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s DeepMind outperforming nearly ...

How People Actually Use ChatGPT

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of AI Daily Brief dives into two important reports on how people are really using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. OpenAI’s massive st...

GPT-5-Codex and the Year of Agentic Coding

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the AI Daily Brief, OpenAI launches GPT 5 Codex, a model designed for real-world software engineering with dynamic reasoning, long-task persi...

How to Get to AGI

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What will it actually take to get to AGI? Today we unpack the “jagged frontier” of AI capabilities — systems that can dazzle at PhD-level reason...

The AI Slopocalypse

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new AI-first podcast studio is churning out 3,000 episodes a week at a cost of just $1 per show. Is this the future of content creation in the agent...

The AI Office Tools That Actually Work

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Not all AI office tools live up to the hype. Today we dig into new surveys, enterprise spending data, and an a16z analysis to uncover which AI tools a...

AI Skepticism is CANCELLED

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wall Street just delivered one of the strongest signals yet that the AI boom is real and accelerating. Oracle revealed a record-breaking $300B cloud d...

Why You Need Different AIs for Different Jobs

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even the biggest companies are learning that no single AI model can do it all. Microsoft, for example, is now bringing Anthropic’s Claude into Offic...

AI Generated Code Reaching 50% in Some Companies

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the AI Daily Brief: AI isn’t just helping engineers anymore—it’s writing nearly half the code at companies like Robinhood and Coinbase,...

5 Debates Shaping AI

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is at the center of five big debates: is massive AI spending fueling real growth or just a bubble, will entry-level jobs vanish, does AI truly boos...

For the Agent Era, Work Charts Beat Org Charts

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As AI and Agents come online, the modern enterprise is changing. As it does, we need totally new ways of thinking about how to organize work. NLW expl...

OpenAI Launches Jobs and Certifications

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI just launched a jobs platform and AI certifications, sparking debate over whether it’s ambition, anxiety management, or a lack of focus. We d...

How to Be An AI Leader (According to OpenAI)

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has published a new leadership guide for executives, laying out five principles — align, activate, amplify, accelerate, and govern — design...

Is Google Now the AI Leader?

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s AI comeback is turning into something bigger. Today’s AI Daily Brief covers whether Google has taken the lead in the AI race, with multim...

My Autumn AI Predictions

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Back to school season means back to AI predictions! After a summer of skepticism around the MIT study claiming 95% of AI pilots fail, NLW dives nto wh...

The Era of AI Mass Intelligence Arrives

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The era of mass intelligence has arrived - over a billion people now access powerful AI tools thanks to dramatic cost reductions and improved interfac...

Workers Don't Trust Their Companies on AI

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stanford research shows AI is already reshaping entry-level jobs, with early-career workers in high AI-exposure fields seeing a 13% drop in employment...

The Most Used GenAI Tools

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, Andreessen Horowitz’s Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report highlights big shifts in just six months. Google scored four web entries ...

7 AI Use Cases Unlocked By Nano Banana

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today's AI Daily Brief covers the groundbreaking release of Google's Nano Banana image generation model, which has taken the AI community by s...

The New Politics of AI

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s AI Daily Brief examines AI’s rise as a geopolitical flashpoint. The U.S. government’s unprecedented 10% Intel stake via CHIPS Act fundin...

What AI Backlash at YouTube Can Teach Other Companies

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're covering the AI backlash at YouTube and Netflix's new rules for generative AI in content production. YouTube creators are angry af...

The Problem of AI That Seems Alive

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of AI at Microsoft and co-founder of DeepMind, has published a provocative essay warning about the dangers of “seemingly consc...

No, 95% of AI Pilots Aren't Failing

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we're breaking down the MIT study claiming 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing - and why this headline is misleading the e...

Is Pixel 10 the AI Phone iPhone Never Was?

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google's Pixel 10 delivers the AI phone features Apple promised but never shipped. While Apple continues to struggle with delayed and underwhelmin...

What AI Builders Are Actually Excited About

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are we really witnessing the "most expensive flop in tech history" with AI, or is something else going on? While headlines scream about fail...

Can AI Predict the Future?

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A breakthrough benchmark is testing whether AI can actually predict future events by analyzing real-world data. Researchers at the University of Chica...

Everything Sam Altman Is Thinking About Right Now

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Altman just had dinner with journalists and spilled details about OpenAI's biggest challenges and future plans. He admitted GPT-5's launch...

Will AI Destroy or Reinvent Education?

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is AI going to destroy education—or completely reinvent it? With millions of students and parents preparing for back-to-school, the debate over AI i...

BONUS EPISODE: Enterprise AI Trends and Predictions (You can with AI.)

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW recently collaborated with KPMG on a 7-part enterprise AI-focused series called You can with AI. On this Saturday bonus preview, we share episode ...

The Claude Code Problem

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode examines how pricing challenges in AI coding platforms like Cursor and Claude Code reveal a fundamental shift in the software industry. W...

Everyone's Using AI But No One's Quite Sure What to Think About It

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A Northeastern University survey finds AI use has gone mainstream in the U.S., with half of adults using at least one tool and most states above 40% a...

How to Prompt GPT-5

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly a week into the GPT-5 era, users are still divided on its quality—but one thing’s clear: it’s more steerable than any previous model, and...

Who Thinks There's an AI Bubble?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today's AI Daily Brief covers how GPT-5's launch changed Wall Street's thinking about the AI bubble debate and why old market comparisons ...

A ChatGPT Rebellion Wins Back GPT-4o

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When OpenAI replaced GPT-4o with its new GPT-5 rollout, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Power users decried hidden model switching, casual user...

10 Things GPT-5 Changes

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explores ten practical shifts in the AI landscape following GPT-5’s release — from the plateau of raw LLM capability gains to the ris...

The Most Important AI Stories This Week

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

First, a collection of first reactions to GPT-5. This week saw major AI shifts — from web-scraping battles to the brutal economics of AI coding star...

GPT-5: Everything You Need to Know

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW covers the big announcement from OpenAI, and explores why the big use case that they're clearly driving at is coding. Sharing the first impres...

Is GPT-OSS Actually Any Good?

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A day after OpenAI's surprise open source release, we dig into how the model is performing in the wild. Early reactions are mixed—while some pra...

3 Major New AI Model Releases: GPT-OSS, Claude Opus 4.1, Genie 3

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Three major AI model drops in one day signal a shifting landscape at the frontier. We break down OpenAI’s unexpected open-source GPT-OSS, Anthropic’...

Welcome to the AI Economy

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are pouring nearly $400B into AI infrastructure this year—more than the EU’s defense budget and over 1% of US ...

Where AI Is Right Now: 15 Charts in 15 Minutes

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, we take a rapid-fire tour through 15(ish) charts that capture the current state of artificial intelligence across consumer use, ...

The AI Model Wars Just Heated WAY Up

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s AI Daily Brief dives into the escalating model wars between OpenAI, Google, and Apple. OpenAI seems to have leaked GPT-5 and their open weig...

Can AI Trade Stocks?

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can AI really pick winning stocks? In this episode, we dive into the wild world of AI trading—where agents like ChatGPT and Perplexity aren’t just...

AI Starting to Self-Improve Says Zuckerberg

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Zuckerberg just published a major essay on Meta’s vision for “Personal Superintelligence,” claiming their AI is beginning to show signs of ...

Is Global AI Cooperation Even Possible?

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The episode investigates the escalating AI rivalry between the US and China, triggered by the release of both nations’ AI strategies. It examines Ch...

Walmart Blasts Past Agent Experimentation

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Walmart has evolved from individual AI agents to "agent orchestration" - a unified system of four "super agents" that coordinate s...

Ambient Agents and 6 Other Big Ideas Coming Out of AI

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ambient Agents. Pay per crawl. User experience to agent experience. On this weekend episode, NLW explores some of the most interesting emergent concep...

9 AI Predictions from Jensen Huang

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s five‑minute headlines cover the strongest signal yet that GPT‑5 will drop in early August, GitHub’s Spark entry into vibe coding, Saty...

How One Company Saved 213,000 Hours with AI

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Norway’s $1.8T Sovereign Wealth Fund made AI core to how it works—unlocking 213,000 hours in annual savings. Led by CEO Nikolai Tangen, the team e...

America's AI Action Plan

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The White House just released a 28-page AI Action Plan alongside Anthropic's infrastructure report, revealing America's strategy for global AI...

Are World Models the Key to AGI?

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A groundbreaking Harvard study trained AI on 10 million solar systems and found it perfectly predicted orbits but completely failed to understand grav...

AI Just Achieved Something No One Thought it Would Until Years From Now

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An experimental reasoning model from OpenAI and Deep Thinking model from Gemini just achieved a Gold Medal performance at the International Math Olymp...

A Free Course on Using Agents Created by ChatGPT Agent

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, NLW puts ChatGPT's new Agent (and Manus) to the test to see how well they do in creating a free online course on agent man...

All the Cool Things People are Vibe Coding

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vibe coding is exploding in 2025, and it's way more than just a tech trend – it's revolutionizing how we build software. From a recent study...

5 Uses for the New ChatGPT Agent

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT Agent just launched, and it's already showing impressive results - beating humans on about half of knowledge work tasks according to OpenA...

How Much AI Do Workers Actually Want?

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW explores a groundbreaking Stanford study of 15,000+ workers across 100+ occupations that reveals what employees actually want from AI. While 69% w...

Does AI Secretly Slow Developers Down?

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are AI coding tools actually making developers less productive? A new study from Meta’s AI research nonprofit, METR, claims that developers using AI...

Are AI Acquihires Screwing Up Startups?

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google just pulled off a $2.4 billion acquihire of AI coding startup Windsurf—but the way it happened is shaking up the startup world. What began as...

15 Ways I Use AI (And the Models I Use for Each)

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the AI Daily Brief, Nathaniel Whittemore walks through 15 practical ways he uses AI—and exactly which models power each task. Fro...

Are AI Browsers the Next Big AI Trend?

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI browsers could be the next transformative trend in how we interact with the internet. This week, Perplexity launched its new agentic browser, Comet...

Is Grok 4 the Best LLM Yet?

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk's XAI has dropped Grok 4, and early benchmarks are raising eyebrows across the AI world. In today’s episode, we break down the bombast...

Everything We Know About GPT-5 So Far

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a year of speculation and shifting narratives, GPT-5 appears to be nearing release—and it could be OpenAI’s most ambitious model yet. In thi...