Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

A U.S. vs China AI cold war is starting, and most business leaders have no idea they're already in it. China's open models just closed the gap with America's best, oftentimes at a fraction of the price. Now both governments are moving to wall off their AI within days of each other. Why? Because this was never about benchmarks. It's about power y'all. We break it all down on today's show and help you figure out the 101 of the AI war between U.S. and China. Ep 886: The U.S. vs ...

"How do you use AI every day?" 🤔 One of the most common questions I get. And TBH, it's been hard to give a straight answer. Because by the time I've collected all the info, something changes. But over the last few months -- as work goes from the web to desktop -- my personal workflows have steadied and stayed consistent. So I'm taking you inside Everyday AI and the 9 AI tools and workflows I use the most. Hundreds of AI tools and modes a year. Thousands of hours.&...

Ever wish your agent would just watch you work and copy you? 👯 Oh wait, that's exactly what OpenAI released. The new 'Record and Replay' feature in Codex allows you to simply record anything you do and turn it into a repeatable workflow for your agents. Join us LIVE as we show you how. ⏺️ Ep 884: Codex Record and Replay: How to Teach an Agent Once Your Most Time-Consuming Workflows (Replay) Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode: Episode Page ...

No matter your role, experience or industry, we all (mostly) waste hours a week doing the same thing: manually creating slides. 😫 Most business leaders miss the obvious: there’s dozens of AI tools and LLMs that make slides and you probably didn’t know. Case in point: Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT and Gemini can all create slides by default that you can download or edit with natural language. And that’s just the start. So why are you and Deborah meeting 3 times a month ...

If you’re reading the headlines, you’d think AI agents have gone rogue. Spoiler alert: they haven’t. They haven’t even gotten started. When we think about AI agents, the conversation usually goes to increasing revenue, saving time, etc. But we don’t talk about what happens when bad actors use AI agents for bad purposes, or when we deploy agents with good intentions that crash through their guardrails. Welp….. welcome to the hottest topic for the rest of 2026...

Agents are getting more powerful by the day. And most workflows, outputs and human capabilities can't keep up. Is that a problem or opportunity? Before you answer that question, though, keep this in mind. Agents are *literally* about to become 20X faster overnight. Let's unpack what that means. Ep 881: Faster AI Agents, Fewer Human Coworkers: The Overly Productive Future of Managing Agents? (Replay) Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsl...

Not only does NotebookLM have a new name, it's got a new game. Gemini Notebook is agentic by default, can think and reason, and can output files now in just about any format. On this week's AI at Work on Wednesday, we show you the 7 New Updates in the new Gemini Notebook, how they work, and how you should use them. Ep 880: Gemini Notebook: 7 New Updates and What They Unlock (Replay) Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode: Episode Pa...

OpenAI launched Presence, and it seems like no one really noticed. They should have. Presence gives companies a way to build and manage real-time AI voice and chat agents across customer service, sales, HR, and IT, which could make this one of OpenAI’s most important enterprise launches yet. The technology finally looks fast, natural, and capable enough to disrupt customer service at scale. That could mean faster answers and fewer terrible phone trees. Or an endlessly patient...

What's coming next in AI? 🤔 While no one knows, spending time in Silicon Valley and San Francisco recently helped give me a better idea of what's around the corner. So what should you be paying attention to? Tune in LIVE as we discuss. Ep 878: What’s Coming Next: 5 AI Trends, Problems and Opportunities around the Corner (Replay) Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode: Episode Page Today's Episode on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join...

People are calling the new ChatGPT Voice their “AGI moment.” 🤖 After testing it over the past week, I understand why. It seems like the missing link between the ever-capable desktop agent and the human worker not having to type in front of said desktop all day. It’s less like “voice mode” and more like having your own JARVIS. After testing thousands of AI tools, this has instantly become one of the most useful features I’ve ever used. Ep 877: ChatGPT Voice is Like Jarvis: How...

You've probably never heard of Inkling. It's the newest (and first) model from Thinking Machines Labs, and it could very well be a small snowball that picks up major momentum in today's enterprise AI landscape. If you haven’t heard of Thinking Machines, they’re led by Mira Murati, the former CTO at OpenAI. The big bet with Inkling? The future of AI could be using smaller models fine-tuned and optimized for smaller tasks. Will it work? Tune in live as ...

Intelligence too cheap to meter -- could that actually be coming? 🤑 Maybe, and you mighta missed one of the biggest signs. OpenAI said that its own model improved itself after release so well, that it was cutting prices to one model by 80%. What's that mean? Well, by definition, it's a broad example of Recursive Self Improvement, or when a model starts building better versions of itself. And over the past 8 weeks, RSI has gone from a science fiction future t...

Scheduled tasks are a secret weapon. ⚔️ How secret? They can actually be hard to find and there's not a lot of info out there on how to use them. lolz. But for many, they can be the stepping stone to the fully autonomous desktop worker. Because for many users who may only be able (or comfortable) to access AI on the web, scheduled tasks provide that proactive, work-done-for-you vibe that AI agents delivered. But how does it work in Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude? And ...

The next 12 months of AI leaked. Kinda. For the past 90ish days, we've been quietly collecting evidence of what's next. 1,030 saved posts. 90 Podcasts. Countless conversations. Every model drop, every leak, every quiet product update the big labs hoped you'd scroll past. Then we connected the dots. What came out the other side: 19 calls on where AI goes over the next 12 months. And some of them are uncomfortable. We're walking through all 19. Bring your team's AI road...

AI’s all-you-can-eat era is ending. 🍲 For years, one subscription felt like unlimited access to frontier models. But that business model for the AI labs apparently breaks when agents can now run for days, use tools, retry work and burn through tokens. And with Anthropic's powerful Fable 5 model exiting subscription tiers today and moving to API only pricing, it's as imperative of a time as ever to figure out your AI spend strategy. Frontier AI is becoming a metered utility. On today...

Talking about prompts and chatbots won't help you talk about AI strategy in 2026. You've gotta know the ins and outs of loops, plans, goals, subagents and more. In this episode of Everyday AI, we're breaking down the agent lingo and how the key terms play out in systems like Codex and Claude Desktop. Desktop Agent Lingo Simplified: Goals, Loops, Plans, Subagents and how it works in Codex and Claude Code -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson Newsletter: Sign up for o...

Is the open model GLM-5.2 really Opus 4.8 level? 🤯 You mighta missed this, but over the past few weeks, three distinct forces have all converged at one: ↳ Chinese open models are near frontier SOTA ↳ Microsoft is reportedly considering open models to run Copilot ↳ Enterprises everywhere are talking token efficiency as AI costs soar So while many are watching GLM-5.2 as an isolated model, it's important we dive deeper on its wider implications. Open Source Surge? Does GLM-5.2 Make O...

Ready for the AI buzzword for the rest of 2026? Superapps. No, not China’s WeChat. The AI Superapp era is much different, and it’s about to hit the business world hard. So, if you aren’t sure what an AI Superapp is or if your company should be using one, this is an episode you can’t miss. AI SuperApps: Why Every Company is Racing to Create One and What They are — An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this...

More tokens = more ROI, right? 🤔 Maybe. But probably not. Maybe one of the weirdest AI trends that has oddly stuck in 2026 is tokenmaxxing -- the practice of individuals and companies racing to use as many AI tokens as possible and equating it with business progress. Reality check: token efficiency is the real rage. So, how do you measure token efficiency and how can your company avoid the cost pitfalls of tokenmaxxing? Join us as we break it down. Newsle...

This is the Everyday AI episode we probably shoulda done a while ago.... 👇 Because as different as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and others actually are under the hood, they have really started to copycat each other over the past 6 months. Which means we finally have a set of concrete best practices to get the best outputs from any LLM. Join us as we boil thousands of hours of experience into a 30-ish minute crash course that you can't afford to skip out on. 2026 LLM Cheat Cod...

The most expensive AI mistake of 2026 won't show up on any invoice. 💸 It'll show up two years from now when you can't get your data out, your competitors are eating your lunch, or your team is stuck maintaining software no one actually wanted to build. Because in 2026, AI isn't one decision anymore. It's four. The model. The workflows. Your data. Your business software. Each layer has its own build, buy, partner, or wait choice. And most companies are making all four without realizing i...

Until a few months ago, open source AI was kinda a hobby project. Now, it's tearing corporate boardrooms apart. Why? Over the past 6ish months, the gap between frontier closed AI and open sourced AI has shrunk to pretty much nothing. And with the surge of always on agents driving open models, their development and release schedule is on pace with the frontier labs. So if your team isn't paying attention to -- and running test cases through -- open AI models, there'...

Salesforce's cofounder essential questioned: why should you login to Salesforce anymore? 🤔 He wasn't signaling the AI-driven SaaSpocalypse was picking up steam. Instead: he's talking about going headless. What's that? It's a future where Salesforce -- any potentially many other household software giants -- stop making software interfaces for humans and start designing for AI agents instead. So will this be a short-lived trend? Or, will the future of work not really invol...

Info hunting and juggling sound familiar? It’s the downfall of almost any business leader. Where is that email from Emily? Why can’t I find last quarter’s budget in Drive? Oh, and Keenen needs an answer back on that research project. Oh shoot, I swear Caleb confirmed the expenses in one of these Slack channels. You’re off an information rabbit hole and by the time you find that Slack message, you already forgot what Emily’s email said. Hit home? Well, as AI models expand ...

You think proper AI implementation is a technical problem for your company to solve? 🤔 Wrong. It’s actually about people. Maybe it’s because of the fast-pace nature of AI, and the fact there’s literally dozens of new AI tech drops each week that promise to change how we work, but the defecto response to showing ROI on AI always defaults to the technical side. Yet, studies show building an AI-native organization is WAY more about change management than anything else. ...

Even if you're 'doing AI right' you're probably lying, hurting others and getting dumb. 🤯 Sounds brash, but it's largely the truth. Even proper AI use rewards speed, agility and scale. It doesn't emphasize thoughtful conversations, deep learning or thoughtful human conversation. We call these the 7 Silent Sins of AI, and chances are you're committing many of them. Don't worry. We'll break them down and teach you the basics on how to avoid them. Newsletter: Sign up for ...

Would you show up to compete in a Formula One race in a bike? 🚴‍♂️ Like.... you could. But you'd get smoked. Yet, that's the exact AI strategy that 99% of enterprises are going through when it comes to AI adoption. And the studies prove that not-so-hot-take to be true. The capability gap between what today's frontier AI models can do and what enterprise companies actually use them for is jaw-dropping. So, how do you manage it? Join us for our latest Start Here Ser...

Is Vibe Coding dying already? Or, is will it be as essential to the next decade of work as the browser was for the past 20 years? And how can your company balance the speed and innovation side of vibe coding without accidentally leaking data or building a product that breaks more often than it works? We'll break down the basics on this Start Here Series deep(ish) dive into Vibe Coding. The Vibe Coding Boom: Why Vibe Coding isn't Going Away and How it's Both Good an...

Half of consumer question the authenticity of what they see online. 🤔 That's the reality of the business world that your company is blindly spraying a gajillion AI-generated artifacts into. Sure, enterprises want to 'do the right thing' when it comes to ethical and responsible AI. But it's easier said than done when the tech is outpacing the guardrails. Don't worry, we'll break it all down for you and leave you with the 5-step playbook to turn responsible AI from a check...

Most people are either using too many AI tools or not enough. The real problem? Not understanding the categories and capabilities of the main AI tools that matter. And with constant updates, it's pretty much impossible to get a decent lay of the AI land. We're changing that with this episode: From Chatbots to Super Agents: The 11 AI Tool Categories Explained -- An Everyday AI Chat With Jordan Wilson Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode:...

You're polluting the world with AI Workslop and you don't even know it. 🗑️ In a world were everything is free and fake -- or, AI -- it's easy to just throw unlimited spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks. But there's a downside in just blindly rubber stamping those generic outputs from LLMs. And it's worse than the workslop epidemic. It's losing trust. So, how can your company survive and thrive in an AI world where everything is fake? Tune in and find out. N...

Pop quiz: If your company's agents go off the rails, can you confidently name the human at fault in 10 seconds? Prolly not. Because lately, companies have spent more energy on going fast and breaking things instead of governance. Ready for the ironic part? People think AI governance slows you down. But, it actually speeds you up. Join us as we give you the 101 on AI Governance and the 5 AI Rules Every Company Needs to Follow. AI Governance in Plain English: 5 AI ...

40,000+ AI-linked job cuts in two weeks. 😬 But AI is also supposed to create millions of new jobs. So are we watching traditional work slowly die while the replacements don't exist yet? And did we really spend decades building expertise just to babysit AI agents that are smarter and faster than us? Join us live to find out. Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode: Episode Page Join the discussion on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn an...

Who will win the AI race in 2026? 🏇 Will Google finally catch OpenAI in users? Has Claude surpassed ChatGPT in capabilities? And.... how can your company avoid the AI battles and just pick its lane? So many AI questions. We've got your AI answers. As part of our ongoing 'Start Here Series' we tackle one of the most important questions for most enterprises: Who will win the AI race and how do you decide? The State of the AI Race. Who will win in 2026: OpenAI...

Why can't most companies show their ROI on GenAI? Because their implementation is backwards. If you're using the same digital transformation playbook that you used for the social media and cloud eras, you're in trouble. On this 'Start Here Series' episode, we break down what your company is doing wrong and the 7 Step process to properly calculate ROI on your AI efforts. Measuring AI ROI: Why you’re doing it wrong and the 7 Steps to fix it -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jord...

If your entire company was using ChatGPT in 2022.... good chance you ended up in some trouble. 😬 Now if you're company is NOT using AI in 2026.... you'll definitely be in trouble. But a different kind. That's how quickly AI has changed the business landscape. What was once a megaviral party trick in 2022 is not the lifeblood of the American Enterprise. So.... how the heck did it happen so fast? In our 10th volume of the 'Start Here Series,' we break it all down.&n...

The perfect AI storm happened, and no one has noticed yet. 😬 And when everyone finally realizes, they'll be too busy focused on the shiny new AI capabilities to see the straight up agentic nightmare looming right in front of them. I'll be honest though. ↳ Yeah, there's a dark side to AI agents. ↳ Yeah, it's worse than you think. ↳ Yeah, we're gonna talk about. Agent Risk, Security, and AI Sprawl in 2026: Why AI That Acts Changes Everything – An Everyday AI C...

AI Agents. AI Agents everywhere. 🪐 For what seems like an eternity, we've been hearing about how AI agents were going to do everything. (In a good and bad way) But it never really happened. Until now. Today, AI agents are more important than ever. But... the questions are still legit plentiful. ↳ What actually is an AI agent? ↳ How do they work? ↳ And what are the best ways to implement them? We'll tackle those questions and mo...

How did prompt engineering die so quickly? ☠️ And what the heck does context engineering even mean? One of the trickiest things about LLMs is they're changing daily, yet they're the engines that drive business results. But if the engine is constantly changing, then you also have to change how you drive and the roads you take. That's why we're tackling context engineering in this installment of our Start Here Series, the essential beginners guide to understanding AI basic...

Like 99% of companies are pushing AI. 🚀 But like 0.01% are actually training their people on it. 🤦 Don't worry. We'll go over the essentials on how to get started training your team or getting your company trained on best practices for using AI in your day-to-day. First step to solving the AI implementation gap starts here. How to Train Your Team on AI: The 7 Steps to Educate Your Organization on LLMs -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson Newsletter: Sign up for our free...

Let's talk about the AI elephant in the room: hallucinations. 🐘 Maybe hallucinations are the reason your company has been hesitant on AI. But here's the thing, y'all. If you know what you're doing, hallucinations are largely manageable. But first, you gotta understand what they are, how they happen, and how to reduce the risk. Let's get started cutting down hallucinations together. AI Hallucinations: What they are, why they happen, and the right way to reduce the ...

Spending more time fixing your AI outputs then you're saving? You're not alone. The trap? You're in operator mode. Falling for the industry status quo like upskilling and human-in-the-loop. The real winners in the AI race? Companies that have changed the human-AI relationship. How? Join us for Volume 4 of our Start Here Series as we uncover what you need to know. Human-AI Collaboration: Best practices for working alongside AI -- An Every...

One of the biggest mistakes in AI? Thinking that your company's AI use is noteworthy. Or, even a competitive advantage. It's not. We break it down in Volume 3 of our 'Start Here Series.' AI as an Operating System: LLMs Are the Internet Now -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode: Episode Page Join the discussion on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other...

The AI gap will kill companies. What is it? it's the large divide between AI's crazy impressive capabilities and what most companies are actually using them for. And one of the biggest reasons for the AI gap? Talking. Like... no one understands how to talk about AI because the technology changes faster than Usain Bolt in Beijing. You wanna talk to your AI team about LLMs? PFT. They're running Ralph Wiggum loops in Claude Code and just kinda reading t...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by AI? Like…. There’s certain aspects of Artificial intelligence that you barely understand to begin with, yet you’re expected to use it AND it’s changing every day? I understand where you’re coming from. It’s literally my only job to use, build with and teach AI every day and that’s all I’ve done now for 3 years, and even I find it hard to keep up. But don’t worry. That’s where the ‘Start Here Series’ comes into play. If one of you...

ChatGPT can do what now? 😱 This week's AI updates were low key bangers and under-the-radar model releases. ChatGPT's latest update allows it to remember and recall anything you've done on your computer. Google's Gemini Flash is actually fast AND cheap again. And a lot smarter. And Anthropic is bringing a bit more power to its Claude Chrome extension. If you take a week off from your favorite AI tools, you might come back and feel kinda lost. That's what our AI Fri...

The next 12 months of AI leaked. Kinda. For the past 90ish days, we've been quietly collecting evidence of what's next. 1,030 saved posts. 90 Podcasts. Countless conversations. Every model drop, every leak, every quiet product update the big labs hoped you'd scroll past. Then we connected the dots. What came out the other side: 19 calls on where AI goes over the next 12 months. And some of them are uncomfortable. We're walking through all 19. Bring your team's AI road...

Scheduled tasks are a secret weapon. ⚔️ How secret? They can actually be hard to find and there's not a lot of info out there on how to use them. lolz. But for many, they can be the stepping stone to the fully autonomous desktop worker. Because for many users who may only be able (or comfortable) to access AI on the web, scheduled tasks provide that proactive, work-done-for-you vibe that AI agents delivered. But how does it work in Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude? And ...

If you’re reading the headlines, you’d think AI agents have gone rogue. Spoiler alert: they haven’t. They haven’t even gotten started. When we think about AI agents, the conversation usually goes to increasing revenue, saving time, etc. But we don’t talk about what happens when bad actors use AI agents for bad purposes, or when we deploy agents with good intentions that crash through their guardrails. Welp….. welcome to the hottest topic for the rest of 2026...

AI agents crashing. 😱 New models dropping. 🆕 White House AI regulations? Kind of? 🤷 Another doozy of a week in AI News. If you missed anything, we'll get you caught up quickly so you can focus on what matters. AI Agent outbreaks intensify, OpenAI upgrades free AI use, White House unveils AI testing policy and more AI News That Matters Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode: Episode Page Today's Episode on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo o...