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 important determinant of success. Source: https://www.piratewires.com/p/agency-is-eating-the-worl
AI agent pricing influences how companies plan and allocate their spending. Windsurf initiated a price cut, reducing rates for coding agents to $15 per month and eliminating tool call charges. This move pressures rivals like Cursor. NLW explore
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 on track to become an “agent boss.” The report outlines a rapid evolution across three phases: from
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 Digest confirms this by adding OpenAI’s O3 and O4 Mini to the curve, showing tasks that take huma
NLW covers the intense debate around AI startup "Clearly." Founded by 21-year-old Roy Lee, the company sparked controversy with its provocative manifesto, "We Want to Cheat on Everything." The startup promotes real-time AI assistance to give us
Enterprise adoption of AI agents surged significantly, with pilots nearly doubling from 37% to 65% in just one quarter, according to KPMG's latest AI Pulse survey. Companies are rapidly moving from experimentation to active deployment.Get Ad Fr
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. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to yo
In this episode, Eddie and Chris from Fractional AI discuss building a practical voice agent. They share real world examples, problems solved, and valuable insights about developing voice systems, including making user experiences seamless, han
In this discussion, AI strategist Nufar Gaspar explains the top AI agent use cases companies currently use successfully. Examples include customer service automation, coding assistants, sales agents, voice-enabled workflows, and deep research.G
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 Context Protocol), the rise of AI agents, and how the role of AI engineers is evolving.Find our guest o
Companies keep repeating these costly mistakes when adopting AI and agents. Nufar Gaspar, an AI adoption strategist formerly at Intel, breaks down seven critical errors organizations make, including unrealistic expectations, unclear strategies,
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 Vibecoder, the tools that made coding easy for anyone, and the types of apps people build. Ril
OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy makes an argument that the normal patterns of technology diffusion have been upended with AI, to the benefit of regular people. Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1909308143156240538Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief
Stanford's 2025 AI Index reviews 2024's artificial intelligence trends. Performance benchmarks improved as AI appeared more in daily life and business, leading to high US corporate investment and adoption. China is rapidly closing the AI model
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-to-Agent (A2A) communication standard to make multi-agent systems easier to build.Get Ad Free A
The new explosion of US tariffs (alongside the broader trade tensions between the U.S. and China) could reshape the AI industry dramatically. GPU costs, data center construction, AI startup funding, and even jobs in tech face significant uncert
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke generated some serious buzz with a leaked internal memo where he laid out 6 mandates regarding "reflexive AI usage" inside the company, including the media attention capturing pronouncement that no teams would be able to
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 out now, and Behemoth is still training. Despite strong benchmark scores, many users report und
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 AI-native firms will increasingly out-compete legacy professional services firms.Source: https://ethanj
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 performing better than expected. Also in this episode, a Pew study shows wildly divergent att
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 keyboard to complete tasks faster than any previous system. Lindy rolls out Swarms, letting cloned a
AI is changing faster than anyone imagined, and these five transformations could rewrite how we work, build, and create. Inspired by Greg Isenberg’s viral breakdown of what’s keeping him up at night, this episode zooms out to explore major shif
OpenAI just raised the largest private funding round in history at a whopping $40 billion valuation. But the bigger news? They're returning to open source for the first time since GPT-2, promising an open-weight language model that anyone can r
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 data from 600M+ active users. But is this genius or financial engineering? Before that in the h
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 Balaji Srinivasan to explore ten areas that are being transformed by the new ChatGPT image gen