The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
by Nathaniel Whittemore
A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.
Episodes
Harness Engineering 101
<p>We went from prompt engineering to context engineering, and now the discipline everyone in AI is talking about is harness engineering — designing the systems, tools, and context you put around a model so it can actually do real work. Today's episode is a primer on what harness engineering is, why it explains the strange convergence of every AI product into the same shape, and what Anthropic's new managed agents tell us about where it's all heading.</p><p>Brought to you by:</p><p>KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agenti...
The New AI Org Chart
<p>Jack Dorsey and Sequoia's Roelof Botha published a sweeping essay arguing that AI can replace the information-routing function of hierarchy itself — and Block is betting the company on it. Today we read through their vision for the "company as intelligence," then compare it to the messy, bottom-up reality emerging at Every, where agents are already forming a shadow org chart.</p><p>Essay: https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence</p><p>Brought to you by:</p><p>KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled, gives leaders a clear framework to dec...