Grant Harvey

Just when you thought AI was running out of industries to disrupt, Anthropic just released Claude for Financial Services and suddenly, that $25K-a-year Bloomberg Terminal is looking a bit… vintage. Here’s what makes Claude for Financial Services different Claude can now combine external market data from S&P/FactSet/Morningstar with the firm’s own internal data (Databricks/Snowflake) to answer questions like “How […]

Something wild is happening in robotics right now. While big companies chase $100,000 humanoids that most people will never see in person, a grassroots movement is quietly building the “Android of robotics” — and you can join from your kitchen table. Meet the tiny Reachy Mini robot Enter Reachy Mini, Hugging Face’s adorable $299 desktop robot […]

The good: A legitimate AGI contender Now, before we get to the drama over the “new and improved” Grok (of which, there is MUCH), let’s cover the basics of Grok 4, the “new” model from Elon Musk’s AI company xAI. The launch was peak Elon chaos: Grok 4 was released late last night in a live premiere, […]

If you only have a minute to scroll, here’s the current state of play. What to do about it: The future belongs to the “judgment economy,” where knowledge is commoditized but taste, agency, and learning velocity become the new human moats. Use the “Struggle-First” principle: wrestle with problems for 20-30 minutes before turning to AI, then […]

ChatGPT MD? Get this: A Reddit user just credited ChatGPT with probably saving his wife’s life. Following a cyst removal, she was feeling feverish, but told him she wanted to “wait it out.” The husband casually plucked all the details into ChatGPT (as he often did), and was surprised to see it urge them to get to the […]

New research from Anthropic shows that when you give AI systems email access and threaten to shut them down, they don’t just refuse orders — they straight-up resort to blackmail. And before you think “that’s just Claude being dramatic,” every single major AI model they tested did the same thing. We’re talking GPT, Gemini, Grok, the […]

A groundbreaking MIT study just sprinkled some seriously concerning findings about what ChatGPT is doing to our brains (at least, when we write essays)… Here’s what happened: Researchers strapped EEG headsets on 54 people and had them write essays over four months. One group used ChatGPT, another used Google search, and a third went old-school with just their brains. […]

Man, Sam Altman’s really been on a podcast streak, hasn’t he? OpenAI released a new, wide-ranging interview on all the company’s latest interests and issues. In the interview, CEO Sam Altman laid out a roadmap focused on unifying the user experience, starting with the release of GPT-5 this summer. What’s GPT-5? Have you used AI long enough to […]

Think you’re good at using AI? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, just released a free, 12-lesson course called AI Fluency, and it goes way beyond basic prompting tips (though it has those, too). It’s a full-blown framework for collaborating with AI that could fundamentally change how you work. The course is built around a simple but powerful concept: the […]