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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 →

If you've been following the The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation (1:23-cv-11195) case, you may wake up this morning worrying that New York Times lawyers will soon comb through your late‑night ChatGPT confessions. Breathe easy – they almost certainly will not. Continue Reading →

On July 1, the U.S. Senate voted 99-1 to remove a proposed 10-year federal ban on state-level AI regulation from President Trump's comprehensive tax-cut and spending bill. The amendment, introduced by Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, was adopted during a marathon "vote-a-rama" session. Continue Reading →

The rules of AI training have just changed. By default, Cloudflare will now block AI scrapers across the millions of websites it protects (roughly 24% of all sites on the internet). Any AI company seeking to crawl a Cloudflare-hosted site will have to obtain explicit permission from the content owner. This is the first infrastructure-level defense of its kind. Continue Reading →

We've spent two years teaching everyone about "prompt engineering," which has been great. But crafting clever questions represents perhaps 5% of what makes enterprise AI successful. Now, there's a new term being added to the buzzword bingo lexicon: "context engineering." I want to make fun of it, but I really like it. Context engineering isn't about the evolution of end user behavior, it's a nice way to describe the components you need to get the most out of the current crop of LLMs and Reasoning Engines. Continue Reading →