August 25, 2025

Issue #109 - Save the Sistine Chapel, buy a $10 mask

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Coinbase CEO fires engineers who don't learn and adopt AI immediately.
  • Netflix's plan to normalize AI-generated content enters Phase 1.
  • The Wizard of Oz AI-upscaled for the 160,000-square-foot screen of the Sphere in Vegas.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • The ultimate AI workstations for your AI engineers.
  • ChatGPT finally features per-project memory.
  • Microsoft finally adds AI to Excel.
• The Way We Work Now
  • UK NHS trialing AI to speed up patient discharges.
  • AI is starting to replace human content moderators.
  • AI is now used to restore paintings, too.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Duolingo CEO: AI slop pays off.

August 17, 2025

Issue #108 - ChatGPT Chose Me

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Morgan Stanley on humanoid robot economics.
  • Computer science majors are now facing higher unemployment rates than art history majors.
• A Chart to Look Smart
  • Gartner's market value collapses.
• What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
  • Learn what Burda and Delta are doing with AI.
• Prompting
  • Think harder, GPT-5.
  • Selling prompts for fun and profit.
• The Way We Work Now
  • The world's best hacker is now an AI.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Vogue starts using AI-generated fashion models, the world ends.
  • AI-facilitated psychosis is a now thing.

July 26, 2025

Issue #107 - What If You Are Not There?

• Editorial
  • What If You Are Not There?
• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • OpenAI CEO admits entire job categories will disappear.
  • College grads' new side job: training AI models.
  • UK government signs deal with OpenAI to find use cases for AI.
• The Way We Work Now
  • Netflix started using Runway for content production.
  • UK Home Office to use AI to verify age of child asylum seekers.
  • S&P Global to partner with AI providers
• How Do You Feel?
  • Analytics company suggests companies may lose up to 79% of search engine traffic.

July 13, 2025

Issue #106 - Simulating Uncertain Opinions

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Startups now implement features that ChatGPT hallucinates.
  • Academics overwhelmed by millions of papers published with AI.
  • UK first job applicants for teacher positions must do micro-lessons now.
  • American Federation of Teachers receives $23 million in funding from Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Youngest Chinese entrepreneurs unfazed by job displacement caused by AI.
• The Way We Work Now
  • Goldman Sachs piloting AI agent Devin.
• How Do You Feel?
  • How people react to AI interviewers.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong
  • Let's now simulate users with AI.

July 7, 2025

Issue #105 - Unintended Consequences

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • PwC cut prices as customers see AI does the job.
  • UK entry-level jobs dropped 32% since ChatGPT launch.
  • Anthropic to fund research on AI's impact on the job market.
  • Marc Andreessen's career advice for 2025.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • A new, exceptional chatbot interface for local and cloud LLMs.
• The Way We Work Now
  • UK NHS will use AI to avoid safety scandals.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Chinese graphic artists realize AI is changing customers' perception.
  • Another day, another petition against AI.

June 22, 2025

Issue #104 - Save yourself in just 2.5 hours

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Hiring managers don't like the Pandora's box they opened.
  • Amazon is preparing to cut jobs because of AI.
  • Intel will outsource marketing to Accenture and AI.
  • LinkedIn will save us from job displacement.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • Hard challenging the new Midjourney Video
• How Do You Feel?
  • UK Technology Secretary: Learn AI In 2.5 Hours Or Risk Being Left Behind.
  • BBC attempts the Walking Dead business model.

June 15, 2025

Issue #103 - Squid Games

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • AI may push ad agencies from producing to consulting.
  • 30 World Class Mathematicians And An LLM Enter A Bar.
  • BT CEO primes for more job cuts due to AI.
  • Former OpenAI chief scientist issues biblical warning.
  • Palantir CEO warns about social upheaval.
• A Chart to Look Smart
  • The British Film Institute releases report on AI adoption and its impact on the film industry.
• The Way We Work Now
  • Over 400,000 UK civil servants will get AI training.
  • Record Labels working to license their music to Suno and Udio.
  • The Washington Post plans to publish outside writers coached by an AI.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Wikipedia forced to backtrack on AI content policy.
  • Australian government sees no choice.

June 6, 2025

Issue #102 - Career Trajectories

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • The impact of AI taking entry-level jobs on career and education.
  • OpenAI CEO: 95% of ad agencies work to be done by AI.
  • Silicon Valley sees putting people out of work as a massive opportunity.
  • Vista Equity Partners: 60% at this conference will be looking for work next year.
  • Zapier CEO: 100% of new hires must be fluent in AI.
• A Chart to Look Smart
  • ChatGPT mobile usage approaches 20 minutes/day.
  • In just 2 years OpenAI matched the number of searches Google took 11 years to achieve.
  • In 2025, there are 25,000 AI startups.
  • AI adoption in the enterprise is up 7%.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • How we moved from image generation to full synthetic media production in just two years.
• The Way We Work Now
  • Bank of England is testing AI to predict inflation.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Britons among the world’s most worried people about the rise of AI.

May 25, 2025

Issue #101 - AI Privileges

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Anthropic: almost guaranteed that AI will automate nearly every white-collar job by 2027–28.
  • Foxconn predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor.
  • The jobs AI is creating.
• Prompting
  • A product manager shows how it's done.
  • AI tools and their prompts.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • Approaching real-time lifelike voice synthesis.
• The Way We Work Now
  • UBS is turning its analysts into AI avatars.
  • How some schools are turning upside down their approach to AI for students.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Politico has broken its rules about AI in the newsroom.

May 18, 2025

Issue #100 - State of the Union

• Editorial
  • 100 Issues of Synthetic Work - State of Union.
• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Norway Wealth Fund is to freeze hiring because of AI.
  • The UK government blocks amendment about copyright material in AI models.
  • YouTube introduces AI features to simplify content creation and editing.
• Prompting
  • Your prompts must look like this.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • OpenAI o3: it was good while it lasted.