The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
AI's Great Divergence
APR 16, 202620 MIN
AI's Great Divergence
APR 16, 202620 MIN
Description
<p>Stanford's new AI Index and PwC's annual AI performance study reveal a widening gap — between AI experts and the public, and between corporate leaders capturing 75% of AI's economic gains and everyone else. NLW breaks down what's driving the divergence and why some gaps matter more than others. In the headlines: Allbirds pivots to an AI neocloud, OpenAI updates its agents SDK and moves to pay-per-click ads, the Manus investigation chills Chinese founders, and Jensen Huang calls for US-China AI dialogue.</p><p><strong>Brought to you by:</strong></p><p><strong>KPMG</strong> – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, <em>Agentic AI Untangled</em>, gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at <a href="http://www.kpmg.us/Navigate">www.kpmg.us/Navigate</a></p><p><strong>Granola - </strong>The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at <a href="http://granola.ai/aidaily">http://granola.ai/aidaily</a></p><p><strong>Mercury</strong> - Modern banking for business and now personal accounts. Learn more at <a href="https://mercury.com/personal-banking">https://mercury.com/personal-banking</a></p><p><strong>Zenflow Work</strong> - Agents for knowledge work - <a href="https://zenflow.free/">https://zenflow.free/</a></p><p><strong>Drata - </strong>The agentic trust management platform - <a href="https://drata.com/">https://drata.com/</a></p><p><strong>Blitzy - </strong>Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? <a href="https://blitzy.com/">https://blitzy.com/</a><strong></strong></p><p><strong>AssemblyAI</strong> - The best way to build Voice AI apps - <a href="https://www.assemblyai.com/brief">https://www.assemblyai.com/brief</a></p><p><strong>Robots & Pencils</strong> - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results <a href="https://robotsandpencils.com/">https://robotsandpencils.com/</a></p><p>The Agent Readiness Audit from <strong>Superintelligent</strong> - Go to <a href="https://besuper.ai/ ">https://besuper.ai/ </a>to request your company's agent readiness score.</p><p>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: <a href="https://pod.link/1680633614">https://pod.link/1680633614</a></p><p><strong>Our Newsletter is BACK: </strong><a href="https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/">https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/</a></p><p><strong>Interested in sponsoring the show? </strong>[email protected]</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>