Grant Harvey

Remember when video filters just meant dog ears on Snapchat? That’s ancient history now. Dean Leitersdorf was on Dan Shipper’s Every podcast and mid-sentence transformed into a wizard shooting candlelight from his hands, then turned a tissue box into a portal gun that actually fires when you pull the trigger. This is Mirage, the first real-time […]

Microsoft and OpenAI restructure: nonprofit gains $100B stake in for-profit arm, boosting funds for safe AGI and historic community impact.

Affirm CEO Max Levchin says artificial intelligence is boosting humanity’s brainpower. Speaking on TBPN last Friday, the PayPal mafia alum argued that AI is effectively raising the universe’s average IQ — or at least the IQ of anyone online. This tracks with what Ethan Mollick just wrote about “mass intelligence,” or the idea that nearly a billion […]

Nvidia dropped its new Jetson Thor robotics computer last week, and it’s basically giving robots a massive brain upgrade. We’re talking about 7.5x more AI processing power than the previous generation, which means robots can finally think and react in real-time instead of stuttering through tasks like they’re buffering a YouTube video from 2009. Here’s […]

OpenAI released its full playbook for prompting gpt-realtime, and it turns out voice AI needs totally different techniques than text models. Here are the game-changing tactics. Essential Realtime prompting techniques Our favorite insight: That last point. Small word swaps like “inaudible” to “unintelligible” can dramatically improve performance. Like GPT-5, the model is incredibly sensitive to precise wording […]

a16z’s new top 100 consumer AI apps ranking shows Google’s big AI push, Grok 4’s surge, and vibe coding’s rise — revealing how the AI ecosystem is evolving.

Remember when everyone thought AI would replace writers and coders first? Apparently, a venture capitalist recently told OpenAI’s Noam Brown that sure, AI could do those things — but making “accurate, calibrated predictions about the future?” That’s uniquely human. Well, University of Chicago just dropped Prophet Arena to test that theory, and the results are… humbling. Here’s the deal Prophet Arena throws […]

Remember when AI image generators couldn’t keep a character’s face straight between two pictures? Well, Google just dropped its much-hyped new model (codename: nano-banana 🍌), now known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, that you can try for free on AI Studio. The big deal? This model nails character consistency like nothing we’ve seen before. You can place the […]

Goldman Sachs just released some new research on AI and jobs that lands in the “short-term pain, long-term gain” camp. Here’s the TL;DR: The debate over artificial intelligence and its impact on the job market often swings between two extremes: a utopian future of unprecedented productivity and a dystopian one of mass unemployment. A new, comprehensive report from Goldman […]

We’re living in the age of AI agents, and yet, we’re still working with PDFs? What gives?Well, Adobe unleashed Acrobat Studio last week, and it’s about time someone made PDFs less… PDF-y. The new platform combines Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and AI agents into one workspace where you can chat with your docs, get insights, and create […]

Just when you thought AI video was getting good, Google DeepMind previewed Genie 3, a new “world model” that generates an entire interactive world from a single text prompt. Forget passively watching. With Genie 3, you can navigate these AI-generated environments in real-time at 24 frames per second. It’s like playing a video game where the level is […]

A new study in The Lancet, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, just dropped some uncomfortable news: Experienced doctors who used AI to help spot colon cancer actually got worse at finding it when the AI wasn’t around. Just as this evidence of human fallibility emerged, another blockbuster paper was published claiming that OpenAI’s next-generation model, GPT-5, has […]