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The Practical AI Briefing
by Firmbrain
AI is moving fast — but most “AI news” doesn’t help you decide what to actually do. Each week, we break down the most important AI updates and product launches, then translate them into practical takeaways: how teams will use them, what changes in workflows, and what risks hide in the details (privacy, data sovereignty, consent, and accuracy). Hosted by Jerrie Yang & Jessica Wu.
Episodes
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3, Gemini in Google Workspace, OpenAI GPT-5.4, and Anthropic Claude: Which AI belongs in your workflow?
AI is no longer just a chatbot on the side. It’s moving directly into the tools businesses use every day. In this episode of The Practical AI Briefing, Firmbrain breaks down the biggest AI productivity updates from March 2026: Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3, Gemini in Google Workspace, OpenAI...
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AI Tech updates — The Q1 2026 Model Wars GPT-5.4 · Claude 4.6 · Gemini 3.1
In this episode of The Practical AI Briefing, we break down the biggest AI model releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google between February 5 and March 5, 2026 — and what they actually mean for Australian firms. We cover GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro and Flash-Lite...
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Adobe's Agentic Pivot: What It Actually Means for Australian Firms
In this episode of The Practical AI Briefing, Jerrie Yang and Jessica Wu break down Adobe’s agentic pivot — and why it’s an architectural shift, not a feature refresh. We unpack what “agentic AI” really means (beyond copilots), how the “content supply chain” changes creative economics, and what...
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DocuSign — Your Contract Just Learned to Talk
What if your contract could answer questions before you sign? In this episode of Beyond the Hype, FirmBrain breaks down DocuSign’s January 2026 move to embed AI inside the signing workflow—plain-English summaries, key term highlights, and in-flow Q&A powered by “Iris.” We unpack: What was…
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AI Tech Updates — World Models Wars: The Next Platform Shift After LLMs
World models are a new class of AI that can generate and simulate interactive environments. Let's move beyond text into 3D, physics, and decision-making. In this episode of the Firmbrain Podcast, we cover: • What world models are (and how they differ from LLMs) • Why “open vs closed” ecosystems...
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AI Tech Updates — The Lobster That Broke the Internet
An open-source “AI agent” (yes, the lobster one) didn’t just go viral — it helped push infrastructure conversations into the mainstream, triggered copycats/scams, and raised serious security questions for any organisation experimenting with agentic AI. In this episode, FirmBrain hosts Jerrie Yang...
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Slack AI — From Chatbot to Agentic Workspace, and What It Means for Professional Services
Slack AI is no longer just a chatbot inside your workspace. In this episode of The Practical AI Briefing, we examine how Slack is evolving into a more agentic, conversation-centred work layer — and what that actually means for professional services firms in Australia. We unpack Slack’s underlying...
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AI Tech Updates — Agentic Systems, Security, and What Changed
This episode explored the transition from AI hype to AI reality, examining Andrej Karpathy's concept of the "Agentic Decade" and its implications for Australian organisations. Key themes included the refactoring of human-software interaction, enterprise security architecture using virtualisation...
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Zoom AI Companion 3.0 — Features, Workflows, and the Fine Print
Zoom just shipped AI Companion 3.0, and it’s no longer “a button inside meetings.” In this episode, Jessica walks through what it’s like to use the new ai.zoom.us command centre as a persistent AI work layer that can pull context from connected sources like Zoom Meetings/Docs (and optionally…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
AI is moving fast — but most “AI news” doesn’t help you decide what to actually do. Each week, we break down the most important AI updates and product launches, then translate them into practical takeaways: how teams will use them, what changes in workflows, and what risks hide in the details (privacy, data sovereignty, consent, and accuracy). Hosted by Jerrie Yang & Jessica Wu.
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AI is moving fast — but most “AI news” doesn’t help you decide what to actually do. Each week, we break down the most important AI updates and product launches, then translate them into practical takeaways: how teams will use them, what changes in workflows, and what risks hide in the details...
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