Hey 👋 A recent study from MIT got people talking these last few weeks: Is ChatGPT rotting our brains? The study tracked brain activity as students wrote essays, with and without AI assistance. The results were concerning. Those who used ChatGPT showed weaker brain connectivity, lower recall, and less sense of ownership over their work. Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff offered a more balanced perspective. Her takeaway is that AI is not the problem. How we use it is. If we allow AI to do the...
9 days ago • 4 min read
Hey 👋 Microsoft has invested billions in positioning Copilot as the go-to AI tool for work. But users are not buying in (yet). A new Bloomberg report confirms what many are experiencing. Even at companies with tens of thousands of Copilot licenses, employees still prefer ChatGPT — because it “works better” and feels more familiar. We are hearing the same in customer conversations. Copilot feels slow, rigid, and tied to Microsoft’s legacy. ChatGPT is faster, more flexible, and already part of...
16 days ago • 3 min read
Hey 👋 Earlier this year, startup CEOs from Shopify and Duolingo shared internal “AI memos” urging their teams to embrace AI or risk falling behind. Most came from fast-moving, product-led tech companies. But now, a major shift: Amazon, the second‑largest private employer in the U.S., has joined the AI memo wave. In a message to employees, CEO Andy Jassy said that as generative AI and agents become more deeply embedded across the company, Amazon’s corporate headcount will shrink over time....
23 days ago • 2 min read
Hey 👋 This week, OpenAI launched o3-pro, its most advanced reasoning model yet—and slashed o3 pricing by 80% to make it more accessible for developers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also shared his vision for a gentle singularity, where superintelligence arrives sooner than expected but feels surprisingly manageable. But that wasn’t the only AI news this week. Let’s dive in 🏄 AI Pulse 🚨 A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news. 🚀 OpenAI launches o3-pro model. The company released...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey 👋🏻 Another week packed with updates and big news in AI 🔥 OpenAI announced a major upgrade to their enterprise offering, along with new tools in their SDK for building AI agents—making it easier to create powerful, customized assistants. Anthropic—the company behind Claude, a popular alternative to ChatGPT—also shared big news: Claude Projects can now handle 10× more context, and new integrations let users connect popular tools via the MCP protocol. ElevenLabs launched what might be the...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hey 👋 This week, Veo 3 flooded the internet with ultra-realistic videos, Perplexity launched “Labs,” DeepSeek quietly pushed an R1 update that matches Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Anthropic finally rolled out voice mode for Claude. Let’s dive in! 🏄♂️ AI Pulse 🚨 A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news. 🔍 Perplexity Labs is herePerplexity just launched Perplexity Labs, a new tool that lets users generate reports, spreadsheets, and interactive dashboards using AI. With support for...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Where do we even begin? 😅 The pace of AI developments has been intense for a while — but this week? It went into overdrive. Here is the short version: Anthropic dropped Claude 4, “the world's best coding model” OpenAI brought on Jony Ive — the iPhone legend — to reimagine personal computing. Google I/O and Microsoft Build unleashed a flood of updates across everything from search to filmmaking. And OpenAI rolled out powerful new tools for building agentic applications. Let’s dive in! 🏄♂️ AI...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hey 👋 This week OpenAI released Codex, a cloud-based coding agent that handles feature development, bug fixes, and testing in parallel — bringing “pair programming” to Pro, Team, and Enterprise users inside ChatGPT (Plus users soon!). The launch is particularly interesting given the rumors that OpenAI is acquiring the AI-powered coding tool Windsurf. Speaking of Windsurf, they released SWE-1 this week, their first AI models for coding optimized for the entire software engineering lifecycle....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hey 👋 This week, the "vibe coding" hype showed no signs of slowing down. Google rolled out an updated version of Gemini 2.5 Pro—its most capable model yet for coding apps—ranking first on the WebDev Arena Leaderboard. Rumors also surfaced that OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf, a leading AI coding tool, hinting at deeper integration of native code capabilities inside ChatGPT. At the same time, Cursor, now arguably the most popular AI coding tool, announced a massive funding round—reaching a $9B...
2 months ago • 2 min read