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MCP, Agents and What AI Engineers Are Thinking About Right Now feat. Swyx Apr 17, 2025

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What's at the top of AI engineers' minds? Swyx, organizer of the AI Engineer Summit and host of Latent Space, joins us to discuss MCP (Model Context Protocol), the rise of AI agents, and how the role of AI engineers is evolving.

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https://www.latent.space/

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The 7 Biggest Mistakes Companies Are Making with AI and Agent Adoption Apr 16, 2025

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Companies keep repeating these costly mistakes when adopting AI and agents. Nufar Gaspar, an AI adoption strategist formerly at Intel, breaks down seven critical errors organizations make, including unrealistic expectations, unclear strategies, poor data access, and mismanaged communication.
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How Vibecoding Unlocks AI feat. Riley Brown Apr 15, 2025

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Riley Brown joins AI Daily Brief to explain Vibecoding, an accessible way to build software with AI. Riley shares how he went from content creator to Vibecoder, the tools that made coding easy for anyone, and the types of apps people build. Riley also reveals how Vibecoding might evolve and his goal of making app development as simple and fun as Canva made graphic design.
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Andrej Karpathy on How AI Empowers Apr 14, 2025

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OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy makes an argument that the normal patterns of technology diffusion have been upended with AI, to the benefit of regular people.

Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1909308143156240538

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The 2025 AI Index Apr 12, 2025

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Stanford's 2025 AI Index reviews 2024's artificial intelligence trends. Performance benchmarks improved as AI appeared more in daily life and business, leading to high US corporate investment and adoption. China is rapidly closing the AI model performance difference.
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Google Cloud Next is All About Agents [Shocker!] Apr 11, 2025

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Google Cloud Next was all about one thing: agents. Google officially backed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool use and introduced a new Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication standard to make multi-agent systems easier to build.
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How Will Tariffs Impact the AI Industry? Apr 10, 2025

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The new explosion of US tariffs (alongside the broader trade tensions between the U.S. and China) could reshape the AI industry dramatically. GPU costs, data center construction, AI startup funding, and even jobs in tech face significant uncertainty as trade wars escalate.

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Shopify's AI Memo Shows the Future of AI at Work Apr 09, 2025

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Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke generated some serious buzz with a leaked internal memo where he laid out 6 mandates regarding "reflexive AI usage" inside the company, including the media attention capturing pronouncement that no teams would be able to hire new employees until they had demonstrated that AI couldn't do the job. Plus, Cursor hits 1m users.

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How Big a Deal is Llama 4's 10M Token Context Window? Apr 08, 2025

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Meta’s new Llama 4 models have a massive 10 million token context window and a fresh architecture using a mixture of experts. Scout and Maverick are out now, and Behemoth is still training. Despite strong benchmark scores, many users report underwhelming real-world performance.
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Why AI Will Take Over the $20T Professional Services Industry Apr 06, 2025

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AI and agents aren't just competing for software budgets. In today's episode, NLW reads and discusses a piece by VC Ethan Batraski about how AI-native firms will increasingly out-compete legacy professional services firms.

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