The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

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...

AI Competition Shifts From Model to App Layer

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has named former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as its first CEO of Applications, signaling a major shift in strategy. With the commoditization of AI...

How AI Will Force Education to (Finally) Change

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is rapidly exposing the flaws in education—highlighting the disconnect between traditional schooling and real-world skills. Exploring viral debat...

13 Ways AI Will Change Consulting and Professional Services

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is rapidly transforming consulting and professional services, fundamentally changing how firms operate and deliver value. Explore 13 key ways AI is...

Does AI Search Threaten the Business Model of the Internet?

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI search engines like OpenAI and Perplexity are changing how we find information online, moving users away from traditional links toward instant summ...

The Era of AI Experimentation is Over

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Companies have moved past the phase of simply experimenting with AI. Enterprises like IBM now view AI as necessary infrastructure, integrating AI agen...

OpenAI Gives Up On For-Profit Conversion

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 nonp...

7 Lessons for Enterprise AI

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Morga...

The AGI Company of the Future

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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? Ins...

Nvidia and Anthropic Trade Barbs Around AI Chip Rules

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 cont...

Half of Employees Still Hiding AI from Their Bosses (And It's Their Bosses Faults)

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Is Open Source AI Falling Behind?

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, an...

What Are People Actually Using AI For?

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 the...

The Problem with GPT-4o Sycophancy

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recent updates to GPT-4o have sparked criticism for making the model overly agreeable, leading to concerns about trust and reliability. Sam Altman ack...

Why Agency Could Be The Most Important Attribute in the AI Economy

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

How to Price AI Agents (And Why It Matters)

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agent pricing influences how companies plan and allocate their spending. Windsurf initiated a price cut, reducing rates for coding agents to $15 pe...

How Every Employee Becomes an "Agent Boss"

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Agent Performance Is Accelerating...Fast

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Dig...

Is the Future of AI "Cheating on Everything?"

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW covers the intense debate around AI startup "Clearly." Founded by 21-year-old Roy Lee, the company sparked controversy with its provocat...

Agent Pilots Nearly Doubled Last Quarter

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise adoption of AI agents surged significantly, with pilots nearly doubling from 37% to 65% in just one quarter, according to KPMG's latest...

Is o3 Functionally AGI?

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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. G...

Building a Voice Agent: A Case Study

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Eddie and Chris from Fractional AI discuss building a practical voice agent. They share real world examples, problems solved, and val...

The Agent Use Cases Most Ready for Primetime

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this discussion, AI strategist Nufar Gaspar explains the top AI agent use cases companies currently use successfully. Examples include customer ser...

MCP, Agents and What AI Engineers Are Thinking About Right Now feat. Swyx

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 C...

The 7 Biggest Mistakes Companies Are Making with AI and Agent Adoption

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Companies keep repeating these costly mistakes when adopting AI and agents. Nufar Gaspar, an AI adoption strategist formerly at Intel, breaks down sev...

How Vibecoding Unlocks AI feat. Riley Brown

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Andrej Karpathy on How AI Empowers

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy makes an argument that the normal patterns of technology diffusion have been upended with AI, to the benefit of regul...

The 2025 AI Index

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stanford's 2025 AI Index reviews 2024's artificial intelligence trends. Performance benchmarks improved as AI appeared more in daily life and business...

Google Cloud Next is All About Agents [Shocker!]

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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-t...

How Will Tariffs Impact the AI Industry?

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The new explosion of US tariffs (alongside the broader trade tensions between the U.S. and China) could reshape the AI industry dramatically. GPU cost...

Shopify's AI Memo Shows the Future of AI at Work

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke generated some serious buzz with a leaked internal memo where he laid out 6 mandates regarding "reflexive AI usage" i...

How Big a Deal is Llama 4's 10M Token Context Window?

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Why AI Will Take Over the $20T Professional Services Industry

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 A...

OpenAI Says Next Reasoning Model Coming in a "Couple of Weeks"

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI confirms it will release new reasoning models, O3 and O4 Mini, in the next few weeks, with GPT-5 coming shortly after. Sam Altman says GPT-5 is...

5 New Startups That Explain AI's Most Important Trends

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Five new startups mark a sharp shift in how people use and build with AI. General Agents debuts ACE, a computer autopilot that uses a mouse and keyboa...

5 Fast-Changing AI Transformations To Keep You Up At Night

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is changing faster than anyone imagined, and these five transformations could rewrite how we work, build, and create. Inspired by Greg Isenberg’s...

Is OpenAI Actually Going to Be Open Again?

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI just raised the largest private funding round in history at a whopping $40 billion valuation. But the bigger news? They're returning to ope...

Grok's xAI Acquires X.com

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk merged xAI and X.com (formerly Twitter), reshaping the battle for AI dominance. Valued at $80B, Grok now has exclusive access to real-time d...

10 Things Transformed by ChatGPT's New Image Generation Model

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New aesthetic filters on movies and websites. A new era of books. An absolutely bulldozer to the ad industry process. NLW builds off of comments from ...

Should Anyone Learn to Code Anymore?

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is learning to code still valuable when AI can write most code better and faster? The old paradigm is shifting with AI tools like Claude 3.7, Gemini 2...

Why MCP Won the Agent Tooling Wars (And How It Will Speed Up Agents)

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI's latest announcement confirms that MCP (Model Context Protocol) has become the universal standard for AI agent tooling. This shift marks t...

ChatGPT's New Image Model Brings Magic Back to AI

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI's latest GPT-4.0 update integrates native image generation directly into ChatGPT, transforming how we create images from text prompts. Lear...

Is China Outcompeting the US on AI?

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is China pulling ahead of the US in AI? With new breakthroughs from DeepSeek, cutting-edge Huawei chips, and top Chinese AI talent leaving the US, Chi...

Where AI is Driving Revenue Growth Today

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

McKinsey has released their latest State of AI report. NLW breaks down the most interesting findings, including where companies are actually seeing bo...

Why AGI is a Useless Term for Businesses

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

All of the frontier labs are racing for AGI, but in this episode, NLW argues that the concept of AGI is most irrelevant and distracting for all practi...

6 Hail Mary's to Get Apple Back in the AI Game

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apple’s AI strategy is struggling, and drastic changes are needed fast. Here are six bold moves like buying Anthropic or killing Siri that Apple cou...

AI Agent Capabilities Are Doubling Every Three Months

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New research reveals AI agent capabilities are doubling every three months, faster than Moore's Law. A recent study measured agent performance on ...

The "AI Super Bowl" Previews the Future

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NVIDIA's annual developer conference, GTC, known as the AI Super Bowl, brought major announcements shaping the future of AI. CEO Jensen Huang unve...

The Big Challenge with Agents Today

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents are hyped as the next big thing, but companies like Salesforce are hitting roadblocks. Salesforce's AgentForce faces challenges around h...

How the AI Price Wars Will Impact You

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China’s Baidu dropped new AI models at prices far below competitors like OpenAI and DeepSeek. Baidu's Ernie model matches GPT-4.5 at only 1% of ...

The Rise of Vibecoding

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vibecoding -- i.e. speaking to text-to-code tools and programming with your words -- has exploded as a concept and a pursuit. NLW shares a recent essa...

What the AI Action Plan for the USA Should Be

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The White House asked Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to weigh in on America's AI policy, and their proposals reveal significant shifts in prioritie...

The State of AI for Robotics

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google just released Gemini Robotics, a powerful new AI built for humanoid robots, taking robotics beyond simple tasks like opening doors to handling ...

AI to Write 90% of All Code Soon?

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI will write 90% of all code within 3-6 months, sparking debate across tech. As AI coding accelerates, questions ...

How the OpenAI-Microsoft Frenemy-Ship is Shaping AI Development

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft and OpenAI's complex relationship is heating up, shaping the future of AI in unexpected ways. As tensions grow, Microsoft pushes forward...