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What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?

Even when a product is growing and customers are happy, AI can still undercut the core economics that made the business viable in the first place. This episode looks at how AI collapses defensibility by attacking pricing power, distribution, and differentiation simultaneously, why “great execution” is no longer a sufficient moat, and what kinds of businesses are most exposed as AI capabilities move up the value chain. In the headlines: Google pushes Gemini deeper into Gmail as the inbox becomes

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The AI Daily Brief

How People Are Using AI for Health

Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health and what it reveals about how people are already using AI to navigate symptoms, medical information, insurance, and gaps in access across a strained healthcare system. The episode examines the usage data behind the launch, the new health-specific features and privacy architecture, early reactions from clinicians and industry insiders, and why health may become one of AI’s strongest long-term data moats. In the headlines: record-settin

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The AI Daily Brief

Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code

Claude Code has triggered something that feels bigger than a normal model release. Power users across AI and software are describing a clear inflection point, where autonomous coding crosses an invisible threshold means harder problems suddenly become tractable, entire workflows collapse into prompts, and delegation to AI feels genuinely competent for the first time. This episode unpacks why the reaction to Opus 4.5 and Claude Code has been so intense, how agents are changing not just what gets

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What shaped computing education in 2025 — and what comes next

To mark the start of 2026, we’re releasing a special episode of our Hello World podcast, which reflects on the key developments in computing education during 2025 and considers the trends likely to shape the year ahead. Hosted by James Robinson, the episode brings together a conversation between three Foundation team members — Rehana Al-Soltane,… The post What shaped computing education in 2025 — and what comes next appeared first on Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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AI at CES is Not Just Cheesy Gadgets Anymore

CES 2026 marks a clear turning point for AI, shifting away from novelty gadgets and toward serious, category-defining products from the industry’s biggest players. This episode breaks down how Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon, and Samsung used CES as a roadmap for where AI infrastructure, devices, and assistants are headed next—and why the conference now feels less like a tech circus and more like a declaration of intent for the year ahead. In the headlines: Wall Street’s underappreciated AI risks, i

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The AI Daily Brief

Context Graphs: AI's Next Big Idea

Why “context graphs” have suddenly become one of the most important ideas in enterprise AI, and what they reveal about why agents fail or succeed at real work. This episode explains the core idea behind context graphs, how they differ from systems of record and knowledge graphs, and why capturing decision traces — the why, not just the what — may be the key to scalable autonomy inside organizations. In the headlines: AI wearables make another run at relevance, China reports early success using A

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The AI Daily Brief

Work in the Age of Infinite Agents

Most AI discussions focus on speed and automation, but a deeper question is scale. In this episode, NLW reads and analyzes essays by Ivan Zhao and Aaron Levie that argue AI agents change the limits of knowledge work itself—allowing organizations to operate beyond human rhythms, meetings, and bottlenecks. The conversation explores why this transition feels uncomfortable, why copying human workflows is a dead end, and what comes after. Ivan essay: https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400

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The AI Daily Brief

What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI

Two blockbuster deals over the holidays quietly marked the real start of the AI agent era, revealing where competition is actually heading in 2026. This episode breaks down why Meta’s acquisition of Manus signals a shift toward agents as distribution, not features, and why Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal is really about owning the future of inference as workloads fragment and latency becomes decisive. Together, these moves show how the battle is moving from models and benchmarks to agents, infrastructur

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The AI Daily Brief

AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution

This final episode of 2025 lays out a practical, self-guided 10-week plan to build real AI fluency by actually doing the work. Each weekend focuses on a concrete project—from model mapping and deep research to data analysis, visual reasoning, automations, context engineering, and building a real AI-powered app—designed to be modular, completable in a few hours, and immediately useful. The goal isn’t theory or trends, but habits, workflows, and systems that still matter months from now, setting a

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 2

Part two of the AI predictions series looks ahead to how competition, markets, and politics could shape AI in 2026, from the durability of coding model leaders and the future of Grok and Meta to Chinese open-weight models, agent labs versus model labs, M&A, IPO timing, and whether Alphabet becomes the world’s biggest company. The episode also digs into how public markets, private credit, data center politics, layoffs, and anti-AI sentiment could collide with macro forces and election dynamics to

The AI Daily Brief
The AI Daily Brief

50 AI Predictions for 2026 - Part 1

Part one of a two-episode forecast on AI in 2026, focusing on models and capabilities, release strategy shifts, multimodal races, memory, and the evolution from assistance to agent management. It also explores how vibe coding expands beyond engineering, why bespoke personal software grows, and how these trends start reshaping enterprise adoption next year 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

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Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika

Lovable CEO Anton Osika joins the AI Daily Brief to unpack how AI-assisted coding evolved from early GitHub experiments into load-bearing infrastructure inside companies, why 2025 marked the inflection point for vibe coding, and why 2026 will belong to builders who can think, plan, and ship with AI end to end. The conversation covers the shift from prototypes to production, how enterprises are rethinking workflows and SaaS, the rise of personal and ephemeral software, and what skills will actual

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