- 24 minutes 41 secondsHow the Midterm Results Change AI
The Democratic wave is bringing new scrutiny to AI, but how much will actually change? NLW breaks down the election’s implications for data center construction, AI regulation, and the emerging 2028 presidential race—and why the backlash could lead to a better deal for local communities rather than a halt to the AI build-out.
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4 November 2026, 7:57 pm - 26 minutes 56 secondsAI Lurches Toward Recursive Self-Improvement
AI is getting better at building better AI—but how close are we to recursive self-improvement? New MIT research shows a frontier model directly editing a smaller model’s weights, while Anthropic signals accelerating AI-led research. NLW explores what these developments actually demonstrate, why GrokBot’s rising costs are reigniting the debate over AI subsidies, and whether faster model improvements will translate into wider adoption—or run into the same organizational barriers holding businesses back today.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990
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3 November 2026, 8:15 pm - 42 minutes 42 secondsHow to Deslopify Your AI
AI slop shifts the burden of thinking from the person producing the work to whoever receives it. In this Operators’ Cut, Nufar Gaspar joins NLW to share practical habits for creating better work with AI, from developing your own point of view and teaching models your taste to building effective review checkpoints. NLW also breaks down how he uses AI to produce How We Got Here while keeping control of its perspective and narrative.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-we-got-here-with-nlw/id6822359990
https://open.spotify.com/show/7h55KSq0XwIjdWzwF2zgNV?si=cb76360051ec48a0
Learn More about the AI Champions Program: https://www.besuper.ai/champions
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CData - The gateway that makes AI more accurate, for less - https://cdata.ai/
Harbor - Invest in the AI ecosystem. https://www.harborcapital.com/aidaily
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2 November 2026, 5:00 pm - 26 minutes 52 secondsAI Won’t Make Our Minds Useless According to 400 Years of History
What if abundant intelligence makes human ambition expand rather than human relevance disappear? NLW explores Venkatesh Rao’s “Cognitive Mercantilism,” which uses the history of capitalism to challenge assumptions about AI and our intellectual future. From the agricultural revolution to today’s AI agents, the episode examines how cheaper intelligence could unlock new desires, new work, and possibilities we haven’t yet imagined.
Source: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/cognitive-mercantilism
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Harbor - Invest in the AI ecosystem. https://www.harborcapital.com/aidaily
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1 November 2026, 11:52 am - 31 minutes 1 secondHow the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Works
Spawn’s ten-person team shipped 77,000 code changes in a month with an always-on fleet of AI agents. NLW breaks down the systems behind that output, why human taste and ambition still matter, and five practical lessons other businesses can apply. In the headlines: legal AI startup Crosby bids for Weil’s assets, tech stocks slide despite surging AI revenues, and Granola launches free dictation.
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CData - The gateway that makes AI more accurate, for less - https://cdata.ai/
Harbor - Invest in the AI ecosystem. https://www.harborcapital.com/aidaily
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30 October 2026, 7:05 pm - 27 minutes 12 secondsThe AI Rankings Just Got Reshuffled
A major overhaul of AI’s most-watched benchmark is reshuffling the model rankings and revealing a wider gap between open and closed models. NLW examines what the new tests reveal about real-world capabilities—and how much those rankings should matter when choosing your AI tools. In the headlines: Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, Microsoft and Google report surging cloud revenue, and Nvidia faces broader antitrust scrutiny.
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Harbor - Invest in the AI ecosystem. https://www.harborcapital.com/aidaily
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29 October 2026, 7:31 pm - 29 minutes 16 secondsAI Can Now Create Worlds You Can Change in Real Time
Google’s Genie 4 brings AI-generated worlds closer to reality, with live prompting, native audio, and more realistic interactions. NLW explores what this means for gaming, robotics, and the path from impressive demos to useful tools. Plus: Anthropic’s one-person biotech acquisition and the debate over access to OpenAI’s scientific breakthroughs.
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28 October 2026, 8:43 pm - 28 minutes 47 secondsWhat Anthropic’s IPO Filing Reveals
Explosive revenue growth, $132 billion in cash, and hundreds of billions in compute commitments. NLW breaks down what Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals about its business—and the future growth needed to justify its enormous bets. In the headlines: OpenAI’s scientific breakthroughs, GPT-6.1 Terra’s computer-use capabilities, and a Chinese model’s unexpected network activity sparks a security debate.
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27 October 2026, 9:10 pm - 27 minutes 8 seconds4 Questions for AI This Week
Is China closing the AI gap? Is cyber chaos the new normal? Is data center funding drying up? And what happens if Anthropic’s IPO disappoints? From Kimi K3.1 to rogue agent swarms to Elon Musk’s debt market warning, NLW examines the four questions shaping AI this week.
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26 October 2026, 7:49 pm - 6 minutes 17 secondsIntroducing How We Got Here -- NLW's new podcast
NLW's new show How We Got Here launched today. It's a weekly deep dive into how today's biggest stories came to be, made for the topics that have too much backstory to fit into the AI Daily Brief. This is the first five minutes of Episode 1, How Tech Lost America, about how tech went from America's most trusted industry to a symbol of people's anxieties about wealth and power.
Listen to the full episode, then follow, rate, and review How We Got Here:
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26 October 2026, 2:22 pm - 32 minutes 28 secondsHow I'm Actually Using AI Right Now (Including Claude Duet)
Claude Duet's launch is an opportunity to take stock of how I'm actually using AI today. From strategy and research to coding, content creation and data analysis, I break down my current AI stack and which models work best for which tasks. Then, a comparison of ChatGPT Dots and Claude Duet, and why proactive personal agents might finally be finding their place in my workflow.
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