The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

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

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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...

The 7 Types of AI Agents

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW looks at two different ways to categories agents -- by functioning and by focus -- both of which have seven subcategories. Understanding how to or...

The Latest AI Job Loss Predictions

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we dive into the latest predictions around AI-driven job displacement, highlighted by Ford CEO Jim Farley's blunt warning ...

The State of AI - Mid-2025

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the midpoint of 2025, private markets dominate AI growth, reasoning models spark rapid adoption, and consumer AI reaches unprecedented penetration....

Velvet Sundown, or, How Scared Should We Be of AI Music?

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new band called Velvet Sundown appeared on Spotify with two albums and hundreds of thousands of listeners, but has no evidence of real members or a ...

How AI Companies Are Using AI

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explores a recent report on how AI companies themselves are utilizing AI. The discussion highlights key trends, including popular AI mode...

How AI Eats Consulting

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI is hiring forward deployed engineers and building services that overlap with Palantir, Accenture, and McKinsey. The role focuses on embedding t...

How the War for Talent Will Shape AI

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The talent war between Meta and OpenAI is intensifying. Meta is handing out massive offers, some rumored at $100 million, as Mark Zuckerberg tries to ...

AI, Agents and Software 3.0

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrej Karpathy's Software 3.0 talk reframes LLMs as a new kind of software—programmable, agent-native, and fundamentally different from past co...

Agent Deployments Tripled Last Quarter

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise AI agents are moving past experiments and into real use at a record pace. KPMG’s latest survey of over 130 executives at billion-dollar c...

Everything is Now a Vibe Coding App

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vibe coding has taken over. Google’s Gemini CLI and Anthropic’s latest Claude update are making text-to-code workflows easy for everyone. Big plat...

Context Engineering: What It Is and Why It Matters

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Context engineering quickly becomes a core skill for anyone working with large language models (LLMs) and AI agents. Unlike prompt engineering, which ...

The Quest for the One-Person One-Billion Dollar Company

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As tiny team Base44 sells for $80m just six months after being launched by a single vibecoding founder, are we on our way to our first solocorn? Start...

Can Buying Perplexity Save Apple on AI?

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apple missed the early AI wave and is struggling to catch up. Could acquiring the AI search startup Perplexity be the solution? Insiders reveal Apple ...

3 Ways To Get Better at AI Right Now

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Although many of the formal AI learning resources are stuck 6-12 months ago, NLW argues that there are a few practical things that anyone can do to ge...

10 AI Video Trends Taking Over the Internet

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s Veo 3 launch changed AI video overnight. Suddenly, TikTok and Instagram are full of AI videos with synced sound, sharp effects, and wild ne...

20+ New Jobs that AI Will Create

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI might change or even replace many existing roles, but new jobs will emerge to bridge human needs with AI capabilities. From AI auditors ensuring mo...

Should You Build Single Agents or Multi Agent Systems?

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Companies have two main options for building agent systems. Anthropic suggests multi-agent setups, dividing tasks between separate sub-agents. Devon&#...

16 Ways Enterprise AI is Changing

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise AI is evolving quickly. Budgets are rising, agents are becoming essential, and companies demand state-of-the-art AI as soon as possible. He...

Sam Altman on The Singularity

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The CEO of OpenAI reflects on the radical transformation we've already beheld and what's to come. He argues that the leaps from 2020 to now ar...

Why Your Company Needs to Move Faster on AI

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW argues that 1) things are moving faster than we think; 2) AI will be even more transformative than we think; and 3) that the winners of a decade f...

How This Totally Unhinged AI Ad Shows the Future of Advertising

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An off-the-wall AI generated ad will run in the NBA finals. The ad took two days to make and cost at least 95% less than traditional ads. Here's w...

What's the Bigger Deal for AI: o3 Pro or o3's 80% Price Drop?

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW dives into OpenAI’s dual announcements—the release of the highly anticipated O3 Pro model, designed specifically for deeper contextual underst...

No, Apple's New AI Paper Doesn't Undermine Reasoning Models

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apple’s latest AI research paper, "The Illusion of Thinking," argues that large language models aren't genuinely reasoning but just pa...

How to Design an AI-Native Engineering Organization

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW is joined by Sid Pardeshi and Brian Elliot from Blitzy.com to discuss the radically changes coming to AI engineering organizations. From copilots ...

Why AI Skeptics Are Nuts

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the AI Daily Brief, NLW dives into a provocative essay that's shaking up the AI conversation: "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts,&q...

The Biggest Trends from the AI Engineer World's Fair

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AI Engineer World’s Fair highlighted key AI and agent world shifts. Top themes: evals, tiny teams, agent swarms, and the rise of coding agents. ...

Is OpenAI Going to Kill Your Startup?

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI’s latest product updates have people asking if startups can still compete when big platforms add features like meeting notes and document sea...

How AI Solved a Massive Coding Challenge for Morgan Stanley

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI coding tools are now fixing problems in old software, helping non-coders build apps, and making work faster for big companies. Microsoft, Google, a...

Inside the White-Hot AI Rollup Trend

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI rollups are gaining attention as venture capital and private equity firms buy established businesses and overhaul them with AI. Recent deals from G...

5 Ways AI is Different Than Past Tech Trends

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Legendary analyst Mary Meeker returns with a massive new report highlighting AI outpacing all past tech trends. This analysis from NLW outlines five w...

Does "AI First" Mean Replacing People?

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this long-reads episode of The AI Daily Brief, Nathaniel Whittemore reads and reflects on Tim O’Reilly’s “AI First Puts Humans First,” expl...

Nvidia CEO Says China AI is Catching Up Fast

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns that China’s AI sector is advancing quickly, as new chips from Huawei and Xiaomi now rival Nvidia’s older flagships....

The 6 AI Use Case Primitives

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI just released a new report breaking down the six core ways businesses are using AI today. They call these “AI use case primitives”—the ma...

Is AI Already Shrinking Entry-Level Tech Jobs?

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is AI starting to cut entry-level tech jobs? New research says entry-level hiring in tech is way down. The State of Talent Report 2025 shows entry-lev...

What to Use Claude 4 For

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, their newest AI models. Both are better at long tasks and coding. NLW discusses why the trick with ...

How to Make AI Work at Work

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI races forward, yet organizations remain behind. In this piece, NLW explores Professor Ethan Mollick's three-part organizational architecture fo...

Rick Rubin on Art, Life and Vibe Coding

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Legendary music producer Rick Rubin joins NLW on The AI Daily Brief for a singular conversation about creativity, technology, and how a meme turned in...

OpenA-IPhone? Legendary Designer Joins OpenAI

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has purchased the AI hardware design firm of legendary iPhone designer Jony Ive. The plan is, of course, to build AI hardware with fundamentall...

The Push to Productize AI

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following Microsoft Build kicking off the announcement week, Google followed with their I/O event. Since they had already recently made lots of big an...

Here Comes the Internet of Agents

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft Build 2025 opened, focusing on AI agents and the open agent web. Announcements included a coding agent for GitHub, Copilot Tuning for compan...

The Five Vectors of AI Competition

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Code with Claude all happening this week, the battle between major AI labs is heating up. This episode breaks do...

The Vibe Coding Landscape 2025

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vibe coding is among the biggest AI themes and trends of the year, opening up incredible new possibilities for creation. But what's the difference...

The "Wave of Crazy New AI Stuff" Coming Next Month

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A flood of major AI updates is right around the corner. New models from Anthropic, OpenAI’s autonomous coding agent Codex, Windsurf's SWE-1 for ...

How AI Is Already Changing Jobs

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is transforming the job market, reshaping roles from software engineers to customer service agents. Microsoft's layoffs spotlight how AI may re...

The Age of AI Diplomacy

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is becoming a central pillar of geopolitical strategy, as highlighted by a series of landmark AI deals announced during a major US-Saudi investor s...

What to Use Different AI Models For

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever stared at OpenAI’s model selector and thought, “Which one am I supposed to use?”, this episode breaks it all down. We go throug...