I was at the AWS Summit yesterday where Amazon threw down the gauntlet in the enterprise AI agent space with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and an additional $100 million investment in their Generative AI Innovation Center. Continue Reading →
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Google just confirmed what many publishers have been dreading: AI summaries are now live in Discover, the main news feed within Google's search app on iOS and Android. This isn't another test; it's a full U.S. launch that fundamentally changes how millions of users consume news daily. Continue Reading →
Google just launched “featured notebooks” in NotebookLM, and they’ve created something entirely new: eight curated collections from respected experts that come preloaded with interactive AI that can answer questions, generate podcast-style discussions, and create mind maps from the source material. The lineup includes Eric Topol’s longevity advice from “Super Agers,” The Economist’s 2025 predictions, Arthur Continue Reading →
Instead of buying or earning your way to the top of a SERP, you are now going to do everything you can to help a reasoning engine respond to a prompt with a glowing endorsement of your product and, in a perfect world, a link or a path to a direct transaction. How will you get an "intelligence decoupled from consciousness" to favor your brand? Let's explore. Continue Reading →
Google launched photo-to-video capabilities in Gemini yesterday, allowing users to transform static images into eight-second video clips with AI-generated sound. The feature is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in select countries and uses the company's Veo 3 AI video model. The feature was already available in Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool that launched in May, but bringing it to Gemini expands access to a much wider user base. Photo-to-video generation is rolling out on the web today, with mobile users expected to have access by the weekend. Continue Reading →
The browser wars just got interesting. Reuters reported yesterday that OpenAI is launching an AI-powered web browser in the coming weeks. Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that OpenAI will integrate ChatGPT directly into browsing, letting AI agents fill out forms, book reservations, and handle tasks without clicking through to websites. Continue Reading →
This week has been full of hands-on AI experiments. Yesterday, we built a web-based “Yiddish Curse Generator” in under 10 minutes by simply describing it to Claude Code. Today, we’re hunting for Prime Day deals, not by browsing Amazon, but by asking ChatGPT (or any AI platform with web access) to find exactly what we want. Continue Reading →
I received quite a few emails questioning the thesis of my Sunday essay, What Happens When English Becomes the Only Programming Language You Need? Rather than answer all of you individually, here's a quick case study. Continue Reading →
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently said: "There's a new programming language. It's called English." It's not a metaphor. It's his description of the most significant shift in the doing of work we've seen since the invention of the assembly line. Now, let's reduce this idea to practice and put an aggressive timeline on it: In 36 months, code and content will be essentially free. Too aggressive? Let's explore. Continue Reading →
For several years past, I have set forth diverse iterations of the "Hottest Tech Trends of 1776." In this present annum, I have revis'd the enumeration with the sage advisement of many amongst you, and with a modicum of assistance from the artificer GPT-4o. Thus, for your reading pleasure in honor of our Day of Independence, I present to thee 24 most esteemed technological marvels circa 1776. Continue Reading →