AI News & Strategy Daily with Nate B. Jones

Now I have the full transcript. Building the deliverable.What's really happening inside prompting now that AI agents are 100x more powerful than six months ago? The common story is that prompt engineering is dead — but the reality is more complicated.In this podcast, I share the inside scoop on the AI Question Method and why heavy knowledge work with frontier models demands a new mental model:• Why prompt engineering is now table stakes, not a skill • How to treat AI like a senior partner, not a junior • What three question principles unlock agentic knowledge work • Where most users still prompt like it is 2025For operators and builders, the agentic shift is a real opportunity, but only if you evolve your prompting alongside the models and learn to ask sharper questions instead of issuing tasks.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news. For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/

What's really happening inside the AI agent stack as agents move into production? The common story is that OpenAI and Anthropic decide whether your agent ships — but the reality is more complicated.In this podcast, I share the inside scoop on the infrastructure companies quietly deciding whether AI agents reach production:Why runtime, identity, and data are the real control layersHow Cloudflare, Auth0, and Snowflake gate agent deploymentWhat separates a kill switch from telling the model to stopWhere Stripe and the card networks are racing on paymentsFor builders and operators, the agentic shift is a real opportunity, but only if you map runtime, identity, data, payments, and observability for each workflow before it ships, not after.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news. For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/

What's really happening inside the agent protocol stack as Google I/O kicks off? The common story is that every new protocol is a must-have standard — but the reality is more complicated.In this postcast, I share the inside scoop on the six agent protocols shaping how AI agents actually ship and how customers experience them:Why three protocols are becoming the real agent stackHow MCP, A2A, and AGUI map to core agent jobsWhat separates a standard from a contested protocolWhere payment protocols collide with customer trustFor builders and operators, the agentic substrate is a real lever on customer experience, but only if you stop chasing acronyms and start asking which protocols actually shape the workflow you're shipping.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news. For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/

What's really happening inside the AI-driven shift in marketing?The common story is that AI makes marketing faster — but the reality is that the entire internet economy is moving from attention to interpretation, and most marketers are still optimizing for the wrong one.In this video, I share the inside scoop on the two-internet economy and what it means for marketers and individuals: - Why AI agents now sit between buyers and brands in B2B and consumer - How a truth layer wins where emotional marketing copy fails with LLMs - What AI-washing costs companies and candidates trying to look AI-native - Where marketing has to touch — website, pricing, docs — to stay relevantThe marketers and candidates who win in 2026 will be the ones who build memory in humans and clarity for agents, not the ones automating the back office faster.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/

What's really happening inside AI investment decisions at most companies? The common story is that you need an AI strategy — but the reality is more complicated.In this video, I share the inside scoop on how to allocate capital across build, buy, hire, and wait for AI agents and workflows:Why workflow shape, not AI strategy, drives investmentHow to pick between automate, build, buy, hire, waitWhat separates a real AI hire from a unicornWhere most agentic AI projects quietly failFor operators and executives, the agentic era opens unprecedented upside, but only if you stop chasing a singular AI strategy and start making disciplined capital allocation decisions one workflow at a time.For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/

What's really happening inside the AI agent ecosystem this week? The common story is that the model launches are the main event — but the reality is more complicated.In this video, I share the inside scoop on five AI agent stories reshaping how real work gets done:How Notion turned its workspace into an agent platformWhy Claude usage limits are breaking the subscription modelWhat Anthropic passing OpenAI on business customers signalsWhere Mythos and GPT 5.5 push AI cybersecurity nextFor operators and builders, the agent era is opening real workflow leverage, but it also forces hard choices on pricing, security posture, and which AI stack to commit to.Subscribe for daily AI strategy and news.For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/Listen to this video as a podcast.