How AI Changed This Summer
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This summer pushed AI into a new phase. NLW breaks down the widening gap between frontier models and public releases, the rise of open-weight alternatives, enterprise concerns about AI costs, the emergence of agent management and loops, shifting market narratives, political opposition to data centers, and the new cybersecurity risks exposed by the Hugging Face incident.NEXT COHORT - Executive Agent Leadership - Returns in September -- Learn how to use agents - https://training.besuper.ai/Brought to you by:KPMG – Research from KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin shows the highest-impact AI users treat AI like a reasoning partner — and those skills can be taught at scale.
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