The Ultimate AI Catch-Up Guide
Episode Date: March 31, 2026If 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 mis...
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.
948 episodes transcribedIf 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 mis...
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 su...
Stanford professor Andy Hall argues that instead of fixating on AI dystopia, we should be racing to build AI tools that make citizens smarter, represe...
Intercom and Cursor have both shown that post-training open-weight models on domain-specific interaction data can match or beat the best frontier mode...
AI benchmarks are breaking—saturated, gamed, and increasingly disconnected from real-world performance. This episode explores why that’s happening and...
OpenAI is making its most dramatic strategic pivot yet — killing Sora, renaming its product team to "AGI Deployment," and narrowing Sam Altm...
Claude’s latest updates aren’t just incremental—they fundamentally change how you interact with AI, shifting from tool to always-on execution layer. T...
AI is rising faster than any other issue in American political polling, and the White House just dropped a legislative framework that's already dr...
"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 ben...
Google, Lovable, Replit, and OpenAI all announced what look like the same product in the last two weeks. Critics say it's desperation and strategi...
A new Anthropic study based on nearly 81,000 interviews offers a much more nuanced picture of what people actually want from AI: not some clean split...
The team behind Claude Code's agent skills shares lessons on building, testing, and organizing skills — and the concept is converging across the e...
Q1 was defined by the realization that agents are here — Q2 is shaping up as an all-out race to make them enterprise-ready. From Nvidia's Nemo Cla...
The AI discourse is absolutely frenetic right now — everything from Karpathy's misinterpreted jobs visualization to a viral dog cancer cure story...
AI capabilities are compounding, disruption is rolling through markets and politics, and a growing chorus wants you to believe the only response is fe...
In this Operators Bonus Episode, I pit 16 different things I've built this year against each other in a March Madness-style bracket — from OpenCla...
A growing debate is emerging around how AI can expand human work instead of replacing it. This episode looks at the idea of “pro-worker AI,” the kinds...
New products from Perplexity and Replit show vibe coding evolving beyond “AI helps you code” into systems that plan goals, spin up teams of agents, an...
Google has been shipping relentlessly across Gemini models, world models, multimodal tools, and Workspace updates, but the release getting the most at...
Claude’s new AI code review feature sparked a huge backlash this week, with developers stunned by the $15–$25 per pull request pricing. But the debate...