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June 5
What OpenAI and Anthropic Think Happens Next With AI
Today on the AI Daily Brief, NLW breaks down new pieces from OpenAI and Anthropic that reveal how the leading AI labs think about recursive self-improvement, fr…
Why MAFIA Hits
Happy Friday.We’ll be back in the Ultradome on Monday. In the meantime, the current thing in tech is MAFIA, the new reality show from Founders Fund.Daily…
Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are all racing to the public markets. We discuss what their I.P.O.s mean for the industry, charitable giving and anyone invested in…
Microsoft Is Now An AI Agents Company. Seriously.
Microsoft just went AI agent first at Build 2026, announcing Project Solara, an OpenClaw-style assistant called SCOUT, and seven new MAI models. Plus new image…
How AI Is Reshaping the Way Enterprises Build Software - With Tim Sears of HTEC
Individual AI productivity gains are already here, but they are uneven, and they are not the main event. In this episode, Tim Sears, Chief AI Officer at HTEC, a…
June 4
Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
The new AIEWF website is live! Get your tickets booked ASAP as they -will- sell out. Take the AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and free AIE WF tick…
How Companies Are Becoming AI Token Efficient
As AI usage explodes inside companies, token efficiency is becoming a core business problem. NLW looks at why cost, routing, context, local inference, model sel…
🔴 Alex Karp is LIVE on TBPN right now
We’re live with Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp right now from AIPCon 10. Tune in here.Today’s lineupPalantir Co-Founder & CEO Dr. Alex Karp at 11:45…
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave, 2026's Unicorn Economy, and the 10X Paradox
(0:00) Coatue's Thomas Laffont joins the Besties! (0:30) Public markets are back as AI is dominates the "Unicorn Economy" (5:15) The $4T AI IPO explosion (7:48)…
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Economics of AGI episode w Alex Imas and Phil Trammell.There’s a bunch of important questions about how we deal with AI that only economics can answer.What is t…
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk
Sarah Wang speaks with Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for the AI era. The conversation covers Exa’s origins, why tradition…
More Customers Chose the AI Agent Than Anyone Expected | Tom Chen, Aircall
Every time you hit a phone tree or a chatbot with canned answers, you're experiencing the gap between what AI can already do and what most companies are still d…
We Need An Ecosystem in AI, And Every Company Can Win A Place In It
What does it mean for a business to truly operate at the AI frontier? In a special crossover episode at Microsoft Build, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil team up with Lat…
How Industrial Service Leaders Are Closing the Knowledge Gap Before It's Too Late with Mike Hughes of Peak International Group
The skilled labor crisis in industrial equipment service is not a future problem; it is eroding operational performance now, as retiring engineers take decades…
June 3
The Next Wave of Enterprise AI
OpenAI and Microsoft both previewed the next phase of enterprise AI, with OpenAI pushing Codex beyond developers and Microsoft focusing on lower-cost, customiza…
🔬Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
In 2025, seven-month-old startup Axiom solved all 12 of the problems Putnam exam (scoring 8/12 in the time limit) a prestigious undergraduate math exam. The 12/…
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI Labs at Build 2026
Happy Wednesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is the drama surrounding CBS firing longtime 60 Minutes corresp…
⚡️Satya Nadella: No Priors x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build
We’ve informally heard that Satya is a listener to LS for a couple years now, but it was still absolutely surreal to meet him and do a live pod at Build, togeth…
Martin Scorsese Is Now An AI Filmmaker.
Martin Scorsese is now advising AI image and video company Black Forest Labs, and he is just one of a wave of major filmmakers embracing AI as a tool. This week…
Bill Ackman: Investment Strategy, What the Market is Missing, How AI Breaks Businesses
(0:00) Bill Ackman joins the show! (0:30) Evolving investment philosophy: What's changed over 20 years? (4:40) AI: Greatest time to build a business, and a majo…
June 2
Should Americans Get Shares in AI Companies?
As OpenAI and Anthropic move toward IPOs, NLW looks at the growing fight over who gets access to AI’s financial upside, from Google’s massive equity raise to Be…
Why the Future of AI Isn't Just Bigger Models. It's Models That Evolve | Risto Miikkulainen of Cognizant
Most AI systems follow a gradient, a mathematical slope that tells them exactly how to improve, step by step, toward a known goal. Neuroevolution doesn't follow…
Google Taps Berkshire
Happy Tuesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Alphabet announcing an $80B equity raise to scale its AI effor…
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data
Martin Casado speaks with George Fraser, cofounder and CEO of Fivetran, about the future of data infrastructure in the age of AI. The conversation covers Fivetr…
GitHub's plan for Agents — Kyle Daigle, GitHub
I’m excited to work with Microsoft once again as the presenting sponsors of the AI Engineer World’s Fair! We’ll streaming live from MS Build today for a special…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute
(0:00) OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar joins the show! (0:31) How OpenAI thinks about its IPO timeline (3:31) OpenAI, Anthropic, Google: The AI arms race (7:43) Navigati…
Human-Centered AI Development Strategies for CPG Leaders - with Shaje Ganny of Procter & Gamble
A widening gap has emerged between the speed of AI innovation and the ability of large enterprises to deploy it responsibly, leading many organizations to repea…
June 1
YouTube Finally Breaks Through to Hollywood
Happy Monday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is the breakout success of YouTuber-directed horror films Obsessio…
The AI Token Shortage Begins [AI Monthly Recap]
One of the most consequential AI months of 2026, May marked a major shift from the AI subsidy era into a new period defined by token scarcity, usage-based prici…
Why Video Agent models are next — Ethan He, xAI Grok Imagine
We’re announcing AIEWF speakers this week! Take the AI Engineering Survey!Today’s guest Ethan first joined us for the LS Paper Club as the lead on NVIDIA Cosmos…