The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

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...

Is the Manus AI Agent Another DeepSeek Moment?

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Manus, a new AI agent from China, is creating excitement similar to DeepSeek by showcasing advanced autonomous capabilities. It went viral overnight, ...

Is AI Weird Enough to Actually Make Scientific Discoveries?

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A reading and discussion inspired by https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.htmlBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

The Top GenAI Apps Right Now

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI powered apps are growing fast, with ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and coding assistants leading. Reports from SimilarWeb, SensorTower, and A16Z show that AI t...

Can OpenAI Really Charge $20k/Month for Agents?

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A leaked investor deck suggests OpenAI plans to charge up to $20,000 monthly for its most advanced AI agents. Lower-tier agents focused on knowledge w...

The US Government Knows AGI Is Near

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A recent New York Times interview arguing that the US Gov't knows AGI is coming (and coming soon) is generating a lot of chatter about what the re...

Are Voice Agents the Next Big Computing Platform?

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new AI voice model, Sesame, is turning heads with its natural conversations, leaving many wondering if this is a turning point for AI assistants. Co...

The AI Cold War Heats Up

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

China is restricting AI leaders from traveling to the U.S., signaling a new level of national security focus. Meanwhile, Beijing is ramping up investm...

The Dr. Strange Theory of AI Agent Work

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today's alt-long-reads episode, NLW explores the future of agentic work. He argues agents won't be a 1-to-1 replacement for today's lab...

What GPT-4.5 Should Be Used For

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has officially launched GPT-4.5, but it’s not the model most people expected. While it lags behind reasoning focused models like O1 and DeepS...

Why AI Compute Consumption Isn't Slowing Down

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite reports of Microsoft canceling data center leases, AI compute demand is still accelerating. This episode breaks down Wall Street’s ongoing A...

Faster/Slower: Where AI Is Moving Ahead of Expectations and Where its Lagging

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To many, it feels like a moment of significant acceleration. We're getting a new model every few days, major advances in agents, and generally the...

First Reactions: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Claude 3.7 Sonnet has launched to much fanfare. Along with it comes Claude Code, reinforcing just how much Anthropic has found Claude's core use c...

NLW on the Future of AI Agents

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A discussion originally from the Tool Use podcast. See full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fDu52FzmJc // https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podc...

Agentic AI as a Tool of US Diplomacy?

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NLW reads two pieces that both discuss how agentic AI changes AI's place in the geopolitical discourse. One of the pieces argues strenuously that ...

Google's AI Co Scientist and the True Power of Multi-Agent Systems

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s AI Co-Scientist is changing how research gets done, using a system of multiple agents working together to generate and refine scientific id...

Why Microsoft's CEO Doesn't Believe in AGI

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At least...not in the same way others think of it. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just sat down for a rare in-depth interview, sharing his thoughts on AG...

What AI Coding Agents Can Do Right Now

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI coding tools are advancing rapidly, but how effective are they for freelance jobs? OpenAI's new SWE Lancer benchmark evaluated top AI models on...

Just How Good is Grok-3?

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

XAI’s Grok-3 has arrived, but does it meet expectations? Elon Musk’s AI venture asserts that its newest model competes with GPT-4 and DeepSeek, in...

The Push for America to Open Source AI

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With China’s DeepSeek making waves in AI, pressure is mounting for the U.S. to rethink its stance on open-source models. Former Google CEO Eric Schm...

Which Jobs Will AI Disrupt Most?

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is reshaping work, but which jobs are most affected? Anthropic’s new Economic Index tracks how AI is used across industries, which professions ar...

OpenAI Just Told Us All About GPT-5

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI has laid out its roadmap for GPT-5, confirming the release of GPT-4.5 (Orion) as the final model before a shift to reasoning-based AI. Sam Altm...

The Accelerationist Age of American AI

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the AI Action Summit in Paris, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance made it clear: the U.S. is doubling down on AI acceleration, prioritizing development...

Is Elon's Bid to Buy OpenAI Serious?

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk and a group of investors have reportedly offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit. But is this a real bid or a legal maneuver to sl...

Sam Altman's Wild 2035 Prediction

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just dropped a new blog post outlining his vision for AGI, AI economics, and the next decade. His key prediction? By 2035, any i...

Why Open Source AI is the New Soft Power

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Deepseek continues to have the whole world talking and debating. In this long reads episode, NLW discusses the it in the context of two articles about...

How Google's Latest Gemini Model Stacks Up

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google has released Gemini 2.0 Pro, and the inevitable comparisons to DeepSeek and OpenAI's latest models have begun. The key takeaway? While Gemi...

How AGI Will Impact The Economy

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A special episodes produced with OpenAI Deep Research and Google NotebookLM due to a lost voice! Read the Deep Research paper: https://docs.google.co...

Jevons Intelligence: Why Agent Coders Will Turn Everyone Into Software Developers

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Replit’s new AI agent can turn a simple prompt into a working app straight from your phone. Is this the end of traditional software development, or ...

What Comes Next In AI & Agents (According to Y Combinator)

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Y Combinator has just released its latest Request for Startups, which covers nearly every theme related to AI and agents. From infrastructure to verti...

Can OpenAI's Deep Research Really Do 1% of All Work?

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI’s new Deep Research agent claims it can take on a measurable percentage of all economically valuable work. Is this a real breakthrough or jus...

Which AI Models You Should Be Using Right Now

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

DeepSeek R1 dominated the conversation this week, but should it be the model you're using? NLW reads and discusses an opinionated essay by Ethan M...

The Week Where AI Changed (Or Did It?)

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

DeepSeek dominated headlines, but did this week actually change the AI landscape, or was it overstated? This episode explores the key developments, in...

A Blueprint for Enterprise Agent Adoption

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents are one of the biggest enterprise topics 2025, but where does adoption stand? In this conversation, KPMG’s Swami Chandrasekaran breaks dow...

A Conversation with NotebookLM's Founding Engineer

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google's NotebookLM has become one of the most compelling AI tools for working with text. In this conversation, Adam Bignell, the project's fo...

Separating DeepSeek Hype and Hyperbole

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Markets reacted sharply to DeepSeek's R1 model announcement, sparking debates about its impact on AI development and global competition. This episode ...

Yes, DeepSeek IS Actually a Massive Deal for AI

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

DeekSeek has released R1, their answer to OpenAI's O1, and it has Silicon Valley chattering and markets crashing. But just how big a deal is it? B...

Just How Fast is AI Evolving?

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between reasoning models and agents, things feel like they're heating up. But just how fast are things really going? A reading and discussion insp...

7 Ways to Use OpenAI's Operator

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI's new Operator agent is making waves. In this episode, explore seven real-world ways users are testing its capabilities. From handling rout...

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence in 2 Years?

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared bold predictions about AGI arriving by 2027. Discussions spanned enterprise AI's evolution, virtual co...

Stargate: A $500B US AI Initiative Announced by Altman, Ellison and Trump

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On President Trump’s first day back in office, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son announced a historic ...

The o3-to-AGI-Hype Pipeline

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI's upcoming O3 model has sparked widespread speculation about its capabilities and potential impact. From hints at advanced reasoning to its...

AI and Jobs Disruption

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/opinion/artificial-intelligence-jobs.html https://www.ft.com/content/32853b9...

Is the TikTok Ban Actually About AI?

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US ban on TikTok might be less about data privacy and more about the app’s cutting-edge AI recommendation system. This episode examines why Wash...

8 Ways Agents Will Improve This Year

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents are poised to make significant progress this year. They will improve tool usage, context understanding, coding assistance, and safety. Enter...

The Battle Over AI Diffusion

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As President Biden’s term winds down, new policies to bolster U.S. AI leadership are making waves. From executive orders enabling private AI data ce...

What Companies Should Be Doing With AI and Agents Right Now

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation with Stephen (Steve) Chase, Vice Chair of AI and Digital Innovation at KPMG. Steve shares practical strategies for integrating AI into ...