Today on the AI Daily Brief, we're discussing a week in which the AI story shifted, or at least, started to fork.

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In it, you can see the individual monthly responses from the last three months of AI usage pulse surveys, as well as the big overarching trends, like the growth in agentic use cases. The April survey is now available. You can do it right there. And if you complete this, you will get the results before everyone else. Now last week I told you about an experiment that I was going to be trying, where if Friday happened to be a comparatively slow day in AI,

nothing is actually slow, I was going to start experimenting with some sort of weekly recap.

The goal of the weekly recap is not just to rehash the same stories we talked about,

but to put them in an overarching context that helps

you understand in just 20 or 25 minutes what the big point of that week was. For people who

aren't able to listen as much, it's a way to, in a single episode, have the broad brushstrokes

of what happened. And for folks who are daily listeners, it's a chance to reinforce the themes

that you've been hearing all week.

Now, I was very positively pleased with the response. A lot of you provided great feedback, and the numbers also suggest that this is a valuable type of episode to at least consider. I'm not sure that it'll be every week, and I think probably on some weeks I will need to use the open slot on Saturday for this, given that there will often be news that we need to cover in a normal form. But for now, we're going to do another weekly recap. And if last week was the week that AI grew up, with the thesis of that episode being that we were starting to see a real maturation of the way that

people were engaging with AI on a usage basis, in markets and more. This is almost a part two in some ways, where that new maturity

started to diffuse into the stories that we were telling about AI, as well as the type of product

priorities we have in the launches. The week kicked off on Sunday with this opinion post from

Ezra Klein about why the AI job apocalypse probably won't happen, at least in the way that the most fearful

folks have been suggesting for some time now.

The main inspiration for Ezra in that post was the Alex EMS essay, What Will Be Scarce,

what will be scarce that we read a few weeks ago on Long Read Sunday.

Now, Alex is a Chicago booth economist, and the point that he's making in this piece

is that when one sector of the economy

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