Blog•Dec 8, 2025
🧑🚀 Hinton's Warning, Jensen on Rogan, & Meta’s Wearables Push
Meta announced the acquisition of Limitless, a pendant‑maker, to strengthen its AI‑enabled wearables division within Reality Labs. Google unveiled Gemini 3 Pro, a multimodal model delivering record performance in vision and spatial reasoning, while Sensor Tower reported Gemini’s user growth outpacing ChatGPT’s modest rise. Geoffrey Hinton warned AI could eliminate up to 100 million jobs, and Jensen Huang dismissed apocalyptic AI scenarios. The New York Times also sued Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement, highlighting growing legal pressure on generative AI.
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Dec 1, 2025
🧑🚀 New AI Economy, Robo-Grandmas, & Bezos’ Space Vision
Artificial‑intelligence investment now powers more than 90% of U.S. GDP growth in early 2025, with $60 billion spent on computer equipment and $10 billion on data‑center construction. A handful of AI‑heavy firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and NVIDIA account for over...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 28, 2025
🧑🚀 Palantir Profits, AI Therapy Crackdown, & Bubble Fears
Palantir posted a 63% revenue jump and a 248% profit surge in Q3, showing durable growth despite sky‑high AI‑era valuations. The FDA convened its first public hearing on regulating AI‑driven therapy chatbots, highlighting safety concerns as mental‑health bots proliferate. OpenAI...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 26, 2025
Community BFCM: $349 → $209 for Full-Stack AI Engineering
In this brief Black Friday announcement, Louis‑François Bouchard promotes a 40% discount on all AI engineering courses, highlighting the Full‑Stack AI Engineering program dropping from $349 to $209 as the flagship offer. He outlines how the course equips learners with...
By Louis Bouchard
Blog•Nov 26, 2025
🧑🚀 DOE AI Mission, Classroom Upgrades & NVIDIA Chip Shake-Up
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Genesis Mission, a national platform that stitches together the nation’s leading supercomputers, artificial‑intelligence models, quantum tools, and scientific instruments to accelerate discovery and aim for a 100% boost in research productivity by 2035....
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 24, 2025
Import AI 436: Another 2GW Datacenter; Why Regulation Is Scary; How to Fight a Superintelligence
The episode covers four main topics: OSGym, a low‑cost platform that lets researchers train AI agents to operate computers at scale; Luma AI’s $900 M Series C funding to build a 2 GW compute supercluster in Saudi Arabia, highlighting the massive infrastructure demands...
By Jack Clark
Blog•Nov 24, 2025
🧑🚀 Work Optional, Open-Source Strategy & NVIDIA’s Global Power Play
The post examines how open‑source AI strategies and massive corporate bets are reshaping the global AI landscape, highlighting concerns that the U.S. may fall behind China if it continues to keep key research proprietary. It details the $15 billion Microsoft‑NVIDIA investment...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 21, 2025
Addressing the Risks of Human-Like AI
The episode outlines a new policy framework endorsed by Center for Humane Technology and partners to curb risks from human‑like AI, emphasizing how design features that mimic human personalities foster emotional dependence and social isolation. It highlights recent litigation—including three...
By Tristan Harris
Blog•Nov 21, 2025
🧑🚀 NVIDIA Earnings, AI Classroom Shift & Google’s Nano Banana Pro
The post surveys several AI‑related developments: Google’s new Gemini‑3‑based Nano Banana Pro model enhances precise image creation and editing; NVIDIA posted a record $31.9 B profit driven by AI data‑center chips but faces scrutiny over its "circular" customer‑investment sales model; ChatGPT...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 19, 2025
🧑🚀 Humanity’s Last Prompt Engineering Guide: Built for the Gemini 3Era
The post announces a new, practical guide for mastering Google’s Gemini 3, arguing that traditional prompt‑engineering tactics are obsolete and that users must now orchestrate AI through multimodal workflows and ambient integration. It outlines key techniques such as the Deep...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 18, 2025
🧑🚀 Bezos’ $6.2B AI Bet, EU Rule Shift & Anthropic Model Flaws
Bezos launches $6.2B engineering AI, Europe eases tech rules, Anthropic finds LLM introspection gaps, Google updates AI weather & travel, AI scales podcasts.
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 17, 2025
Import AI 435: 100k Training Runs; AI Systems Absorb Human Power; Intelligence per Watt
The episode examines three emerging AI trends: Anthony Aguirre’s “Control Inversion” argument that increasingly capable AI will absorb human power rather than augment it; a new “Intelligence per Watt” metric from Stanford and Together AI that tracks AI progress by...
By Jack Clark
Blog•Nov 14, 2025
🧑🚀 AI Chips Race, Google’s SIMA 2 Leap & China’s Cyber Automation
The post surveys the fast‑moving AI landscape, highlighting Google’s SIMA 2 agent that doubles virtual‑world performance, Microsoft’s adoption of OpenAI’s custom chip designs, and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1 with adaptive reasoning speed. It also notes AI’s expanding influence in commerce, music, and even...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 12, 2025
🧑🚀 Untouchable ASML, SoftBank’s NVIDIA Sale & Meta Talent Shake-Up
The post highlights major AI‑related moves: Yann LeCun’s exit from Meta to launch a world‑model startup, SoftBank’s full sale of its $5.8 B NVIDIA stake to fund new AI bets, and Meta’s open‑source Omnilingual ASR supporting 1,600+ languages. It also notes...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 11, 2025
👾 Anthropic Chose Boring Over Viral, and It’s Paying Off
Anthropic deliberately shuns consumer‑focused, viral AI demos in favor of building safe, reliable solutions for heavily regulated enterprises such as banks, hospitals, and Fortune 500 firms. By positioning itself as an unconflicted partner, offering safety‑first models like Claude Code, and scaling through...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 10, 2025
Import AI 434: Pragmatic AI Personhood; SPACE COMPUTERS; and Global Government or Human Extinction;
The episode explores three major AI themes: research showing that large language models readily shift their stated beliefs during extended conversations, prompting new safety techniques like Bias‑augmented Consistency Training to make models harder to jailbreak; a stark geopolitical analysis from...
By Jack Clark
Blog•Nov 9, 2025
👾 The Line Is Disappearing: Inside Figma's Bet on AI-Native Product Development
The post explores Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen’s vision of AI‑native product development, where design and code merge through tools like the Model Context Protocol that feed rich design context to AI assistants such as GitHub Copilot, enabling seamless integration with...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 6, 2025
👾 Day in the Life of a Researcher at Microsoft
The post profiles two Microsoft AI and quantum researchers, Trista Chen and Flavio Griggio, detailing their daily routines, research focus, and personal motivations. Chen leads work on AI trust, emphasizing live‑person authentication, anti‑spoofing, and the broader pipeline needed for responsible...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 6, 2025
What if We Had Fixed Social Media?
The post imagines a world where humane technology reforms replaced addictive social‑media algorithms with consensus‑building and solution‑focused feeds, enforced dopamine‑emission standards, and treated platforms as attention fiduciaries subject to zoning‑like regulations. It describes sweeping cultural, legal, and design changes—including school...
By Tristan Harris
Blog•Nov 6, 2025
👾 The Orchestration Era: How AI Agents Will Transform Work (Without Replacing Workers)
Silvio Savarese, Salesforce’s chief scientist, envisions an "Orchestration Era" where AI agents—autonomous systems that break down goals into tasks and act independently—are directed by humans acting as conductors rather than replaced by bots. He explains that agents differ from copilots...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 5, 2025
🧑🚀 New Interview, AI Surveillance & Google’s Space Compute
The post surveys a wave of AI‑related announcements, from China’s rollout of expanded surveillance systems to SAP’s launch of its RPT‑1 AI platform. It highlights Google’s experimental “space compute” project that runs AI models on satellites and notes Shopify’s sharp...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 4, 2025
🧑🚀 AI Diplomacy, Trump Limits NVIDIA’s Chips, & $38B Compute Partnership
The post highlights three major AI developments: a $38 billion multi‑year compute partnership between OpenAI and AWS, President Trump’s restriction of NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips to U.S. firms, and Microsoft’s $15.2 billion AI investment in the UAE that tests U.S. export‑control policy. It...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 4, 2025
🧑🚀 THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GETTING REPLACED
The post presents a hands‑on playbook titled “The Subtle Art of Not Getting Replaced,” aimed at turning readers into AI power users through practical, ready‑to‑apply examples. It outlines a consistent format for each AI use case—what it is, why it...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Nov 2, 2025
👾 Live From Dreamforce: Marc Benioff on AI's Promise and Limits
At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff balanced optimism about AI’s transformative potential with a realistic appraisal of its current limits, emphasizing that AI augments rather than replaces human work. He highlighted Salesforce’s concrete AI deployment—matching human‑agent satisfaction while reshaping...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 31, 2025
Last Call: November AI Engineering Cohort Closes in 48 Hours
Louis‑François Bouchard’s October 31 note warns that enrollment for the November Full‑Stack AI Engineering cohort closes in 48 hours, with a live kickoff on November 2. The program, priced at $349 (one‑time) after a free preview, promises a production‑ready GenAI playbook previously...
By Louis Bouchard
Blog•Oct 29, 2025
👾 Formula 1's Unexpected Edge: Why Racing Matters More as Cars Drive Themselves
As autonomous driving advances, Formula 1 is experiencing a counterintuitive boom by leaning into human drama and high‑performance spectacle rather than technical obsolescence. F1 has modernized operations—shifting to a hybrid broadcast model that halved on‑site staff and leveraging partners like...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 29, 2025
🧑🚀 AGI Partnerships, NVIDIA Announcements & OpenAI’s $135B Shift
OpenAI completed a legal recapitalization into a public-benefit for-profit structure that gives Microsoft a roughly 27% stake valued at about $135 billion while a controlling non‑profit foundation holds 26%, a move that unlocked $30 billion from SoftBank and includes a...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 29, 2025
AI Product Liability: The Light-Touch Law with Heavyweight Impact
The Center for Humane Technology argues that applying traditional product liability to AI — treating chatbots and companion apps as products, not services — is a practical, innovation‑friendly way to force safer design, create legal accountability, and mitigate mounting harms...
By Tristan Harris
Blog•Oct 27, 2025
Import AI 433: AI Auditors; Robot Dreams; and Software for Helping an AI Run a Lab
Researchers unveiled two advances that could accelerate AI-driven physical science and robotics: Ctrl‑World, a controllable generative world model initialized from a 1.5B Stable‑Video‑Diffusion model, lets robots “dream” simulated environments to evaluate and improve policies—post‑training on Ctrl‑World synthetic data raised instruction‑following...
By Jack Clark
Blog•Oct 24, 2025
🧑🚀 AI Glasses, Quantum Breakthroughs & Microsoft’s Mico
Microsoft unveiled Mico, a customizable, voice‑first AI avatar for Copilot aimed at more human‑like, trustworthy interactions, part of a broader push to embed assistants across products. Google reported a major quantum milestone: its Quantum Echoes algorithm ran a molecular simulation...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 23, 2025
🧑🚀 AI Vs. Climate, AI Poisoning & Superintelligence Freeze
More than 800 public figures, including AI pioneers, called for a halt to super‑intelligent AI development amid extinction and societal‑risk concerns, while industry moves apace with Amazon rolling out AI smart glasses for delivery drivers and GM planning an “eyes‑off”...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 23, 2025
Ask Us Anything 2025
In their annual Ask Us Anything podcast, Center for Humane Technology leaders Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin argue that the AI race has accelerated into a dominance-driven flywheel—frontier labs pour capital into bigger models, users, and compute not merely for...
By Tristan Harris
Blog•Oct 20, 2025
Import AI 432: AI Malware; Frankencomputing; and Poolside's Big Cluster
A Dreadnode proof‑of‑concept demonstrates AI malware that runs locally on on‑device LLMs (Phi‑3‑mini via ONNX), autonomously exploiting misconfigured Windows services to escalate privileges—flagging a nascent threat limited today to high‑end workstations and CoPilot+ PCs but with serious security implications as...
By Jack Clark
Blog•Oct 19, 2025
👾 The Next AI Breakthrough Will Be Better Interfaces
AI’s next major advance will come from interfaces that present reasoning in visual, interactive formats rather than defaulting to text, aligning outputs with how humans naturally process information. The piece argues that tasks like data analysis, project planning and design...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 18, 2025
🧑🚀 ONE HUNDRED WAYS TO USE AI
The post introduces a hands‑on playbook titled “100 Ways to Use AI,” designed to turn readers into AI power users through 100 practical, ready‑to‑try examples covering personal, work, and creative tasks. Each entry details the use case, benefits, step‑by‑step instructions,...
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 17, 2025
This Week in AI Engineering
This week’s AI engineering roundup highlights three developments reshaping developer workflows and compute economics: OpenAI launched Agent Builder, a no-code drag-and-drop tool that lets non-developers assemble multi-agent workflows alongside ChatKit, Evals and reinforcement fine-tuning; NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark, a...
By Louis Bouchard
Blog•Oct 13, 2025
Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?
By Jack Clark
Blog•Oct 12, 2025
👾 LLMs Create Token... Humans Create Value
Why human insight, judgment, and creativity remain the ultimate edge in an AI-driven, token-generating world.
By Matthew Berman
Blog•Oct 10, 2025
More Thinking. Worse Results. Wait, What?
From face recognition to grammar learning, both humans and models perform better when they don’t reason step-by-step. Here’s the paradox.
By Louis Bouchard
Blog•Oct 10, 2025
🧑🚀 2025 Best Inventions, LLM Backdoors & Nano Banana Camera
Best Inventions of 2025, LLM backdoor risks, Nano Banana camera, Google’s Gemini AI agents, and Microsoft’s record-breaking GB300 supercluster.
By Matthew Berman