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82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
4 Reasons to Use GPT Image 1.5 Over Nano Banana Pro
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5 inside ChatGPT, and early reactions suggest the gap with Nano Banana Pro has meaningfully narrowed. This episode wal...
The Most Important AI Lesson Businesses Learned in 2025
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...
Will This OpenAI Update Make AI Agents Work Better?
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s quiet adoption of Anthropic’s “skills” mechanism and why it could meaningfully change how AI agents wor...
The Architects of AI That TIME Missed
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tight breakdown of Time’s “Architects of AI” cover, who made the cut, and why the framing misses several crucial players. The episode argues t...
Why AI Advantage Compounds
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI advantage is proving to be compounding, not linear. Drawing on new data from OpenAI, Menlo Ventures, EY, and early AI ROI Benchmarking results, thi...
GPT-5.2 is Here
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s most work-focused model yet, with major gains in reasoning stability, long-context performance, and ...
The State of Enterprise AI
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down new reports from OpenAI and Menlo Ventures that show enterprise AI adoption accelerating quickly, with coding emerging a...
The AI Race Gets a Massive Power Shift
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to export H200 chips to China, a reversal of a decade of bipartisan China-hawk policy...
What People Are Actually Using AI For Right Now
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down a massive new empirical study from OpenRouter and a16z that analyzed more than 100 trillion real-world tokens to reveal ...
AI Has a PR Problem
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode explores why public distrust in AI is accelerating, from Edelman data showing sharp divides across income, age, and geography to a b...
What 1,250 Professionals Say About Working With AI
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic asked 1,250 professionals how AI is actually changing their work, and the results reveal a blend of optimism, anxiety, and shifting identity...
Can Today’s AI Really Replace 12% of Work?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode unpacks how an MIT study about AI “replacing 11.7% of the US workforce” is being misreported, what it actually says about task-l...
What We Learned About Amazon’s AI Strategy
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon used AWS re:Invent to clarify where it actually fits in the rapidly shifting AI landscape, revealing a strategy built around practical multimod...
OpenAI Declares Code Red
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has entered an all-out Code Red as Sam Altman orders the company to redirect resources toward sharper reasoning, faster performance, and a more...
The 5 Biggest AI Stories to Watch in December
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
December opens with Google’s Gemini momentum accelerating, OpenAI facing renewed pressure, and a burst of new models already landing in the first da...
A Practical Guide to Scaling AI
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new OpenAI framework lays out what it actually takes for enterprises to move beyond pilots and into true whole-organization transformation, and the ...
10 AI Projects to Learn Gemini 3 Nano Banana and Opus 4.5
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode breaks down ten hands-on projects that show exactly what the newest wave of models—Gemini 3, Nano Banana 2, Opus 4.5, GPT-5.1, and...
10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bonus, ad-free Thanksgiving episode sharing ten creative, genuinely fun holiday projects that use AI to help kids make stories, coloring books, inte...
Can AI Really Automate 57 Percent of Work?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New research from Anthropic and McKinsey offers the clearest data yet on how AI is changing actual work, showing huge task-level time savings and esti...
Why Opus 4.5 Changes Vibe Coding
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode digs into why Anthropic’s surprise launch of Claude Opus 4.5 is landing like a true step-function moment for coding, agentic wor...
Why the AI Bubble Debate is Useless
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode argues that the AI bubble conversation has become one of the least helpful frames for understanding what actually matters in AI (at least...
The 7 Most Important Things We Learned About AI This Week
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode breaks down the 7 most important things this week revealed about AI: Google’s return as a serious contender, fresh evidence that pre-tr...
25 Things Nano Banana Pro Does That AI Couldn't Before
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s AI Daily Brief breaks down the stunning leap unlocked by Google’s Nano Banana Pro image model, which isn’t just an upgrade but a wholesa...
A Huge Week for AI Models Gets Even Bigger
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI followed Gemini 3 with a major one-two punch, dropping both GPT-5.1 Pro and the new Codex Max coding model, while NVIDIA’s blockbuster earnin...
AI Winners and Losers After Gemini 3
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An in-depth look at how Gemini 3 reshapes the AI landscape. The episode breaks down which companies gained momentum, which ones face new pressure, and...
How Gemini 3 Changes the AI Race
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gemini 3 officially launched, bringing one of the biggest capability jumps since GPT-4. The episode breaks down what the new model actually delivers, ...
The AI Scientist That Does 6 Months of Work in a Day
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An emerging “AI scientist” called Kosmos is claiming the ability to do six months of research in a single day—reading 1,500 papers, writing tens...
Can AI Be Normal and Transformative at the Same Time?
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new collaboration between the authors of AI 2027 and AI as Normal Technology lays out 12 areas where two very different visions of the future unexpe...
Apps vs Models: Who Wins AI?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode examines the core debate shaping the AI industry: whether application-layer companies can survive the pace and instability of the mo...
6 Things GPT-5.1 Does Better
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NLW breaks down the surprise release of GPT-5.1 and why it feels like a more meaningful upgrade than expected. From sharper strategic thinking to bett...
Are World Models AI’s Next Big Frontier?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the AI Daily Brief, NLW covers two stories that may signal a major shift in the AI landscape: Yann LeCun’s departure from Meta and Dr. Fei-...
The Open Source AI Model Beating GPT-5 on Agents
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the AI Daily Brief, NLW explores the rise of Kimi K2 Thinking, a new open-source model from China that’s outperforming GPT-5 and Claude 4.5...
What Should the Government’s Role in AI Be?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As OpenAI’s “backstop” comments spark debate about bailouts, industrial policy, and the future of compute, NLW explores what the government’s ...
A Framework for Choosing Winning AI Use Cases [Agent Readiness Part 3]
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the third and final episode of our Agent Readiness series, NLW and Nufar Gaspar dive into how to identify, prioritize, and measure AI use cases ins...
The AI ROI Surprise: Wharton Finds 75% of Enterprises Seeing Positive ROI from AI
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A major new study from Wharton finds that three out of four enterprises are already getting positive ROI from their AI investments — a far cry from ...
Why OpenAI’s CFO Just Sparked an AI Bailout Debate
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After OpenAI’s CFO floated the idea of a U.S. government “backstop” for AI data center investments, backlash was swift — from finance leaders ...
How Consulting Reveals the Real Pattern of AI Disruption
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NLW shares 13 lessons from the consulting industry that expose how AI disruption really happens—not through mass extinction, but through transformat...
Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As OpenAI announces yet another mega deal—this time with Amazon—questions are growing about whether the company has become too big to fail. NLW un...
RIP Vibe Coding. Feb 2025-Oct 2025.
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With NLW currently on the road, he's joined in this conversation by Sean “Swyx” Wang — developer, writer, Latent Space host and newly joined...
The 5 Biggest AI Stories to Watch in November
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
October was one of the biggest months yet in AI — from OpenAI’s nonstop product blitz to Google’s booming Gemini numbers, new robotics milestone...
So Far, AI Can Only Automate 2.5% of Jobs
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
That is, according to a new study designed to how well AI agents can perform real-world freelance projects. The results show just how far full automat...
Why OpenAI’s $1 Trillion IPO Can’t Come Soon Enough
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new Reuters report says OpenAI is considering an IPO that could raise at least $60 billion—potentially as early as late next year or in 2027. The ...
OpenAI is Now Officially a For-Profit Company
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has officially completed its long-discussed conversion to a for-profit structure, cementing Microsoft’s 27% stake, creating one of the world’...
Where AI Spend is Already ROI Positive
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While most companies are still trying to measure the impact of their AI deployments, a growing number are already seeing returns. In today’s AI Dail...
The Surprising Way AI Expands Markets Instead of Capturing Them
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI music startup Suno has quietly become one of the most successful companies in the entire generative AI space — $150 million in ARR, 60% margins, ...
Workers Are Excited About AI Agents — So Why Are Companies Screwing It Up?
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new EY study shows workers are eager to embrace AI agents — 84% say they’re ready, and most expect agents to boost productivity and work-life ba...
Why Data is the Biggest Barrier to AI Readiness (And What to Do About It)
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our Agent Readiness series, Superintelligent Head of Research Nufar joins the AI Daily Brief to discuss the single biggest blocker we s...
AI Context Gets a Major Upgrade
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI systems just got a huge context boost. Anthropic adds memory to Claude, OpenAI launches “Company Knowledge” to connect ChatGPT directly to ente...
Why Electricity is AI's Biggest Problem
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI’s growth is colliding head-on with America’s aging power grid. This episode dives into why electricity—not compute or data—is emerging as A...
ChatGPT Just Launched Atlas — Here’s How Get Value From Your AI Browser
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has officially entered the AI browser wars with the launch of ChatGPT Atlas — a reimagining of what a browser can be in the age of agents and...
GPT-5 is 58% AGI
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new paper from the Center for AI Safety proposes a measurable definition of artificial general intelligence—and by their framework, GPT-5 is alrea...
Why an AGI Delay Doesn't Mean an AI Bubble
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Silicon Valley spent the weekend debating whether it’s time to delay AGI expectations by a decade — and what that would mean for the so-called “...
5 Prompting Tricks to Make Your AI Less Average
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is trained on the sum total of human output—which means it often produces the average of averages. That’s fine for passable results, but not fo...
How to Build an AI-Ready Culture: A Practical Guide
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Operator’s Cut bonus edition, NLW kicks off a new three-part Agent Readiness series with Superintelligent Head of Research, Nufar Ga...
15 Business Model Questions for OpenAI and Anthropic
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the massive revenue growth of OpenAI and Anthropic and what it means for their business models. With Anthropic hitting a $7 bill...
Maybe AI Will Cure Cancer After All
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the AI Daily Brief, Google may have just shown us how AI can actually help cure cancer. We break down a groundbreaking new discovery from Goo...
The Problem with ChatGPT Erotica
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI will soon let verified adults access mature content in ChatGPT—including erotica and customizable personalities—under its new “treat adul...
The Next AI Platform Isn't a Model -- It's Your Context
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the AI Daily Brief, we explore why the next great AI platform war isn’t about models at all—but about context: who owns it, how it’s or...
These Are the Jobs People Actually WANT AI to Automate
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on The AI Daily Brief, Nathaniel Whittemore explores new research revealing which jobs people actually want AI to automate—and which they find...
What 1,000+ Execs Told Us About AI Agents
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special long-read episode, NLW digs into insights from thousands of executive interviews about AI and agents in the enterprise. Based on data ...
Why the Future of AI Has a Body
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores why the next era of artificial intelligence will take physical form. It examines the rise of humanoid robots, breakthroughs in e...
Sora 2 Prompting Guide
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NLW breaks down five ways businesses are already using OpenAI’s Sora 2 model — from product design and e-commerce video automation to creative mar...
5 Reasons AI is a Bubble (And 5 It’s Not)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode digs into a question that has been with us since ChatGPT launched: is AI a boom or a bubble? The conversation has surged this week a...
Why OpenAI's AMD Deal Could Be Bigger News than DevDay
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI’s massive new deal with AMD could reshape the AI hardware race — and may prove even more significant than DevDay itself. The episode explor...
Did OpenAI Just Kill a Bunch of Agent Startups? OpenAI DevDay 2025 First Reactions
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus Episode! OpenAI’s 2025 DevDay just redefined the agent landscape — and maybe wiped out a slew of startups in the process? In this instant re...
The Top 50 AI For Work Apps You Haven't Tried Yet
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new report from Andreessen Horowitz and Mercury reveals where startups are actually putting their AI budgets — the top 50 applications, the trends...
I Tested ChatGPT As My Cofounder for a Week - Here's Everything I Learned
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI Daily Brief puts ChatGPT’s new Pulse feature through its paces to see if it can truly act like a proactive startup cofounder. This episode ex...
The Era of Agentic Shopping
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has introduced Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT, allowing purchases to happen directly in the conversation. The update challenges the traditiona...
When Will AI Make Scientific Discoveries?
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s AI Daily Brief asks when artificial intelligence will begin making real scientific discoveries. We look at Periodic Labs, which just raised ...
Sora 2 and the Brainrot Rebellion
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, NLW goes deep on OpenAI’s release of Sora 2—its next-generation video generation model—and the launch of the new Sora social ap...
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Can Code Autonomously for 30 Hours 🤯
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 reportedly demonstrates groundbreaking autonomy by coding for up to 30 hours non-stop, significantly outpacing prior...
Learn AI or Be Replaced - Accenture’s 11,000 Layoffs Are a Warning
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Accenture’s earnings call sparked major discssuin after leadership confirmed plans to cut staff who can’t transition into AI-focused roles. The fi...
Don't Blame AI for Workslop
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is suddenly talking about workslop—AI-generated content that looks polished but lacks substance. This episode argues that the problem isn’...
How ChatGPT Pulse Could Change AI
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Pulse, a new proactive background agent that shifts AI from reactive answers to daily, personalized insights. Pulse curate...
Could Gemini 3.0 and Claude 4.5 Be Coming Soon?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI lab rivalry is heating up as rumors swirl about Gemini 3 and Anthropic 4.5. Anthropic faces reputational struggles after coding model stumbles ...
AI Adoption Lessons from 5000 Devs
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud’s new Dora research report offers the most in-depth look yet at how developers are using AI—surveying nearly 5,000 professionals worl...
Nvidia and OpenAI Up the AI Stakes with $100B Deal
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia and OpenAI's new $100B deal is one of the more massive moves of the new AI infrastructure era, securing massive compute capacity with billi...
How Apple Could Get Their AI Revenge
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The debate over AI wearables is heating up, with OpenAI exploring new device concepts (and poaching Apple leaders to do so), Meta doubling down on sma...
The Truth About the AI Bubble
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is AI in a bubble, or just experiencing one of history’s biggest booms? This episode breaks down Azeem Azhar’s 5-guage framework for evaluating wh...
AI Agent Deployments Quadruple in 2025
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest KPMG AI Pulse survey offers a real-time report card on enterprise AI adoption, showing how fast large organizations are moving from explora...
AI Just Beat the World's Best Coders
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI just scored a historic win in the International Collegiate Programming Contest, with OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s DeepMind outperforming nearly ...
How People Actually Use ChatGPT
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of AI Daily Brief dives into two important reports on how people are really using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. OpenAI’s massive st...
GPT-5-Codex and the Year of Agentic Coding
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the AI Daily Brief, OpenAI launches GPT 5 Codex, a model designed for real-world software engineering with dynamic reasoning, long-task persi...
How to Get to AGI
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What will it actually take to get to AGI? Today we unpack the “jagged frontier” of AI capabilities — systems that can dazzle at PhD-level reason...
The AI Slopocalypse
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new AI-first podcast studio is churning out 3,000 episodes a week at a cost of just $1 per show. Is this the future of content creation in the agent...
The AI Office Tools That Actually Work
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not all AI office tools live up to the hype. Today we dig into new surveys, enterprise spending data, and an a16z analysis to uncover which AI tools a...
AI Skepticism is CANCELLED
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wall Street just delivered one of the strongest signals yet that the AI boom is real and accelerating. Oracle revealed a record-breaking $300B cloud d...
Why You Need Different AIs for Different Jobs
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even the biggest companies are learning that no single AI model can do it all. Microsoft, for example, is now bringing Anthropic’s Claude into Offic...
AI Generated Code Reaching 50% in Some Companies
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the AI Daily Brief: AI isn’t just helping engineers anymore—it’s writing nearly half the code at companies like Robinhood and Coinbase,...
5 Debates Shaping AI
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is at the center of five big debates: is massive AI spending fueling real growth or just a bubble, will entry-level jobs vanish, does AI truly boos...
For the Agent Era, Work Charts Beat Org Charts
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As AI and Agents come online, the modern enterprise is changing. As it does, we need totally new ways of thinking about how to organize work. NLW expl...
OpenAI Launches Jobs and Certifications
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI just launched a jobs platform and AI certifications, sparking debate over whether it’s ambition, anxiety management, or a lack of focus. We d...
How to Be An AI Leader (According to OpenAI)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has published a new leadership guide for executives, laying out five principles — align, activate, amplify, accelerate, and govern — design...
Is Google Now the AI Leader?
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s AI comeback is turning into something bigger. Today’s AI Daily Brief covers whether Google has taken the lead in the AI race, with multim...
My Autumn AI Predictions
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back to school season means back to AI predictions! After a summer of skepticism around the MIT study claiming 95% of AI pilots fail, NLW dives nto wh...
The Era of AI Mass Intelligence Arrives
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The era of mass intelligence has arrived - over a billion people now access powerful AI tools thanks to dramatic cost reductions and improved interfac...
Workers Don't Trust Their Companies on AI
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford research shows AI is already reshaping entry-level jobs, with early-career workers in high AI-exposure fields seeing a 13% drop in employment...
The Most Used GenAI Tools
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Andreessen Horowitz’s Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report highlights big shifts in just six months. Google scored four web entries ...
7 AI Use Cases Unlocked By Nano Banana
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's AI Daily Brief covers the groundbreaking release of Google's Nano Banana image generation model, which has taken the AI community by s...