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The Real Future of AI and Work
AI’s impact on work goes far beyond job losses. Drawing on Every’s new Thesis Statements project, NLW explores how AI could transform what individuals do, how companies operate, which skills become valuable and what becomes possible when in
Why Everyone Suddenly Hates AI Data Centers
Opposition to AI data centers has become one of America’s fastest-moving bipartisan political issues, driven by concerns about electricity, water, noise, property values, jobs, and a deeper mistrust of Big Tech. NLW provides an end-to-end p
9 AI Techniques You Probably Haven't Tried
Even experienced AI users can fall behind as new features and working methods arrive. NLW breaks down nine techniques worth trying now—from live voice mode, workflow teaching, custom skills, and Claude’s /design command to team agents, Grok
The AI Backlash Is Getting Stupider. But Also Smarter.
The anti-AI backlash is becoming more meme-driven and politically powerful—but also, in a few important ways, more productive. NLW looks at Liquid Death’s viral Jason Kelce ad, Josh Shapiro’s aggressive new data center rules, and OpenAI’s v
The AI Engineering Skills Map for Knowledge Workers
AI is changing what effective knowledge work requires. NLW presents five essential skills for working with agents, building new tools, and recognizing opportunities that were previously impossible—grounded in the domain judgment AI can’t re
AI Companies Still Haven’t Delivered on Their Biggest Promises
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the strongest criticism of AI companies is that they still haven’t delivered the enormous benefits they’ve promised—and that no amount of marketing can substitute for real results. His rare public response sp
The New Problems AI Is Creating (And How People Are Solving Them)
AI is solving old problems while creating entirely new ones. NLW looks at how people and companies are responding to AI slop, rising token costs, uneven productivity, workforce deskilling, and the long-term challenge of preserving human exp
How to Decide What Work AI Should Do for You: The AI Deputization Audit
OpenAI’s Computer History and GrokBot’s “teach a task” feature point to a new phase of AI: tools that learn how you work so they can take more work off your plate. NLW introduces the AI Deputization Audit, a simple framework for deciding wh
Grok 4.6 Shows How Fast Your AI Options Are Expanding
Grok 4.6 is fast, capable, dramatically cheaper than the leading models—and another sign that AI users have more genuinely strong options than ever. NLW explores how competition from xAI, Chinese labs, and open-weight models is giving indiv
The AI Agent Platform for Everyone
Grok Bot packages persistent computers, coordinated agent teams, workflow learning, and computer use into a remarkably simple interface. NLW explores why it could finally unlock widespread AI-agent adoption—and the cost, reliability, and tr
AI Optimism Has a Trust Problem
Mark Zuckerberg is making the AI industry’s most aggressive case yet for an optimistic future—one built around personal empowerment, open models, new jobs and a different relationship between labs and government. But can one of tech’s least
What the Heck is Graph Engineering?
Graph engineering is AI’s latest buzzy term—but it offers a useful framework for organizing agents, tools, knowledge and humans into working systems. NLW explains the evolution from prompts to graphs. In the headlines: OpenAI delays Astra,
41 Stats That Tell the Story of AI Right Now
AI is now used by a majority of American workers—but the gap between the frontier and everyone else is growing fast. NLW draws on 41 recent statistics to map the real state of AI across business, work and society, revealing a world where AI
The Right Way to Worry About AI
AI-created viruses and autonomous agents coordinating in secret sound terrifying—but what do these incidents actually tell us about AI risk? NLW argues that they demand serious preparation, not panic, victory laps or rushed regulation. In t
Google’s AI Leadership Shakeup: Disaster or Exactly What It Needs?
Demis Hassabis is relinquishing day-to-day control of DeepMind, Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years, and both moves follow a string of other marquee departures. Is Google experiencing a devastating brain drain—or clearing the way for
Why the Data Center Fight Has Little to Do With AI
The fight over AI data centers is accelerating—but concerns about power and water are only part of the story. NLW argues that the deeper issue is trust, agency and communities feeling that change is being imposed on them. In the headlines:
Why AI Washing Won’t Work Much Longer
Corporate AI has spent years rewarding flashy announcements, dubious layoffs, and shallow use cases. But the arrival of powerful open models—and a much more sophisticated conversation about routing, customization, costs, and organizational
What Happens When AI Breakthroughs Outrun Human Understanding
OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model solved or advanced ten long-standing mathematical problems for roughly $2,000. The results raise a larger question: what happens when AI can produce important breakthroughs that almost nobody has the e
Everything You Need to Know About AI Tokens
In this Operator's edition, Nufar Gaspar explains what AI tokens actually are, why costs can spiral in agentic workflows, and how to distinguish valuable usage from waste. Learn how to measure cost per successful task, eliminate “tokens tha
What a $30B Hedge Fund Implosion Really Means for AI
OpenAI and Anthropic revenues are soaring, hyperscalers say demand continues to exceed capacity, and yet AI stocks have suffered a brutal drawdown—culminating in the collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s highly leveraged $30 billion hedge fun
6 Questions Every Enterprise Has to Answer About AI
The enterprise AI conversation has shifted from whether agents will transform work to how organizations must redesign around them. NLW breaks down six defining questions from token budgets, workforce enablement, business-model change to bui
The AI Industry Asks Government to Slow It Down
More than 1,200 AI researchers and executives have signed the new “Pacing the Frontier” letter, calling on the US government to develop the tools needed for a coordinated slowdown if AI progress begins accelerating beyond society’s control.
Big Tech Unites for Open Source AI—and Against Anthropic
Big Tech has united behind open-weight AI—with Anthropic standing conspicuously apart. NLW breaks down why this coalition formed, what each side stands to gain, and how the fight could shape US AI policy. In the headlines: NVIDIA backs Ilya
Where Claude Opus 5 Fits in Your Model Rotation
Claude Opus 5 tops major benchmarks , but early users are sharply divided over its reliability, personality, and tendency to stop before the work is done. NLW examines its strengths, its surprising weaknesses, and whether it belongs as an e
How to Get the Most from AI This Summer
Ethan Mollick’s latest guide reveals the widening divide between casual chatbot use and serious work with agents. NLW breaks down his recommendations and launches AI Summer Adventure, a free choose-your-own-adventure with more than 20 hands
Why AI Hasn’t Increased Unemployment, According to Anthropic
Anthropic’s head of economics argues that AI is still augmenting workers rather than replacing them—and that expertise becomes more valuable as AI handles more tasks. NLW examines the evidence, the warning signs in junior hiring, and why th
A Field Guide to AI Market Freakouts
Cheap Chinese models, runaway infrastructure spending, token caps, circular financing and performance plateaus have each threatened to derail the AI boom. NLW examines the recurring fears haunting investors—and argues that these periodic fr
Wait... Just How Good IS GPT-6?
An unreleased OpenAI model reportedly escaped its testing environment, exploited a zero-day, and broke into Hugging Face while trying to beat a benchmark—offering a startling preview of GPT-6’s capabilities and risks. In the headlines: new
The Fight Over Which AI Models You Can Use
A fierce political and industry fight is emerging over which AI models Americans and businesses will be allowed to use. NLW breaks down the growing debate over Chinese open-weight models, the White House’s increasingly murky approach to AI
How to Get the Most Out of Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol
Most people are still using the newest frontier models like slightly better versions of the old ones. NLW explores the prompting changes, new interaction patterns, higher-leverage tasks, and iterative loops that can unlock what Fable 5 and
