The Week the AI Story Shifted

Today on the AI Daily Brief, we're discussing a week in which the AI story shifted or at least started to fork. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Granola, robots and pencils, and ZenCoder. 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. A I daily brief dot a I is also where you are going to find out about everything going on in the community. Right now, I am continuing to point people to the April AI usage pulse survey. And if you wanna see why it's valuable to share this information, go check out pulse.aidailybrief.ai. And, of course, there'll be a link to that in the show notes as well. In it, you can see the individual monthly responses from the last three months of AI usage pulse surveys as well as the big overarching trends, like the growth in agentic use cases. The April survey is now available. You can do it right there, and if you complete this, you will get the results before everyone else. Now last week, I told you about an experiment that I was going to be trying, where if Friday happened to be a comparatively slow day in AI, nothing is actually slow, I was going to start experimenting with some sort of weekly recap. The goal of the weekly recap is not just to rehash the same stories we talked about, but to put them in an overarching context that helps you understand in just twenty or twenty five minutes what the big point of that week was. For people who aren't able to listen as much, it's a way to, in a single episode, have the broad brush strokes of what happened. And for folks who are daily listeners, it's a chance to reinforce the themes that you've been hearing all week. Now I was very positively pleased with the response. A lot of you provided great feedback, and the numbers also suggest that this is a valuable type of episode to at least consider. I'm not sure that it'll be every week, and I think probably on some weeks I will need to use the open slot on Saturday for this, given that there will often be news that we need to cover in a normal form. But for now, we're gonna do another weekly recap. And if last week was the week that AI grew up, with the thesis of that episode being that we were starting to see a real maturation of the way that people were engaging with AI on a usage basis, in markets, and more. This is almost a part two in some ways, where that new maturity …