The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): 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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Last Episode : April 25, 2025 1:51am
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How Every Employee Becomes an "Agent Boss"Confirmed 5
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 using AI assistants to managing multi-agent systems.Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The Automation Platform for AI Experts - https://useplumb.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
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Published Friday
Agent Performance Is Accelerating...Fast 3New 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 humans 1.5–1.7 hours are now within reach. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The Automation Platform for AI Experts - https://useplumb.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published Thursday
Agent Pilots Nearly Doubled Last Quarter 3Enterprise 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 Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The Automation Platform for AI Experts - https://useplumb.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published Monday
MCP, Agents and What AI Engineers Are Thinking About Right Now feat. Swyx 3What'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 online:https://x.com/swyxhttps://www.ai.engineer/https://www.latent.space/Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The Automation Platform for AI Experts - https://useplumb.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/17
How Vibecoding Unlocks AI feat. Riley Brown 3Riley 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. Riley also reveals how Vibecoding might evolve and his goal of making app development as simple and fun as Canva made graphic design. Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The Automation Platform for AI Experts - https://useplumb.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/15
Andrej Karpathy on How AI Empowers 3OpenAI 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: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The Automation Platform for AI Experts - https://useplumb.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/14
The 2025 AI Index 3Stanford'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 performance difference.Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The Automation Platform for AI Experts - https://useplumb.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/12
Why AI Will Take Over the $20T Professional Services Industry 3AI 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://ethanjamesb.substack.com/p/the-great-legacy-extinction-ais-20tGet Ad Free AI Daily Brief: https://patreon.com/AIDailyBriefBrought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/06
5 New Startups That Explain AI's Most Important Trends 3Five 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 agents handle hundreds of tasks simultaneously, from research to outreach. Plus Vibecode and Mocha.Brought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/04
5 Fast-Changing AI Transformations To Keep You Up At Night 3AI 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 shifts in AI. Brought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/03
Is OpenAI Actually Going to Be Open Again? 3OpenAI 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 run on their own hardware. Interested in the Disruption Incubator?Email [email protected] Brought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 04/02
10 Things Transformed by ChatGPT's New Image Generation Model 3New 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 generation model. Source:https://x.com/balajis/status/1904987087361004029Brought to you by:KPMG – Go to https://kpmg.com/ai to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwThe 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/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdown
Published 03/30