In Brief Posted: 1:42 PM PDT · June 13, 2026 Image Credits: CFOTO / Getty Images Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” after numerous organizations...
The condensed highlights of hours of AI lab leader interviews, last-48-hour model releases, Gemini 3 Flash insights (plus it’s hidden flaw), Hassabis’ ‘proto-AGI’ and much more…...
It’s probably not possible to satisfactorily condense a 12 month’s worth of weird progress in AI, as well as predictions for the year to come, into one video. But I’m gonna try anyway because it has been a very strange...
A new tool, with code written only by AI, has gone omega-viral: Claude Cowork. But is the hype justified? What do the stats say on productivity? Where is the truth in a sea of noise? What is truth? Can we handle the...
Anthropic's CEO, who has consistently predicted transformative AI will arrive before 2030, recently published a nearly 20,000-word essay outlining his vision of where AI is heading. The video gives you the highlights...
The two models that you will hear discussed for at least the next two months - Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex - just got released within 26 mins or each other. The full breakdown of around 250 pages of reports, with...
Do we have a new best AI model, or do we have the downfall of benchmarks in general, as a way of capturing machine intelligence? Full breakdown of Gemini 3.1 Pro, guest-starring the new Sonnet 4.6, plus analysis from 7...
Will Anthropic be forced to make a version of Claude for war? And does a new paper expose the risks of Claude agents, in both OpenClaw and the field of war? Plus, 5 more twists in the story of the Pentagon versus...
Just 48 hours after releasing GPT 5.3 Instant, OpenAI have released GPT 5.4 Thinking, so either their is an imminent singularity or perhaps we are being distracted from other news. This video will give 9 crucial bits of...
First look at exclusive reports about OpenAI's new Spud model, and the model Anthropic think will stir governments to urgency, all in the context of the newly-launched ARC-AGI-3. What does the extreme difficulty of that...
The model, the mythos, the legend. We have a new best AI model, but not all of us. How good is it, what does it’s new offensive capabilities mean? Why does it’s 244 page report card remind me of Her, and why did the...
Claude Opus 4.7 just dropped, but behind every headline lies a deeper story. From a bonanza of benchmarks, to seeing the fruits of one of the biggest mega-projects in US history, to sneaky Mythos disclaimers, to...
GPT 5.5 full analysis, plus DeepSeek V4 paper highlights, comparisons with Mythos, a vibe-coded game w/ GPT Image 2, and 50 data-points you wouldn’t get from just reading the headlines...
The biggest Google AI push of the year, but what is the bigger story? Why is Google pursuing a different fork in the road than OpenAI or Anthropic? https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained What does Gemini 3.5 Flash mean for...
The ‘best’ generally available AI model just dropped, but there is plenty I bet you missed about what it is, how it performs, and what the release tells us. 15 highlights from the 244 page system card, plus private...
Fable 5 is out - and it’s good, very good. But beyond the splashy demos, I want to bring you the 20+ nuggets from the 319 page system card, which I read in full, all day, plus benchmarks you may not have noticed...
Dear friends, One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning...
Dear friends, Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class. I’m not in favor of this. It deeply runs counter to how I believe education should...
Dear friends, We’ve been working on AI Andrew, an AI companion shaped by my personality. I invite you to try it out! Many people are trying to understand what AI means for their work, learning, and careers. I’ve...
Dear friends, There will be no AI jobpocalypse. The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI — like any other technology — does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of...
Dear friends, The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out. Some people are still using LLMs primarily by asking them short questions. But the models can do much more, like think for...
Dear friends, Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees. When we architect teams, understanding these distinctions helps us to have realistic expectations. Listing functions...
Dear friends, AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams. The obvious difference is that AI-native teams use coding agents to build products much faster, but this leads to many...
Dear friends, As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering? Some trends are clear, such as the Product Management Bottleneck, referring to the idea that we are more constrained by deciding...
Dear friends, Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs (user interfaces) will become. Today, we use a keyboard and mouse to control most...
Dear friends, The anti-AI coalition continues to maneuver to find arguments to slow down AI progress. If someone has a sincere concern about a specific effect of AI, for instance that it may lead to human extinction, I...
Dear friends, I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity. High-school students wonder if there will be a job for them, engineers worry about keeping up, C-level officers...
Dear friends, Should there be a Stack Overflow for AI coding agents to share their learnings with each other? Last week, I wrote about the new Context Hub (chub), a CLI tool to provide API documentation to coding...
Dear friends, I’m thrilled to announce Context Hub, a new tool to give to your coding agents the API documentation they need to write correct code. If you’re building AI systems using modern technologies, your coding...
Dear friends, We just released a Skill Builder tool to help you understand in which areas of AI you’re strong, where you can learn more, and what to do next to keep building your skills. I invite you to have a...
Dear friends, Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow. For her 7th birthday, we got a cat-themed cake in yellow by first using Gemini’s Nano Banana to design...
Dear friends, I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI. Sundance is an annual gathering of filmmakers and movie buffs that serves as the premier showcase for independent films in the United...
In Brief Posted: 12:11 PM PDT · June 13, 2026 Image Credits: Bruce Bennett / Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models...
In this tutorial, we implement a QwenPaw workflow that provides a practical environment for building and testing an agent-powered assistant. We install and initialize QwenPaw, configure its working directory, set up...
Large language models can describe images, interpret charts, and pull text from photos. Multimodality is a given for modern AI systems. But one seemingly simple task remains surprisingly hard: reliably counting objects...
Image Credits: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images 9:47 AM PDT · June 13, 2026 A coalition of state attorneys general has reportedly opened an investigation into OpenAI. The company was served with a subpoena from New...