The AI Daily Brief · Sunday, July 26, 2026
Professor Ethan Mollick's latest guide highlights a major shift in AI usage from conversational chatbots to agentic systems that can plan and act with tools, mimicking human work. He notes that for intensive tasks, models like ChatGPT or Claude are now the primary choices, with Gemini falling behind.
“what it means to use AI to do stuff encompasses so much more stuff than it used to.”
“Until recently, using AI meant talking to a model through a chatbot in a constant back and forth conversation. Now, it means using an agentic system where the AI is capable of doing the equivalent of many hours of real human work in one go.”
“And when it comes to doing real intensive work, Ethan argues that there are effectively only two choices right now, which is Chat GBP or Claude.”