Adobe's VFX, Monetization in AI, Interactive Site on LLMs, CES and Gaslighting

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

Let’s get down to business, shall we? No bullshit here. Hope the week is going well.

• I laughed out loud when I saw the above comic. So true. So true.

• Will it be unethical to not use AI for medicine and healthcare? Huh.

• An interesting, non-AI look at how Apple is killing Swift.

• Musk says 3rd Neuralink patient is hooked up.

• Changes in AI monetization.

• AI-driven prototypiing: v0, Bolt, and Lovable compared.

• AI agent has control of a (defi) wallet. Huh.

• Adobe has released a VFX AI app.

• Elon talks about the future of AI and robots. OpenAI is getting into the game too.

• Self-guided therapy app.

• Sky-T1 is cheap and it’s open source.

• A classic, worth a re-read: I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again.

• Mark goes Rogan, again (above).

• A good way of thinking about prompting. Goal, format, warnings, context.

• Kokoro is neat. Open source, give it a try.

• Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt is working on a new AI project. Guess the name.

• OpenAI’s economic blueprint for how the US will win.

• Teaching tool with planning and student scheduling.

• Go Legal AI is what you think it is.

• Code faster with this new AI tool called Codebuff.

• Interactive website on how LLMs work. Neato!

• A good take on how things are really shaping up. Will AI replace midlevel engineers? Mark Z. thinks so. I agree.

• Visual mindmaps for everyone (below):

• The Bulletproof product manager in 2025.

• AI model integrated with Unreal Engine is pretty incredible.

• Aaron Levie of Box has some thoughts about AI in the enterprise.

• A web-based version of Kokoro, an impressive text-to-speech model, free.

• Cheating is all you need (thoughts on software and AI).

• A skill(s) that will help define product manager’s success in 2025:

• CES was a giant exercise in gaslighting (for AI).

• Starlink is now cheaper in some African countries than ISPs.

• Singapore is using AI for healthcare for its rapidly aging population.

• The Crypto / AI landscape.

And that’s it friends! Have a great Tuesday!

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— Summer