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The five kinds of software you can build with AI (and which one to start with)

The five kinds of software you can build with AI (and which one to start with)

Most people know what they want to build with AI – they just don’t know what kind of software it should be. This guide breaks personal software into five simple…

What Leopold’s final portfolio reveals about the next wave of AI investing

What Leopold’s final portfolio reveals about the next wave of AI investing

A wave of new 13F filings just revealed how top investors are positioning around AI—from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s leveraged memory bet to Berkshire’s quiet Googl…

How to run Ernie Image: the new best local AI image generator

How to run Ernie Image: the new best local AI image generator

Ernie Image is a powerful new open-source AI image generator that rivals top closed models, especially for text, posters, comics, and detailed scenes. Here’s ho…

How a cancelled gym class explains the next wave of AI agent attacks

How a cancelled gym class explains the next wave of AI agent attacks

A single AI agent booking a gym class accidentally exploited a real vulnerability and hurt a stranger’s reservation. That story, combined with new research on p…

They built an AI scientist: what its first accepted paper really means

They built an AI scientist: what its first accepted paper really means

A new AI system claims to automate the entire machine learning research process—from idea generation to writing papers—for just $15 per project. One of its pape…

Seedance 2.5 is now unlimited: how to turn ideas into full AI videos

Seedance 2.5 is now unlimited: how to turn ideas into full AI videos

Seedance 2.5 is a major leap in AI video generation, offering up to 30-second, 1080p clips with consistent characters, environments, and built-in sound. Here’s …

How to build an AI-powered affiliate marketing funnel in under an hour with GenSpark

How to build an AI-powered affiliate marketing funnel in under an hour with GenSpark

Learn how to use GenSpark’s AI agents to build a complete affiliate marketing funnel in one workspace – from landing page and interactive lead magnet to Pintere…

Alibaba’s Qwen challenge, Amazon’s $3T AI surge, and Apple’s subscription pivot

Alibaba’s Qwen challenge, Amazon’s $3T AI surge, and Apple’s subscription pivot

Alibaba claims its new Qwen model can rival Anthropic, Amazon’s AWS-driven AI business helps push it past a $3T valuation, and Apple quietly shifts iPhones and …

Why AI credit spreads are suddenly flashing 2008-style warning signs

Why AI credit spreads are suddenly flashing 2008-style warning signs

The AI boom has mostly been framed as a stock market story, but the real stress is now showing up in debt markets. Rising credit default swap costs, weaker bond…

The Morris II AI worm and why prompt injection is so hard to stop

The Morris II AI worm and why prompt injection is so hard to stop

A new research prototype called Morris II shows how AI assistants can be turned into self-spreading worms using nothing more than hidden text or images. Here’s …