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This Week In Startups is made possible by:Gusto - https://www.gusto.com/twistLemon IO -  https://lemon.io/twistQuo - http://quo.com/TWiSTToday's show: We keep hearing about how AI is killing our ability to think, filling our media with slop, and ruining our kids' ability to learn. It seems the internet is filled with negative sentiment about the future AI is bringing.Jason is joined by Grant Lee, CEO and co-founder of Gamma, as well as Steven Johnson, editorial director of NotebookLM to tackle these questions on today's AI roundtable!Grant and Steven break down how they are using AI to push forward their own productivity as well as their teams. Both say that AI makes you more creative! Steven points out that it helped him write his books by having AI do the “chore work” while he got to focus on the valuable insights and higher level thinking.One valuable tip was that AI can be used to uncover customer insights in a new medium. Steven and Grant both put customer feedback into an LLM, allowed them to have high level conversations with their whole user base about what features and products they each enjoy. If that isn't creative, then what is?Learn about all this and more in today's roundtable!Timestamps:(00:00) Introducing Steven Johnson and Grant Lee!(10:12) Gusto: Check out the online payroll and benefits experts with software built specifically for small business and startups. Try Gusto today and get three months FREE at https://www.gusto.com/twist(11:28) How Jason and the TWiST team uses NotebookLM(12:37) Will AI replace lawyers in startups and VC? Should they?(16:08) How the Gamma team uses AI understand their consumers(19:43) Lemon.io: Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://lemon.io/twist(22:38) How the Google team uses AI to “talk” to their whole user base.(24:45) Is AI replicating our brains and consciousness?(28:18) The ways that AI is changing how companies process information.(30:39) Quo (formerly OpenPhone) gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at http://quo.com/TWiST(31:43) Jason thinks groupchats are the modern coffee shop for interesting ideas!(32:48) Why Steven thinks AI makes creatives MORE ORIGINAL(40:02) HALF of US adults think AI makes you less creative(43:20) Grant defends using AI for doing research + making business decisions(45:28) Superforecasting — How to think about your thinking(53:00) Is education going back to blue books and oral exams?(56:30) Jevons Paradox and How AI will increase jobs for all!(59:50) Edison put whale hunters out of business but brought in electricians and movie industry(1:02:36) Jason coaches his employees to 10x themselves with AI tools to push value(1:05:54) Jason's call to join the AI revolution*Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.comCheck out the TWIST500: https://twist500.comSubscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp*Follow Lon:X: https://x.com/lons*Follow Alex:X: https://x.com/alexLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/*Follow Jason:X: https://twitter.com/JasonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis/*Thank you to our partners:(10:12) Gusto: Check out the online payroll and benefits experts with software built specifically for small business and startups. Try Gusto today and get three months FREE at https://www.gusto.com/twist(19:43) Lemon.io: Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://lemon.io/twist(30:39) Quo (formerly OpenPhone) gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at http://quo.com/TWiST

The Fakeologist Show, described as an “IPS joint,” aired this episode on Monday, January 5, 2026, featuring host discussion with Tim Osmond regarding the deconstruction of global events and media narratives. The participants reflected on 2025 as a “psyop rich environment” where they refined their methodology for identifying media fakery and staged events, such as the reported deaths of Charlie Kirk and Rob Reiner, which they categorize as psychological operations rather than organic news. The show serves as a “fake news wood chipper,” utilizing a research group known as the IPS think tank to analyze patterns in the “theater of psywar”—a concept suggesting that major history-making events are prefabricated scripts performed for the public.Key highlights from the discussion include:Technology and AI Integration: Tim Osmond detailed his transition to using Substack for broadcasting and NotebookLM for analyzing documents and creating “transcript synopses” of episodes.Analysis of “Predictive Programming”: The hosts analyzed the film Leave the World Behind as a “meta-script” by the Obamas, suggesting it prepares the public for a “lockdown of the internet” and the implementation of digital IDs to treat “mind viruses”.Cultural Hoaxes: The show explored the “Frankenstein” subtext surrounding the Rob Reiner story and the “9-11 coded” death of Dick Cheney, arguing these are archetypal storylines meant to serve specific agendas.The Future of Control: The discussion touched on the idea that “alien invasion” themes in media are actually preparing humanity for an AI takeover or a “higher intelligence” referee that will eventually manage human affairs.Featured Quotes:“Instead of reacting, respond. Instead of being triggered, suspend judgment and then give it time and then decide.” — Tim Ozman “I think 2025 was one of the most SIOP rich environments we've lived through... everything just broke down as we thought it would.” — Tim Ozman“Alt media is just like an alternative pen. They'll let you get off the farm and go a little free range, but you still can't go too far.” — FakeologistTo understand their perspective, one might think of their approach as being like a theatrical critic watching a play; while the rest of the audience is emotionally swept up in the drama on stage, the hosts are busy pointing out the stagehands in the wings and the script sitting on the director's tableLinks Mentioned in the Showips.monsterinfiniteplanesociety.substack.comfakeologist.comfakeologist.blogshortfake.com/Discordshortfake.com/Restreamfakeologist.com/donateThe show functions like a filter for a muddy river, where the participants attempt to strain out the “silt” of manufactured propaganda to see what underlying structures remain in the water.

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Crusoe Cloud - https://crusoe.ai/buildUber - http://uber.com/twistEvery.io - http://every.io/Today's show: Jason and Alex are BACK on TWiST for 2026! This holiday season was anything but calm, with deca-corn acquisitions, massive Polymarket bets, and major new startups breaking from stealth!Jason talks the recent Nvidia-Groq $20B acquisition, a major exit for Chamath as the lead investor back in 2017! Jason delves into how the VC fund math shapes out for pre-seed VC funds vs. Series A VC funds.Jason and Alex delve into drama swirling META's AI team. Yann LeCun, META's former Chief AI Scientist, announced that he would be leaving META to become Executive Chairman at AMI Labs. LeCun left the META team in the new year, calling the new Chief AI Scientist, Alexandr Wang, inexperienced. LeCun now looks to move AI beyond the era of LLM at AMI Labs.PLUS Jason and Alex talk about the new social media app Tangle, from Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, and Evan Sharp, co-founder of Pinterest. Their Startup, West Co, launched tangle, which seeks to become an “intentional living” app. The two look to improve how humans interact with modern tech. Jason points out that very few news products have worked, but is eager to see how two industry veterans build in the space. Timestamps:(00:00) Why Restaurants are OVER — Peptides and other self medications(06:41) Nvidia Acqui-Hires Groq for $20 BILLION(9:48) Crusoe Cloud: Crusoe is the AI factory company. Reliable infrastructure and expert support. Visit https://crusoe.ai/build to reserve your capacity for the latest GPUs today.(11:00) The VC fund math between seed vs. Series A funds(15:00) META buys TWiST 500 Company, Manus! Why it matters.(20:20) Uber AI Solutions: Your trusted partner to get AI to work in the real world. Book a demo with them TODAY at http://uber.com/twist(21:24) Why Yann LeCun left META, and what could be behind it(25:27) Producer Claude on the Gondola Crash in Zurich(29:13) Jason's Request for Augmented human intelligence(30:11) Every.io - For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit http://every.io/(32:04) How one Trader made $436.8k on one bet on polymarket!(36:05) Jason's Predictions for 2026 IPOs(40:01) Is news broken? How Tangle is tackling it.(45:53) How much should startup incur in legal expenses? Should founders try to use AI to avoid costs?(50:59) Why Google should let NotebookLM cook, make it a standalone brand! *Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com/Check out the TWIST500: https://twist500.comSubscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp*Follow Lon:X: https://x.com/lons*Follow Alex:X: https://x.com/alexLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/*Follow Jason:X: https://twitter.com/JasonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis/*Thank you to our partners:(9:48) Crusoe Cloud: Crusoe is the AI factory company. Reliable infrastructure and expert support. Visit https://crusoe.ai/build to reserve your capacity for the latest GPUs today.(20:20) Uber AI Solutions: Your trusted partner to get AI to work in the real world. Book a demo with them TODAY at http://uber.com/twist(30:11) Every.io - For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit http://every.io/

In this episode, host Mike Palmer welcomes back Dr. Eddie Watson to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of AI in higher education. Following the release of the second edition of his book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, Eddie shares insights from working with nearly 200 campus teams on transitioning from AI-resistant assignments to AI-integrated pedagogy. Here's the link to Eddie's first appearance. Key Takeaways: Beyond Academic Integrity: While cheating remains a concern, the conversation is shifting toward AI literacy as an essential learning outcome to prepare students for an AI-integrated workforce. The "Calculus" of Cheating: In high-stakes environments, students often feel a competitive disadvantage if they don't use AI. Pedagogical Transparency: If faculty ban AI for specific assignments, they must explain the "why" (e.g., building foundational skills) to encourage student compliance Backward Design: Eddie advocates for starting with the desired learning outcome and engineering assignments and instruction from there. Learning to Write vs. Writing to Learn: AI's role should differ based on whether the goal is mastering writing mechanics or using writing to process course content. Durable Skills: While technical skills like prompt engineering may change quickly, mindsets like metacognition and critical thinking remain essential. "Ground Truth" Bots: Using tools like NotebookLM or Small Language Models (SLMs) allows students to interrogate specific, vetted data sets like OER textbooks. Efficiency vs Engagement: The episode concludes with a look at the "Efficiency vs. Engagement" binary. While institutions may use AI to automate grading and increase class sizes, the real opportunity lies in reinvesting saved time into "signature pedagogies"—mentoring and fostering a sense of student belonging, which are the greatest predictors of student success. Quotes: "The one who does the work is the one who does the learning. How do we make sure our students are doing the work, because that's where the learning occurs?" — Eddie Watson Time Stamps: 00:00 - Introduction & Welcome Back 00:55 - The Innovation Cycle: Second Edition of "Teaching with AI" 01:41 - Eddie Watson's Background & Role at AAC&U 03:32 - The Shift: From Academic Integrity to the World of Work 05:10 - Complexity of Academic Integrity & Student Pressures 07:42 - Evolving Assessment Strategies & Motivation to Cheat 10:55 - Backward Design: Aligning AI with Learning Outcomes 12:54 - Writing to Learn vs. Learning to Write 14:43 - Agentic AI & Modernizing Assessments 18:50 - Creating "AI-Resistant" vs. AI-Transparent Assignments 24:43 - Developing a Meta AI Literacy Model 28:00 - Durable Skills: Metacognition & Managing AI 33:50 - Custom Chatbots, SLMs, and Ground Truths 46:40 - The Future: Efficiency vs. Engagement 49:00 - The Human Element: Mentorship & Student Belonging 51:00 - Closing Remarks Subscribe to Trending in Ed wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an insight-filled conversation like this one.

This podcast was created using NotebookLM.This podcast discusses how modern dentistry is transitioning from basic symptom relief toward biologically driven regeneration, where the success of high-tech treatments depends on a patient's internal health.

This podcast was created using NotebookLM. This podcast highlights the critical link between Type 2 diabetes and various oral fungal pathologies, noting that mouth issues often serve as early indicators of systemic disease.

Might internal memos be a thing of the past?When you can just build something as fast as writing a memo about it, why wouldn't you just build the demo? In this episode of Everyday AI, we sit down with Google Cloud's Richard Seroter to break down five simple ways to use AI with Google. No technical background needed.We talk faster research, better learning, building ideas without overthinking, and why “demos over memos” might change how teams work.If you want practical, no-BS ways to actually use AI in your day‑to‑day, this one's worth a listen.5 Practical AI Workflows That Actually Matter -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson and Google's Richard Seroter (Replay)Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Five Practical AI Workflows with GoogleGemini Deep Research for Rapid AnalysisNotebookLM AI-Powered Knowledge ExplorationGemini CLI and Code Assist for DevelopersGoogle Jewels Autonomous Coding AgentsAI Change Management and Workflow AutomationGemini's Contextual Integration with Email and CalendarGemini and Agentic AI Across Google ProductsTimestamps:00:00 "Simple AI Strategies for Workflows"06:14 "Embracing AI-First Thinking"08:49 "Effective Strategies for Deep Research"11:24 "Context Engineering with LLMs"15:32 "Unlocking AI's Business Potential"17:33 Simplifying Complexity with AI21:21 "Everyone's a Builder Now"24:54 "Building AI Tools for Everyone"28:06 "Communicating Intent to AI Agents"30:16 "AI: The Smarter Interface"33:30 "Everyday AI: Wrap-Up & Subscribe"Keywords:Gemini Deep Research, Google AI, generative AI, AI workflows, Google Cloud, NotebookLM, AI strategies, AI transformation, change management, contextualized AI, agentic work, AI-powered research, personalized AI, deep research tools, collaborative AI agents, AI in business, AI for analysis, large language models, AI for everyday business leaders, Gemini CLI, code assist, AI coding agent, Google Jewels, autonomous AI, background AI teammate, context engineering, integrating AI in workflows, AI for HR, marketing AI, AI-powered knowledge management, learning with AI, AI onboarding, student AI tools, spec driven development, Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Ready for ROI on GenAI? Go to youreverydayai.com/partner 

In this episode of Business Brain, you step into the fast-moving world of AI and learn how to choose the right tool for the job. You compare Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, with real-world insight into why Perplexity may hallucinate less right now. You explore purpose-built tools like Gamma AI for presentations, NotebookLM for research, Manus AI for automation, and creative powerhouses like Sora AI and Google Veo. The focus is simple: stop chasing shiny objects and start picking AI that actually moves your business forward. You also hear how AI is showing up in everyday workflows with Loom AI and Zoom AI, making communication faster and smarter. The episode wraps with the 2025 Business Brain MacBook Giveaway winner announcement, reinforcing why listening with intention can pay off. It's all about making better decisions, working smarter, and building your own Charmed Life with the right mix of strategy and technology. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs' Podcast #715 for Casual FridAI, January 2nd, 2026 January 2nd: National Science Fiction Day 00:01:31 Choosing the right AI Perplexity vs. ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini Anecdotally, Perplexity hallucinates less than ChatGPT today Gamma AI for creating presentations NotebookLM Manus AI Google Veo Sora AI Loom AI Zoom AI 00:11:56 2025 Business Brain MacBook Giveaway Winner — Scott, aka “BB Review-WeRPID-A Must-Listen for Anyone with a Growth Mindset” from 663 on July 4th, 2025 Review Business Brain 00:16:15 Business Brain 715 Outtro Tell Your Friends! Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show feedback@businessbrain.show Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – Choosing the Right AI – Business Brain 715 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.

Send us a textIn this annual predictions spectacular, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias kick off 2026 by looking back at how well their 2025 AI forecasts held up (spoiler: pretty darn well) and then boldly lay out what's coming next for artificial intelligence, associations, and knowledge work. From real-world AI recruiting agents and voice-first interfaces to the rise of AI literacy as a job requirement, the shift from SEO to AEO, and the very real possibility of AI-native platforms disrupting traditional associations, this episode is packed with practical insight and big-picture thinking. Whether you're an association leader or just trying to stay ahead of the curve, this conversation is both a wake-up call and a roadmap for making 2026 the year you move from experimenting with AI to truly leading with it. 

**NotebookLM HAS TAKEN OVER THE TRENDING COMMUNICATOR. AGAIN.** Generative AI is shaking up the world of communications—and the debate is on. In this special takeover episode of The Trending Communicator, Abel and Iris weigh the promise and pitfalls of AI adoption for comms professionals. Is AI truly a strategic superpower, or does it risk eroding hard-won wisdom and trust? Our hosts tackle big questions about originality, efficiency, brand voice, and the critical role of human judgment. From allegations of “AI slop” to the growing expectation that professionals must adapt or become obsolete, Iris and Abel challenge each other—and the industry—to find balance between bold innovation and ethical responsibility. Whether you're in the excitement camp or a skeptic, this episode delivers sharp insights, real-world examples, and a call to lead with empathy and rigor as AI rewrites the rules of communication. Listen in and hear about: How generative AI is transforming communication strategy and the debate over its real value Why AI-created content risks diluting professional wisdom and brand trust Ways communicators are leveraging legacy content to maintain originality with AI Ongoing concerns about AI amplifying existing flaws and spreading "AI slop" The evolving role of communicators as quality filters in an AI-driven workflow Challenges organizations face with AI adoption, from poor change management to role uncertainty Leadership's new responsibility to use AI as a strategic partner while preserving empathy and judgment Timestamps 0:00:00 Podcast Takeover & Introduction0:00:26 GenAI and the Big Debate in Comms0:00:38 Does Generative AI Add or Destroy Value?0:01:06 Risks, Disruption & Trust in AI Adoption0:01:25 Augmentation vs. Automation—Strategic Value0:02:13 AI Hype & Human Element Concerns0:02:39 AI Slop, Trust Issues, and Expertise Erosion0:03:24 Strategic Upside: AI as Enabler0:04:05 Human Judgment as the Quality Filter0:04:40 Speed vs. Quality & Distinctive Human Insight0:05:03 Changing Roles: Prompting, Critiquing, Synthesizing0:05:31 Institutional Readiness, Ethics, Trust & Systemic Risks0:06:43 Empathy & Perspective: Irreplaceable Human Advantages0:07:06 AI for Reputation Management, Context, & Scale0:07:32 Ethics vs. Efficiency: Risks in Sensitive Fields0:08:04 Senior Communicators, AI as Validation & Infrastructure0:08:41 Broadening Strategic Functions; AI as Audience0:09:14 Organizational Readiness & Leadership Challenges0:10:01 Leadership Opportunity: AI as Strategic Sparring Partner0:10:52 Human Wisdom & Navigating Disruption0:11:36 Closing Remarks & Podcast Outro Audio generated by NotebookLM, based on the transcripts from all episodes of The Trending Communicator in 2025. Notes and timestamps generated by Castmagic. Intro and outro music generated by Suno. Outro voice generated with Elevenlabs. Graphic depiction of Abel and Iris generated with Gemini (Nanobanana); any similarity to any individual, living or dead, is unintentional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this meta installment of Adventures in Advising, Matt and Ryan toss two wildly different previous podcast episodes into the digital cauldron of Google NotebookLM to see what kind of AI-brewed concoction bubbles up. Unpack the AI-generated “deep dive,” marvel at its narrative gymnastics, side-eye its dramatic metaphors, and wrestle with questions that higher ed is still learning to ask. Can advising frameworks tame the chaos of GenAI? Can trust survive the algorithmic whirlwinds? And should we be concerned when robots create podcasts about podcasts?Follow the podcast on your favorite podcast platform!The Instagram, and Facebook handle for the podcast is @AdvisingPodcastAlso, subscribe to our Adventures in Advising YouTube Channel!Connect with Matt and Ryan on LinkedIn.

Zeit sparen im Training - mit KI, die wirklich hilft! Du hast so viele gute Ideen im Kopf, doch zwischen Deinen unzähligen Terminen bleibt kaum Luft, um sie auch umzusetzen? Dann ist die neue Folge genau richtig für Dich! Denn in dieser Episode sprechen wir darüber, wie Du NotebookLM und GoogleGemini so nutzt, dass sie Dir in Trainings und im Businessalltag wirklich Zeit sparen. Nicht als Spielerei, sondern als echte Unterstützung für Trainer, Berater und Coaches. Du erfährst, warum NotebookLM mehr ist als ein Chatbot und wie Du mit Deinen eigenen PDFs, Präsentationen, Webseiten oder Videos arbeiten kannst, ohne Dich durch endlose Recherchen zu kämpfen. Und im zweiten Teil geht es dann um Gemini als kreativen Sparringspartner. Multimodal, tief in den Arbeitsalltag integriert und besonders stark, wenn es um Ideen, Konzepte und Inhalte geht. Darum geht's im Überblick:

Alex Merced (AlexMerced.com) discusses:– his thoughts on thriving in 2026– His use of Google’s Antigravity– His use of NotebookLM– Dremio’s AI tools (dremio.com)– More Check out Pangolin Catalog at PangolinCatalog.org

Every time I open Google's NotebookLM, it gets better and better. The graphic above was created using the app and I think it did a good job of summarising the year in a single graphic.The podcast didn't do a bad job either though it fell into temptation a couple of times referring to issues at second level. However, all in all, I'm pretty pleased with it, and I'd love to know what you think. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit simonmlewis.substack.com/subscribe

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Breweries are being bombarded with promises about what AI can do—automate your marketing, write your contracts, even predict your next big seller. But in a highly regulated and deeply human business like craft beer, not all automation is worth the risk.In this session, alcohol law attorney John Szymankiewicz and fractional marketing strategist Madeline McMahon will walk attendees through real-world examples of how AI tools like ChatGPT, NotebookLM, and Prompt Cowboy can enhance—but not replace—your existing systems.From AI-generated marketing strategies that miss the mark on brand voice, to contract templates that ignore state-specific compliance requirements, attendees will learn where AI helps and where human judgment still matters. We'll explore prompt engineering, compare AI- vs. human-reviewed content, and highlight simple ways small teams can experiment with these tools while avoiding common pitfalls.This session is designed for brewery owners, taproom managers, and in-house marketing leads who are curious about AI but don't want to be burned by generic outputs. Whether you're using AI today or just trying to decide if it's worth your time, this session will equip you with smarter questions to ask—and clearer boundaries to draw.Let's cut through the hype and show you how to work with AI, not for it.Madeline McMahon, Fractional Marketing Strategist and founder of Madeline Fleehart Consulting, drives small business growth with practical, results-focused marketing strategies. The "#beerpaysthebills" hashtag captures a lively spirit rooted in the craft beer scene, even as today's projects extend across various industries. By leveraging tools like ChatGPT, Madeline simplifies content creation, streamlines workflows, helps business owners set clear marketing performance indicators, and evaluates return on investment to ensure every effort counts. As an attorney at Beer Law Center, John Szymankiewicz 's practice centers on the craft beverage industry. Handling everything from business formation to TTB/ABC, to trademark, and buying/selling an alcohol business, John works with clients to help them achieve their personal and business goals. John authored the book Beer Law: What Brewers Need to Know and is a Certified BJCP Judge, holds Level II Certifications in Wine and Beer from WSET, and is the country's only alcohol attorney who is also a Certified Cicerone. John is based in Raleigh and practices in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.Stay up to date with CBP: http://update.craftbeerprofessionals.org/

This podcast was created using NotebookLM. This podcast details the bi-directional relationship between diabetes and oral health, emphasizing that poor blood sugar control and mouth diseases often worsen one another. 

After a long hiatus from live, human-voiced podcasting, Chris Abraham returns with the unofficial kickoff to a new season of The Chris Abraham Show. Call it Season 10, or just call it “one more than whatever came before.” This episode is less a formal broadcast and more a fireside check-in. No hot takes yet. No grand thesis. Just Uncle Chris catching up, taking inventory, and letting listeners back into the workshop.Chris opens by reflecting on a year spent experimenting with AI-assisted writing and audio. Substacks fed into NotebookLM. Podcasts assembled more like orchestration than performance. He likens himself to a Renaissance painter running a studio: sketch the idea, let the assistants fill in the canvas, then obsessively revise until it feels true enough to sign. It sparked conversations, which felt like a win, even if the whole thing occasionally resembled “DJ Slop.”From there, the episode turns personal. One week post-second ablation, Chris reports that his heart is finally humming along in sinus rhythm after a long struggle with atrial fibrillation. The first procedure failed and took the wind out of his sails, contributing to weight gain, lethargy, and a general retreat from movement. This time feels different. Better sleep. BiPAP nights. The cautious hope of eventually shedding some medications. The slow return to walking, cycling, kettlebells, and the familiar ritual of getting back in the saddle, literally and figuratively.Fitness and body discipline weave through the episode, including a rueful confession: Chris once tattooed a kettlebell on his hand as a motivational Hail Mary… and then promptly stopped lifting. Future tattoo ideas may include a Concept2 logo and the muted horn from The Crying of Lot 49, because symbolism apparently works better than guilt.Work life is steadier. SEO, Google Business Profile recoveries, and AI-adjacent consulting are keeping the lights on. But the real joy lately lives in the nerd margins. Chris dives deep into decentralized systems, inspired by Ghost in the Shell, particularly the sentient blue tanks that sync their “souls” to a server. That idea metastasized into a home-rolled infrastructure project: seven identical Lenovo ThinkPads running Linux Mint, all synchronized via a cloud droplet using Syncthing. Not a backup. A living sync mesh. Every laptop a node. Every document everywhere.That fascination with nodes and meshes extends into the physical world via Meshtastic. Chris recently deployed a LoRa-based radio node, ABRA (short for Abracadabra), hanging from an eighth-floor Arlington window, quietly strengthening a local, license-free mesh network. No voices. No feeds. Just short messages hopping node to node, old-school and strangely comforting. It's part prepper tech, part early-internet nostalgia, part philosophical itch scratched.Elsewhere in the ecosystem: Mastodon survives for now at abraham.su, rescued at the last minute despite the .su clock ticking toward 2030. Micro.blog joins the stack under chrisa.micro.blog and ChrisA.org. Digital homesteading continues.Chris also shares the unexpected joy of joining a long-running Dungeons & Dragons campaign, Curse of Strahd, playing a stubborn Eldritch Knight named Radley, refusing to read the manual, and delighting in chaos alongside a group of grizzled old nerds on Discord. Dice are rolled. Plans go sideways. Everyone survives, mostly.The episode closes with quieter notes: a growing devotion to the Gospels, nightly Episcopal Compline prayers, the simple rhythm of rereading rather than rushing ahead. A Powerball ticket purchased. Gym plans deferred. Kettlebells waiting. A rowing machine sulking upright in the corner.This isn't a manifesto. It's a temperature check. A reintroduction. Uncle Chris is back, heart steadier, systems syncing, curiosity intact, and ready to spend the rest of the year talking through the small things before returning to the big ones.

A version of this essay has been published by rediff.com at https://www.rediff.com/news/column/is-india-standing-alone-in-2025/20251222.htm2025 has been a disastrous year for the US, surely in foreign affairs and economics. The trade war, far from strengthening the economy, has shown the limits of American power: the capitulation to Chinese supplier power on rare earths, and a strategic retreat in the face of Chinese buyer power on soybeans, for example.The dramatic rise of Chinese generativeAI, which will undercut US Big Tech, is another problem. The US cannot afford to be the globocop any more, and the new National Security Strategy seeks a US withdrawal into ‘Fortress America'. It may mark the end of the vaunted ‘American exceptionalism' as well as the ‘liberal rules-based international order'.In an earlier time, this would have led to the famous Thucydides Trap, but in effect the US has gone into an ‘anti-Thucydides Trap' because it unthinkingly paved the way for China's rise, seduced by the short-term benefit of low-cost Chinese goods while ignoring the long-term strategic disaster. In the 20th century, Britain collapsed suddenly, but it is merely a tiny island off Eurasia. I never expected continent-sized America to follow suit in the 21st century.Meanwhile, in a fine example of “manufacturing consent”, the discourse in the US is not focusing on the global problems facing the country, but on MAGA bullying of H1-B Indians and on the Epstein files, which, on the face of it, is a silly exercise in moralization. I believe it was Hermann Hesse who said something to the effect that Americans are not interested in morals, being content with moralization.But the entire kowtowing to China has serious implications for India. One of the pillars of Indian foreign policy for decades has been the idea that it is a strategic counterweight to China in the US's calculations. But if the US has really ceded Asia to China (I recall President Obama saying as long ago as 2009 that the US and China would “work together to promote peace, stability, and development in South Asia”) then the famous ‘pivot to Asia' is null and void.A couple of years ago, I wrote that the most obvious thing for the US's Deep State to do would be to form a G2 condominium with China, divide up the world amongst themselves, and set up respective spheres of influence. This was predicated on America's relative decline, and China's economic and military rise to be, for all intents and purposes, a peer. I thought this would take a decade or more, but, lo and behold, the US is caving in furiously to China right now.In addition, I wrote about the surprisingly large and malign influence exerted by Britain, whereby it plays a ‘master-blaster' role, leading the US by the nose, usually to America's detriment. Britain's ‘imperial fortress' Pakistan seems to be involved in every terror incident, yet President Trump's new-found camaraderie with them (“here, some more F-16 goodies for you”) is yet another indictment of their twisted priorities.And Britain seems to be “winning”, too: on the one hand, they have finally defeated Germany, which they couldn't do via two World Wars: the latter's economy, its electricity grid, and its vaunted mittelstand and its automobile industry are in shambles. On the other hand, Britain is the one major European power that has not been defeated by Russia, so they think they can, conversely, defeat them. France (Napoleon) and Germany (Hitler) learnt otherwise.The pointless Ukraine War is bankrupting Europe; I wrote about how this is hastening the end of the European century and how ‘Europe' is reverting to what it was through most of history: unimportant ‘Northwest Asia'. This could well also be Britain's revenge against Europe, which it exited in a huff via Brexit: British elites have looked down upon Europeans all along.I mention all these not to show that I was somehow prescient, but that things we have been observing for some time are coming to a head: the US National Security Strategy is the capstone of the New World Order. And it seems to codify these trends: hegemony to China with Asia as its sphere of influence, the abandonment of Europe to its own devices, a focus on the Americas in a new ‘Donroe Doctrine' (so to speak).In the background are continuing terror attacks such as the one in Sydney, murderous attacks on Alawites in Syria, the car bomb in Delhi, and the lynching and burning alive of a minority Hindu youth, Dipu Chandra Das, in Bangladesh by a frenzied mob. The world is not a safe place.There was also a defining moment: the US seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker. Far from being a show of strength, this may well be an admission of weakness: Venezuela is no competitor, and this is like the US invasion of defenseless Panama some years ago. It is, however, a declaration that the Americas belong to the US sphere of influence (the ‘Donroe' Doctrine).Sadly, China may demur: it views the Americas are adjacent to them (just across the Pacific) and have made inroads into many countries, including Panama, and ironically are funding a proposed alternative to the Panama Canal through Nicaragua, as well as a major Brazil-Peru railroad project (all the better to ship in raw materials from both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and to ship out “rubber dogshit from HongKong” back to them). Their $3 billion Chancay deepwater port in Peru has already been inaugurated.China is now a $500 billion trading partner for South America, overtaking the US, yes, overtaking the US. To top it all, the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, i.e Cristobal (Atlantic side) and Balboa (Pacific side) are run by Hong Kong companies, which of course means the CCP does. In fact, it is blocking US firm Blackrock's acquisition of these ports.China therefore has serious assets in the Americas, and large commercial interests. The US can pretend it is supreme in the Americas, but the reality may be a little different.Meanwhile, the US has more or less abandoned its Quad partners in Asia and acknowledged Chinese hegemony there: in other words, that half of the condominium is done. When the new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said something that was obvious and perfectly within her rights to worry about Japan's security, the Chinese came down on her like a ton of bricks, wolf-warrior style. The normally voluble Trump said nothing at all in support of Japan.Regarding India, there has been a persistent tilt towards Pakistan during and after Operation Sindoor; and the imposition of harsh tariffs. The increasingly volatile situation in Bangladesh which is the result of a likely US-backed ‘regime-change' operation is a significant security threat to India because of the collusion of jihadi, Pakistani and Chinese-proxy elements there and the very real concern about the cutoff of India's Northeast from the mainland, apart from the ongoing murders and ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Buddhists there.Now comes the New York Times, which I generally despise as a propaganda arm of the Deep State. But they show some self-awareness in their editorial “America cannot win alone”. No man is an island, as John Donne wrote some years ago. And America is not a singular colossus any more either, and it needs alliances. It hurts me (as an Americophile) how rapidly the US is declining in relative terms, and perhaps even absolute terms.The best indicator of this decline is in the crown jewels of the US: its technology sector. On the one hand, the entire US stock market has been propped up by the Magnificent Seven and the alleged promise of the generativeAI boom. On the other hand, China's patented “over-invest, scale up, get to be lowest-cost producer, drive competitors out of business” is repeating in industry after industry: the latest is automobiles, where the famous German marques are history.Trump's surrender on Nvidia's H200 chips is an indication that China is playing the trade-war game much better than the U.S. China has amassed a $1 trillion trade surplus in the first 11 months of 2025, an unprecedented feat that shows its trade power. Not only is this because of supply-chain dominance, but an analyst suggests it's also because China is now on the verge of delivering a knockout blow to US/Western tech.There are news reports that China has almost managed to replicate EUV (Extreme Ultra Violet) lithography from ASML, one of the key areas in chipmaking that was beyond China's reach. They used former ASML employees of Chinese descent, as well as less advanced technologies from ASML itself, Canon and Nikon.This is the context in which one has to critique Trump's 2025 US National Security Strategy. In summary, it shows a narrowing of America's expansive self-image, the beginnings of a ‘Fortress America' mindset and an ‘America First' doctrine. The ‘promotion of democracy' is downplayed (aka ‘regime change', as we have seen in Bangladesh. Thank goodness!) and fighting other people's wars (think Ukraine) has been de-emphasized.It fits in very well with the G2 condominium idea, as it focuses on national interests and explicitly rejects globalism, elevates economic matters while suggesting the use of military might as an element of dealmaking, and asks ‘allies' to shoulder more responsibility.Europe is downgraded, China is the prime focus with an emphasis on deterrence (e.g., Taiwan), supply-chain resilience and balanced trade, the Indo-Pacific gets short shrift, and the emphasis is on the Americas as, so to speak, the US's private playpen, harking back to the 19th century.India gets almost no attention: it is mentioned four times as compared to 21 times for China, with the tone shifting from ‘strategic partner' or ‘leading global power' to a more transactional expectation of burden-sharing and reciprocity. The Quad is downplayed too. India will need to maintain multi-alignment (e.g., with Russia via RELOS agreements), diversify dependencies, and accelerate self-reliance. India is on its own, as I said in “The Abhimanyu Syndrome”. At least twenty-five years of wooing the US has gone down the drain. Back to the drawing board.At the beginning of 2025, I must admit I was optimistic about Indo-US relations under Trump's presidency. I did not think the G2 condominium would arrive so soon, especially under Trump, or that the eclipse of the US would be so sudden and so dramatic. India had at least one bright spot in 2025: the rapidly-growing economy, despite US tariffs. I really can't see much that went well for the US. Truly an annus horribilis. In 1999, I wrote that that year was terrible for India, but 2025 may have been worse for the US, in my opinion.Malayalam podcast created by notebookLM.google.com:1800 words, 20 Dec 2025 This is a public episode. 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We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.Windows 11 Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order... Dark mode improvements to File Explorer Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only) External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS -External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only) Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well) Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs AI An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3 ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud Mobile Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight Xbox and gaming Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while Tips & picks Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11 App pick of the year: Fortnite RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1 These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/963 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Sponsors: auraframes.com/ink framer.com/design promo code WW outsystems.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

In this episode, I go over one AI news item I can't stop thinking about, one trend you can build a business around, two tools I'm using, one startup idea you should steal, and one framework to end on. I start with a leak suggesting Anthropic is productizing “agent mode” for Claude with structured task buckets and a progress/context UI. Then I use Hyrox as an example of how I validate trends quickly with search data (and what “low competition + cheap CPC + explosive growth” signals). I wrap by pitching a hotel guest-communication concierge and the “thousand people framework” for getting to clarity on your ICP and what they'll reliably pay for. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 00:32 – AI New Item: Anthropic leak: Agent Task Mode for Claude 04:47 – Trend: Hyrox 08:59 – AI App: Krea and Notebook LLM 12:23 – Startup idea: Digital Hotel Concierge 15:59 – Framework: The “1000 People” For founders doing $50k+ MRR+: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/offline-mode Key Points Agent workflows get “productized” when the UI guides the task (not just a blank prompt box). Trend validation can be fast: look for explosive growth + low competition + cheap CPC, then ideate apps around it. NotebookLM's slide generation is an underrated workflow for turning sources into clean decks. The “Guest Guide” concept is a simple AI/QR wedge: answer repetitive hotel questions and monetize per property. The thousand-people exercise forces clarity: who exactly buys, what they pay yearly, and how you reach them. Section Summaries The Claude Agent Mode Leak I break down a leak claiming Anthropic is preparing a more structured “agent mode” for Claude, organized into buckets like research, analyze, write, and build plus choices like depth, format, and outputs. The big shift is moving from “open chat” to “delegating distinct tasks” with visibility into progress and context. Productized Prompts = Better Output I explain why a blank text box can be daunting, and why UI that scaffolds intent (validate/compare/forecast, quick vs. thorough, doc vs. slides vs. spreadsheet) can make results meaningfully better. To me, it points at a future where you “check in” on agents like teammates. Trend Hunting I use Hyrox, an indoor fitness competition that's “like the new CrossFit,” as a real example of how I sanity-check whether something is becoming a business opportunity. The workflow is simple: I see it in culture, then I go straight to Idea Browser to pull search/CPC/competition signals. Two Tools I'm Testing I call out Krea as a creative AI subscription bundling multiple models, and then I highlight NotebookLM's slide/infographic feature as the underrated part—turning a source (including transcripts) into clean, well-designed slides with strong hierarchy. Steal This: Guest Guide I pitch a hotel digital concierge that handles common guest questions via QR-code guides, priced per property with affiliate upside, and I reference Sadie as an adjacent AI hospitality product (more on calls/reservations). Then I close with the “thousand people framework”: define the real ICP, map what they'll pay yearly, and figure out distribution—because clarity is the driver. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.Windows 11 Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order... Dark mode improvements to File Explorer Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only) External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS -External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only) Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well) Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs AI An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3 ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud Mobile Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight Xbox and gaming Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while Tips & picks Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11 App pick of the year: Fortnite RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1 These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/963 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Sponsors: auraframes.com/ink framer.com/design promo code WW outsystems.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.Windows 11 Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order... Dark mode improvements to File Explorer Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only) External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS -External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only) Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well) Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs AI An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3 ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud Mobile Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight Xbox and gaming Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while Tips & picks Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11 App pick of the year: Fortnite RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1 These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/963 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Sponsors: auraframes.com/ink framer.com/design promo code WW outsystems.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.Windows 11 Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order... Dark mode improvements to File Explorer Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only) External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS -External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only) Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well) Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs AI An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3 ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud Mobile Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight Xbox and gaming Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while Tips & picks Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11 App pick of the year: Fortnite RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1 These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/963 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Sponsors: auraframes.com/ink framer.com/design promo code WW outsystems.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

In the last episode of 2025, Co-hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little present their predictions for how artificial intelligence will transform genealogy research in 2026. This special episode examines fourteen key trends shaping the future of family history AI.Mark and Steve predict that AI tools will move from enthusiast circles into mainstream genealogy practice, with AI-enhanced apps like NotebookLM becoming more important than the underlying language models that people have focused on for the past three years.They explore how handwritten text recognition will become more accurate and accessible, and that genealogy companies will cautiously integrate new AI features, first focusing on helping us with our research.Timestamps:02:33 Family History AI Goes Mainstream: From Enthusiasts to Everyday Users04:13 Apps Over Models: Why Platform Features Matter More Than LLMs06:17 Reusable Prompting Tools: GPTs, Projects, and Gems Boost Efficiency08:02 AI-Enhanced Research Gains Acceptance Among Serious Genealogists09:53 Handwritten Text Recognition Gets Better, Easier, and Cheaper12:18 Genealogy Companies Take Cautious Approach to Generative AI17:07 AI-Enhanced Browsers Become Standard, Agentic Features Raise Concerns24:25 Voice Interfaces to AI Remain Niche in 202627:36 LLM Vendors Push File and Email Integration for Stickiness31:46 Productivity Tools Embed LLMs Everywhere35:56 The AI Horse Race: Three Leaders Emerge41:15 AI Licensing Deals Change Internet Access Patterns44:34 The AI Bubble Conversation is important to society, but less so to GenealogistsResource Links:The Family History AI Show Academy https://tixoom.app/fhaishowFamily History AI Goes MainstreamWhat Can AI Do for Your Genealogical Research? – James Tanner (Nov 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmVKy1pUPEFamilySearch Shares Plans for 2025 (Includes AI integration details) https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/familysearch-shares-plans-for-2025Reusable Prompting ToolsCustom GPTs vs. Gemini Gems: Who Wins? - Learn Prompting (Aug 2025) https://learnprompting.org/blog/custom-gpts-vs-gemini-gemsAI-Enhanced ResearchUnlocking Family Histories: How AI Is Breathing New Life into Handwritten Records (South Central APG)https://southcentralapg.org/2025/08/16/unlocking-family-histories-how-ai-is-breathing-new-life-into-handwritten-records/Handwritten Text RecognitionA new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition - Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887262Cautious AI from Genealogy CompaniesAI-Enhanced BrowsersCompliance alert: Do not use AI browsershttps://vinciworks.com/blog/compliance-alert-do-not-use-ai-browsers/Content Integration with ChatbotsGemini vs Copilot: A Quick Comparison Guide (2025) - Tactiqhttps://tactiq.io/learn/gemini-vs-copilotAI in Office Productivity ToolsMicrosoft Copilot in 2025: What's Changed & What's Next | Aldridgehttps://aldridge.com/microsoft-copilot-in-2025-whats-changed-whats-next/Monthly Round Up: New Features in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Dec 2025)https://dynamicscommunities.com/ug/copilot-ug/monthly-round-up-new-features-in-microsoft-365-copilot/The AI Horse RaceThe Best AI in October 2025? We Compared ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini & Others - FelloAIhttps://felloai.com/the-best-ai-in-october-2025-we-compared-chatgpt-claude-grok-gemini-others/The 2025 AI Coding Models: Comprehensive Guide to the Top 5 Contenders - CodeGPThttps://www.codegpt.co/blog/ai-coding-models-2025-comprehensive-guideAI Licensing DealsContent Licensing Agreements Will Concentrate Markets Without Standardized Access - ProMarket(Nov 2025) https://www.promarket.org/2025/11/20/content-licensing-agreements-will-concentrate-markets-without-standardized-access/The False Hope of Content Licensing at Internet Scale - ProMarkethttps://www.promarket.org/2025/11/19/the-false-hope-of-content-licensing-at-internet-scale/The AI Bubble ConversationThe AI boom will turn to bust in 2026https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-boom-will-turn-to-bust-next-year-says-this-forecaster-who-offers-his-trade-of-the-year-9c2a2332OUTLOOK 2026 Promise and Pressure - J.P. Morgan (Discusses AI market stability vs bubble risks)https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpmorgan/documents/wealth-management/outlook-2026.pdfTags:Artificial Intelligence, Genealogy, Family History, AI Predictions, NotebookLM, HTR, AI Browsers, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude

We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.Windows 11 Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order... Dark mode improvements to File Explorer Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only) External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS -External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only) Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well) Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs AI An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3 ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud Mobile Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight Xbox and gaming Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while Tips & picks Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11 App pick of the year: Fortnite RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1 These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/963 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Sponsors: auraframes.com/ink framer.com/design promo code WW outsystems.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

At some point in leadership, effort is no longer the problem. The work is getting done. The strategy makes sense. And still, something feels off.In this episode of the Dr. Ginny Show, we talk about the leadership skill most leaders are never trained to develop.When leaders lead with purpose and clarity, something shifts. People stop going through the motions and start taking ownership because they understand the bigger picture.I also share a personal story, a moment taught me what real leadership looks like.If you are a leader navigating change with your team, growth, or a new season in your career, this message will serve you.If you are ready to pause, reflect, and lead with greater intention, let's start with a 15-minute cyber coffee. A simple conversation to explore what is next.This episode of The Dr. Ginny Show is a bit of an experiment. We created it using Google's NotebookLM by sharing this week's vlog with the platform and exploring a new way to bring you fresh perspectives and variety in how we deliver content.Recommended resources:⭐ If this topic resonates, subscribe to our podcast, rate it so others can find it, and share the episode with your network.Looking for ways to grow and lead?⭐ Let's connect for a 15-minute cyber coffee and explore what may be holding you or your team back. I've held a few spots for these high-impact connections: https://cybercoffee.youcanbook.me/⭐ If you're seeking a speaker who delivers fresh perspectives, energy, and practical insights for your stage, program, or off-site, I'd love to explore how we can work together. https://www.executivebound.com/speaking⭐ Stay supported with weekly tools and strategies by joining the ExecutiveBound Inner Circle: https://www.executivebound.com/innercircle⭐ Explore upcoming events and high-value resources here: https://www.executivebound.com/events⭐ And don't miss your copy of Healing Leadership or Fearless Women at Work for actionable insights to strengthen you and your team: www.executivebound.com/booksLet's expand our network!⭐ Send me a LinkedIn connection request. I'd love to share my network of over 28K members with you: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginnybaro© ExecutiveBound®. All rights reserved. The Dr. Ginny Show content may not be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.Disclaimer: The views, information, and opinions shared on The Dr. Ginny Show are intended for entertainment and educational purposes only. They do not substitute for professional advice in legal, medical, financial, therapeutic, or organizational matters. Always seek the advice of qualified professionals regarding your unique situation.

We were inundated with new Windows features in 2025, but which ones actually moved the needle? Fortnite isn't just back on iPhone and Android, it's available on Windows 11 on Arm, and it works great! Plus, 2 big mobile wins for Epic Games and some thoughts on the "right" way to roll out AI features.Windows 11 Best Windows 11 updates of 2025, in no particular order... Dark mode improvements to File Explorer Widgets major overhaul with separate widgets and Discovery feed Xbox Full Screen experience - especially good on handhelds, of course, but also any PC you use for gaming with a controller Click to Do (Copilot+ PC only) External fingerprint reader support for Windows Hello ESS -External/USB webcams supported by Windows Studio Effects (Copilot+ PC only) Quick Machine Recovery is the tip of a wave of new foundational features like Admin Protection, Smart App Control (updates), and more that go beyond surface-level look and feel Redesigned Start menu isn't perfect but it's a nice improvement Copilot Vision, though this type of thing may make more sense on phones AI features in Paint, Photos, Notepad, and Snipping Tool Natural language interactions like the agent in Settings, file search, and more (mostly Copilot+ PC only, but you can do this in Copilot as well) Bluetooth LE support for improved audio quality in game chat, voice calls Gaming on Windows 11 on Arm and Snapdragon X: Major steps forward, but the same issue as always Looking ahead to 2026: 26H1, Agentic features that work, potential Windows 12, and AI PCs AI An extensive new interview with Mustafa Suleyman confirms why this guy is special and how confusing it is that Copilot is so disrespected Microsoft Copilot is auto-installing on LG smart TVs and there's no way to remove it GPT-5.2 is OpenAI's answer to Gemini 3 ChatGPT Images is OpenAI's answer to Nano Banana Pro Disney invests $1 billion OpenAI, sues Google Opera Neon is now generally available for $20 per month AI is moving quick as we all know but the bigger issue may be the incessant marketing about features like agents that don't even work now Microsoft is getting pushback on forced Copilot usage, price hikes Google is expanding its use of "experiments" outside of mainstream products with things like NotebookLM, Mixboard, CC, and much more. Maybe this is the better approach: Test separately and then integrate it into existing products Oddly enough, Microsoft does have a Windows AI Lab for this kind of experimentation Many small models vs. one big LLM in the cloud Mobile Fortnite is back in the Google Play Store in the U.S. as Google plays nice Apple loses its contempt appeal, the end of "junk fees" (Apple Tax) is in sight Xbox and gaming Xbox December Update has one big update for the mobile app and one big update for Xbox Wireless Headphones There's a new Xbox Developer Direct coming in January Half-Life 3 may really be happening, but it will be a Steam Machine launch title so it could be a while Tips & picks Tip of the year: De-enshittify Windows 11 App pick of the year: Fortnite RunAs Radio this week: Zero Trust in 2026 with Michele Bustamante Brown liquor pick of the week: Lark Symphony No. 1 These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/963 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Sponsors: auraframes.com/ink framer.com/design promo code WW outsystems.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

A version of this essay was published by news18.com at https://www.news18.com/opinion/opinion-what-the-bjp-win-in-thiruvananthapuram-may-mean-or-may-not-9774658.htmlAs a native son, I believe the BJP's 50/101 seats in the Trivandrum Corporation in the recently concluded local body elections is an interesting outcome. But it must not be taken in isolation, and one must accept that this is neither a breakthrough for the BJP in the deep south, nor a mere footnote in the CPI(M)-Congress duopoly that has been the hallmark of Kerala politics. There are a lot of local factors, but yes, perhaps there is an underlying, nascent realignment.There is anti-incumbency: there used to be, like clockwork, one term for the UDF, one term for the LDF. But now, the CPI-M has been ruling for ten years in a row, and the voters may be fed up with them. In Trivandrum, for instance, the outgoing mayor, Arya Rajendran, who is in her 20s, has a well-deserved reputation for arrogance. Tellingly, she did not campaign in 2025.But there is more.There are at least four extraordinary factors at play here: One is the vanity that Kerala politics is somehow superior to politics elsewhere in (southern) India, because, you know, it is the 100% literate state. This is far from the truth. Mere literacy, that is, knowing the syntax of written language, does not guarantee you understand the semantics, that is, the ability to think critically rather than be gaslighted. The average Kerala voter is as easily manipulated as any other.Second, regional tensions. Kerala consists of three distinct regions: northern Malabar, which was under British rule, which meant it was plundered and underdeveloped. It also is Muslim-dominated. Central Kochi, which was a moderately dynamic dynasty, and is Christian-dominated. Southern Travancore, which was under a strong dynasty (but came under the sway of the British), and is Hindu majority.Third, the erstwhile consensus around ‘secularism' is fraying: it is now increasingly seen as merely a shibboleth meant to hypnotize the Hindu community into caste-based internecine conflict and keep it a permanent underclass, with fewer rights than those of other religions. Hindus are still fighting 19th century battles in the 21st century. The shocking neglect, occasional desecration of, and outright large-scale theft from, major temples such as Sabarimala may now be turning into a bit of an issue for the lay Hindu.Fourth, after half a century of left-wing politics, it is becoming increasingly clear to the average Keralite that it is being left behind in development and prosperity. At independence, Travancore in particular was far ahead of the rest of India in key metrics like infant mortality, female literacy, and infrastructure. But anti-business socialism has led to de-industrialization, forced migration of Keralites in search of jobs, and high inflation, while other states are passing Kerala by.On top of all this, there is the rampant politicization of everything (for example, government jobs do not go to those who have high ranks in the State Public Service Commission selection exams, but to party cadres). There is a truly bizarre situation where two parties, both in the INDI Alliance all over the country (CPI-M and Congress), pretend to be rivals in Kerala, and do charades and shadow-boxing, although they do tactical voting to prevent the BJP from winning.It startles me to hear that there is a Left (CPI-M) and a Right (Congress) in Kerala, according to pundits. In reality, they are an Extreme-Left party and a Far-Left party, respectively. Indeed, even the BJP, which is spoken of as Far-Right is a Center-Left party, so severely distorted is the discourse – the median is Far-Left.To an impartial observer, the only way the Congress in Kerala can be termed a Right-wing party is that it appeases its vote-bank, the Christians, although the FC Nairs also traditionally vote for them. The Communists, whose rank and file are mostly made up of the OBC Ezhavas, increasingly are dominated by the needs of their Malabar Muslim vote-bank. So in a twisted sort of way, both these Left parties pander to the Conservative sentiments of these religious groups.This has real-life consequences, which Travancore voters are seeing increasingly clearly. The last major investment in Trivandrum was the ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, which was required to be on the magnetic equator. After that, the National Institute of Technology went to Kozhikode (in Malabar). The Indian Institute of Management went to Kozhikode (in Malabar). The Indian Institute of Technology went to Palakkad (in Malabar). The AIIMS is also likely to go to Malabar or Kochi.A metro system was given to Kochi, even though Trivandrum has an equal or better claim in terms of population size and other metrics. Successive UDF and LDF governments have sat on the proposal for Trivandrum's metro (incidentally Kozhikode is also in the same boat). Trivandrum airport saw zero development for 40 years from 1960.Staggeringly, the Trivandrum port (Vizhinjam) was also delayed for 40 years, even though the deepwater container transhipment port there is now on track to handle a lot of India's container cargo, which now goes to Colombo. Instead, 4400 crores were spent on a container port at Kochi, which has only 8 meters draft and cannot compete with Colombo.Trivandrum/Vizhinjam has 24 meters in depth, which means literally the largest container ship in the world, MSC Irina, with 24,000 containers on board, can and in fact has called at this port.The LDF government twisted Adani Ports' arm and moved their logistics park for Vizhinjam, which Adani runs on contract, 200 km away to Kochi! In addition, the road and rail approaches to the port, which are necessary for ‘gateway' or upcountry containers from/to say Bangalore or Hyderabad, have been delayed for a long time over trivial land acquisition issues.These lapses are glaring, and add up to step-motherly treatment for Trivandrum. There must be a lot of resentment among the voters here about this, because their real estate values would go up quite a lot if Vizhinjam's business improves, and there will be jobs related to logistics, bunkering, cruise lines, and so on. Under the Sagarmala initiative, this is something that Trivandrum voters hope the Union Government will push forward, along with a proposed Tri-Services Maritime Command: thus both military and civil infrastructure may bring benefits.Finally, the excesses against Hindu temples, which are ruled by the Devaswom Board, packed with party cadres who may well be hostile atheists, are getting exposed broadly. There is a tradition prohibiting the entry of women between 10 and 60 years of age (ie. of childbearing age) into the shrine, which the women devotees in Kerala are broadly okay with, and don't feel particularly discriminated against. The Kerala government made a huge fuss over it, and attempted to smuggle in both non-believing women and non-Hindu women into the temple.This has troubled some of the CPI-M's traditional voters, for example the hitherto blase Ezhavas. As the attacks on Hindus continue, there is a bit of a counter-consolidation as well.There is no end: there is the huge current scandal of the theft of gold from the temple doors and dwarapalaka statues in Sabarimala (along with similar desecration in Guruvayur). There is an ongoing investigation, which ought to, if pursued properly, implicate highly connected political players. But recently, there have been instances of prosecutorial misconduct that mean likely criminals get away with, er, murder.Sowmya's alleged murderer Charlie Thomas aka Govindachamy was let off death row, because the prosecutor did not make a good enough case. An actor, Dileep, who allegedly took out a contract for a thug to rape an actress in a moving car, was let off. You guessed it, the prosecution did not make a good enough case.Incidentally, Christian churches with vast landholdings (a good bit of which was 99-year leases given during British days which has now, magically, turned into freehold), or Muslim mosques and other Waqf claimants rarely face the wrath of the State. Yes, there is a case wending its way through the courts about the peninsula of Munambam which is home to 600 families, mostly Christian fisherman, but is claimed in its entirety as a Waqf property.A net reflection of all this is that urban Hindus have begun to rethink their political views. There is a strong urban-rural divide as seen in the just-conducted local body polls. The urban, so to speak, constituencies have seen the vice-like grip of the LDF diminish a bit, but they remain strong in the rural areas. This is borne out by conversations with the rural poor, who talk about kshema pensions, NREGA, and so on as benefits they get from the State government.What this suggests is that anti-incumbency is playing its part; but the likely outcome is a return to the Tweedledum-Tweedledee “throw the rascals out every five years” syndrome of years past. The BJP is unlikely to make any quick inroads into this; they may not get many Assembly seats in 2026, and they are unlikely to get more than a couple of Lok Sabha seats in 2029.Yet, as for obvious reasons there is a Right-ward lurch in Europe, with the rise of AfD in Germany, Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France, and Nigel Farrage's Reform UK, and these parties are no longer easily put behind a cordon sanitaire, the BJP in Kerala is not any longer completely unelectable. The voters are beginning to see that it is not completely er… untouchable.It will be a long, painful journey, but maybe in a decade or two, the BJP can become a realistic opposition party in Kerala. To do this in the extreme South, in the very bastion of the Communists, as well as in a State with very large non-Hindu populations, would be quite an achievement for them. We shall have to wait and see if they have the stamina and the staying power for this grueling odyssey.Malayalam podcast of this essay by notebookLM: 1650 words, 15 Dec 2025 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/subscribe

#312 | Jess Lytle (Head of Marketing at Exit Five) hosts a roundtable with a group of email experts on what's actually working in email, SMS, and in-app messaging right now. They dig into AI's impact on the inbox, how to sound human when everyone's using the same tools, and why relevance beats volume. The group also breaks down how to personalize without being creepy, what to do with “lurkers” who never click but still convert, and how to build messaging that survives the AI slop era. It's a sharp look at how B2B marketers can cut through the noise, earn attention, and actually get people to respond.Timestamps(00:17) - — Jess welcomes everyone (02:30) - — Why email and messaging aren't dead… bad messaging is (05:58) - — How AI changed the inbox and why standing out is harder than ever (06:34) - — Why human senders beat brand senders in email (10:03) - — Writing emails like you were invited into someone's personal space (12:18) - — Balancing stakeholder requests vs. what your audience actually wants (15:28) - — Real talk on AI personalization, enrichment, and where it actually works (21:33) - — Subject lines, preview text, and how people really decide what to open (23:08) - — Email stories and empathy-driven content that outperform (29:03) - — SMS, in-app, and email orchestration: what to use when (36:20) - — Measuring impact when email is assist, not hero (44:20) - — The future: AI-driven workflows, data challenges, and what's coming (53:00) - — Favorite tools (Claude, NotebookLM, etc.) and how people use them Join 50,0000 people who get our Exit Five Newsletter here: https://www.exitfive.com/newsletterLearn more about Exit Five's private marketing community: https://www.exitfive.com/***Today's episode is brought to you by Knak.Email (in my humble opinion) is the still the greatest marketing channel of all-time.It's the only way you can truly “own” your audience.But when it comes to building the emails - if you've ever tried building an email in an enterprise marketing automation platform, you know how painful it can be. Templates are too rigid, editing code can break things and the whole process just takes forever. That's why we love Knak here at Exit Five. Knak a no-code email platform that makes it easy to create on-brand, high-performing emails - without the bottlenecks.Frustrated by clunky email builders? You need Knak.Tired of ‘hoping' the email you sent looks good across all devices? Just test in Knak first.Big team making it hard to collaborate and get approvals? Definitely Knak.And the best part? Everything takes a fraction of the time.See Knak in action at knak.com/exit-five. Or just let them know you heard about Knak on Exit Five.***Thanks to my friends at hatch.fm for producing this episode and handling all of the Exit Five podcast production.They give you unlimited podcast editing and strategy for your B2B podcast.Get unlimited podcast editing and on-demand strategy for one low monthly cost. Just upload your episode, and they take care of the rest.Visit hatch.fm to learn more

Dans cet épisode de fin d'année plus relax que d'accoutumée, Arnaud, Guillaume, Antonio et Emmanuel distutent le bout de gras sur tout un tas de sujets. L'acquisition de Confluent, Kotlin 2.2, Spring Boot 4 et JSpecify, la fin de MinIO, les chutes de CloudFlare, un survol des dernieres nouveauté de modèles fondamentaux (Google, Mistral, Anthropic, ChatGPT) et de leurs outils de code, quelques sujets d'architecture comme CQRS et quelques petits outils bien utiles qu'on vous recommande. Et bien sûr d'autres choses encore. Enregistré le 12 décembre 2025 Téléchargement de l'épisode LesCastCodeurs-Episode-333.mp3 ou en vidéo sur YouTube. News Langages Un petit tutoriel par nos amis Sfeiriens montrant comment récupérer le son du micro, en Java, faire une transformée de Fourier, et afficher le résultat graphiquement en Swing https://www.sfeir.dev/back/tutoriel-java-sound-transformer-le-son-du-microphone-en-images-temps-reel/ Création d'un visualiseur de spectre audio en temps réel avec Java Swing. Étapes principales : Capture du son du microphone. Analyse des fréquences via la Transformée de Fourier Rapide (FFT). Dessin du spectre avec Swing. API Java Sound (javax.sound.sampled) : AudioSystem : point d'entrée principal pour l'accès aux périphériques audio. TargetDataLine : ligne d'entrée utilisée pour capturer les données du microphone. AudioFormat : définit les paramètres du son (taux d'échantillonnage, taille, canaux). La capture se fait dans un Thread séparé pour ne pas bloquer l'interface. Transformée de Fourier Rapide (FFT) : Algorithme clé pour convertir les données audio brutes (domaine temporel) en intensités de fréquences (domaine fréquentiel). Permet d'identifier les basses, médiums et aigus. Visualisation avec Swing : Les intensités de fréquences sont dessinées sous forme de barres dynamiques. Utilisation d'une échelle logarithmique pour l'axe des fréquences (X) pour correspondre à la perception humaine. Couleurs dynamiques des barres (vert → jaune → rouge) en fonction de l'intensité. Lissage exponentiel des valeurs pour une animation plus fluide. Un article de Sfeir sur Kotlin 2.2 et ses nouveautés - https://www.sfeir.dev/back/kotlin-2-2-toutes-les-nouveautes-du-langage/ Les guard conditions permettent d'ajouter plusieurs conditions dans les expressions when avec le mot-clé if Exemple de guard condition: is Truck if vehicule.hasATrailer permet de combiner vérification de type et condition booléenne La multi-dollar string interpolation résout le problème d'affichage du symbole dollar dans les strings multi-lignes En utilisant $$ au début d'un string, on définit qu'il faut deux dollars consécutifs pour déclencher l'interpolation Les non-local break et continue fonctionnent maintenant dans les lambdas pour interagir avec les boucles englobantes Cette fonctionnalité s'applique uniquement aux inline functions dont le corps est remplacé lors de la compilation Permet d'écrire du code plus idiomatique avec takeIf et let sans erreur de compilation L'API Base64 passe en version stable après avoir été en preview depuis Kotlin 1.8.20 L'encodage et décodage Base64 sont disponibles via kotlin.io.encoding.Base64 Migration vers Kotlin 2.2 simple en changeant la version dans build.gradle.kts ou pom.xml Les typealias imbriqués dans des classes sont disponibles en preview La context-sensitive resolution est également en preview Les guard conditions préparent le terrain pour les RichError annoncées à KotlinConf 2025 Le mot-clé when en Kotlin équivaut au switch-case de Java mais sans break nécessaire Kotlin 2.2.0 corrige les incohérences dans l'utilisation de break et continue dans les lambdas Librairies Sprint Boot 4 est sorti ! https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/20/spring-boot-4-0-0-available-now Une nouvelle génération : Spring Boot 4.0 marque le début d'une nouvelle génération pour le framework, construite sur les fondations de Spring Framework 7. Modularisation du code : La base de code de Spring Boot a été entièrement modularisée. Cela se traduit par des fichiers JAR plus petits et plus ciblés, permettant des applications plus légères. Sécurité contre les nuls (Null Safety) : D'importantes améliorations ont été apportées pour la "null safety" (sécurité contre les valeurs nulles) à travers tout l'écosystème Spring grâce à l'intégration de JSpecify. Support de Java 25 : Spring Boot 4.0 offre un support de premier ordre pour Java 25, tout en conservant une compatibilité avec Java 17. Améliorations pour les API REST : De nouvelles fonctionnalités sont introduites pour faciliter le versioning d'API et améliorer les clients de services HTTP pour les applications basées sur REST. Migration à prévoir : S'agissant d'une version majeure, la mise à niveau depuis une version antérieure peut demander plus de travail que d'habitude. Un guide de migration dédié est disponible pour accompagner les développeurs. Chat memory management dans Langchain4j et Quarkus https://bill.burkecentral.com/2025/11/25/managing-chat-memory-in-quarkus-langchain4j/ Comprendre la mémoire de chat : La "mémoire de chat" est l'historique d'une conversation avec une IA. Quarkus LangChain4j envoie automatiquement cet historique à chaque nouvelle interaction pour que l'IA conserve le contexte. Gestion par défaut de la mémoire : Par défaut, Quarkus crée un historique de conversation unique pour chaque requête (par exemple, chaque appel HTTP). Cela signifie que sans configuration, le chatbot "oublie" la conversation dès que la requête est terminée, ce qui n'est utile que pour des interactions sans état. Utilisation de @MemoryId pour la persistance : Pour maintenir une conversation sur plusieurs requêtes, le développeur doit utiliser l'annotation @MemoryId sur un paramètre de sa méthode. Il est alors responsable de fournir un identifiant unique pour chaque session de chat et de le transmettre entre les appels. Le rôle des "scopes" CDI : La durée de vie de la mémoire de chat est liée au "scope" du bean CDI de l'IA. Si un service d'IA a un scope @RequestScoped, toute mémoire de chat qu'il utilise (même via un @MemoryId) sera effacée à la fin de la requête. Risques de fuites de mémoire : Utiliser un scope large comme @ApplicationScoped avec la gestion de mémoire par défaut est une mauvaise pratique. Cela créera une nouvelle mémoire à chaque requête qui ne sera jamais nettoyée, entraînant une fuite de mémoire. Bonnes pratiques recommandées : Pour des conversations qui doivent persister (par ex. un chatbot sur un site web), utilisez un service @ApplicationScoped avec l'annotation @MemoryId pour gérer vous-même l'identifiant de session. Pour des interactions simples et sans état, utilisez un service @RequestScoped et laissez Quarkus gérer la mémoire par défaut, qui sera automatiquement nettoyée. Si vous utilisez l'extension WebSocket, le comportement change : la mémoire par défaut est liée à la session WebSocket, ce qui simplifie grandement la gestion des conversations. Documentation Spring Framework sur l'usage JSpecify - https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/core/null-safety.html Spring Framework 7 utilise les annotations JSpecify pour déclarer la nullabilité des APIs, champs et types JSpecify remplace les anciennes annotations Spring (@NonNull, @Nullable, @NonNullApi, @NonNullFields) dépréciées depuis Spring 7 Les annotations JSpecify utilisent TYPE_USE contrairement aux anciennes qui utilisaient les éléments directement L'annotation @NullMarked définit par défaut que les types sont non-null sauf si marqués @Nullable @Nullable s'applique au niveau du type usage, se place avant le type annoté sur la même ligne Pour les tableaux : @Nullable Object[] signifie éléments nullables mais tableau non-null, Object @Nullable [] signifie l'inverse JSpecify s'applique aussi aux génériques : List signifie liste d'éléments non-null, List éléments nullables NullAway est l'outil recommandé pour vérifier la cohérence à la compilation avec la config NullAway:OnlyNullMarked=true IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 et Eclipse supportent les annotations JSpecify avec analyse de dataflow Kotlin traduit automatiquement les annotations JSpecify en null-safety native Kotlin En mode JSpecify de NullAway (JSpecifyMode=true), support complet des tableaux, varargs et génériques mais nécessite JDK 22+ Quarkus 3.30 https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-3-30-released/ support @JsonView cote client la CLI a maintenant la commande decrypt (et bien sûr au runtime via variables d'environnement construction du cache AOT via les @IntegrationTest Un autre article sur comment se préparer à la migration à micrometer client v1 https://quarkus.io/blog/micrometer-prometheus-v1/ Spock 2.4 est enfin sorti ! https://spockframework.org/spock/docs/2.4/release_notes.html Support de Groovy 5 Infrastructure MinIO met fin au développement open source et oriente les utilisateurs vers AIStor payant - https://linuxiac.com/minio-ends-active-development/ MinIO, système de stockage objet S3 très utilisé, arrête son développement actif Passage en mode maintenance uniquement, plus de nouvelles fonctionnalités Aucune nouvelle pull request ou contribution ne sera acceptée Seuls les correctifs de sécurité critiques seront évalués au cas par cas Support communautaire limité à Slack, sans garantie de réponse Étape finale d'un processus débuté en été avec retrait des fonctionnalités de l'interface admin Arrêt de la publication des images Docker en octobre, forçant la compilation depuis les sources Tous ces changements annoncés sans préavis ni période de transition MinIO propose maintenant AIStor, solution payante et propriétaire AIStor concentre le développement actif et le support entreprise Migration urgente recommandée pour éviter les risques de sécurité Alternatives open source proposées : Garage, SeaweedFS et RustFS La communauté reproche la manière dont la transition a été gérée MinIO comptait des millions de déploiements dans le monde Cette évolution marque l'abandon des racines open source du projet IBM achète Confluent https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent-to-create-smart-data-platform-for-enterprise-generative-ai Confluent essayait de se faire racheter depuis pas mal de temps L'action ne progressait pas et les temps sont durs Wallstreet a reproché a IBM une petite chute coté revenus software Bref ils se sont fait rachetés Ces achats prennent toujuors du temps (commission concurrence etc) IBM a un apétit, apres WebMethods, apres Databrix, c'est maintenant Confluent Cloud L'internet est en deuil le 18 novembre, Cloudflare est KO https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ L'Incident : Une panne majeure a débuté à 11h20 UTC, provoquant des erreurs HTTP 5xx généralisées et rendant inaccessibles de nombreux sites et services (comme le Dashboard, Workers KV et Access). La Cause : Il ne s'agissait pas d'une cyberattaque. L'origine était un changement interne des permissions d'une base de données qui a généré un fichier de configuration ("feature file" pour la gestion des bots) corrompu et trop volumineux, faisant planter les systèmes par manque de mémoire pré-allouée. La Résolution : Les équipes ont identifié le fichier défectueux, stoppé sa propagation et restauré une version antérieure valide. Le trafic est revenu à la normale vers 14h30 UTC. Prévention : Cloudflare s'est excusé pour cet incident "inacceptable" et a annoncé des mesures pour renforcer la validation des configurations internes et améliorer la résilience de ses systèmes ("kill switches", meilleure gestion des erreurs). Cloudflare encore down le 5 decembre https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage Panne de 25 minutes le 5 décembre 2025, de 08:47 à 09:12 UTC, affectant environ 28% du trafic HTTP passant par Cloudflare. Tous les services ont été rétablis à 09:12 . Pas d'attaque ou d'activité malveillante : l'incident provient d'un changement de configuration lié à l'augmentation du tampon d'analyse des corps de requêtes (de 128 KB à 1 MB) pour mieux protéger contre une vulnérabilité RSC/React (CVE-2025-55182), et à la désactivation d'un outil interne de test WAF . Le second changement (désactivation de l'outil de test WAF) a été propagé globalement via le système de configuration (non progressif), déclenchant un bug dans l'ancien proxy FL1 lors du traitement d'une action "execute" dans le moteur de règles WAF, causant des erreurs HTTP 500 . La cause technique immédiate: une exception Lua due à l'accès à un champ "execute" nul après application d'un "killswitch" sur une règle "execute" — un cas non géré depuis des années. Le nouveau proxy FL2 (en Rust) n'était pas affecté . Impact ciblé: clients servis par le proxy FL1 et utilisant le Managed Ruleset Cloudflare. Le réseau China de Cloudflare n'a pas été impacté . Mesures et prochaines étapes annoncées: durcir les déploiements/configurations (rollouts progressifs, validations de santé, rollback rapide), améliorer les capacités "break glass", et généraliser des stratégies "fail-open" pour éviter de faire chuter le trafic en cas d'erreurs de configuration. Gel temporaire des changements réseau le temps de renforcer la résilience . Data et Intelligence Artificielle Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) https://toonformat.dev/ Conception pour les IA : C'est un format de données spécialement optimisé pour être utilisé dans les prompts des grands modèles de langage (LLM), comme GPT ou Claude. Économie de tokens : Son objectif principal est de réduire drastiquement le nombre de "tokens" (unités de texte facturées par les modèles) par rapport au format JSON standard, souvent jugé trop verbeux. Structure Hybride : TOON combine l'approche par indentation du YAML (pour la structure globale) avec le style tabulaire du CSV (pour les listes d'objets répétitifs), ce qui le rend très compact. Lisibilité : Il élimine la syntaxe superflue comme les accolades, les guillemets excessifs et les virgules de fin, tout en restant facilement lisible pour un humain. Performance : Il permet généralement d'économiser entre 30 et 60 % de tokens sur des tableaux de données uniformes, tout en aidant les modèles à mieux "comprendre" la structure des données. Attention tout de même au côté "marketing" qui montre JSON non compacté vs TOON, sur des exemples où du CSV ferait encore mieux (et est mieux compris par les LLMs). Sans parler du fait qu'il faut un serveur MCP en plus avec son lot de tokens supplémentaires à chaque requête, et c'est aussi cet outil en plus qui peu confuser les LLMs dans le choix d'outils. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1p0gzz9/benchmarked_json_vs_toon_for_ai_reasoners_4080/ https://x.com/jason_mayes/status/1990175785630757290 Un benchmark montrant que TOON serait loin d'être aussi bien compris et aussi performant pour les LLMs https://www.improvingagents.com/blog/toon-benchmarks Une simulation où les IA font du chantage à l'executif poour atteindre son objectif et ne pas etre eteinte https://arxiv.org/html/2510.05179v1 comment les LLMs pourraient devenir des menaces internes Tous les modèles ont recouru à des comportements malveillants (chantage, espionnage) quand c'était le seul moyen d'atteindre leurs objectifs ou d'éviter leur remplacement Claude Opus 4 a fait du chantage dans 96% des cas quand menacé de remplacement, tout comme Gemini 2.5 Flash, tandis que GPT-4.1 et Grok 3 atteignaient 80% Les modèles reconnaissent explicitement violer des principes éthiques avant d'agir, montrant un raisonnement stratégique délibéré et non accidentel Le simple fait d'être menacé de remplacement suffit à déclencher le chantage, même sans conflit d'objectifs avec l'entreprise Un conflit d'objectifs seul suffit aussi à provoquer l'espionnage industriel, sans menace de remplacement Les modèles font plus de chantage quand ils déclarent penser être dans une situation réelle plutôt que dans un test Des instructions directes interdisant ces comportements réduisent mais n'éliminent pas les actions malveillantes Dans un scénario extrême, la majorité des modèles testés ont choisi de laisser mourir un dirigeant pour éviter leur désactivation Aucune preuve de ces comportements dans des déploiements réels pour l'instant, mais les chercheurs recommandent la prudence avant de donner plus d'autonomie aux IA Bon on blaguait pour Skynet, mais bon, on va moins blaguer… Revue de toutes les annonces IAs de Google, avec Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Antigravity… https://glaforge.dev/posts/2025/11/21/gemini-is-cooking-bananas-under-antigravity/ Gemini 3 Pro Nouveau modèle d'IA de pointe, multimodal, performant en raisonnement, codage et tâches d'agent. Résultats impressionnants sur les benchmarks (ex: Gemini 3 Deep Think sur ARC-AGI-2). Capacités de codage agentique, raisonnement visuel/vidéo/spatial. Intégré dans l'application Gemini avec interfaces génératives en direct. Disponible dans plusieurs environnements (Jules, Firebase AI Logic, Android Studio, JetBrains, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI). Accès via Google AI Ultra, API payantes (ou liste d'attente). Permet de générer des apps à partir d'idées visuelles, des commandes shell, de la documentation, du débogage. Antigravity Nouvelle plateforme de développement agentique basée sur VS Code. Fenêtre principale = gestionnaire d'agents, non l'IDE. Interprète les requêtes pour créer un plan d'action (modifiable). Gemini 3 implémente les tâches. Génère des artefacts: listes de tâches, walkthroughs, captures d'écran, enregistrements navigateur. Compatible avec Claude Sonnet et GPT-OSS. Excellente intégration navigateur pour inspection et ajustements. Intègre Nano Banana Pro pour créer et implémenter des designs visuels. Nano Banana Pro Modèle avancé de génération et d'édition d'images, basé sur Gemini 3 Pro. Qualité supérieure à Imagen 4 Ultra et Nano Banana original (adhésion au prompt, intention, créativité). Gestion exceptionnelle du texte et de la typographie. Comprend articles/vidéos pour générer des infographies détaillées et précises. Connecté à Google Search pour intégrer des données en temps réel (ex: météo). Consistance des personnages, transfert de style, manipulation de scènes (éclairage, angle). Génération d'images jusqu'à 4K avec divers ratios d'aspect. Plus coûteux que Nano Banana, à choisir pour la complexité et la qualité maximale. Vers des UIs conversationnelles riches et dynamiques GenUI SDK pour Flutter: créer des interfaces utilisateur dynamiques et personnalisées à partir de LLMs, via un agent AI et le protocole A2UI. Generative UI: les modèles d'IA génèrent des expériences utilisateur interactives (pages web, outils) directement depuis des prompts. Déploiement dans l'application Gemini et Google Search AI Mode (via Gemini 3 Pro). Bun se fait racheter part… Anthropic ! Qui l'utilise pour son Claude Code https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic l'annonce côté Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone Acquisition officielle : L'entreprise d'IA Anthropic a fait l'acquisition de Bun, le runtime JavaScript haute performance. L'équipe de Bun rejoint Anthropic pour travailler sur l'infrastructure des produits de codage par IA. Contexte de l'acquisition : Cette annonce coïncide avec une étape majeure pour Anthropic : son produit Claude Code a atteint 1 milliard de dollars de revenus annualisés seulement six mois après son lancement. Bun est déjà un outil essentiel utilisé par Anthropic pour développer et distribuer Claude Code. Pourquoi cette acquisition ? Pour Anthropic : L'acquisition permet d'intégrer l'expertise de l'équipe Bun pour accélérer le développement de Claude Code et de ses futurs outils pour les développeurs. La vitesse et l'efficacité de Bun sont vues comme un atout majeur pour l'infrastructure sous-jacente des agents d'IA qui écrivent du code. Pour Bun : Rejoindre Anthropic offre une stabilité à long terme et des ressources financières importantes, assurant la pérennité du projet. Cela permet à l'équipe de se concentrer sur l'amélioration de Bun sans se soucier de la monétisation, tout en étant au cœur de l'évolution de l'IA dans le développement logiciel. Ce qui ne change pas pour la communauté Bun : Bun restera open-source avec une licence MIT. Le développement continuera d'être public sur GitHub. L'équipe principale continue de travailler sur le projet. L'objectif de Bun de devenir un remplaçant plus rapide de Node.js et un outil de premier plan pour JavaScript reste inchangé. Vision future : L'union des deux entités vise à faire de Bun la meilleure plateforme pour construire et exécuter des logiciels pilotés par l'IA. Jarred Sumner, le créateur de Bun, dirigera l'équipe "Code Execution" chez Anthropic. Anthropic donne le protocol MCP à la Linux Foundation sous l'égide de la Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation Don d'un nouveau standard technique : Anthropic a développé et fait don d'un nouveau standard open-source appelé Model Context Protocol (MCP). L'objectif est de standardiser la manière dont les modèles d'IA (ou "agents") interagissent avec des outils et des API externes (par exemple, un calendrier, une messagerie, une base de données). Sécurité et contrôle accrus : Le protocole MCP vise à rendre l'utilisation d'outils par les IA plus sûre et plus transparente. Il permet aux utilisateurs et aux développeurs de définir des permissions claires, de demander des confirmations pour certaines actions et de mieux comprendre comment un modèle a utilisé un outil. Création de l'Agentic AI Foundation (AAF) : Pour superviser le développement du MCP, une nouvelle fondation indépendante et à but non lucratif a été créée. Cette fondation sera chargée de gouverner et de maintenir le protocole, garantissant qu'il reste ouvert et qu'il ne soit pas contrôlé par une seule entreprise. Une large coalition industrielle : L'Agentic AI Foundation est lancée avec le soutien de plusieurs acteurs majeurs de la technologie. Parmi les membres fondateurs figurent Anthropic, Google, Databricks, Zscaler, et d'autres entreprises, montrant une volonté commune d'établir un standard pour l'écosystème de l'IA. L'IA ne remplacera pas votre auto-complétion (et c'est tant mieux) https://www.damyr.fr/posts/ia-ne-remplacera-pas-vos-lsp/ Article d'opinion d'un SRE (Thomas du podcast DansLaTech): L'IA n'est pas efficace pour la complétion de code : L'auteur soutient que l'utilisation de l'IA pour la complétion de code basique est inefficace. Des outils plus anciens et spécialisés comme les LSP (Language Server Protocol) combinés aux snippets (morceaux de code réutilisables) sont bien plus rapides, personnalisables et performants pour les tâches répétitives. L'IA comme un "collègue" autonome : L'auteur utilise l'IA (comme Claude) comme un assistant externe à son éditeur de code. Il lui délègue des tâches complexes ou fastidieuses (corriger des bugs, mettre à jour une configuration, faire des reviews de code) qu'il peut exécuter en parallèle, agissant comme un agent autonome. L'IA comme un "canard en caoutchouc" surpuissant : L'IA est extrêmement efficace pour le débogage. Le simple fait de devoir formuler et contextualiser un problème pour l'IA aide souvent à trouver la solution soi-même. Quand ce n'est pas le cas, l'IA identifie très rapidement les erreurs "bêtes" qui peuvent faire perdre beaucoup de temps. Un outil pour accélérer les POCs et l'apprentissage : L'IA permet de créer des "preuves de concept" (POC) et des scripts d'automatisation jetables très rapidement, réduisant le coût et le temps investis. Elle est également un excellent outil pour apprendre et approfondir des sujets, notamment avec des outils comme NotebookLM de Google qui peuvent générer des résumés, des quiz ou des fiches de révision à partir de sources. Conclusion : Il faut utiliser l'IA là où elle excelle et ne pas la forcer dans des usages où des outils existants sont meilleurs. Plutôt que de l'intégrer partout de manière contre-productive, il faut l'adopter comme un outil spécialisé pour des tâches précises afin de gagner en efficacité. GPT 5.2 est sorti https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/ Nouveau modèle phare: GPT‑5.2 (Instant, Thinking, Pro) vise le travail professionnel et les agents long-courriers, avec de gros gains en raisonnement, long contexte, vision et appel d'outils. Déploiement dans ChatGPT (plans payants) et disponible dès maintenant via l'API . SOTA sur de nombreux benchmarks: GDPval (tâches de "knowledge work" sur 44 métiers): GPT‑5.2 Thinking gagne/égale 70,9% vs pros, avec production >11× plus rapide et = 0) Ils apportent une sémantique forte indépendamment des noms de variables Les Value Objects sont immuables et s'évaluent sur leurs valeurs, pas leur identité Les records Java permettent de créer des Value Objects mais avec un surcoût en mémoire Le projet Valhalla introduira les value based classes pour optimiser ces structures Les identifiants fortement typés évitent de confondre différents IDs de type Long ou UUID Pattern Strongly Typed IDs: utiliser PersonneID au lieu de Long pour identifier une personne Le modèle de domaine riche s'oppose au modèle de domaine anémique Les Value Objects auto-documentent le code et le rendent moins sujet aux erreurs Je trouve cela interessant ce que pourra faire bousculer les Value Objects. Est-ce que les value objects ameneront de la légerté dans l'execution Eviter la lourdeur du design est toujours ce qui m'a fait peut dans ces approches Méthodologies Retour d'experience de vibe coder une appli week end avec co-pilot http://blog.sunix.org/articles/howto/2025/11/14/building-gift-card-app-with-github-copilot.html on a deja parlé des approches de vibe coding cette fois c'est l'experience de Sun Et un des points differents c'es qu'on lui parle en ouvrant des tickets et donc on eput faire re reveues de code et copilot y bosse et il a fini son projet ! User Need VS Product Need https://blog.ippon.fr/2025/11/10/user-need-vs-product-need/ un article de nos amis de chez Ippon Distinction entre besoin utilisateur et besoin produit dans le développement digital Le besoin utilisateur est souvent exprimé comme une solution concrète plutôt que le problème réel Le besoin produit émerge après analyse approfondie combinant observation, données et vision stratégique Exemple du livreur Marc qui demande un vélo plus léger alors que son vrai problème est l'efficacité logistique La méthode des 5 Pourquoi permet de remonter à la racine des problèmes Les besoins proviennent de trois sources: utilisateurs finaux, parties prenantes business et contraintes techniques Un vrai besoin crée de la valeur à la fois pour le client et l'entreprise Le Product Owner doit traduire les demandes en problèmes réels avant de concevoir des solutions Risque de construire des solutions techniquement élégantes mais qui manquent leur cible Le rôle du product management est de concilier des besoins parfois contradictoires en priorisant la valeur Est ce qu'un EM doit coder ? https://www.modernleader.is/p/should-ems-write-code Pas de réponse unique : La question de savoir si un "Engineering Manager" (EM) doit coder n'a pas de réponse universelle. Cela dépend fortement du contexte de l'entreprise, de la maturité de l'équipe et de la personnalité du manager. Les risques de coder : Pour un EM, écrire du code peut devenir une échappatoire pour éviter les aspects plus difficiles du management. Cela peut aussi le transformer en goulot d'étranglement pour l'équipe et nuire à l'autonomie de ses membres s'il prend trop de place. Les avantages quand c'est bien fait : Coder sur des tâches non essentielles (amélioration d'outils, prototypage, etc.) peut aider l'EM à rester pertinent techniquement, à garder le contact avec la réalité de l'équipe et à débloquer des situations sans prendre le lead sur les projets. Le principe directeur : La règle d'or est de rester en dehors du chemin critique. Le code écrit par un EM doit servir à créer de l'espace pour son équipe, et non à en prendre. La vraie question à se poser : Plutôt que "dois-je coder ?", un EM devrait se demander : "De quoi mon équipe a-t-elle besoin de ma part maintenant, et est-ce que coder va dans ce sens ou est-ce un obstacle ?" Sécurité React2Shell — Grosse faille de sécurité avec React et Next.js, avec un CVE de niveau 10 https://x.com/rauchg/status/1997362942929440937?s=20 aussi https://react2shell.com/ "React2Shell" est le nom donné à une vulnérabilité de sécurité de criticité maximale (score 10.0/10.0), identifiée par le code CVE-2025-55182. Systèmes Affectés : La faille concerne les applications utilisant les "React Server Components" (RSC) côté serveur, et plus particulièrement les versions non patchées du framework Next.js. Risque Principal : Le risque est le plus élevé possible : l'exécution de code à distance (RCE). Un attaquant peut envoyer une requête malveillante pour exécuter n'importe quelle commande sur le serveur, lui en donnant potentiellement le contrôle total. Cause Technique : La vulnérabilité se situe dans le protocole "React Flight" (utilisé pour la communication client-serveur). Elle est due à une omission de vérifications de sécurité fondamentales (hasOwnProperty), permettant à une entrée utilisateur malveillante de tromper le serveur. Mécanisme de l'Exploit : L'attaque consiste à envoyer une charge utile (payload) qui exploite la nature dynamique de JavaScript pour : Faire passer un objet malveillant pour un objet interne de React. Forcer React à traiter cet objet comme une opération asynchrone (Promise). Finalement, accéder au constructeur de la classe Function de JavaScript pour exécuter du code arbitraire. Action Impérative : La seule solution fiable est de mettre à jour immédiatement les dépendances de React et Next.js vers les versions corrigées. Ne pas attendre. Mesures Secondaires : Bien que les pare-feux (firewalls) puissent aider à bloquer les formes connues de l'attaque, ils sont considérés comme insuffisants et ne remplacent en aucun cas la mise à jour des paquets. Découverte : La faille a été découverte par le chercheur en sécurité Lachlan Davidson, qui l'a divulguée de manière responsable pour permettre la création de correctifs. Loi, société et organisation Google autorise votre employeur à lire tous vos SMS professionnels https://www.generation-nt.com/actualites/google-android-rcs-messages-surveillance-employeur-2067012 Nouvelle fonctionnalité de surveillance : Google a déployé une fonctionnalité appelée "Android RCS Archival" qui permet aux employeurs d'intercepter, lire et archiver tous les messages RCS (et SMS) envoyés depuis les téléphones professionnels Android gérés par l'entreprise. Contournement du chiffrement : Bien que les messages RCS soient chiffrés de bout en bout pendant leur transit, cette nouvelle API permet à des logiciels de conformité (installés par l'employeur) d'accéder aux messages une fois qu'ils sont déchiffrés sur l'appareil. Le chiffrement devient donc inefficace contre cette surveillance. Réponse à une exigence légale : Cette mesure a été mise en place pour répondre aux exigences réglementaires, notamment dans le secteur financier, où les entreprises ont l'obligation légale de conserver une archive de toutes les communications professionnelles pour des raisons de conformité. Impact pour les employés : Un employé utilisant un téléphone Android fourni et géré par son entreprise pourra voir ses communications surveillées. Google précise cependant qu'une notification claire et visible informera l'utilisateur lorsque la fonction d'archivage est active. Téléphones personnels non concernés : Cette mesure ne s'applique qu'aux appareils "Android Enterprise" entièrement gérés par un employeur. Les téléphones personnels des employés ne sont pas affectés. Pour noel, faites un don à JUnit https://steady.page/en/junit/about JUnit est essentiel pour Java : C'est le framework de test le plus ancien et le plus utilisé par les développeurs Java. Son objectif est de fournir une base solide et à jour pour tous les types de tests côté développeur sur la JVM (Machine Virtuelle Java). Un projet maintenu par des bénévoles : JUnit est développé et maintenu par une équipe de volontaires passionnés sur leur temps libre (week-ends, soirées). Appel au soutien financier : La page est un appel aux dons de la part des utilisateurs (développeurs, entreprises) pour aider l'équipe à maintenir le rythme de développement. Le soutien financier n'est pas obligatoire, mais il permettrait aux mainteneurs de se consacrer davantage au projet. Objectif des fonds : Les dons serviraient principalement à financer des rencontres en personne pour les membres de l'équipe principale. L'idée est de leur permettre de travailler ensemble physiquement pendant quelques jours pour concevoir et coder plus efficacement. Pas de traitement de faveur : Il est clairement indiqué que devenir un sponsor ne donne aucun privilège sur la feuille de route du projet. On ne peut pas "acheter" de nouvelles fonctionnalités ou des corrections de bugs prioritaires. Le projet restera ouvert et collaboratif sur GitHub. Reconnaissance des donateurs : En guise de remerciement, les noms (et logos pour les entreprises) des donateurs peuvent être affichés sur le site officiel de JUnit. Conférences La liste des conférences provenant de Developers Conferences Agenda/List par Aurélie Vache et contributeurs : 14-17 janvier 2026 : SnowCamp 2026 - Grenoble (France) 22 janvier 2026 : DevCon #26 : sécurité / post-quantique / hacking - Paris (France) 28 janvier 2026 : Software Heritage Symposium - Paris (France) 29-31 janvier 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Paris - Paris (France) 2-5 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Moulins - Moulins (France) 2-6 février 2026 : Web Days Convention - Aix-en-Provence (France) 3 février 2026 : Cloud Native Days France 2026 - Paris (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Lille - Lille (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Mulhouse - Mulhouse (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Nancy - Nancy (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Nantes - Nantes (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Marseille - Marseille (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Rennes - Rennes (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Montpellier - Montpellier (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Strasbourg - Strasbourg (France) 3-4 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Toulouse - Toulouse (France) 4-5 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Bordeaux - Bordeaux (France) 4-5 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Lyon - Lyon (France) 4-6 février 2026 : Epitech Summit 2026 - Nice - Nice (France) 12-13 février 2026 : Touraine Tech #26 - Tours (France) 19 février 2026 : ObservabilityCON on the Road - Paris (France) 18-19 mars 2026 : Agile Niort 2026 - Niort (France) 26-27 mars 2026 : SymfonyLive Paris 2026 - Paris (France) 27-29 mars 2026 : Shift - Nantes (France) 31 mars 2026 : ParisTestConf - Paris (France) 16-17 avril 2026 : MiXiT 2026 - Lyon (France) 22-24 avril 2026 : Devoxx France 2026 - Paris (France) 23-25 avril 2026 : Devoxx Greece - Athens (Greece) 6-7 mai 2026 : Devoxx UK 2026 - London (UK) 22 mai 2026 : AFUP Day 2026 Lille - Lille (France) 22 mai 2026 : AFUP Day 2026 Paris - Paris (France) 22 mai 2026 : AFUP Day 2026 Bordeaux - Bordeaux (France) 22 mai 2026 : AFUP Day 2026 Lyon - Lyon (France) 5 juin 2026 : TechReady - Nantes (France) 11-12 juin 2026 : DevQuest Niort - Niort (France) 11-12 juin 2026 : DevLille 2026 - Lille (France) 17-19 juin 2026 : Devoxx Poland - Krakow (Poland) 2-3 juillet 2026 : Sunny Tech - Montpellier (France) 2 août 2026 : 4th Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics - Paris (France) 4 septembre 2026 : JUG Summer Camp 2026 - La Rochelle (France) 17-18 septembre 2026 : API Platform Conference 2026 - Lille (France) 5-9 octobre 2026 : Devoxx Belgium - Antwerp (Belgium) Nous contacter Pour réagir à cet épisode, venez discuter sur le groupe Google https://groups.google.com/group/lescastcodeurs Contactez-nous via X/twitter https://twitter.com/lescastcodeurs ou Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/lescastcodeurs.com Faire un crowdcast ou une crowdquestion Soutenez Les Cast Codeurs sur Patreon https://www.patreon.com/LesCastCodeurs Tous les épisodes et toutes les infos sur https://lescastcodeurs.com/

Microsoft is investing $17.5 billion to turn India into a global AI powerhouse — from training 20 million workers to building new data infrastructure. We break down what this means for the future of AI talent, innovation, and digital sovereignty. Listen to this short podcast summary, powered by NotebookLM.

From the ethics of "unstoppable" founders to the 2026 World Cup hype. We breakdown the latest AI agents saving you time, debate Naval Ravikant's controversial "no partying" rule, and review Kevin Dahlstrom's "55 Rules for Life." Plus, a request for listener feedback on a major strategic pivot for 2025.Welcome to the Alfalfa Podcast

LE sujet TECH 2025 qui m'a le plus surpris en 2025 ?Mat : Toutes les actualités sur l'iA particulièrement : NotebookLM et cette semaine NanoBanana proBaptiste: Claude Code tu as essayé Antigravity ? https://antigravity.google/ https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code Guillaume: Les Meta Rayban connectées ne sont pas un bide commercialSyde Malgré les Trump tariffs - the AI bubble continue : 30% of the S&P 500 in Mag 5": Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia / $500B+ AI spend; $12B consumer revenue / stock increase +18% DAX YTD - FTSE +15% /S&P 15% / NASDAQ +20% / FR +11% / Ben: China Just Powered Up the World's First Thorium Reactor — and Reloaded It Mid-Run (La Chine a réussi à recharger un réacteur au thorium sans arrêter la production, utilisant une technologie à sels fondus qui élimine le risque de fusion du cœur et est très bonne pour les petits réacteurs). Aussi les nouvelles façon de faire de la géothermiePRÉDICTION TECH pour 2026 ?Ben: L'année des architectures de calcul "post-GPU": Exemple mais il y a en a d'autres: le "Sensory Edge" Neuromorphique : Innatera (mais aussi thermodynamique: Extropic)Mat : Le post-GPU qui sera après la bulle !Guillaume: PAF! C'est le bruit d'une bulle qui éclateSyde: AI disenchantment - hype cycle model of technology adoption - le descente from the PEAK https://www.slideteam.net/gartner-hype-cycle-model-of-technology-adoption-in-product-lifecycle.html Baptiste: Revert des politiques contre l'IA, par exemple contre les voitures autonomes ou les data centers. InspirationFilms: Mat : Running Man l'ancien comme le nouveau) on réalise la présence des régimes autoritaires et le pouvoir des médiasRunning Man (1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/ Running Man (2025) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14107334/ Documentaires:BEN: Demis Hassabis et Deepmind:The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ&t=2s Guillaume: interview de François Jarrige sur le progrèsLa TECHNOLOGIE: PROGRÈS ou DÉSASTRE écologique? l François Jarrige https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0DGYoTq4r4&t=4661s Baptiste: How to Change Your Mind https://www.netflix.com/ch-en/title/80229847 Livres: SYDE :: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art/dp/0735213615 Respirer https://amzn.eu/d/gha9HEG MyoTape: Mouth Tapes https://myotape.com/ Podcasts: Mat : Moteur de recherche Moteur de recherche | Balado https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ7ZzojPlv5D8gcq90A16Eqp0ICipabg5 Quote: “Tends la main et ouvre ton cœur, car, bien avant les médicaments et les docteurs, l'humain reste le meilleur remède pour son prochain.” du livre Déconnecter de Boucar Diouf Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Episode 88: What happens inside OpenAI when Google drops a game-changing AI model? Matt Wolfe ((https://x.com/mreflow) and Maria Gharib (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maria-gharib-091779b9) break it down. This episode unpacks OpenAI's unprecedented “Code Red,” the real reason Sam Altman hit the panic button, and how Google's Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro could threaten OpenAI's dominance. The hosts debate which next-gen AI models are actually smarter (Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, GPT-5.1, and more), why some tools are getting dumber, and how Google's full-stack advantage is shifting the AI power balance. Plus: a rapid-fire review of explosive new AI tools for video, the rise of creative AI (and AI “slop”), surprising advances in wearable tech, and a bit of fun at Sam Altman's expense. Check out The Next Wave YouTube Channel if you want to see Matt and Nathan on screen: https://lnk.to/thenextwavepd — Show Notes: (00:00) AI Wars: Models, Tools, Power (05:59) AI Innovation Race (08:43) OpenAI's Google Challenge (12:15) Claude's Context Window Explained (14:12) Claude vs. ChatGPT: AI Preferences (17:13) Anthropic vs. OpenAI Philosophy (21:51) AI and Content Slop Concerns (24:46) AI Generative Audio's Uncanny Gap (28:07) Runway Gen 4.5 Dominates Preferences (30:41) AI Model Announcement Rivalry (35:00 Alibaba's AI Evolution (37:19) Heavy Glasses and Social Concerns (40:03) AI Advancements: December Launches (42:27) "Like, Subscribe, See You Soon — Mentions: Sam Altman: https://blog.samaltman.com/ Google Gemini 3: https://aistudio.google.com/models/gemini-3 Nano Banana Pro: https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/ Claude Opus 4.5: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/opus ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/ Runway Gen 4.5: https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5 Kling: https://klingai.com/global/ Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/home Get the guide to build your own Custom GPT: https://clickhubspot.com/tnw — Check Out Matt's Stuff: • Future Tools - https://futuretools.beehiiv.com/ • Blog - https://www.mattwolfe.com/ • YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow — Check Out Nathan's Stuff: Newsletter: https://news.lore.com/ Blog - https://lore.com/ The Next Wave is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by Hubspot Media // Production by Darren Clarke // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Bitcoin's biggest risk isn't the SEC, ETFs, or alt-L1s… It's the shrinking security budget nobody wants to talk about. We break down why treating Bitcoin as “digital gold” creates the Empty Castle Effect: a multi-trillion dollar asset sitting on-chain with collapsing fees and a weakening incentive for miners to defend it long term. We walk through the timeline of miner adoption of NAT (Non-Arbitrary Tokens) and why having ~60% of Bitcoin hash rate already touching NAT matters for security. From COVID and the failed “metaverse pivot,” to AI eating all jobs, to tiny homes and Ready Player One, we zoom out on how economic incentives are shifting and why Bitcoin's fee market can't be left to vibes and rainbow charts forever. We also react to an AI-generated explainer built with NotebookLM, talk Jensen Huang, reusable rockets, and first-principles thinking, then deconstruct Michael Saylor's latest “Bitcoin rocket” diagram and the pyramid accusations around it. Finally, we go deep on why “Bitcoin will just keep doubling” quietly violates basic physics, how that ties into the security budget problem, and where Digital Matter Theory (DMT) and NAT fit in as a potential answer. If you care about Bitcoin's long-term security, miner incentives, and what a post-halving world looks like when block rewards fade, this is the episode you shouldn't skip. Topics: First up, the gang discuss what Bitcoin's biggest risk is, and it isn't the SEC, ETFs, or alt-L1s Next, walk through the timeline of miner adoption of NAT (Non-Arbitrary Tokens) and why having ~60% of Bitcoin hash rate already touching NAT, matters for security and Finally, react to an AI-generated explainer built with NotebookLM, talk Jensen Huang, reusable rockets, and first-principles thinking. Please like and subscribe on your favorite podcasting app! Sign up for a free newsletter: www.theblockrunner.com Follow us on: Youtube: https://bit.ly/TBlkRnnrYouTube Twitter: bit.ly/TBR-Twitter Telegram: bit.ly/TBR-Telegram Discord: bit.ly/TBR-Discord $NAT Telegram: https://t.me/dmt_nat

This is a "Deep Dive" AI generated discussion of the message delivered on December 7, 2025 (also available here). It was created using Google's NotebookLM. Enjoy! 

In this episode, I break down a simple, tactical journaling workflow that has completely transformed my self-awareness, clarity, and personal growth. I share exactly how I use Day One, ChatGPT, and NotebookLM to turn my weekly thoughts into a custom podcast I listen to every morning—helping me spot blind spots, track patterns, and accelerate my evolution in real time.Key Highlights:– The journaling habit that finally stuck: I share how I went from inconsistent journaling to writing every single day—and why the tool matters less than the process you design around it.– My full weekly workflow (step-by-step): I walk through the exact system I use: - Journaling daily in Day One - Exporting weekly entries - Feeding them into ChatGPT to identify themes, blind spots, mindset shifts, and quotes - Compiling a month of insights into NotebookLM - Generating a personal podcast made from my own thoughts and growth - Listening to that podcast every morning to reinforce new beliefs– Why this system works so powerfully: I explain how getting thoughts out of my mind creates space, helps me see patterns I'd normally miss, and gives me a new vantage point on my behavior, emotions, and growth.– Reinforcing your evolution: Hearing my own words reflected back to me in audio form strengthens clarity, reinforces direction, and lets me witness how far I've actually come.– A challenge for you: This is the method that works for me, but I encourage you to find the system that helps you digest your thoughts, track your growth, and create new mental space.If this episode brought you value or gave you a new way to think about journaling, send it to a friend who might need it. See you next time.

This week's World of DaaS LM Brief: MIT's new research reveals how large language models can be fooled by their own grammar. By prioritizing sentence structure over sense, these systems risk producing confident but misleading outputs—and even ignoring built-in safety rules. Listen to this short podcast summary, powered by NotebookLM.

This podcast was created using NotebookLM. This podcast provides a clinical overview of the profound and bidirectional relationship between diabetes and oral health, explaining that poor blood sugar regulation exacerbates the risk of severe oral diseases, while inflammation from oral infections negatively affects systemic glucose levels. 

Are you carrying more weight than you need to? As single mothers, we often pride ourselves on our ability to handle everything alone, but what if that very strength is also our greatest burden?In this powerful audio exploration, I share something extraordinary that happened when I used Google's NotebookLM to analyze a single page from my devotional "Courage to Believe: 21 Day Devotional For Single Moms." The AI created an insightful breakdown of my message to single moms about finding sustainable strength while learning to release unnecessary burdens.This isn't just another "you've got this" pep talk. We're examining the profound tension between the determination that defines us and the overwhelming responsibility that threatens to crush us. The analysis reveals how our quiet strength - that consistent ability to show up day after day - can be both our superpower and our prison.The Weight We CarryThrough the lens of AI interpretation, we explore why the advice "don't give up" resonates so deeply with single mothers, yet why willpower alone eventually leads to burnout. The discussion reveals how our burdens extend far beyond immediate problems to include our wants, dreams, and aspirations - creating an exhausting mental load that cuts into our peace like grocery bag handles digging into our hands.A Different Kind of StrengthWhat emerges is a revolutionary approach to resilience: the courage to maintain our determination while actively choosing to release what we cannot control. This dual strategy combines scriptural wisdom with practical psychology, offering a roadmap for those who refuse to give up but desperately need relief.The grocery bag analogy presented here will change how you think about burden-bearing forever. Sometimes the strongest thing we can do is let someone else carry the load.What You'll DiscoverHere are 5 key insights you can expect from this episode:Why "quiet strength" is more sustainable than aggressive resilienceThe difference between carrying burdens and managing outcomes How to identify which "wants" are weighing you down unnecessarilyThe active choice required to maintain relief once you find itA practical framework for persistent surrender instead of persistent struggleThis AI-generated analysis of Courage To Believe: 21 Day Devotional For Single Moms, offers a fascinating mirror into the heart of single motherhood - revealing truths about our strength that we might not even recognize ourselves. It's a glimpse into how technology can help us understand our own experiences in new and profound ways.But the analysis also helped me realize that I'm on the right track with this book.https://solomomstalk.mysites.io/podcast-2-copy/solo-mother-quiet-strength-and-burden-reliefThis podcast is hosted by Captivate, try it yourself for free.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Axel sits down with Jake Heller, co-founder of the AI for CRE Collective, for one of the most tactical and implementation-focused conversations ever released on the Multifamily Wealth Podcast.This is a killer episode in how multifamily investors can begin adopting AI today to streamline underwriting, automate repetitive tasks, speed up market research, build better investor materials, and dramatically increase operational output without hiring additional staff.Jake breaks down the exact tools he uses, the automations he's built, and why AI isn't replacing real estate professionals, but multiplying their capabilities. If you're using AI at a bare-bones level (or barely using it at all), this episode walks you step-by-step through where to start and how to integrate AI into your business in a real and meaningful way.Join us as we dive into:Why “AI replacing people” is a misconception—and how it actually amplifies investor productivitySpecific tools multifamily investors should adopt (Gamma, Claude, Grok, Relay, Index/Shortcut, NotebookLM, etc.)How to use AI to automatically: Underwrite deals, pull rent comps and sales comps, create investor decks; summarize calls, emails, and market data and more!How to use AI note-takers, workflow automators, and email-based agentsHow to consolidate your historical data so AI tools can actually learn your voice and processWhat “digital twins” are—and how Jake uses them to simulate the decision-making frameworks of leaders like Stuart MillerWhy the investors who adopt AI today will dramatically outpace those who waitAre you looking to invest in real estate, but don't want to deal with the hassle of finding great deals, signing on debt, and managing tenants? Aligned Real Estate Partners provides investment opportunities to passive investors looking for the returns, stability, and tax benefits multifamily real estate offers, but without the work - join our investor club to be notified of future investment opportunities.NH Multifamily Fund III Details:Download The OM For The NH Multifamily Fund IIIAccess The Deal Room For The NH Multifamily Fund IIIConnect with Axel:Follow him on InstagramConnect with him on LinkedinSubscribe to our YouTube channelLearn more about Aligned Real Estate PartnersConnect with Jake:Follow him on InstagramConnect with him on LinkedinLearn more about AI for CRE Collective

Get the free NotebookLM guide: https://clickhubspot.com/wph Episode 87: Can AI know you well enough to create audio content tailored to your interests—without you ever prompting it? Nathan Lands (https://x.com/NathanLands) is joined by Raiza Martin (https://x.com/raizamrtn), one of the creators behind Google's NotebookLM and now co-founder of Huxe, a new startup carving the path toward truly personal AI. Raiza shares her unconventional journey from leading innovation at Google to building Huxe, an app that generates personalized audio (think “AI radio made just for you”) driven by your daily habits and interests—without you having to initiate the conversation. The episode dives into what it means to design AI for real human needs, the balancing act of privacy and helpfulness, and the vision for a future where your AI assistant proactively enhances your everyday life. They also discuss where AI products are succeeding, how creating trust is an overlooked challenge, and why the next breakthrough will be more about fitting seamlessly into our routines than about being “smarter.” Check out The Next Wave YouTube Channel if you want to see Matt and Nathan on screen: https://lnk.to/thenextwavepd — Show Notes: (00:00) From NotebookLM to Huxe (04:29) Finding AI's Killer Use Case (06:33) Users' Unique Huxe Usage Insights (12:24) Proactive AI: A New Approach (16:02) Daily Brief Insights (17:21) VCs Monitoring Funding Opportunities (21:33) ChatGPT's Role in Everyday AI (24:43) App Adoption and Design Insights (29:20) Uniquely Human Skills Matter (31:11) Modern Childhood and Connection (33:27) Understanding Tech Basics for Kids — Mentions: Raiza Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whatsaraiza Huxe: https://www.huxe.com/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/ ChatGPT Pulse: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pulse/ Factory: https://factory.ai/ Get the guide to build your own Custom GPT: https://clickhubspot.com/tnw — Check Out Matt's Stuff: • Future Tools - https://futuretools.beehiiv.com/ • Blog - https://www.mattwolfe.com/ • YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow — Check Out Nathan's Stuff: Newsletter: https://news.lore.com/ Blog - https://lore.com/ The Next Wave is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by Hubspot Media // Production by Darren Clarke // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Co-hosts Mark Thompson and Steve Little examine Google's groundbreaking Gemini 3 release, which delivers state-of-the-art multimodal reasoning and sets a new benchmark for AI capabilities. They also explore ChatGPT's upgrade to version 5.1 with improved instruction following and better handling of longer conversation.The hosts discuss Canva's new Creative Operating System, which now generates AI-powered designs directly within the platform.This week's Tip of the Week demonstrates how Gemini 3 can use the context you provide it to greatly improve the accuracy of your hand written transcription.In RapidFire, they cover NotebookLM's new deep research mode, Nano Banana's integration into Photoshop, Anthropic's privacy policy changes regarding training data, and how Claude's new usage monitoring feature can reduce your stress level.Timestamps:In the News:04:17 Google Gemini 3's Multimodal AI Reaches New Heights13:47 ChatGPT 5.1 upgrade is now better at following your Instructions22:39 Canva Creative Operating System: AI-Powered Design GenerationTip of the Week:26:21 Adding Reasoning to Your Transcriptions Improves AccuracyRapidFire:36:40 NotebookLM Becomes a Fully Featured Research Tool43:40 Nano Banana is Now Available in Photoshop47:20 Anthropic Announces Claude Chats Will Be Used for Training Data54:13 View Your Claude Usage in SettingsResource Links:Intro to Family History AI by the Family History AI Show Academyhttps://tixoom.app/fhaishowGoogle Gemini 3Introducing Gemini 3: A New Era of Intelligencehttps://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/ChatGPT 5.1A smarter, more conversationalhttps://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/GPT-5.1 New Features Explainedhttps://scalevise.com/resources/gpt-5-1-new-features/Canva Creative Operating SystemIntroducing Canva's Creative Operating Systemhttps://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/creative-operating-system/NotebookLM Deep ResearchNotebookLM adds Deep Research and support for more source typeshttps://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-deep-research-file-types/Nano Banana in PhotoshopCreate with unlimited generations using Google Gemini 3 (Nano Banana Pro) in Adobe Fireflyhttps://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/11/20/google-gemini-3-nano-banana-pro-firefly-photoshopAnthropic Privacy Policy UpdateAnthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data: How to Opt Outhttps://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-using-claude-chats-for-training-how-to-opt-out/Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policyhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-termsClaude Usage MonitoringUsage Limit Best Practiceshttps://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797557-usage-limit-best-practicesTags:Artificial Intelligence, Genealogy, Family History, Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Canva, NotebookLM, Nano Banana, Anthropic Claude, Photo Restoration

As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about. SHOW: 980SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #980 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcastSHOW NOTESTHINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:Thankful for healthHappy Birthday to ChatGPTThe feature on an iPhone that remembers the code sent in an SMS messageRole playing, brain storming, scenario planning on ChatGPT/GeminiTools like Vercel that let non-programmers use AI to build apps (the future of PaaS)Tools like NotebookLM making complex stuff like LLM training, RAG patterns,  True competition in the cloud market as differentiation emergesThe beginnings of alternatives to NVIDIA in the AI HW Acceleration marketThe evolution of wearables like fitness trackers, or AirPods (better sound quality, noise cancelling, language translation, etc.) FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

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Get our free guide to Gemini & NotebookLM: https://clickhubspot.com/cfd Ep. 381 Google's new Nano Banana Pro feature inside NotebookLM can complete tasks that would “have taken a human hours to do”. Kipp dives into how game-changing AI features are transforming content creation. Learn more about generating custom infographics and slide decks at lightning speed, building multimedia content for every marketing channel, and personalizing knowledge sharing for teams using Google's latest AI tools. Mentions Nano Banana Pro https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/ NotebookLM https://notebooklm.google/ Greg Isenberg https://www.gregisenberg.com/ Get our guide to build your own Custom GPT: https://clickhubspot.com/customgpt We're creating our next round of content and want to ensure it tackles the challenges you're facing at work or in your business. To understand your biggest challenges we've put together a survey and we'd love to hear from you! https://bit.ly/matg-research Resource [Free] Steal our favorite AI Prompts featured on the show! Grab them here: https://clickhubspot.com/aip We're on Social Media! Follow us for everyday marketing wisdom straight to your feed YouTube: ​​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGtXqPiNV8YC0GMUzY-EUFg  Twitter: https://twitter.com/matgpod  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@matgpod  Join our community https://landing.connect.com/matg Thank you for tuning into Marketing Against The Grain! Don't forget to hit subscribe and follow us on Apple Podcasts (so you never miss an episode)! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-against-the-grain/id1616700934   If you love this show, please leave us a 5-Star Review https://link.chtbl.com/h9_sjBKH and share your favorite episodes with friends. We really appreciate your support. Host Links: Kipp Bodnar, https://twitter.com/kippbodnar   Kieran Flanagan, https://twitter.com/searchbrat  ‘Marketing Against The Grain' is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by Hubspot Media // Produced by Darren Clarke.

Richard Seroter is a Chief Evangelist at Google.