Everything AI did this year was crazy and none of it was weird
Anthropic doubled its research speed and spent six times as much doing it. What it didn’t buy is the thing Adam Mastroianni says we need more of.
We were distracted last week, managing a parent's failing health, and didn't get a newsletter out.
Chapter 4 of Stay Human: The Journey People Take Helen's new chapter maps the territory that isn'
Jack Dorsey laid off 4,000 people and called it an AI strategy. But when AI creates time, the interesting question isn't whether to cut—it's what you choose to do with the time you've freed. Dorsey chose to give it away.
A conversation with Blaise Agüera y Arcas about his new book, What Is Intelligence?
Chapter 3 of Stay Human: The Three Ways You're Changing Dave: Helen's latest chapter introduces the
When a CEO announces that AI can replace their workforce, they're not making a bold bet on the future. They're telling you their business has no core.
Stay Human: Chapter 2 Helen just published Chapter 2 of Stay Human: "The Right to a Future Tense."
A conversation with Steven Sloman about his new book, The Cost of Conviction
Stay Human: Chapter 1 Last week, Helen published The Artificiality: AI, Culture, and Why the Future Will Be Co-Evolution.
Why Wall Street's panic over AI agents misunderstands what makes enterprise software valuable—and what makes AI useful
A conversation with Ellie Pavlick, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
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