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The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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.
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AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution
Dec 31, 2025 27 min<p>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 research to data analysis, visual reasoning, automations, context engineering, and building a real AI-powered app—designed to be modular, completable in a few hours, and immediately useful. The goal isn’t theory or trends, but habits, workflows, and systems that still matter months from now, setting a foundation for how AI fits into work and life heading into 2026. </p><p>Learn more and join the project: <a href="https://aidbnewyear.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://aidbnewyear.com/</a></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 2
Dec 30, 2025 26 min<p>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 Chinese open-weight models, agent labs versus model labs, M&A, IPO timing, and whether Alphabet becomes the world’s biggest company. The episode also digs into how public markets, private credit, data center politics, layoffs, and anti-AI sentiment could collide with macro forces and election dynamics to define the next phase of the AI era. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 1
Dec 29, 2025 25 min<p>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 also explores how vibe coding expands beyond engineering, why bespoke personal software grows, and how these trends start reshaping enterprise adoption next year </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
Dec 28, 2025 34 min<p>Lovable CEO Anton Osika joins the AI Daily Brief to unpack how AI-assisted coding evolved from early GitHub experiments into load-bearing infrastructure inside companies, why 2025 marked the inflection point for vibe coding, and why 2026 will belong to builders who can think, plan, and ship with AI end to end. The conversation covers the shift from prototypes to production, how enterprises are rethinking workflows and SaaS, the rise of personal and ephemeral software, and what skills will actually matter as AI takes on more of the mechanics of building. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025
Dec 26, 2025 29 min<p>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, some controversial placements, and plenty to argue about—by design.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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51 Charts That Will Shape AI in 2026
Dec 24, 2025 27 min<p>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, vibe coding, jobs, and politics. The episode connects model performance, cost curves, hyperscaler spending, enterprise adoption, ROI data, coding agents, labor impacts, and emerging political pressures into a single narrative about how AI is evolving and what that evolution means for the year ahead </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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How AI Starts Doing the Work in 2026 With Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger
Dec 24, 2025 30 min<p>Anthropic CPO and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins the AI Daily Brief to talk about the rise of vibe coding, why coding agents quietly became the breakout AI use case of 2025, and how enterprises are beginning to move from chatbots to real workload-taking agents. The conversation explores how tools like Claude Code escaped the developer box, what it takes to design products for capabilities that don’t fully exist yet, and why 2026 may be the year AI starts reliably taking work off people’s plates inside large organizations at Anthropic. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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The 10 Biggest AI Stories of 2025
Dec 22, 2025 29 min<p>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, and vibe coding, this episode walks through the 10 defining AI stories that shaped 2025 and set the trajectory for 2026, including why agent infrastructure quietly became the most important foundation of the year and how next-leap models like Gemini 3, Opus 4.5, and GPT-5.2 reset expectations for what’s coming next. In the headlines: DeepSeek R1, Project Stargate, the AI bubble debate, enterprise ROI myths, talent wars, reasoning models, vibe coding, agent infrastructure, and next-generation models.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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Power Ranking the Big AI Ideas for 2026
Dec 21, 2025 32 min<p>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 multimodal data chaos and agent-native infrastructure to voice agents, multiplayer vertical AI, AI-native universities, and the industrial renaissance powered by software and automation, the episode separates what feels inevitable from what feels premature—and what’s just plain cool. The result is a highly subjective, intentionally unscientific power ranking designed to spark end-of-year reflection and a few joyful holiday arguments about where AI is actually headed next.</p><p>Read the Big Ideas: <a href="https://a16z.com/newsletter/big-ideas-2026-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://a16z.com/newsletter/big-ideas-2026-part-1/</a></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at <a href="https://zenflow.free/">https://zenflow.free/</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - <a href="https://landfallip.com/">https://landfallip.com/</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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The Most Important AI Stories This Week
Dec 19, 2025 31 min<p>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 Amazon and trillion-dollar valuations, major AI leadership and org changes at Amazon, early signs of stress in data-center financing markets, ChatGPT’s push toward an app-platform future, fresh details on the OpenAI–Disney deal, a new US Tech Force for government AI infrastructure, Nvidia’s China chip calculus, and Bernie Sanders’ call for a data-center construction moratorium. This episode connects the dots between models, money, infrastructure, and politics shaping where AI heads next. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at <a href="https://zenflow.free/">https://zenflow.free/</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - <a href="https://landfallip.com/">https://landfallip.com/</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI
Dec 19, 2025 23 min<p>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 significant or transformational impact, and nearly all expect gains to accelerate over the next year. Drawing on more than 1,200 respondents and 5,000 use cases, this episode breaks down where ROI is actually coming from, why smaller organizations are often seeing outsized gains, how time savings compare to strategic benefits like new capabilities and decision quality, and what the data says about agents versus assisted AI at this stage of adoption. </p><p>Learn more: <a href="https://aidbintel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://aidbintel.com/</a></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at <a href="https://zenflow.free/">https://zenflow.free/</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - <a href="https://landfallip.com/">https://landfallip.com/</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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4 Reasons to Use GPT Image 1.5 Over Nano Banana Pro
Dec 18, 2025 26 min<p>OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5 inside ChatGPT, and early reactions suggest the gap with Nano Banana Pro has meaningfully narrowed. This episode walks through first impressions from head-to-head tests, benchmark reactions, and creator feedback, then digs into four specific areas where GPT Image 1.5 may be the better choice right now, from hyper-precise instruction following and complex multi-constraint prompts to alternative infographic aesthetics and a consumer-first interface designed for discovery and play. The takeaway is not that one model clearly wins, but that creators suddenly have real choice at the high end of image generation, which is a big shift from just a few weeks ago. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at <a href="https://zenflow.free/">https://zenflow.free/</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - <a href="https://landfallip.com/">https://landfallip.com/</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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The Most Important AI Lesson Businesses Learned in 2025
Dec 17, 2025 21 min<p>Deloitte’s latest Tech Trends report makes one thing clear: real AI value doesn’t come from dropping chatbots or agents onto old workflows, but from redesigning how organizations actually work. This episode breaks down why agentic AI forces process redesign, infrastructure modernization, and new management models, why legacy systems, data readiness, and governance remain the biggest blockers, and what separates companies getting real value from those stuck in pilots. The core lesson from 2025 is simple but hard: AI advantage comes from rebuilding operations for an AI-native world, not layering tools on top of the past. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>Zenflow by Zencoder - Turn raw speed into reliable, production-grade output at <a href="https://zenflow.free/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://zenflow.free/</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - <a href="https://landfallip.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://landfallip.com/</a></p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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Will This OpenAI Update Make AI Agents Work Better?
Dec 15, 2025 22 min<p>Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s quiet adoption of Anthropic’s “skills” mechanism and why it could meaningfully change how AI agents work in practice. The discussion explains what skills are, how progressive disclosure improves efficiency and reliability, and why modular, shareable instruction folders may matter more than building ever-more complex agents. In the headlines: fallout from the White House executive order blocking state AI regulation, GOP infighting over AI policy, Nvidia H200 export approval to China and Beijing’s response, and early benchmark results for GPT-5.2.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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The Architects of AI That TIME Missed
Dec 14, 2025 20 min<p>A tight breakdown of Time’s “Architects of AI” cover, who made the cut, and why the framing misses several crucial players. The episode argues that beyond chipmakers, model labs, and politicians, AI’s true architects also include China, major capital allocators, the Middle East, enterprise operators, and cultural translators who turn AI into real-world impact.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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Why AI Advantage Compounds
Dec 12, 2025 23 min<p>AI advantage is proving to be compounding, not linear. Drawing on new data from OpenAI, Menlo Ventures, EY, and early AI ROI Benchmarking results, this episode explains how leading organizations are pulling away by using AI more intensively, moving beyond time savings into higher-value use cases, and reinvesting gains back into deeper capabilities—creating flywheels that laggards will struggle to catch. In the headlines: real-world AI benchmarks, OpenAI user growth, chip-war intrigue, Oracle earnings, and AI market volatility.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - <a href="http://ai.studio/build">http://ai.studio/build</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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GPT-5.2 is Here
Dec 11, 2025 25 min<p>Today’s episode breaks down GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s most work-focused model yet, with major gains in reasoning stability, long-context performance, and real professional tasks like coding, spreadsheets, and presentations. The conversation looks at early benchmarks and tester reactions, what OpenAI’s emphasis on economic value signals about its strategy, and how the model’s launch coincides with a blockbuster new Disney partnership that expands OpenAI’s reach across enterprise, media, and IP.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - <a href="http://ai.studio/build">http://ai.studio/build</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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The State of Enterprise AI
Dec 10, 2025 28 min<p>Today’s episode breaks down new reports from OpenAI and Menlo Ventures that show enterprise AI adoption accelerating quickly, with coding emerging as the first true killer use case, reasoning models driving deeper workflow integration, and the gap between leaders and laggards widening as frontier firms compound their advantages. The conversation also looks at early agent deployments and what these trends signal for the 2026 boom-versus-bubble debate. In the headlines: Anthropic donates MCP as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block form the Agentic AI Foundation, rumors swirl around GPT-5.2 and a new image model, OpenAI launches AI Foundations certifications, and the US military unveils its GenAI.mil</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - <a href="http://ai.studio/build">http://ai.studio/build</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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The AI Race Gets a Massive Power Shift
Dec 10, 2025 25 min<p>Today’s episode breaks down Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to export H200 chips to China, a reversal of a decade of bipartisan China-hawk policy that could radically reshape global AI power dynamics, US industrial strategy, and the geopolitical balance around compute, with a close look at industry reaction, national-security concerns, and why this move may accelerate China’s capabilities even as it deepens their reliance on US hardware. In the headlines: Google readies a full line of AI smart glasses for next year, Claude Code lands inside Slack, Apple’s chip chief signals he is staying put, and IBM announces an $11B acquisition of Confluent to strengthen its AI data platform. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - <a href="http://ai.studio/build">http://ai.studio/build</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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What People Are Actually Using AI For Right Now
Dec 8, 2025 25 min<p>Today’s episode breaks down a massive new empirical study from OpenRouter and a16z that analyzed more than 100 trillion real-world tokens to reveal what developers and power users are actually doing with AI right now, from the surge in reasoning models to the dominance of coding workloads to the unexpected rise of roleplay in open-source systems. The discussion explores how the shift toward long-context programming tasks, tool-use invocation, and hybrid stacks of closed and open models is reshaping the practical AI landscape and what patterns matter most heading into 2026. Headlines include fresh rumors around GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s UX cleanup efforts, and the latest shake-ups at Apple and Meta. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - <a href="http://ai.studio/build" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">http://ai.studio/build</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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AI Has a PR Problem
Dec 7, 2025 23 min<p>Today’s episode explores why public distrust in AI is accelerating, from Edelman data showing sharp divides across income, age, and geography to a broader mix of tech fatigue, social-media backlash, political posturing, and economic anxiety that’s shaping perception more than direct experience with the tools; it also looks at how concerns around job cuts, energy use, and unclear corporate motives amplify the narrative, and what early signals suggest might actually rebuild trust, including real training, clearer intent from leaders, and more concrete examples of the future AI could improve.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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What 1,250 Professionals Say About Working With AI
Dec 5, 2025 28 min<p>Anthropic asked 1,250 professionals how AI is actually changing their work, and the results reveal a blend of optimism, anxiety, and shifting identity—creatives feeling squeezed, scientists wanting trustworthy partners, and most workers hoping to hand off routine tasks while keeping what defines their craft. The episode also looks at how AI-run interviews collapse the old scale-vs-context tradeoff in research and what that means for understanding real-world AI impact. Headlines include Gemini 3 Deep Think, Replit’s enterprise push with Google, Opus 4.5’s benchmark surge, Salesforce’s Agent Force momentum, and Meta’s pivot away from the metaverse.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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Can Today’s AI Really Replace 12% of Work?
Dec 4, 2025 22 min<p>Today’s episode unpacks how an MIT study about AI “replacing 11.7% of the US workforce” is being misreported, what it actually says about task-level automation versus jobs, and how it compares to Anthropic’s internal data on engineers delegating more work to AI and seeing big productivity gains. In the headlines: Microsoft’s AI sales targets and market jitters, Jensen Huang’s appearance on Joe Rogan, OpenAI’s acquisition of Neptune, and Black Friday AI shopping performance.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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What We Learned About Amazon’s AI Strategy
Dec 3, 2025 27 min<p>Amazon used AWS re:Invent to clarify where it actually fits in the rapidly shifting AI landscape, revealing a strategy built around practical multimodality, enterprise-first customization, and a long-term bet on specialized agents. This episode breaks down what Amazon announced, what changed, what <em>didn’t</em>, and what the updates really mean for enterprise teams navigating their AI stacks. Plus: OpenAI’s new pre-training progress, Anthropic’s alien-tech momentum, Mistral’s sprawling new lineup, and the latest moves in the race toward IPOs. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
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OpenAI Declares Code Red
Dec 2, 2025 23 min<p>OpenAI has entered an all-out Code Red as Sam Altman orders the company to redirect resources toward sharper reasoning, faster performance, and a more capable ChatGPT after weeks of narrative momentum tilting toward Google and Anthropic. The move signals a dramatic strategic pivot at a moment when competitive pressure is reshaping expectations for frontier models and assistant dominance. In today’s headlines: Apple pushes out its longtime AI chief, new video and image models drop from Runway, DeepSeek, and Kling, and OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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The 5 Biggest AI Stories to Watch in December
Dec 1, 2025 26 min<p>December opens with Google’s Gemini momentum accelerating, OpenAI facing renewed pressure, and a burst of new models already landing in the first days of the month. This episode looks at how the Gemini narrative is reshaping the competitive landscape, what to expect from OpenAI, the surprise releases from DeepSeek and Runway, the positioning battle among vertical agent labs, enterprise turf-claiming ahead of 2026, and the political realignment forming around AI. A clear view of the forces most likely to define the month—and how they set the stage for the year ahead.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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A Practical Guide to Scaling AI
Nov 30, 2025 26 min<p>A new OpenAI framework lays out what it actually takes for enterprises to move beyond pilots and into true whole-organization transformation, and the lessons reveal a widening gap between leaders who are building systems for compounding ROI and laggards stuck in experimentation mode. Today’s episode breaks down the four mindset shifts companies must make, the foundations that matter most, and why governance, fluency, and iterative product building define the real path to scaling AI in 2026. </p><p>White paper: <a href="https://cdn.openai.com/business-guides-and-resources/from-experiments-to-deployments_whitepaper_11-25.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://cdn.openai.com/business-guides-and-resources/from-experiments-to-deployments_whitepaper_11-25.pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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10 AI Projects to Learn Gemini 3 Nano Banana and Opus 4.5
Nov 28, 2025 25 min<p>Today’s episode breaks down ten hands-on projects that show exactly what the newest wave of models—Gemini 3, Nano Banana 2, Opus 4.5, GPT-5.1, and more—can actually do in the real world, from infographic generation and data visualization to integrated multimodal reasoning, NotebookLM workflows, strategic planning with 5.1, and building full end-to-end vibe-coded apps with modern design tools. The episode is based on the uploaded transcript. </p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
Nov 27, 2025 14 min<p>A bonus, ad-free Thanksgiving episode sharing ten creative, genuinely fun holiday projects that use AI to help kids make stories, coloring books, interactive websites, advent calendars, animal-adoption posters, personalized elf messages, mini-podcasts, animated Santa letters, and even custom family songs. It’s a guide to unlocking kid creativity with today’s newest models while keeping the season grounded in gratitude and imagination. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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Can AI Really Automate 57 Percent of Work?
Nov 26, 2025 23 min<p>New research from Anthropic and McKinsey offers the clearest data yet on how AI is changing actual work, showing huge task-level time savings and estimating that more than half of U.S. work hours are now automatable if companies redesign around agents. The episode digs into what’s real, what’s hype, and how these findings reshape the future of jobs. Headlines include OpenAI’s new shopping research feature, Nvidia’s defensive turn, and HP’s AI-framed layoffs.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p>KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. <a href="https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts">https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts</a></p><p>Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - <a href="https://rovo.com/">https://rovo.com/</a></p><p>AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p>LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/</p><p>Blitzy.com - Go to <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a> to build enterprise software in days, not months </p><p>Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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/1680633614</p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>sponsors@aidailybrief.ai</p><p><br></p>
