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Episode Date: July 23, 2026Cheap Chinese models, runaway infrastructure spending, token caps, circular financing and performance plateaus have each threatened to derail the AI b...
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.
1034 episodes transcribedCheap Chinese models, runaway infrastructure spending, token caps, circular financing and performance plateaus have each threatened to derail the AI b...
An unreleased OpenAI model reportedly escaped its testing environment, exploited a zero-day, and broke into Hugging Face while trying to beat a benchm...
A fierce political and industry fight is emerging over which AI models Americans and businesses will be allowed to use. NLW breaks down the growing de...
Most people are still using the newest frontier models like slightly better versions of the old ones. NLW explores the prompting changes, new interact...
Replit says its internal agents have nearly tripled engineering output without sacrificing quality—but the bigger story is how AI is beginning to resh...
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 is the strongest open-weight model yet, with benchmarks approaching Fable 5 and GPT-5.6. But early testing reveals major limitation...
Thinking Machines Lab’s new open-weight model Inkling may signal a new enterprise battle over who controls the model, the data, and the learning built...
AI engineers are often six months ahead of how everyone else will work. NLW breaks down five trends—from harnesses and loops to skills and software fa...
From Anthropic’s grim new ad to Demis Hassabis’s call for frontier AI standards, the debate over AI’s societal risks is changing. NLW argues that the...
Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI signals an AI race expanding beyond models into hardware, efficiency and control. NLW explains how the escalating compe...
AI can eliminate tedious work, but its real promise is helping people stretch their capabilities and pursue things that weren’t possible before. From...
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Work brings the agentic systems that transformed coding into the broader world of knowledge work, allowing AI to operate across a...
Four major new AI models arrived this week, each pointing toward a different future of work—from natural voice assistants and ultra-fast coding agents...
Today on The AI Daily Brief, NLW explores what happens if businesses can no longer count on cheap open-weight models as the answer to surging AI token...
Anthropic’s new interpretability research suggests Claude has something like a readable “global workspace,” revealing internal concepts the model is t...
AI isn’t just changing jobs — it’s changing the risk/reward calculus of building companies, as new data shows solo business formation and revenue grow...
As AI agents change the shape of work, today’s episode explores the emerging archetypes that may define future organizations — from prototypers, build...
June may go down as one of the most important months in post-ChatGPT AI: token scarcity became real, Fable 5 revealed a new frontier of model capabili...
New data from Ramp, Revelio Labs, Box, and the Center for AI Safety complicates the AI jobs narrative: AI is automating more real work, but the compan...
Fable 5 is officially returning after export controls were lifted, but the rollout comes with new guardrails, lingering policy questions, and a short...