The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
Recent Episodes
AI advantage is proving to be compounding, not linear. Drawing on new data from OpenAI, Menlo Ventures, EY, and early AI ROI Benchmarking results, this episode explains how leading organizations are pulling away by using AI more intensively, moving beyond time savings into higher-value use cases, and reinvesting gains back into deeper capabilities—creating flywheels that laggards will struggle to catch. In the headlines: real-world AI benchmarks, OpenAI user growth, chip-war intrigue, Oracle earnings, and AI market volatility.
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KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts
Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build
Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/
AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief
LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/
Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months
Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/
The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.
The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614
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Today’s episode breaks down GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s most work-focused model yet, with major gains in reasoning stability, long-context performance, and real professional tasks like coding, spreadsheets, and presentations. The conversation looks at early benchmarks and tester reactions, what OpenAI’s emphasis on economic value signals about its strategy, and how the model’s launch coincides with a blockbuster new Disney partnership that expands OpenAI’s reach across enterprise, media, and IP.
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 insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts
Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build
Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/
AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief
LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/
Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months
Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/
The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.
The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Today’s episode breaks down new reports from OpenAI and Menlo Ventures that show enterprise AI adoption accelerating quickly, with coding emerging as the first true killer use case, reasoning models driving deeper workflow integration, and the gap between leaders and laggards widening as frontier firms compound their advantages. The conversation also looks at early agent deployments and what these trends signal for the 2026 boom-versus-bubble debate. In the headlines: Anthropic donates MCP as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block form the Agentic AI Foundation, rumors swirl around GPT-5.2 and a new image model, OpenAI launches AI Foundations certifications, and the US military unveils its GenAI.mil
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 insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts
Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build
Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/
AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief
LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/
Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months
Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/
The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.
The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Today’s episode breaks down Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to export H200 chips to China, a reversal of a decade of bipartisan China-hawk policy that could radically reshape global AI power dynamics, US industrial strategy, and the geopolitical balance around compute, with a close look at industry reaction, national-security concerns, and why this move may accelerate China’s capabilities even as it deepens their reliance on US hardware. In the headlines: Google readies a full line of AI smart glasses for next year, Claude Code lands inside Slack, Apple’s chip chief signals he is staying put, and IBM announces an $11B acquisition of Confluent to strengthen its AI data platform.
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 insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts
Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build
Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/
AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief
LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/
Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months
Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/
The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.
The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
Today’s episode breaks down a massive new empirical study from OpenRouter and a16z that analyzed more than 100 trillion real-world tokens to reveal what developers and power users are actually doing with AI right now, from the surge in reasoning models to the dominance of coding workloads to the unexpected rise of roleplay in open-source systems. The discussion explores how the shift toward long-context programming tasks, tool-use invocation, and hybrid stacks of closed and open models is reshaping the practical AI landscape and what patterns matter most heading into 2026. Headlines include fresh rumors around GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s UX cleanup efforts, and the latest shake-ups at Apple and Meta.
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 insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts
Gemini - Build anything with Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio - http://ai.studio/build
Rovo - Unleash the potential of your team with AI-powered Search, Chat and Agents - https://rovo.com/
AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/brief
LandfallIP - AI to Navigate the Patent Process - https://landfallip.com/
Blitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months
Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/
The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.
The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614
Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]