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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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9 Codex Tips From the Codex Team
May 19, 2026
Codex is quickly becoming a full work environment for agentic building, and today’s episode breaks down nine practical tips from one of OpenAI’s Codex team for getting more out of it. NLW covers…
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Read review →Beating the AI Doom Cycle
May 18, 2026
NLW introduces the AI Doom Cycle: the emotional arc from skepticism, to AI mania, to job-loss panic, to a more grounded view of how AI is actually spreading through society. From Ken Griffin’s AI…
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AI Inequality
May 17, 2026
A new divide is emerging in AI: who gets access to the most powerful models, and who gets pushed into weaker, more limited tiers. NLW explores how compute scarcity, security restrictions, API…
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Google’s Big AI Test Comes Next Week
May 15, 2026
NLW previews Google I/O and the bigger question hanging over it: whether Google can turn its massive AI advantages into products people actually want to use. The episode connects Codex coming to…
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RIP Golden Age of Agent Experimentation 2026-2026
May 14, 2026
Anthropic’s new Claude pricing changes are the clearest sign yet that the freewheeling agent experimentation era is ending. NLW explains why the developer backlash is real, but the deeper story is…
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In Defense of Tokenmaxxing
May 13, 2026
NLW argues that the backlash to tokenmaxxing misses the bigger enterprise AI shift. Token leaderboards can create bad incentives, but companies still need aggressive experimentation as work moves…
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Towards AI That Can Actually Interact
May 12, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab shows off a new kind of AI model built for real-time collaboration — one that can listen, watch, respond, interrupt, and work in the background without forcing humans into…
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The Best Way to Talk to Your AI Agents
May 11, 2026
As agents become a bigger part of how people work, the format of the handoff starts to matter. NLW explores the debate over Markdown versus HTML, why the argument is really about a deeper shift from…
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The New Jobs AI Will Create
May 10, 2026
The AI jobs debate has spent years asking which roles will disappear. This weekend long-read asks the more important question: what becomes possible when AI expands the amount of useful work the…
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How to Build an AI Native Team with Mike Cannon-Brookes
May 09, 2026
In this sponsored bonus episode, NLW is joined by Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes for a conversation about how to build AI native teams. They discuss what separates enterprise AI…
The Week the AI Story Shifted
May 08, 2026
This week-in-review episode looks at a week when the AI narrative started to fork, from job-apocalypse panic toward a more mature picture of how AI will actually diffuse through the economy, markets…
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Surprise Elon Anthropic Team Up Reshapes the AI Race
May 07, 2026
Anthropic’s Code with Claude event was supposed to be the story, with new managed agent features for memory, quality review, multi-agent orchestration, and finance-specific agents. Instead, the…
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Who Cares About Consumer AI
May 06, 2026
Consumer AI is the fastest-growing tech category in history, but the AI industry’s money, attention, and compute are moving hard toward enterprise and coding agents. NLW explores why consumer AI…
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Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Becoming Consultants
May 05, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving deeper into enterprise AI services, but NLW argues the real story is organizational readiness. The episode explores why “buy and hope” AI adoption keeps failing, why…
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Is AI Doom Going Out of Style?
May 04, 2026
Faint but converging signals suggest the AI doom narrative may finally be cracking — and they're showing up in the chattering class and the markets at the same time. This episode walks through the…
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Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup
May 03, 2026
AI was supposed to save time, but agents have done something stranger — they've made the infinite backlog of everything you could be doing feel immediate and urgent, creating a mix of exhilaration…
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The Week AI Grew Up
May 01, 2026
From GitHub's move to usage-based pricing to Anthropic's reported $900B raise to the White House blocking Mythos's government rollout, this week's stories all point to the same underlying shift — AI…
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How Harness-as-a-Service Will Change Agents
Apr 30, 2026
A new layer of AI infrastructure is emerging as Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft all push beyond models into the runtime environments that make agents useful. NLW explains why…
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AI Lab Power Rankings
Apr 29, 2026
NLW introduces the first AI Lab Power Rankings, comparing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, xAI, and Apple across compute, enterprise, platforms, models, momentum, and X-factor. The…
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The AI Subsidy Era is Over
Apr 28, 2026
The AI discount is ending as agentic usage drives token consumption through the roof, forcing companies from GitHub to Anthropic to rethink pricing, limits, and compute access. NLW breaks down why…
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How DeepSeek V4 Connects to the US Power Grid
Apr 27, 2026
Today's episode connects two stories that look unrelated on the surface — the White House invoking the Defense Production Act around US grid infrastructure, and DeepSeek's long-awaited V4 release…
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Where the Economy Thrives After AI
Apr 26, 2026
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…
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How To Build a Personal Agentic Operating System
Apr 25, 2026
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…
What I Learned Testing GPT-5.5
Apr 24, 2026
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…
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How Headless Agents Will Change Work
Apr 23, 2026
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…
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What GPT Images 2 Unlocks
Apr 22, 2026
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…
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How Apple's AI Strategy Changes with a New CEO
Apr 21, 2026
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…
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What To Build First With Claude Design
Apr 20, 2026
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…
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How the Best Companies Use AI
Apr 19, 2026
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…
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Agent Building Trends [Operator Bonus Episode]
Apr 18, 2026
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…
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