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The AI Daily Brief (Formerly The AI Breakdown): 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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00:28:11

How to Be An AI Leader (According to OpenAI)

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2025/09/05

OpenAI has published a new leadership guide for executives, laying out five principles — align, activate, amplify, accelerate, and govern — designed to help organizations lead in the age of AI. This episode breaks down the most important lessons, the subtext behind OpenAI’s recommendations, and what’s missing from their framework. In the headlines, Apple is reportedly partnering with Google to power Siri’s long-awaited AI overhaul.Brought to you by:KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility

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00:29:23

Is Google Now the AI Leader?

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2025/09/04

Google’s AI comeback is turning into something bigger. Today’s AI Daily Brief covers whether Google has taken the lead in the AI race, with multimodal breakthroughs, Gemini’s surge, and a huge antitrust win around Chrome. We also dig into Anthropic’s $13B raise at a stunning $183B valuation, OpenAI’s billion-dollar acquisition and restructuring, and the intensifying AI talent wars across Apple, Meta, and beyond.Brought to you by:KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune

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00:29:53

My Autumn AI Predictions

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2025/09/03

Back to school season means back to AI predictions! After a summer of skepticism around the MIT study claiming 95% of AI pilots fail, NLW dives nto what's really coming this fall and beyond. From simmering skepticism to multimodal model progress to the potential for AI M&A, NLW breaks down all the key trends. Brought to you by: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

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00:24:18

The Era of AI Mass Intelligence Arrives

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2025/08/31

The era of mass intelligence has arrived - over a billion people now access powerful AI tools thanks to dramatic cost reductions and improved interfaces. This episode explores why AI democratization, not just better benchmarks, is 2025's defining story. From 300x cost improvements to new use cases unlocked by accessible tools, we're witnessing a fundamental shift from scarce to abundant intelligence that every institution must navigate.Source:

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00:25:36

Workers Don't Trust Their Companies on AI

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2025/08/30

Stanford research shows AI is already reshaping entry-level jobs, with early-career workers in high AI-exposure fields seeing a 13% drop in employment. At the same time, a survey by Kyla Scanlon finds most employees don’t trust their employers’ AI strategies—with over a third expressing zero trust. Despite this distrust, few companies are offering AI training, creating a dangerous gap that could fuel resistance and sabotage of corporate AI initiatives.Brought to you by:KPMG – Discover how AI is

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00:22:09

The Most Used GenAI Tools

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2025/08/29

On this episode, Andreessen Horowitz’s Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report highlights big shifts in just six months. Google scored four web entries with Gemini at #2, Grok rocketed to #4 with 20 million mobile users, coding tools like Lovable and Replit cemented their dominance, and Chinese AI firms kept expanding abroad despite home-market bans. The consumer AI space is finally settling into core categories.Brought to you by:KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into

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00:25:24

7 AI Use Cases Unlocked By Nano Banana

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2025/08/28

Today's AI Daily Brief covers the groundbreaking release of Google's Nano Banana image generation model, which has taken the AI community by storm over the past few weeks. Google officially revealed that Nano Banana is actually Gemini 2.5 Flash, now available as a free preview in Google AI Studio, offering unprecedented image editing capabilities with perfect object consistency and incredible prompt adherence. The model dominates benchmarks, scoring 17% higher than competitors like Flux, and

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00:24:53

The New Politics of AI

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2025/08/27

Today’s AI Daily Brief examines AI’s rise as a geopolitical flashpoint. The U.S. government’s unprecedented 10% Intel stake via CHIPS Act funding, NVIDIA’s halt of China-specific H20 production amid U.S.–China tensions, and the launch of a $100M+ PAC, “Leading the Future,” to shape AI policy, show how AI now drives national security, diplomacy, and domestic politics—setting the terms of America’s technological leadership for years ahead.Brought to you by:KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming

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00:22:45

What AI Backlash at YouTube Can Teach Other Companies

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2025/08/26

Today we're covering the AI backlash at YouTube and Netflix's new rules for generative AI in content production. YouTube creators are angry after the platform secretly used AI to enhance their videos without asking, making content look artificially sharpened and potentially training viewers to accept AI-generated material. Netflix just released clear guidelines for AI use in production, setting boundaries around copyright, talent consent, and approval processes. These stories show how the

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00:23:04

The Problem of AI That Seems Alive

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2025/08/24

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of AI at Microsoft and co-founder of DeepMind, has published a provocative essay warning about the dangers of “seemingly conscious AI.” On today’s Big Think edition of The AI Daily Brief, we explore his argument that as AI systems develop memory, personality, and the illusion of subjective experience, people may begin treating them as conscious beings—with profound consequences for society, law, and human identity. We dig into Suleyman’s case for why this illusion matters more

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00:30:15

No, 95% of AI Pilots Aren't Failing

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2025/08/22

Today, we're breaking down the MIT study claiming 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing - and why this headline is misleading the entire market. The report, based on just 52 interviews and 150 survey responses, has been cited as a reason for AI stock crashes, but the methodology is deeply flawed and the findings are being wildly misinterpreted. What the study actually reveals is that while individual employees are getting massive value from AI tools (90% use LLMs regularly vs only

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00:25:48

Is Pixel 10 the AI Phone iPhone Never Was?

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2025/08/22

Google's Pixel 10 delivers the AI phone features Apple promised but never shipped. While Apple continues to struggle with delayed and underwhelming AI rollouts, Google has just launched its most AI-integrated smartphone yet, featuring Magic Q (an agentic assistant that searches through your apps), visual overlays for live camera AI queries, tone-detecting Gemini Live, and advanced photo editing capabilities. The device runs on Google's new Tensor G5 chip with a 60% more powerful AI core,

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00:26:19

What AI Builders Are Actually Excited About

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2025/08/20

Are we really witnessing the "most expensive flop in tech history" with AI, or is something else going on? While headlines scream about failed AI pilots and wasted billions, there's a massive disconnect between public narratives and what's actually happening in AI development. This episode dives into the recent wave of AI pessimism following GPT-5's launch, explores why 95% of corporate AI pilots are reportedly failing, and examines the growing divide between Silicon

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00:24:57

Can AI Predict the Future?

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2025/08/20

A breakthrough benchmark is testing whether AI can actually predict future events by analyzing real-world data. Researchers at the University of Chicago just launched Profit Arena, a new AI evaluation platform that measures "predictive intelligence" by having models forecast outcomes on live prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. Early results show AI models like GPT-4 and Claude are already performing as well as or better than human forecasters, with some models finding real market edges -

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00:27:21

Everything Sam Altman Is Thinking About Right Now

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2025/08/19

Sam Altman just had dinner with journalists and spilled details about OpenAI's biggest challenges and future plans. He admitted GPT-5's launch was botched, revealed the company is profitable on inference (minus training costs), and confirmed they're sitting on better models they can't release because of GPU shortages. Altman also discussed OpenAI's plans to spend trillions on data centers, potential IPO timing, upcoming consumer apps including a possible social platform, and that

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00:20:12

Will AI Destroy or Reinvent Education?

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2025/08/17

Is AI going to destroy education—or completely reinvent it? With millions of students and parents preparing for back-to-school, the debate over AI in classrooms raises a deeper question: is the purpose of education to teach people how to think, or simply how to do economically productive things? This episode explores perspectives on how AI is reshaping both.Sources:David Brooks, Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber?Megan O’Rourke, I Teach Creative Writing. This is What AI is Doing to My

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00:37:02

BONUS EPISODE: Enterprise AI Trends and Predictions...

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2025/08/16

NLW recently collaborated with KPMG on a 7-part enterprise AI-focused series called You can with AI. On this Saturday bonus preview, we share episode 7 of the series, all about the trends shaping the AI-ready organization of the future. Featuring Steve Chase, KMPG Global Head of AI and Digital Innovation.Learn more about the series: https://www.kpmg.us/aipodcasts

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00:27:39

The Claude Code Problem

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2025/08/16

This episode examines how pricing challenges in AI coding platforms like Cursor and Claude Code reveal a fundamental shift in the software industry. While these tools currently struggle with unsustainable economics - where users pay far less than actual compute costs - this mismatch signals AI's inevitable transition from premium software tool to essential utility infrastructure. Through analysis of emerging pricing models and the concept of "intelligence too cheap to meter," the

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00:27:49

Everyone's Using AI But No One's Quite Sure What to...

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2025/08/15

A Northeastern University survey finds AI use has gone mainstream in the U.S., with half of adults using at least one tool and most states above 40% adoption. While many expect AI to reshape their jobs within five years, a third remain unsure about regulation. At the same time, Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4 boosts capacity to 1 million tokens—enough to analyze entire 75,000-line codebases—while matching OpenAI’s $1 government pricing and acquiring Human Loop to enhance enterprise tools, sharpening

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00:29:42

11 GPT-5 Prompting Techniques

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2025/08/13

Nearly a week into the GPT-5 era, users are still divided on its quality—but one thing’s clear: it’s more steerable than any previous model, and prompts make or break results. In this episode, we cut through the debate and share 11 practical prompting techniques you can use right now to get more from GPT-5. From “think harder” prompts and explicit planning phases to structured formatting, avoiding conflicting instructions, leveraging iteration, and meta-prompting, these tips draw on insights from

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