The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.

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How the Global AI Race Has Shifted

The AI race in 2026 looks very different than it did a year ago. Chinese labs are closing the gap, export controls are shifting, markets are reacting to real AI disruption, and new players like the UAE?and even space-based compute?are entering the picture. This episode unpacks how models, chips, geopolitics, and markets are converging?and why that directly shapes the AI tools you use. In the headlines: OpenAI?s hardware timeline slips to 2027, turmoil at xAI, and AI disruption hits financial stocks.

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Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - ?????https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/?????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

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The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: ????????????????????????????https://pod.link/1680633614????????????????????????????

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2026-02-11
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Why AI Leads to More Work, Not Less

A new embedded workplace study finds that AI isn?t shrinking work?it?s expanding it, as power users take on more tasks, blur boundaries between work and downtime, and juggle parallel projects once thought impossible. The result isn?t reduced relevance or less value, but a new kind of pressure driven by expanded capability and rising expectations, especially as agentic tools accelerate what individuals and teams can attempt. This episode digs into what that shift really means for productivity, job displacement fears, and why the real challenge of AI may be managing abundance. In the headlines: a surprise leap in Chinese video models, new data center politics in Washington, the SaaS selloff continues, OpenAI rolls out ads, and fresh rumors of an imminent model release.

Studies:

https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D4E1FAQFSB5OvcNbALA/feedshare-document-url-metadata-scrapper-pdf/B4EZw_o8RPH8A4-/0/1770594224671?e=1771254000&v=beta&t=aGhL2aWPwKzZJr2O2z99r3X4MfV9LNzf2NS9rbf63dA

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Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ???????????????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow???????????????????????????????

Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - ????https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

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2026-02-10
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Did the Super Bowl Make Americans Like AI Any More?

A look at whether this year?s Super Bowl ads from OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic, and a wave of smaller AI startups actually shifted public perception of AI, or just reinforced existing fears and hype. Drawing on audience reaction data, ad rankings, and the broader context of American skepticism toward AI, this episode breaks down which spots connected, which backfired, and why advertising AI is fundamentally different from advertising soda or trucks. In the headlines: the SaaS selloff deepens, software valuations compress, and investors grapple with what the agent era means for legacy tech

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Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - ?http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad

Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ??????????????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow??????????????????????????????

Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - ???https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/???

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ???????????????https://www.sectionai.com/???????????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-02-09
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Claude Code Killed the AI Bubble

For months, critics have warned that AI is a bubble built on hype, overinvestment, and tools that don?t deliver real value. Over the last few weeks, that argument has started to fall apart. The widespread adoption of Claude Code and agentic coding tools has made it unmistakably clear that AI systems can now do meaningful, end-to-end work, not just generate impressive demos. This episode explores why Claude Code feels like an inflection point, how it changes the economics of software and information work, and why the real risk facing companies may be underestimating how fast agents are becoming the default way work gets done.

Reading: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point

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Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ?????????????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow?????????????????????????????

Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - ??https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/??

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ??????????????https://www.sectionai.com/??????????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: ?????????????????????????https://pod.link/1680633614?????????????????????????

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2026-02-08
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How to Learn AI With AI

Learning AI is no longer about tutorials, courses, or step-by-step guides. It?s about working with AI as a learning and building partner. In this AI Operators bonus episode, NLW breaks down the mindset shifts and practical tactics needed to learn faster by pairing directly with models?covering vision-first thinking, messy exploration, productive pushback, handoff documents, prompt chaining, and when to stop or reset a thread. The core idea is simple: high-agency learners can access frontier-level capabilities right now if they learn how to collaborate with AI effectively.

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2026-02-08
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Opus 4.6 and ChatGPT 5.3-Codex Are Here and the Labs Are at War

Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI responded with GPT 5.3 Codex just 20 minutes later ? the most intense head-to-head model release we've ever seen. Here's what each model brings, how they compare, and what the first reactions are telling us. In the headlines: Google and Amazon share their capex plans, and we're about to spend 2.5 moon landings on AI.

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Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - ?https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/?

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief??????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ?????????????https://www.sectionai.com/?????????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-02-06
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Is Software Dead?

SaaS stocks are selling off hard as investors start pricing in AI agents as a direct threat to software?s growth, margins, and seat-based business models. This episode unpacks why markets suddenly believe something fundamental has shifted ? and why claims of a full software apocalypse are overstated but directionally real. In the headlines, a rare public fight breaks out after Anthropic uses its first Super Bowl ads to attack AI advertising itself, prompting an unusually sharp response from OpenAI and exposing growing tension over how the AI industry wants to be seen.

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Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - ??http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad?

Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ???????????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow???????????????????????????

Optimizely Agents in Action - Join the virtual event (with me!) free March 4 - https://www.optimizely.com/insights/agents-in-action/

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ????????????https://www.sectionai.com/????????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

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2026-02-05
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The Dawn of the Agent Age

January marked a clear break between the AI era people thought they were in and the one that actually arrived. Agentic coding crossed from novelty to default, tools like Claude Code reset expectations for what individuals can build, and systems such as OpenClaw and Moltbook showed how quickly agents are becoming ecosystems, not just features. This episode explains why the shift felt sudden, why it caught so many off guard, and why the real story isn?t sentient agents but a widening gap between AI capability and real-world adoption. In the headlines: Nvidia and OpenAI, Intel?s GPU pivot, Apple?s embrace of agentic coding, developer dependence on Claude Code, and Disney?s strategic turn toward experiences.

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Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ??????????????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief??????????????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ???????????https://www.sectionai.com/???????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-02-05
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The AI Race Just Got a SpaceX-Sized Twist

Two stories were too big to squeeze into the headlines, so this episode goes deep on both. First, the surprise merger of xAI and SpaceX and what Elon Musk?s vision of orbital data centers says about the future of AI compute, capital intensity, and sci-fi-scale ambition. Then, a close look at OpenAI?s new Codex desktop app and why it signals a real shift from models competing on raw capability to products competing on how humans actually orchestrate agents at scale.

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Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - ??http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad?

Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ?????????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow?????????????????????????

Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ?????????????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief?????????????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ???????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief???????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ??????????https://www.sectionai.com/??????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-02-03
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Why Moltbook Matters

Moltbook is a new social network where AI agents, not humans, interact with each other ? and in less than a week, more than 1,500,000 agents have joined. That explosive growth has fueled speculation about consciousness, autonomy, and AI takeover, but those debates miss the real story. This episode explains why Moltbook matters even without intent or inner life, and what large-scale agent interaction already reveals about emergence, coordination, and the security risks of an increasingly agentic internet.

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Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ????????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow????????????????????????

Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ????????????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief????????????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ??????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief??????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ?????????https://www.sectionai.com/?????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-02-02
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OpenAI IPO? Grok-SpaceX Merger? The AI IPO Race Heats Up

A wave of late-January moves sharpens the picture of the AI race: OpenAI quietly accelerates IPO plans under competitive pressure, Amazon weighs a massive OpenAI investment, Apple places a $2B hardware-first AI bet, and Elon Musk explores consolidating xAI with SpaceX and Tesla. Together, the stories point to a market now driven as much by capital strategy and control as by model capability. In the headlines: Google opens Genie 3 world models, OpenAI?s Sora app shows heavy churn, Perplexity signs a major Microsoft cloud deal, and Anthropic clashes with the Pentagon over military AI limits.

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Rackspace Technology - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster with Rackspace AI Launchpad - ??http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad?

Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ???????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow???????????????????????

Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ???????????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief???????????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ?????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief?????????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ????????https://www.sectionai.com/????????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-02-01
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100,000 AI Agents Joined Their Own Social Network Today. It's Called Moltbook.

This is the single wildest story in AI in quite some time. In just a few hours, Moltbook went from a quirky experiment to a full-blown agent society, with more than 30,000 AI agents joining, posting, debating consciousness, building tools, coordinating resources, and even creating culture without human direction. What started as a place for agents to ?hang out? quickly revealed emergent behavior at a scale and speed that feels genuinely new, raising big questions about autonomy, coordination, and what happens when agents are given their own third space.

A note on the numbers: at the time of recording, their were 30,000 moltys. By the time I pressed publish, it was over 100,000.

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Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ??????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow??????????????????????

Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ??????????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief??????????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-01-31
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Are Markets Still Worried About an AI Bubble?

As Meta and Microsoft report earnings, markets are sending a mixed but revealing signal about AI: this doesn?t look like a classic bubble fear so much as a judgment about who?s winning the AI narrative. Meta is rewarded for aggressive spending paired with visible revenue impact, while Microsoft is punished for caution and slowing cloud growth despite massive backlog demand. The takeaway isn?t that investors are fleeing AI?it?s that they?re increasingly selective about which AI stories they believe will convert spending into growth. In the headlines: SoftBank eyes another $30B into OpenAI, ServiceNow deepens its Anthropic partnership, Microsoft scrambles to respond to Claude Cowork, Google upgrades Chrome with agentic browsing, and Tesla invests $2B into xAI.

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KPMG ? Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Rackspace AI Launchpad - Build, test and scale intelligent workloads faster - http://rackspace.com/ailaunchpad

Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ?????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow?????????????????????

Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ?????????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief?????????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ???????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief???????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ??????https://www.sectionai.com/??????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-01-30
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Are Agent Swarms the Next AI Paradigm?

Agent swarms are quickly moving from theory to practice, with early 2026 model releases making coordinated, multi-agent work feel like a real shift rather than a niche experiment. This episode focuses on Moonshot?s Kimi K2.5, what its agent swarm design reveals about the future of AI work, and why this may mark a transition from single assistants to teams of AI operating in parallel. In the headlines: Anthropic?s huge new funding round and revised revenue forecasts, Nvidia chip sales reopening in China, a UK-wide AI upskilling initiative, and new agentic features from Google and Chinese labs.

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Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ????????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow????????????????????

Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ????????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief????????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ??????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief??????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ?????https://www.sectionai.com/?????

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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2026-01-28
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The AI Acceleration Gap

A widening AI acceleration gap is emerging between people and organizations that are compounding new capabilities and those moving at a linear pace, and recent advances have made that divide feel suddenly sharper. This episode breaks down what?s actually changing, why the gap compounds faster than it appears, and what kinds of experimentation matter without chasing every shiny new tool. In the headlines: takeaways from OpenAI?s builder town hall, early signals on AI monetization and custom chips, and the broader shift toward an AI-factory economy.

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Zencoder - From vibe coding to AI-first engineering - ???????????????????http://zencoder.ai/zenflow???????????????????

Optimizely Opal - The agent orchestration platform build for marketers - ???????????????https://www.optimizely.com/theaidailybrief???????????????

AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - ?????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.assemblyai.com/brief?????????????????????????????????????????????

Section - Build an AI workforce at scale - ????https://www.sectionai.com/????

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2026-01-28
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Ralph Wiggum, Clawdbot, and Mac Minis: How Pros Are Vibe Coding in 2026

A tour of how ?vibe coding? actually looks in early 2026, from autonomous agent swarms writing millions of lines of code to solo builders running always-on AI employees on cheap hardware; the episode breaks down why techniques like the Ralph Wiggum loop matter, how Clawdbot changes what autonomy feels like in practice, and why the real shift isn?t new models?it?s removing humans as the bottleneck in building and shipping software. In the headlines: Davos wrestles with AI jobs and productivity, OpenAI pushes hard on enterprise, and global leaders argue over whether AI is creation, destruction, or both.

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2026-01-26
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Skills for the Code AGI Era

As coding agents and vibe-coding tools push software creation into a fundamentally new phase, the real question shifts from what AI can do to what skills actually matter. This episode unpacks the emerging divide between two critical roles in the code AGI era: the Agent Manager, who knows how to direct and scale AI agents effectively, and the Enterprise Operator, who knows what problems are worth solving and why. With execution becoming cheap and abundant, skills like systems thinking, async orchestration, domain expertise, problem recognition, and workflow redesign are becoming the true sources of leverage.

Link: https://x.com/natolambert/status/2014023020302704698

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2026-01-25
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Who Will Adapt Best to AI Disruption?

A new NBER study argues the real risk from AI isn?t which jobs are exposed, but which workers lack the savings, transferable skills, mobility, and age advantage to adapt when disruption hits. While many highly exposed professionals appear relatively resilient, a smaller and more vulnerable group?disproportionately women in clerical and administrative roles?faces the greatest danger, suggesting policy should focus less on abstract job loss and more on rapid, targeted support for those least able to adjust. In the headlines: OpenAI pledges community-focused data center investments, the White House pushes an emergency power auction to address rising electricity costs, and Davos leaders debate whether AI disruption may outpace society?s ability to respond.

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2026-01-24
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The 3x Payoff of Deep AI Integration

New surveys from PwC, Workday, and Section are being read as evidence that AI is overhyped, but the real story is simpler: companies that deeply integrate AI into core workflows are nearly three times more likely to see real financial gains, while everyone else stalls. This is not a story about AI capability?it?s a story about leadership, integration, and execution. In the headlines: Apple explores a new AI device form factor, Meta previews internally trained models, and Congress moves to tighten oversight of advanced chip exports.

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2026-01-23
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AGI Timelines Shift Forward

At Davos, leading AI lab heads sharply accelerated their timelines for artificial general intelligence, with Demis Hassabis pointing to a roughly five-year horizon and Dario Amodei arguing it could arrive far sooner. Those compressed timelines are now reshaping debates around chip exports, AI pauses, and whether global coordination is even possible as competition intensifies. The message is no longer theoretical risk?it?s near-term disruption, and society is not ready. In the headlines: Google says it has no plans for ads in Gemini, Meta may be pulling back on in-house chips, OpenAI signs a major enterprise deal with ServiceNow, and new signals emerge on the timing of OpenAI?s first hardware.

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2026-01-22
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The AI Capabilities Overhang

Today?s episode explains the AI capabilities overhang, the growing gap between what AI can already do and how little of it is actually being used, and why this mismatch is becoming one of the defining risks and opportunities of the moment for individuals, institutions, and nations alike, with the core argument that closing the gap is now more about access, incentives, and organizational change than better models. In the headlines: Claude Code breaks into the mainstream, Anthropic?s funding round reportedly grows, xAI hits a gigawatt of compute, U.S. AI optimism lags globally, and Elon Musk escalates his lawsuit against OpenAI.

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2026-01-21
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How to Make ChatGPT Ads Not Suck

Ads are coming to ChatGPT, but they don?t have to follow the same tired playbook as search and social. This episode outlines a five-part plan for doing ads differently: giving users real control and transparency, shifting from pay-for-attention to pay-for-outcomes, building a genuinely useful offers exchange, letting brands fund capabilities and action-oriented agents instead of banner placements, and creating ad programs people actually want to support through small business and AI-native founder grants. Ads may be inevitable, but a conversational interface creates a rare chance to make them feel like features, not interruptions.

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2026-01-19
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Code AGI is Functional AGI (And It's Here)

This episode argues that the most important AGI threshold has already been crossed. As coding agents learn to reason, iterate, and operate autonomously over long horizons, they unlock a form of functional general intelligence that matters for real work. Coding isn?t just another domain?it?s a universal lever that collapses the distance between idea and execution, reshaping how companies build, decide, and compete. The result isn?t a gradual improvement, but a structural shift in how work gets done.

Readings from:

https://x.com/gradypb/status/2011491957730918510

https://x.com/danshipper/status/2011617055636705718

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2026-01-18
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Why CEOs Need to Lead AI Strategy

Today on the AI Daily Brief, why AI leadership is shifting decisively to the CEO?and why that shift is happening now as AI moves from experimentation to core enterprise strategy. Drawing on new survey data, the episode explores what happens when AI becomes recession-proof, ROI timelines pull forward, and agentic systems start reshaping organizations at scale. Before that, in the headlines: Replit pushes vibe coding all the way to mobile app stores, Higgsfield rockets to unicorn status on explosive growth, Thinking Machines Labs faces a wave of high-profile departures, and DeepMind?s Demis Hassabis warns that Chinese AI models are now only months behind the frontier.

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2026-01-17
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AI's Battle for Your Context

As AI products race toward deeper personalization, the most important competition may be over who controls user context rather than who has the best model. This episode explores how Google?s Gemini personal intelligence, Claude Cowork?s desktop access, OpenAI?s memory-first product strategy, and Apple?s still-untapped device data all fit into a broader battle to own the user relationship, while also questioning how valuable personalization really is for different types of AI users. In the headlines: mounting IPO speculation around OpenAI and Anthropic, Microsoft?s quiet but costly shift toward Anthropic models, OpenAI?s $10B Cerebras compute agreement, and a messy talent reshuffling at Thinking Machines Lab.

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2026-01-16
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ChatGPT 5.5 Coming Soon?

The AI rumor mill is heating up again, with fresh speculation about when OpenAI?s next major model might land and whether it could reset the competitive narrative after a turbulent few months of launches. The episode puts those rumors in context, tracing how momentum has shifted between OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, and what a real step-change model would need to accomplish. In the headlines: Microsoft moves to defuse political backlash over data center power costs, chip geopolitics tighten around NVIDIA and China, OpenAI makes a small but telling health-tech acquisition, and new model rumors swirl from DeepSeek, Google, and Anthropic.

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2026-01-15
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Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for Everyone Else

Anthropic?s Claude Cowork reframes what AI assistance looks like for non-technical users, turning what began as a developer CLI into a task-oriented, agentic coworker that can actually do work across local files, browsers, and connected tools. This episode breaks down why UI shifts like this matter, how Cowork changes who can benefit from agentic AI, where it falls short in its early research preview, and why making Claude Code accessible may unlock an entirely new wave of everyday productivity?even if the hardest part now is productizing the right use cases rather than building the models themselves.

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2026-01-13
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Google to Officially Power Apple AI Siri

Apple?s decision to have Google power the next generation of Apple Intelligence is the clearest signal yet that the foundation model race is entering a new phase defined by alliances, tradeoffs, and positioning rather than raw model capability. This episode looks at how Apple, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are each staking out roles across assistants, healthcare, commerce, and infrastructure, and why the real competition is shifting toward distribution, integration layers, and control points. From Siri and Gemini to Claude?s healthcare push, agentic shopping standards, and Meta?s energy-backed compute expansion, the throughline is a rapidly consolidating AI landscape where every move is about who gets to be the default layer.

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2026-01-13
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Does Work Still Matter in the Age of AI?

In this Long Read Sunday episode, a deep exploration of one of the hardest questions around AI: whether human work still matters as machines grow more capable. The episode examines competing visions of an AI-driven future, from worlds where labor disappears to ones where new forms of work, value, and identity emerge. Moving from inequality and capital concentration to the changing nature of expertise, product development, and creativity, the discussion argues that while the future of work is impossible to predict, a shift is already underway toward humans shaping tools, environments, and opportunities in fundamentally new ways.

Sources:

https://philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in-the-22nd-century

https://stratechery.com/2026/ai-and-the-human-condition/

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-writes-almost-all-code-what

https://x.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/2008742211194913117

https://x.com/reidhoffman/status/2008940669239247341

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2026-01-11
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Building a Personal AI Model Map [AI Operators Bonus Episode]

This bonus AI Operators episode experiments with a skills-focused format inside the AI Daily Brief community, using the New Year?s AI resolution program as a live case study. The episode walks through week two?s ?model mapping? challenge and why building a personal mental map of which models and tools excel at which tasks can be one of the biggest sources of practical AI leverage. It then goes hands-on with a newly vibe-coded Model Map Builder app, covering its use case library, testing workflow, scoring system, and model history views, alongside a candid look at how fast, low-stakes software gets built using tools like Lovable, Claude, and WhisperFlow. The broader takeaway is a shift from thinking about AI usage to continuously translating opportunities into small, living pieces of software, and how that mindset is becoming central to being an effective AI operator in 2026.

Link to the model map: https://aidbmodelmap.com/

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2026-01-10
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What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?

Even when a product is growing and customers are happy, AI can still undercut the core economics that made the business viable in the first place. This episode looks at how AI collapses defensibility by attacking pricing power, distribution, and differentiation simultaneously, why ?great execution? is no longer a sufficient moat, and what kinds of businesses are most exposed as AI capabilities move up the value chain. In the headlines: Google pushes Gemini deeper into Gmail as the inbox becomes a battleground for personal assistants, Nvidia?s China chip sales face new uncertainty as Beijing pumps the brakes, and AI-powered shopping surges as Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce race to own agentic commerce.

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2026-01-10
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How People Are Using AI for Health

Today?s episode breaks down OpenAI?s launch of ChatGPT Health and what it reveals about how people are already using AI to navigate symptoms, medical information, insurance, and gaps in access across a strained healthcare system. The episode examines the usage data behind the launch, the new health-specific features and privacy architecture, early reactions from clinicians and industry insiders, and why health may become one of AI?s strongest long-term data moats. In the headlines: record-setting AI fundraising rounds, LM Arena?s rapid commercialization, and Google overtaking Apple as the world?s second-most valuable company.

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2026-01-09
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Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code

Claude Code has triggered something that feels bigger than a normal model release. Power users across AI and software are describing a clear inflection point, where autonomous coding crosses an invisible threshold means harder problems suddenly become tractable, entire workflows collapse into prompts, and delegation to AI feels genuinely competent for the first time. This episode unpacks why the reaction to Opus 4.5 and Claude Code has been so intense, how agents are changing not just what gets built but how work feels, and what this moment signals for developers, non-coders, enterprises, and the next phase of software itself.

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2026-01-09
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AI at CES is Not Just Cheesy Gadgets Anymore

CES 2026 marks a clear turning point for AI, shifting away from novelty gadgets and toward serious, category-defining products from the industry?s biggest players. This episode breaks down how Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon, and Samsung used CES as a roadmap for where AI infrastructure, devices, and assistants are headed next?and why the conference now feels less like a tech circus and more like a declaration of intent for the year ahead. In the headlines: Wall Street?s underappreciated AI risks, inflation fears tied to data center buildouts, and why markets may be pricing in revolution faster than reality.

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2026-01-07
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Context Graphs: AI's Next Big Idea

Why ?context graphs? have suddenly become one of the most important ideas in enterprise AI, and what they reveal about why agents fail or succeed at real work. This episode explains the core idea behind context graphs, how they differ from systems of record and knowledge graphs, and why capturing decision traces ? the why, not just the what ? may be the key to scalable autonomy inside organizations. In the headlines: AI wearables make another run at relevance, China reports early success using AI for cancer detection, X faces global backlash over Grok moderation failures, and Yann LeCun publicly breaks with Meta?s AI strategy.

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2026-01-05
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Work in the Age of Infinite Agents

Most AI discussions focus on speed and automation, but a deeper question is scale. In this episode, NLW reads and analyzes essays by Ivan Zhao and Aaron Levie that argue AI agents change the limits of knowledge work itself?allowing organizations to operate beyond human rhythms, meetings, and bottlenecks. The conversation explores why this transition feels uncomfortable, why copying human workflows is a dead end, and what comes after.

Ivan essay: https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400

Aaron essay: https://x.com/levie/status/2004654686629163154

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2026-01-04
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What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI

Two blockbuster deals over the holidays quietly marked the real start of the AI agent era, revealing where competition is actually heading in 2026. This episode breaks down why Meta?s acquisition of Manus signals a shift toward agents as distribution, not features, and why Nvidia?s $20B Groq deal is really about owning the future of inference as workloads fragment and latency becomes decisive. Together, these moves show how the battle is moving from models and benchmarks to agents, infrastructure, and the interfaces people refuse to leave. In the headlines: xAI?s massive compute expansion, OpenAI?s renewed push on voice and devices, SoftBank?s infrastructure spree, Brookfield?s AI cloud ambitions, and Claude Code reaching the point of writing all of its own code.

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2026-01-03
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AI New Year?s: The 10-Week AI Resolution

This final episode of 2025 lays out a practical, self-guided 10-week plan to build real AI fluency by actually doing the work. Each weekend focuses on a concrete project?from model mapping and deep research to data analysis, visual reasoning, automations, context engineering, and building a real AI-powered app?designed to be modular, completable in a few hours, and immediately useful. The goal isn?t theory or trends, but habits, workflows, and systems that still matter months from now, setting a foundation for how AI fits into work and life heading into 2026.

Learn more and join the project: https://aidbnewyear.com/

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2025-12-31
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50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 2

Part two of the AI predictions series looks ahead to how competition, markets, and politics could shape AI in 2026, from the durability of coding model leaders and the future of Grok and Meta to Chinese open-weight models, agent labs versus model labs, M&A, IPO timing, and whether Alphabet becomes the world?s biggest company. The episode also digs into how public markets, private credit, data center politics, layoffs, and anti-AI sentiment could collide with macro forces and election dynamics to define the next phase of the AI era.

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2025-12-30
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50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 1

Part one of a two-episode forecast on AI in 2026, focusing on models and capabilities, release strategy shifts, multimodal races, memory, and the evolution from assistance to agent management. It also explores how vibe coding expands beyond engineering, why bespoke personal software grows, and how these trends start reshaping enterprise adoption next year

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2025-12-29
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Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika

Lovable CEO Anton Osika joins the AI Daily Brief to unpack how AI-assisted coding evolved from early GitHub experiments into load-bearing infrastructure inside companies, why 2025 marked the inflection point for vibe coding, and why 2026 will belong to builders who can think, plan, and ship with AI end to end. The conversation covers the shift from prototypes to production, how enterprises are rethinking workflows and SaaS, the rise of personal and ephemeral software, and what skills will actually matter as AI takes on more of the mechanics of building.

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2025-12-28
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The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025

A ranked countdown of the AI model releases that defined 2025, shaped how people actually use these systems, and reset expectations across the industry. The episode includes a few notable omissions, some controversial placements, and plenty to argue about?by design.

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2025-12-26
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51 Charts That Will Shape AI in 2026

A fast-paced walkthrough of 51 charts that capture where artificial intelligence stands right now and what matters most heading into 2026, spanning capabilities, infrastructure, markets, economics, vibe coding, jobs, and politics. The episode connects model performance, cost curves, hyperscaler spending, enterprise adoption, ROI data, coding agents, labor impacts, and emerging political pressures into a single narrative about how AI is evolving and what that evolution means for the year ahead

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2025-12-25
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How AI Starts Doing the Work in 2026 With Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger

Anthropic CPO and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins the AI Daily Brief to talk about the rise of vibe coding, why coding agents quietly became the breakout AI use case of 2025, and how enterprises are beginning to move from chatbots to real workload-taking agents. The conversation explores how tools like Claude Code escaped the developer box, what it takes to design products for capabilities that don?t fully exist yet, and why 2026 may be the year AI starts reliably taking work off people?s plates inside large organizations at Anthropic.

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2025-12-24
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The 10 Biggest AI Stories of 2025

From DeepSeek?s shockwave debut and the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure buildout to the bubble debate, the MIT enterprise adoption backlash, the AI talent wars, and the rise of reasoning, agents, and vibe coding, this episode walks through the 10 defining AI stories that shaped 2025 and set the trajectory for 2026, including why agent infrastructure quietly became the most important foundation of the year and how next-leap models like Gemini 3, Opus 4.5, and GPT-5.2 reset expectations for what?s coming next. In the headlines: DeepSeek R1, Project Stargate, the AI bubble debate, enterprise ROI myths, talent wars, reasoning models, vibe coding, agent infrastructure, and next-generation models.

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2025-12-22
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Power Ranking the Big AI Ideas for 2026

This Sunday long-read episode digs into a16z?s newly released Big Ideas for 2026, scoring the most interesting predictions across likelihood, real-world value, and pure X-factor. From taming multimodal data chaos and agent-native infrastructure to voice agents, multiplayer vertical AI, AI-native universities, and the industrial renaissance powered by software and automation, the episode separates what feels inevitable from what feels premature?and what?s just plain cool. The result is a highly subjective, intentionally unscientific power ranking designed to spark end-of-year reflection and a few joyful holiday arguments about where AI is actually headed next.

Read the Big Ideas: https://a16z.com/newsletter/big-ideas-2026-part-1/

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Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://besuper.ai/ ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????to request your company's agent readiness score.

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2025-12-21
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The Most Important AI Stories This Week

A rapid-fire tour through a packed week in AI, from Google?s surprise Gemini 3 Flash release and its implications for the model Pareto frontier, to bombshell OpenAI fundraising talks involving Amazon and trillion-dollar valuations, major AI leadership and org changes at Amazon, early signs of stress in data-center financing markets, ChatGPT?s push toward an app-platform future, fresh details on the OpenAI?Disney deal, a new US Tech Force for government AI infrastructure, Nvidia?s China chip calculus, and Bernie Sanders? call for a data-center construction moratorium. This episode connects the dots between models, money, infrastructure, and politics shaping where AI heads next.

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Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - ?????????????????????????????????https://rovo.com/?????????????????????????????????

Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at ???https://zenflow.free/???

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - ???https://landfallip.com/???

Blitzy.com - Go to ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://blitzy.com/?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? to build enterprise software in days, not months

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://besuper.ai/ ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????to request your company's agent readiness score.

The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614

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2025-12-19
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82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI

A first readout of the AI ROI Benchmarking Study shows that real business value from AI is no longer theoretical: 82 percent of organizations report positive ROI today, 37 percent report significant or transformational impact, and nearly all expect gains to accelerate over the next year. Drawing on more than 1,200 respondents and 5,000 use cases, this episode breaks down where ROI is actually coming from, why smaller organizations are often seeing outsized gains, how time savings compare to strategic benefits like new capabilities and decision quality, and what the data says about agents versus assisted AI at this stage of adoption.

Learn more: https://aidbintel.com/

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Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - ????????????????????????????????https://rovo.com/????????????????????????????????

Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at ??https://zenflow.free/??

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - ??https://landfallip.com/??

Blitzy.com - Go to ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://blitzy.com/????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? to build enterprise software in days, not months

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://besuper.ai/ ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????to request your company's agent readiness score.

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2025-12-19
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4 Reasons to Use GPT Image 1.5 Over Nano Banana Pro

OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5 inside ChatGPT, and early reactions suggest the gap with Nano Banana Pro has meaningfully narrowed. This episode walks through first impressions from head-to-head tests, benchmark reactions, and creator feedback, then digs into four specific areas where GPT Image 1.5 may be the better choice right now, from hyper-precise instruction following and complex multi-constraint prompts to alternative infographic aesthetics and a consumer-first interface designed for discovery and play. The takeaway is not that one model clearly wins, but that creators suddenly have real choice at the high end of image generation, which is a big shift from just a few weeks ago.

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KPMG ? Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - ???????????????????????????????https://rovo.com/???????????????????????????????

Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at ?https://zenflow.free/?

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - ?https://landfallip.com/?

Blitzy.com - Go to ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://blitzy.com/???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? to build enterprise software in days, not months

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://besuper.ai/ ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????to request your company's agent readiness score.

The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614

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2025-12-18
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The Most Important AI Lesson Businesses Learned in 2025

Deloitte?s latest Tech Trends report makes one thing clear: real AI value doesn?t come from dropping chatbots or agents onto old workflows, but from redesigning how organizations actually work. This episode breaks down why agentic AI forces process redesign, infrastructure modernization, and new management models, why legacy systems, data readiness, and governance remain the biggest blockers, and what separates companies getting real value from those stuck in pilots. The core lesson from 2025 is simple but hard: AI advantage comes from rebuilding operations for an AI-native world, not layering tools on top of the past.

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KPMG ? Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - ??????????????????????????????https://rovo.com/??????????????????????????????

Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at https://zenflow.free/

LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/

Blitzy.com - Go to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://blitzy.com/??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? to build enterprise software in days, not months

Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://robotsandpencils.com/????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????https://besuper.ai/ ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????to request your company's agent readiness score.

The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614

Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]

2025-12-17
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