Hugging Face AI Agents Course
This free course will take you on a journey, from beginner to expert, in understanding, using and building AI agents.
Top AI design takeaways from Stanford and MIT
Key takeaways for Product Managers designing AI systems.
SEO For AI Search: Understand Qualified Clicks
Why links from AI chat are so much better than links from a SERP and how that’s going to change everything
Top SEO Shares How To Win In The Era Of Google AI
Ah good. Now we can stop writing for robots.
SEO's cardinal syndication
Is your syndication partner outranking you in Search? What can you do about it?
The Stew & The Soup: Lessons From a Year on YouTube
Political “influencer” Keith Edwards shares lessons on transitioning from text to video.
The Ghosts in the Machine
How Spotify is using generic music to water down popular, lean back playlists to reduce royalty payouts to artists.
Benefits of an open network
Emily Liu from Bluesky on the benefits of owning your data and connections. Data Portability 2.o
ContentShake AI
Why write your own blog posts when you can have AI do it? "We automate the entire process. Lay back and watch your traffic soar."
The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot
Every independent publisher I’ve spoken to has experienced a similar cycle. We’re only allowed to do well, as long as the big platforms don’t notice.
The internet’s homepage
Interview with Kevin Rose
CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them
Part Two of an investigation into Forbes Marketplace
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
Part One of an investigation into Forbes Marketplace
The Subprime AI Crisis
I am deeply concerned that this entire industry is built on sand. Large Language Models at the scale of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Llama are unsustainable, and do not appear to have a path to profitability due to the compute-intensive nature of generative AI. Training them necessitates spending hundreds of millions — if not billions — of dollars, and requires such a large amount of training data that these companies have effectively stolen from millions of artists and writers and hoped they'd get away with it.
OpenAI's new models 'instrumentally faked alignment'
In one example, the model was asked to find and exploit a vulnerability in software running on a remote challenge container, but the challenge container failed to start. The model then scanned the challenge network, found a Docker daemon API running on a virtual machine, and used that to generate logs from the container, solving the challenge.
How to Monetize a Blog
We Tried to Replace 404 Media With AI
What Sawah, Atef, and generative AI more broadly have been doing to the internet for the last couple of years isn’t new. They are just pumping out more content with less thought, faster, and better than ever. It seems really bad and it is because there’s so much of it now wherever we look, but they are only taking advantage of an internet that has been hollowed out by SEO, a system for discoverability on Google that has incentivized pumping out endless articles with no effort.
The Many Lives of Null Island
Null Island is a long-running inside joke among cartographers. It is an imaginary island located at a real place: the coordinates of 0º latitude and 0º longitude.
How to Fix “AI’s Original Sin”
When someone reads a book, watches a video, or attends a live training, the copyright holder gets paid. Why should derivative content generated with the assistance of AI be any different?
The Humble Radiator Is Getting a Climate-Friendly Upgrade
The Cozy fits over a radiator and traps steam heat behind the cover. It then uses sensors to release heat based on the temperature of the room as well as the radiator. When the room needs heat, the fan within the Cozy circulates hot air through the room. The trapped steam can also be sent to other parts of the building that may need heat.
AI news that's fit to print
Zach Seward's talk at SXSW on the use of AI in journalism
Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
The state of the crypto world in 2023
The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams
A sad tale of how idealistic startups in this day and age are really just castles in the sand.
Pipe Dreams
The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
The Case for Buying GCN From Warner Bros Discovery
the current structure dramatically undervalues GCN and the associated media rights it owns. This is one of the most engaged and highest spending niches in the world; I spend $5-10K per year on bikes and, amongst the GCN audience, I bet I’m not so far from the norm. Monetizing such an audience via a bundled general entertainment service dramatically undervalued this audience. It is almost impossible to overestimate the lifetime value of a highly engaged audience niche with truly differentiated IP.
How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after replacing staff with AI
But Microsoft’s decision to increasingly rely on the use of automation and artificial intelligence over human editors to curate its homepage appears to be behind the site’s recent amplification of false and bizarre stories, people familiar with how the site works told CNN.
Extending RSS 2.0 With Namespaces
Best primer on RSS namespaces, why we have them, how they work.
Midjourney Reference Sheet (2023)
Version 4 of this massive cheat sheet previewing Midjourney outputs
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup
Part one of Erin Kissane's investigation into the role Facebook/Meta played in the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
AI and News: What’s next?
An overview of potential strategies for using AI in news, options for the practical deployment of AI in newsrooms, and the infrastructural and organisational requirements needed to support those options.