April 3, 2025

Issue #96 - AI is Your Shadow Now

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • The AI Shadows project.
  • Information economy in the age of AI.
  • BGC: Most companies struggle to create value from their AI investments.
• A Chart to Look Smart
  • Who's the best GPU cloud provider in 2025?
• The Tools of the Trade
  • We finally have a free AI voice viable for commercial applications.
• The Way We Work Now
  • Movie producers now make money out of AI deepfakes.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Governments vs. copyright laws.

March 26, 2025

Issue #95 - Fact-Checkers

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • What happens when AI replaces white-collar trainees?
  • Accurate weather forecasts with a desktop computer.
  • China makes AI education compulsory in primary and secondary schools.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • Dall-E 3 successor is remarkable, but not quite there yet.
• The Way We Work Now
  • Doctors are now using AI for "drug repurposing."
  • The UK will replace Civil Service jobs with AI.
  • How much AI content can human editors oversee?
  • An Italian newspaper publishes an edition entirely written by AI.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Andor creator won't publish the show script online because of AI.

March 16, 2025

Issue #94 - The Competition is Human Workers

• Editorial
  • Has good writing a future?
• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • OpenAI might charge $20,000 / Month for PhD-Level AI Agents.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • WanVideo 2.1 and APW 13.0 EA1 for ComfyUI.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Horizon Zero video game actress fears for her profession.
  • Of course, Christie's AI art auction was a massive success.

March 5, 2025

Issue #93 - Insurmountable Challenges

• Editorial
  • The 400 lines of code insurmountable challenge
• A Chart to Look Smart
  • The Anthropic Economic Index and the Universal Computer Budget
• What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
  • Learn what Thompson Reuters and Lyft are doing with AI.
• Prompting
  • GPT-4.5 and the "How to Get Rich Quickly" challenge
• The Tools of the Trade
  • Is OpenAI Sora worth $200/month?
  • APW 12.0 for ComfyUI is finally available, on premises and in the cloud,
• How Do You Feel?
  • Christie’s announces AI art auction. The world does not end.

February 22, 2025

Issue #92 - Synthetic Arguments

• Prompting
  • My new system prompt for ChatGPT.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • How good o1 Pro and o3-mini-high really are at coding?
  • Can Cursor boost the productivity of your software engineers?
  • Is OpenAI Operator worth the $200 Pro subscription?

February 8, 2025

Issue #91 - Is OpenAI Deep Research worth $200?

• The Tools of the Trade
  • OpenAI Deep Research: Deep Compared to What?

February 1, 2025

Issue #90 - Chinese Whispers

• Editorial
  • Chinese Whispers.
• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • When Capital No Longer Needs Labor, How Does Labor Gain Capital?
  • US Copyright Office declared AI does not undermine copyright.
  • OpenAI confirms GPT-5
• The Tools of the Trade
  • • OpenAI o3 mini doesn't reason either.
• The Way We Work Now
  • $2,500 to let AI train on your bestseller.

January 23, 2025

Issue #89 - (Un)Reasonable Mass Delusion

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Anthropic CEO offers a revised timeline for the AI takeover.
  • The AI agent Devin fails.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • The mass-delusion around DeepSeek R1.

January 14, 2025

Issue #88 - Attention Farmers

• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • John Deere claims its self-driving tractors and trucks will help address labor shortages.
  • First real-world test shows AI increases the chances of detecting breast cancer.
  • Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles.
  • Sam Altman: in 2025 we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce.”
• What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
  • Learn what Bloomberg News and Jumbo are doing with AI.
• The Tools of the Trade
  • HeyGen avatar models are now "outperforming real actors in many scenarios" says the CEO.
• The Way We Work Now
  • NASA took decades to develop a new rocket engine that AI designed in just 3 weeks.
  • YouTubers Are Selling Their Unused Video Footage to AI Companies.
  • AI financial advisers upsell better than their human counterparts.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Shockingly, people dislike Meta AI bots.

December 21, 2024

Issue #87 - The Shrinking Workforce

• Editorial
  • Artificial general intelligence that isn't, jobs that aren't, AI agents that couldn't.
• What Caught My Attention This Week
  • Everything looks the same, sounds the same, is the same.
  • The US Government wanted to control and constrain AI development.
  • Shutterstock develops a creator-friendly license for AI training.
• A Chart to Look Smart
  • The Illusion Of AI Productivity
• The Tools of the Trade
  • NotebookLM gains the capability to host human guests.
• How Do You Feel?
  • Reporters Without Borders wants Apple Intelligence off.