The Daily AI Show

The Daily AI Show Crew - Brian, Beth, Jyunmi, Andy, Karl, and Eran
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Jan 31, 2026 • 20min

The Liquid Literacy Conundrum

They explore how AI skills have shifted from single-model prompting to model-to-model systems and agent orchestration. Topics include hot-reload development, always-on agents acting across email and web, and swarms of specialist subagents. They debate quick tool-specific learning versus durable fundamentals like judgment and synthesis. The conversation ends by reframing literacy as continuous adaptability.
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16 snips
Jan 30, 2026 • 55min

This Week, AI Got Messy

A candid take on working with today’s agent tools, including Skills, Claude Code, and MoltBot. Tales of repo corruption, temp-file chaos, and the “stupid tax” of real tinkering. Debates on running agents locally vs cloud, privacy and security tradeoffs, and cheap hosted isolation options. News on OpenAI, Anthropic legal and contract drama, rising open-source models, and fast-moving AI video tools and festival premieres.
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28 snips
Jan 29, 2026 • 52min

Chrome Becomes the First Real Agentic Browser

A deep dive into Chrome becoming an active, context‑aware workspace with Gemini powering persistent, tab‑aware assistants. They explore multi‑tab workflows, Auto Browse for end‑to‑end web tasks, and in‑browser image editing. The conversation broadens to agentic browser competition, wearables and ambient AI ideas, genomic AI research, workforce impacts from automation, and hardware and geopolitics around chips.
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26 snips
Jan 28, 2026 • 1h 6min

AI Moves From Models to Swarms

They dig into the shift from single models to agent swarms and how orchestrated sub-agents change workflows. Open-source breakthroughs and low-cost models are contrasted with API cost pressures and hardware bottlenecks. Conversation moves to embedding AI into real systems, open weather and scientific tooling, decentralized sensing, and LaTeX-native research workspaces accelerating scientific collaboration.
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24 snips
Jan 27, 2026 • 58min

Moltbot? Oh come on!

Rapid rollout of Claude across apps and DIY installs on cheap hardware. Deep new integrations with Asana, Figma, Slack and more unlocking fast ecosystem copying. Discussion of AI maturity and risk framed by a key essay. Open weather models and a competing cloud chip shake up infrastructure. Practical friction: timeouts, context windows, local dev scripts, ad pricing rumors, and real-world model performance signals.
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19 snips
Jan 26, 2026 • 1h 5min

Why Sakana AI Keeps Beating the Pack

A lively chat about Sakana’s surprising rise and its partnership with Google. They explore alternatives to transformer-first thinking and the appeal of world models. Local agent tools, Claude Bot orchestration, and hardware tradeoffs get practical attention. There's a demo of 3D world APIs and a discussion on the iOS app surge and vibe coding lowering barriers.
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22 snips
Jan 24, 2026 • 22min

The Agentic Allegiance Conundrum

A lively debate about delegating real-world tasks to AI proxies that can move money, sign contracts, and negotiate at machine speed. They contrast mercenary agents that prioritize individual advantage with citizen agents that prioritize market health and social guardrails. The conversation covers economic benefits, systemic risks like flash crashes, tacit collusion, environmental impacts, and who gets to set the rules for agent behavior.
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26 snips
Jan 23, 2026 • 53min

Can Claude Code Be Your Fulltime Assistant?

A lively look at how Claude Code is evolving into a day-to-day operating system for work and life. Discussion covers task primitives, long-running sessions, and autonomous debugging. They also explore local media stacks like FFmpeg and Redis, AI-driven clip automation, model awareness tools, chip supply pressures, and realistic AI video limits.
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Jan 22, 2026 • 54min

You Shouldn't Be Vibe Coding

The hosts dive into the controversial ban on AI-generated art at Comic-Con, discussing artist backlash and copyright issues. They explore the potential of Apple's rumored AI camera pin and its implications for wearables. A deep dive into Claude’s revised Constitution emphasizes the importance of principles in AI usage. Real-world coding experiences reveal the challenges of multi-day builds. The debate on 'vibe coding' versus structured project management highlights the need for discipline in tech development.
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12 snips
Jan 22, 2026 • 52min

AI at Davos, Growth, Jobs, and the Tradeoffs Ahead

The discussion opens with insights from Davos on AI's potential impact on growth and employment. Dario Amodei warns about automation risks in software engineering, while Demis Hassabis highlights a slowdown in junior hiring. A PwC survey shows limited ROI from AI, prompting a look at productivity versus collaboration. The potential of collaboration-first startups like HumansAnd is explored alongside the evolving role of humans in voice support. Innovations in on-device AI reasoning and conversational tech are also showcased, raising intriguing questions about the future.

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