The Week AI Grew Up
5/1/202625 min
From GitHub's move to usage-based pricing to Anthropic's reported $900B raise to the White House blocking Mythos's government rollout, this week's stories all point to the same underlying shift — AI moving out of its startup era and into the era of critical infrastructure. A thematic weekly exploration of the meta-story the individual headlines were really telling, plus a closing detour into where OpenAI's Codex goblins came from.
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, the week AI grew up. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. [upbeat music] All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Granola, Robots and Pencils, and Section. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. And of course, while you're hanging out at aidailybrief.ai, you can find out about everything going on in the ecosystem. You can find a link to the companion experiences. This week we had one for the AI Subsidy Era show, as well as one for the AI Power Rankings. Or you can find links to our free education programs like Agent OS, where 3,500 or more of you are doing this now, and I'm starting to see people posting what they're building on social, which is very cool. In fact, if you want a preview of all the different types of training things we have coming up, you can go to aidbtraining.com. I'll be talking more about that in the future. [beeping] I wanted to share an experiment that I'm gonna be doing sometimes. This show is obviously meant to cater to the most engaged and enfranchised AI users. If you're paying attention on a daily basis, you are in the top 1%, I would say, of people who are using these tools. However, there are lots of other folks out there who would like to be in the top 1% of AI users, but just don't have the time between their job, their life, their responsibilities, whatever it is. One of the obvious gaps for the AI Daily Brief is some sort of weekly recap.