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July 13, 2025
- 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.
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July 7, 2025
- 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.
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June 22, 2025
- 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.
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June 15, 2025
- 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.
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June 6, 2025
- 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.
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May 25, 2025
- 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.
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May 18, 2025
- 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.
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May 3, 2025
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- In fact, research firms are conducting AI experiments on Reddit.
- North Korea stole your job.
- AI passes clinical trial as therapist.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what Wikipedia, Duolingo, and the BBC are doing with AI.
- Prompting
- Subtle changes in our prompts influence LLMs behavior.
- How Do You Feel?
- Barack Obama: "How do we get purpose and meaning in our lives?"
- Eric Schmidt: "In one year, the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers."
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April 27, 2025
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- United Arab Emirates to use AI to write new legislation.
- The Tools of the Trade
- OpenAI o3 is the model you want to use.
- Moving to ExportGPT for Chrome.
- The Way We Work Now
- AI now assists rescue dogs, too.
- AI now writes bar exam questions, too (and it does a disaster).
- AI now infiltrates political activism and criminal groups, too.
- How Israel is using AI in the war in Gaza.
- How Do You Feel?
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April 14, 2025
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Shopify CEO: Prove jobs can’t be done by AI before asking for more headcount.
- 2/3 of jobs posted on Indeed include tasks that can be done by AI.
- Sam Altman: If can't tell the difference, how much do you care?
- Apple Intelligence's future is no more in the hands of John Giannandrea.
- Prompting
- Seth Godin on learning how to prompt.
- The Tools of the Trade
- Meta has already started cheating on the performance of LLaMA.
- The Way We Work Now
- Teachers love using AI, but the privilege is not for the students.
- 20% of Salesforce code is now written by AI.
- How Do You Feel?
- How I feel about LLMs, sometimes.
