Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Becoming Consultants
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving deeper into enterprise AI services, but NLW argues the real story is organizational readiness. The episode explores why “buy and hope” AI adoption keeps failing, why power users get blocked by company structures, and why the next phase of AI deployment requires leaders to redesign how work gets done. In the headlines: White House AI model review, new lab access agreements, and AI safety oversight.
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| 0:00.0 | Today in the AI Daily Brief, as Anthropic and Open AI both launch consulting ventures, |
| 0:06.0 | we talk about why there is no AI transformation without org transformation. |
| 0:11.0 | Before that in the headlines, is the White House about to make a major reversal in its AI policy? |
| 0:16.0 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:22.5 | All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. |
| 0:25.5 | First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Granola, Super Intelligent, and Rackspace. |
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| 0:36.9 | To learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors at AIDailybrief.ai. A couple other things you can do at AIDailybrief.ai. First, we have up our latest AI usage pulse survey. This is a monthly survey we do. It should take less than three minutes to go through. And it's all about providing better information around how AI is actually being used, how that's changing. I really appreciate everyone who takes the time |
| 0:58.0 | to do that every month, and again, you can find that link from the homepage. You can also find a link |
| 1:02.7 | to the AIDB training site. AIDB training has two very distinct parts. There are our free programs, |
| 1:09.3 | which I am super passionate about. That includes AIDB New |
| 1:12.3 | Year's, Claw Camp, more recently Agent OS. More than 20,000 of you have done those free |
| 1:17.5 | self-directed programs this year. And pretty soon I'll be launching one for a very different |
| 1:21.2 | type of audience for a much more beginner audience. That AI catch-up program will be a bit of an |
| 1:25.6 | update on the New Year's resolution, so look out for that soon. |
| 1:28.5 | You can also find out about our enterprise programs, enterprise clause registering for cohort three. |
| 1:33.6 | And for those who aren't quite ready for an agent-building program, we put together a new four-week executive catch-up program that is designed to radically accelerate executives who are feeling behind on AI overall. |
| 1:46.0 | You can find that again linked from the AI Daily Brief website or at AIDBTraining.com. |
| 1:50.7 | Now with that out of the way, let's talk about this shift from the White House. |
| 1:54.4 | We have a bit of a weird one today. I worked up a full normal plan for the headlines, |
| 1:58.8 | with some extended emphasis on this White House |
| 2:01.2 | AI vetting story, but between when I was preferring and when I started recording, we got more information that has basically forced me to do a not-all-that-common effective double-main show. We don't have all the information yet, so we will come back and explore this as is necessary with additional information later in the week. But let's talk about the White House in their changing relationship with AI. |
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