Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
A crazy packed edition of Last Week in AI! Plus some small updates.
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
The Protect What’s Human campaign will push for commonsense AI safety rules at federal and state level
Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome, Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, Qwen3-Max-Thinking debuts, and more!
China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent, Google Brings Genie 3’s Interactive World-Building Prototype to AI Ultra Subscribers, and more!
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, The Drama at Thinking Machines, STEM: Scaling Transformers with Embedding Modules
Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of highly complex AI-generated code, often with the intention that the code will not be read by humans. It has cast quite…
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance, The Drama at Thinking Machines Is Riveting Silicon…
Anthropic’s new Cowork tool, Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Value, Deep Delta Learning
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described…
Google’s Gemini to power Apple’s AI features like Siri, OpenAI signs deal worth $10B for compute from Cerebras, and more!
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well…
Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, Meta Buys AI Startup Manus, Z.AI launches GLM-4.7
Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project, Grok is undressing anyone, NY passes AI regulation
Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, ChatGPT launches an app store, Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex
Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record, OpenAI opens ChatGPT to third-party apps via its Platform, and more!
But in a win for transparency, five leading companies participated in the scorecard's survey for the first time, providing critical new information to the public.
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic researchers have shown that boredom in the workplace can be just as damaging as burnout. But search…
Isaac 0.1 is a lightweight, grounded vision-language model built for real-world perception.
FLUX.2 brings professional-grade image generation and editing with unprecedented detail, multi-reference support, and enterprise efficiency.
How far do LLMs give us a step change in how good a search and recommendation system can be? Do they let you build one without needing a vast user…
Nano Banana Pro brings powerful new capabilities in image generation and editing. Here are the main prompt tricks you should know.