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Why Enterprise AI Has a Leadership Problem

New studies from A16Z, KPMG, Writer, and WalkMe paint a picture of enterprise AI that's simultaneously accelerating and breaking down — agentic deployment has crossed 50%, but trust gaps, employee...

2026-04-11

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All of AI's New Models and Tools

While much of the week's discourse centered on models we can't use yet, the rest of the AI industry shipped a ton. Meta reenters the frontier race with Muse Spark, Z.AI open sources a model ri...

2026-04-10

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Should We Be Scared of Anthropic's Mythos?

Anthropic just announced Mythos, a model so powerful at finding cybersecurity exploits that they won't release it publicly — instead launching Project Glasswing to let select partners harden criti...

2026-04-09

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OpenAI's New Deal

OpenAI released a sweeping policy document proposing everything from public wealth funds to portable benefits — but without a single commitment that would cost the company anything. We dig into what&#...

2026-04-08

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The Calm Before the AGI Storm

Even during a relatively quiet week in AI, the signals are unmistakable — every major lab is jostling for position ahead of what feels like a dramatic acceleration, from OpenAI's record fundraise ...

2026-04-07

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6 Questions Shaping AI

From job displacement fears to the politics of who controls AI to whether agents actually empower people, this episode maps out the six big questions that will shape how this era of AI plays out. It&#...

2026-04-05

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The Masked Medici: How to Build a Faceless Youtube Channel and Companion 1990s Strategy Game in a Single Afternoon with Google AI

In this Operators bonus episode presented by Google, we take a Renaissance history passion project end-to-end — using Gemini, Notebook LM, Stitch, and Google AI Studio to build a faceless YouTube chan...

2026-04-04

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How to Build a Personal Context Portfolio and MCP Server

In today's Build episode, we tackle one of the most underappreciated friction points in the agentic era — the fact that every new agent, project, or tool requires you to re-explain yourself from s...

2026-04-03

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Agent Skills Masterclass

Nufar Gaspar walks NLW through a five-level framework for agent skills — from understanding what they are to building an organizational skill library. We get into the anatomy of an effective skill, th...

2026-04-02

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Introducing Maturity Maps — A New Way to Measure AI Adoption

Today we're introducing Maturity Maps, a new framework for benchmarking AI and agent adoption across six key dimensions - from deployment depth to systems integration to people and governance. Thi...

2026-04-01

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The Ultimate AI Catch-Up Guide

If someone in your life keeps asking how to get started with AI, this is the episode to send them. It covers the fundamentals, debunks the biggest misconceptions, walks through the full landscape of t...

2026-03-31

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The State of AI Q2: AI's Second Moment

NLW kicks off Build Week with the AI Daily Brief's first quarterly State of AI report. From the agentic explosion and Claude Code's revenue surge to the SaaS apocalypse and the Pentagon stando...

2026-03-30

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How AI Can Help Democracy Work Better

Stanford professor Andy Hall argues that instead of fixating on AI dystopia, we should be racing to build AI tools that make citizens smarter, represent them more faithfully, and force institutions to...

2026-03-28

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Anthropic Accidentally Revealed Their Most Powerful Model Ever

Intercom and Cursor have both shown that post-training open-weight models on domain-specific interaction data can match or beat the best frontier models — cheaper and faster. It's a development th...

2026-03-28

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Why AI Needs Better Benchmarks

AI benchmarks are breaking—saturated, gamed, and increasingly disconnected from real-world performance. This episode explores why that’s happening and how new tests like ARC AGI 3 aim to measure actua...

2026-03-27

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Work AGI is the Only AGI that Matters

OpenAI is making its most dramatic strategic pivot yet — killing Sora, renaming its product team to "AGI Deployment," and narrowing Sam Altman's role — all to double down on coding and k...

2026-03-26

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How to Use Claude's Massive New Upgrades

Claude’s latest updates aren’t just incremental—they fundamentally change how you interact with AI, shifting from tool to always-on execution layer. This episode breaks down the biggest new capabiliti...

2026-03-25

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The Coming AI Rules Battle

AI is rising faster than any other issue in American political polling, and the White House just dropped a legislative framework that's already drawing fire from both sides — populist right critic...

2026-03-24

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Why AI Actually Won't Take Your Job

"Will AI take your job?" has become the dominant question in AI discourse — but it's the wrong one. From AI-washed layoffs to coding benchmarks that don't generalize, from human pref...

2026-03-22

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Every AI Product Is Becoming Every Other AI Product

Google, Lovable, Replit, and OpenAI all announced what look like the same product in the last two weeks. Critics say it's desperation and strategic dilution — but what if coding capability natural...

2026-03-21

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