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June 26
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Read it here.Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this essay.Mercury has automated basically my entire bill pay process for my business. I just give contractors a d…
‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste
This week, we’re bringing you two A.I.-related stories from our colleagues at The New York Times. First, Rachel Abrams, a host of “The Daily,” talks with the Ti…
Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown
When a new AI model drops, it’s judged based on a static benchmark grid that doesn’t account for how long the model is allowed to think. How then should we meas…
Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.
Anthropic just accused Alibaba of the largest known corporate espionage campaign against it, alleging 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million queries aimed at ste…
AI Copyright Risk in Financial Services and the Limits of Legacy Licensing - with Roanie Levy of CCC
A surge in AI adoption is creating a rights gap inside financial institutions, where everyday workflows now generate copyrighted reproductions at a scale existi…
June 25
CEO-Led AI Gets 3X the ROI
KPMG’s latest AI survey suggests the difference between experimentation and ROI may come down to accountability — and whether the CEO is actually leading. In th…
How Financial Services Leaders Operationalize Safe AI - with Dr. Oscar A. Rodriguez of Citi
The rapid expansion of AI in financial services is creating a widening gap between enterprise ambition and the operational readiness required to deploy systems…
Closing the Decision Gap in Volatile Supply Chains - with Prasad Mahajan of Optilogic and Dr. Gopalendu Pal of Target
Supply chains are moving from predictable planning cycles to a reality where volatility demands continuous redesign and faster decision‑making. In this episode…
#249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty
Our 249th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 06/17/2026Note: work has kept me from publishing episodes promptly, apolo…
June 24
5 Ways Claude Tag Could Change How You Use AI
Claude Tag could mark a shift from AI as a separate app to AI as a persistent teammate inside the places teams already work. NLW breaks down five ways that coul…
Building Self-Accelerating AI with Mirendil
Matt Bornstein speaks with Mirendil cofounders Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta about their vision for building self-accelerating AI. After leading research eff…
Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks
We’re excited to have Databricks join us at AIEWF, among hundreds of the top companies in the AI Engineer ecosystem. LS subscribers can use their discount to ge…
Inside Instacart's AI-Powered Smart Shopping Cart | NVIDIA AI Podcast Ep. 302
Instacart has 1.6 billion lifetime grocery orders—and is now using that data flywheel to digitize the physical store itself. In this episode, David McIntosh, Ch…
Seedance 2.5 Just Crushed AI Video. America Is Stalling.
ByteDance just unveiled Seedance 2.5, a new state-of-the-art AI video model with 30-second one-shot generations, as American AI stalls out and Fable 5 stays dow…
Why AI in Document-Heavy Workflows Fails Without the Right Foundation - with Sumedh Chaudhary of IBM
Enterprise AI initiatives consistently break down in document-heavy environments, not because the underlying models are inadequate, but because fragmented data…
June 23
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's $56B Plan to Take Over eBay
(0:00) David Friedberg intros GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen! (1:56) Building and selling Chewy for $3.35B, how to compete with Amazon in e-commerce (11:58) Post-Chewy…
The Right Way to Deal With AI Data Centers
As AI data centers become a bipartisan flashpoint, NLW argues for a better middle path: take community concerns seriously, get the numbers right, and negotiate…
AI-Empowered Customer Service, From Hype to Scalable Operations - with Shri Nandan of Comcast
Significant enterprise investment in AI-driven customer service is producing inconsistent outcomes — and the gap between deployment ambition and measurable busi…
June 22
He won a Nobel here for AlphaFold. Then he left. - John Jumper
This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at https://notion.com/mlstProtein folding stalled biology for fifty…
Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
AI Engineer World’s Fair regular bird tix will sell out ~today! Join us next week ahead of the Late Bird price hike and get >$40,000 in sponsor credits for atte…
Why AI Users Are Raving About GLM 5.2
GLM 5.2 is looking like the first open-weight model in a while that might survive contact with real-world usage, especially for coding and web design. NLW looks…
Unified Predictive Decision Making for Retail Growth - with Felix Hoffmann of 7Learnings
Retailers managing pricing, marketing, and inventory through separate teams with separate data are losing margin not to market volatility, but to decisions that…
June 21
June 20
AI Is Reading 15 Million X-Rays a Year With No Human in the Loop | Prashant Warier, Qure.ai
Eighty percent of lung cancer cases are diagnosed too late, not because the signals aren't there, but because nobody was looking at the right moment. Prashant W…
The 5-Minute AI Weekly Recap: Realignment Week
This week, the Fable fallout became a broader realignment across AI, pushing more attention toward open models, model routing, local control, and the risks of b…
June 19
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
(0:00) Bestie intros! (2:41) The New Oligarchs, America's incoming politburo, and learned helplessness (14:18) SpaceX's record breaking IPO, $60B Cursor acquisi…
Your Company Doesn’t Need an AI Strategy
...it needs an AI learning system. This episode argues that the Fable 5 disruption exposed a deeper enterprise problem: companies can’t treat AI as a vendor str…
The data black hole at the center of AI
Read the transcript here.Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this essay!Mercury just released a new feature called Command, which gives me AI right in my banking p…
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future
We’re back with our final installment from Hard Fork Live, recorded at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we’re joined by Sa…
Midjourney Built a Body Scanner. AI Science Just Got Real.
AI NEWS: AI Image company Midjourney just unveiled Midjourney Scanner, a full-body medical scanner, and it might be one of the first real signs that the AI scie…