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Episodes 1115 total
Towards AI That Can Actually Interact
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 backg…
The Best Way to Talk to Your AI Agents
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 argume…
The New Jobs AI Will Create
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 exp…
How to Build an AI Native Team with Mike Cannon-Brookes
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 d…
The Week the AI Story Shifted
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 actuall…
Surprise Elon Anthropic Team Up Reshapes the AI Race
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 fina…
Who Cares About Consumer AI
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 ag…
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Becoming Consultants
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…
Is AI Doom Going Out of Style?
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 s…
Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup
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 an…
The Week AI Grew Up
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'…
How Harness-as-a-Service Will Change Agents
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 u…
AI Lab Power Rankings
NLW introduces the first AI Lab Power Rankings, comparing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, xAI, and Apple across compute, enterprise, platfor…
The AI Subsidy Era is Over
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…
How DeepSeek V4 Connects to the US Power Grid
Today's episode connects two stories that look unrelated on the surface — the White House invoking the Defense Production Act around US grid infrastructure…
Where the Economy Thrives After AI
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, tas…
How To Build a Personal Agentic Operating System
On our latest Operators Bonus Episode, Nufar Gaspar returns to introduce Agent OS, the latest free AIDB training program for building a personal agentic operati…
What I Learned Testing GPT-5.5
GPT 5.5 is here, and the first reactions are split between benchmark dominance, coding debates, Anthropic comparisons, and questions about whether the upgrade w…
How Headless Agents Will Change Work
This week, Salesforce, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google all made major moves toward "headless" software — platforms designed for agents rather than human…
What GPT Images 2 Unlocks
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…