
A new economic argument suggests AI won’t simply wipe out work, but will shift value toward the parts of the economy where human presence, provenance, care, taste, and relationship matter most. NLW explores Alex Imas' case for a post-commodity economy, why automation may make relational work more valuable, and how the AI jobs debate is missing the question of what new demand gets unlocked when supply becomes abundant.Source: https://aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be-scarceSIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOShttps://aidbagentos.ai/Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 26
29 min

On our latest Operators Bonus Episode, Nufar Gaspar returns to introduce Agent OS, the latest free AIDB training program for building a personal agentic operating system that travels with you across any tool, model, or harness. As every agent tool converges on the same set of capabilities, the system you build underneath is what actually matters — and Nufar walks through the seven layers using a chief of staff as the running example.Sign up for the free AgentOS program: https://aidbagentos.ai/
Apr 25
28 min

GPT 5.5 is here, and the first reactions are split between benchmark dominance, coding debates, Anthropic comparisons, and questions about whether the upgrade will feel dramatic to everyday users. NLW breaks down the launch, the “real work” positioning, the Mythos backdrop, and what changed in OpenAI’s communication strategy, then shares what he learned testing GPT 5.5 across writing, coding, strategy, design, spreadsheets, and data analysis.AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 24
36 min

This week, Salesforce, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google all made major moves toward "headless" software — platforms designed for agents rather than human users. The episode explores what this shift means for business models, the future of SaaS pricing, and who captures the value when agents become the primary consumers of enterprise tools. In the headlines: OpenAI triples its compute targets to 30 gigawatts, Google unveils separate TPU chips for training and inference, and Mistral may be joining forces with xAI.AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 24
30 min

OpenAI's GPT Image 2 topped the LM Arena leaderboard by a record 242 points, but the real story is how it fits the agentic stack. This episode digs into the image-to-code workflows driving most of the excitement and where reasoning over images still falls short. In the headlines: SpaceX's new deal with Cursor, an unauthorized group's access to Claude Mythos, and a big upgrade to Google's Deep Research.AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 22
24 min

Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus inherits a company that some say brilliantly sat out the AI spending race and others say completely squandered its advantages. Either way, the biggest question he faces is what Apple's AI strategy actually looks like going forward. In the headlines: OpenAI's new Chronicle memory feature, Anthropic's White House meeting, and TSMC posts another record quarter.AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 21
23 min

Anthropic dropped Claude Design on Friday — a new design suite built on top of Opus 4.7 that lets users prototype, wireframe, and iterate on visual projects through natural language, inline comments, and custom sliders. Today's episode walks through the best use cases emerging from the first few days, from marketing assets and pitch decks to mobile app wireframes and launch videos, and explores who this tool is really for, where it shines, and where it still falls short.AI Practitioner's Credential Survey - https://tally.so/r/vGOLr4Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 20
29 min

A deep dive into what separates the AI leaders from the laggers, drawing on the recent PwC study, McKinsey's AI Transformation Manifesto, George Sivulka's a16z essay on institutional vs. individual AI, and a close look at how Ramp built its internal AI system Glass. The throughline: leading companies treat AI as a growth and opportunity technology, and they build organizational systems that raise the floor for every employee rather than leaving people to figure it out alone.Sources:https://www.a16z.news/p/institutional-ai-vs-individual-aihttps://x.com/sebgoddijn/status/2042285915435937816Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 19
26 min
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In this Operator's Bonus episode, NLW zooms out from the Agent Madness bracket to share the patterns emerging across nearly 100 agent submissions — from the shift toward AI org charts and "markets of one" software, to the memory gap holding the whole field back. He also previews the Elite Eight matchups.
Apr 18
10 min

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 and OpenAI shipped a much more ambitious Codex app on the same day. NLW digs into what's actually new in each, why the emerging "monothread" pattern could be the biggest unlock for knowledge workers, and gives a slew of use cases worth trying this weekend.Brought to you by:KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at www.kpmg.us/NavigateGranola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at http://granola.ai/aidailyMercury - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at https://mercury.com/personal-bankingZenflow Work - Agents for knowledge work - https://zenflow.free/Drata - The agentic trust management platform - https://drata.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The 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/1680633614Our Newsletter is BACK: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
Apr 17
24 min
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