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Does Work Still Matter in the Age of AI?
New Jan 11, 2026 22 min

Does Work Still Matter in the Age of AI?

In this Long Read Sunday episode, a deep exploration of one of the hardest questions around AI: whether human work still matters as machines grow more capable. The episode examines competing vision...

Building a Personal AI Model Map [AI Operators Bonus Episode]
New Jan 10, 2026 12 min

Building a Personal AI Model Map [AI Operators Bonus Episode]

This bonus AI Operators episode experiments with a skills-focused format inside the AI Daily Brief community, using the New Year’s AI resolution program as a live case study. The episode walks thro...

What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?
New Jan 10, 2026 22 min

What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?

Even when a product is growing and customers are happy, AI can still undercut the core economics that made the business viable in the first place. This episode looks at how AI collapses defensibili...

How People Are Using AI for Health
New Jan 09, 2026 24 min

How People Are Using AI for Health

Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health and what it reveals about how people are already using AI to navigate symptoms, medical information, insurance, and gaps in access acro...

Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code
New Jan 09, 2026 28 min

Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code

Claude Code has triggered something that feels bigger than a normal model release. Power users across AI and software are describing a clear inflection point, where autonomous coding crosses an inv...

AI at CES is Not Just Cheesy Gadgets Anymore
New Jan 07, 2026 30 min

AI at CES is Not Just Cheesy Gadgets Anymore

CES 2026 marks a clear turning point for AI, shifting away from novelty gadgets and toward serious, category-defining products from the industry’s biggest players. This episode breaks down how Nvid...

Context Graphs: AI's Next Big Idea
Jan 05, 2026 25 min

Context Graphs: AI's Next Big Idea

Why “context graphs” have suddenly become one of the most important ideas in enterprise AI, and what they reveal about why agents fail or succeed at real work. This episode explains the core idea b...

Work in the Age of Infinite Agents
Jan 04, 2026 23 min

Work in the Age of Infinite Agents

Most AI discussions focus on speed and automation, but a deeper question is scale. In this episode, NLW reads and analyzes essays by Ivan Zhao and Aaron Levie that argue AI agents change the limits...

What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI
Jan 03, 2026 25 min

What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI

Two blockbuster deals over the holidays quietly marked the real start of the AI agent era, revealing where competition is actually heading in 2026. This episode breaks down why Meta’s acquisition o...

AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution
Dec 31, 2025 27 min

AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution

This final episode of 2025 lays out a practical, self-guided 10-week plan to build real AI fluency by actually doing the work. Each weekend focuses on a concrete project—from model mapping and deep...

50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 2
Dec 30, 2025 26 min

50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 2

Part two of the AI predictions series looks ahead to how competition, markets, and politics could shape AI in 2026, from the durability of coding model leaders and the future of Grok and Meta to Ch...

50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 1
Dec 29, 2025 24 min

50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 1

Part one of a two-episode forecast on AI in 2026, focusing on models and capabilities, release strategy shifts, multimodal races, memory, and the evolution from assistance to agent management. It a...

The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025
Dec 26, 2025 29 min

The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025

A ranked countdown of the AI model releases that defined 2025, shaped how people actually use these systems, and reset expectations across the industry. The episode includes a few notable omissions...

51 Charts That Will Shape AI in 2026
Dec 24, 2025 27 min

51 Charts That Will Shape AI in 2026

A fast-paced walkthrough of 51 charts that capture where artificial intelligence stands right now and what matters most heading into 2026, spanning capabilities, infrastructure, markets, economics,...

The 10 Biggest AI Stories of 2025
Dec 22, 2025 28 min

The 10 Biggest AI Stories of 2025

From DeepSeek’s shockwave debut and the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure buildout to the bubble debate, the MIT enterprise adoption backlash, the AI talent wars, and the rise of reasoning, agents,...

Power Ranking the Big AI Ideas for 2026
Dec 21, 2025 31 min

Power Ranking the Big AI Ideas for 2026

This Sunday long-read episode digs into a16z’s newly released Big Ideas for 2026, scoring the most interesting predictions across likelihood, real-world value, and pure X-factor. From taming multim...

The Most Important AI Stories This Week
Dec 19, 2025 31 min

The Most Important AI Stories This Week

A rapid-fire tour through a packed week in AI, from Google’s surprise Gemini 3 Flash release and its implications for the model Pareto frontier, to bombshell OpenAI fundraising talks involving Amaz...

82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI
Dec 19, 2025 23 min

82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI

A first readout of the AI ROI Benchmarking Study shows that real business value from AI is no longer theoretical: 82 percent of organizations report positive ROI today, 37 percent report significan...