Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
And what's going on, everybody?
Chapter 2: What is Perplexity's new 'computer use' concept?
Today is February 26, 2026, and this is the Daily AI Show. Today with me is Beth Lyons. I'm Brian Masseri. I believe we're the only two for the day. And Beth and I were just doing a little bit of you, me, you, me, you, me, like the old SNL skit right before we went live. The joys of having meetings sometimes that bump right up against it.
So sorry if we're starting about maybe a smidge late, maybe a minute late on that. Maybe more, actually. Hope everybody's doing okay in the comments. Thanks for being here. Hey, Cisco, everybody else. Okay, so as I just said, Beth, I know I'm coming in like hot from another call. And I know I had some news for sure.
Chapter 3: How are AI data centers impacting energy supply?
But since you were here yesterday and I wasn't, before I jump into stuff you all already talked about, do you have like maybe one or two things and I'll settle in here in a second?
Yeah.
Sure. So one of the biggest stories from today is Perplexity releasing their computer. That's what they call it. It's their computer. It's their computer use. Essentially, it's 19 agents that can do things on your computer, that can take over, that can work for hours, maybe days.
Chapter 4: What insights are gained from AI war-game simulations?
maybe months, right? So perplexity is not reluctant to go for the hyperbole. But also it seems like everybody, this is part of a pattern where people are releasing more and more, like give your AI a job and it can do it on your computer in all kinds of ways. What we used to refer to as macros that were not really great.
Chapter 5: Why is Claude Opus III being retired?
But yeah, what I found interesting, and I don't know if you can pull it up, but the place where you go on Perplexity to see this is like animated splash page kind of stuff. And it was really interesting because that's the kind of thing.
that I think would confuse the crap out of a computer usage AI that was trying to find what was happening, but everything is flying all over the place and things look like you could click them, but they're not obvious. So that was just a little disconnect, I thought, for me looking at it.
Yeah, that's funny. It's like, did they build the back end so that the AI can read the non-splash, the non-human flash?
Chapter 6: What is the significance of the 'nano banana' speculation?
I mean, AI doesn't care about the flash. Well, nobody really cares about flash anymore.
Chapter 7: How does Google Flow enhance content creation workflows?
It gets in the way. It's outdated in a lot of ways. Yeah, you know, look, I watched their hype video, their sizzle video for it, if you will, yesterday on X. And I went, they sent me, because I'm an annual subscriber, so they were very quick to send me a message saying, hey, wouldn't you want to kind of upgrade to our max plan? It's 120 a month or 119, whatever it is.
And that's, although I would love to play with it, I'll wait to watch some other folks' videos talking about what they're getting out of it. It's not something I think I would upgrade to do right now. However, Yeah, I'm with you, Beth. Like, this is sort of just what normal computing is going to look like in the future. Calling a computer works.
Chapter 8: What should companies consider when auditing automation failures?
I don't know. I don't know. Because, you know, I wouldn't call my phone a computer. I recognize it is. I also have like 30 computers in any modern day car. I recognize that. It's not it's not what I it's not what I'm referring to, though. So, you know, I don't know. It's a it's an interesting name. And also. Computer was or computer use was also the name from Anthropic, was it not?
Yes. All of these are called the same.
Weird that they do that. Like, why? Why cause the confusion? I'm not really sure what that's about. I mean, there's a thousand other names perplexed that we could have come up with for this. Like, I don't know. Co-pilot, for instance. I would have never written that. No. But anyway, my point is like, yep, love this. It's in the early days. It's probably not going to do all the things.
And, you know, although the demos that they showed are very cool and somewhat curated, but they're very cool. And I think this is just going to be your normal out of the box experience of on a Mac or a PC in the next several years. You know, it's like your Windows is going to do this.
Like nevermind perplexity, Windows will just have 19 agents hanging around, you know, and that will be sort of the ultimate layer because obviously Windows is the operating system. So in all these instances, we're sort of bolting on Even though I'm using perplexity computer, I'm still using it on my Windows. You're using it on Mac and so forth. Or some people are doing Linux or whatever.
So I think once this reaches that OS level and baked in, there's some pros and cons to that. The cons are...
bloatware malware all the not malware but bloatware you get from microsoft where it's like it comes with 32 different things you're like oh my god just get off my computer you're like making my brand new computer slow i do feel we're gonna see that with agent agent agent agent that you know and it's gonna be like yeah i don't i don't need the agent that comes up with net new solitary games or whatever i'm making fun but you know what i mean you know so i do think there's some pros and cons to it but
Yeah, and bringing up Windows is actually a great example. Windows has their own sort of macro system, right, which is an RWA maybe. I'm losing memory of what those letters mean, or even if they're in the appropriate right order, but an automation system that you could train in your Microsoft Windows that would allow you to, like,
take action on the system not just in um like the chrome browser right like that's not uh that's not helpful really when you have um things that you want to do actually within the windows environment on your computer and that seems like a flaw where is that agent Right? Like, Microsoft, people would be delighted to take action on their stuff if you made that easier.
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