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Africa is the literal center of the world's map and increasingly the center of gravity for ISIS, the manpower source for Russia's war in Ukraine, and the contested geopolitical ground where China builds bases and drops off free weapons. Our first active-duty guest pulls back the curtain on a combatant command that runs on 0.1% of the defense budget. LTG John W. Brennan Jr. is Deputy Commander of U.S. Africa Command and a 30-year career Special Forces officer, with command tours spanning 5th Special Forces Group, the anti-ISIS task force in Syria, and 1st Special Forces Command. He's joined by ChinaTalk's Justin, who served under Brennan as a young NCO in the Middle East. We discuss… How AFRICOM runs a counter-VEO away game on 0.1% of the defense budget by working “by, with, and through” partners “Putin's Purse”: trafficking thousands of Africans onto the Ukrainian front lines under false pretenses The Houthi–al-Shabaab pipeline and the threat triangle around Djibouti's PRC naval base Building an “alternate DIB in exile”: drone centers of excellence in Morocco, South African artillery, Namibian satellite radios Why Brennan wants to “declare jihad against proprietary data streams” and where AI actually helps a combatant commander decide WarTalk's first Ivorian dance party suno song: https://suno.com/s/1hhJTtwBn2NGR8eT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Africa is the literal center of the world's map and increasingly the center of gravity for ISIS, the manpower source for Russia's war in Ukraine, and the contested geopolitical ground where China builds bases and drops off free weapons. Our first active-duty guest pulls back the curtain on a combatant command that runs on 0.1% of the defense budget. LTG John W. Brennan Jr. is Deputy Commander of U.S. Africa Command and a 30-year career Special Forces officer, with command tours spanning 5th Special Forces Group, the anti-ISIS task force in Syria, and 1st Special Forces Command. He's joined by ChinaTalk's Justin, who served under Brennan as a young NCO in the Middle East. We discuss… How AFRICOM runs a counter-VEO away game on 0.1% of the defense budget by working “by, with, and through” partners “Putin's Purse”: trafficking thousands of Africans onto the Ukrainian front lines under false pretenses The Houthi–al-Shabaab pipeline and the threat triangle around Djibouti's PRC naval base Building an “alternate DIB in exile”: drone centers of excellence in Morocco, South African artillery, Namibian satellite radios Why Brennan wants to “declare jihad against proprietary data streams” and where AI actually helps a combatant commander decide WarTalk's first Ivorian dance party suno song: https://suno.com/s/1hhJTtwBn2NGR8eT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don't know about you, but to me there are few things as interesting as the hardware/software interface: the point where carefully written code meets the messy, physical world of sensors, lenses, and real-time constraints. It's where a clever abstraction either holds up or falls apart the moment a real signal hits it.That makes Veo a perfect guest. The Copenhagen-based company builds AI-powered cameras that record and analyze sports matches, from grassroots football pitches to professional clubs, and then turn hours of raw footage into something coaches and players can actually use: automatic highlights, player tracking, and match analysis. To get there, they have to capture panoramic video on a custom camera, follow the action without an operator, and crunch an enormous amount of data, reliably and at scale.My guests sit on both sides of that interface. Anders Hellerup Madsen works close to the metal on the camera itself, on the embedded firmware and the GStreamer media pipeline that turns raw sensor data into video. Gorm Casper works further up the stack, on the backend that ingests, processes, and analyzes those matches in Rust. Together we talk about where Rust fits across that whole journey, the trade-offs of doing media and computer vision work in a systems language, and what convinced a sports-tech company to bet on Rust for the parts that absolutely cannot fall over.

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Drew and Rory are back for episode 69, which is legally required to begin with at least one immature joke before immediately collapsing under the weight of Google's latest AI product avalanche.This week, they dig into Google Omni, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Flow, Google Pics, Nano Banana, Veo, and whatever else Google launched before anyone had time to make coffee. The big question: are these actually meaningful creative upgrades, or did Google just throw 19 AI names into a blender and call it innovation?They break down early Omni and Flow tests, why video physics still feel weird, where Seedance and Kling may still be ahead, and why Runway Aleph 2.0 feels promising but imperfect. Rory shares hands-on examples with character swaps, driving videos, golf swings, agent mode, and Flow's new tool-building features. Drew tries to keep the conversation coherent while quietly wondering if every AI product now needs a map, glossary, and mild sedative.The episode also gets into Gemini as a search replacement, creepy context awareness, privacy tradeoffs, AI tools connecting to personal data, the fuzzy definition of “agentic,” the limits of auto-clipping tools, GPT Image 2's SynthID watermarking, metadata headaches for client work, and the universal pain of wasting $15 trying to make an image model spell “stump.”If you're trying to understand what Google's AI updates actually mean for creators, marketers, AI video workflows, image generation, creative direction, and the future of agentic media tools, this episode is half useful breakdown, half group therapy for people with too many tabs open.---⏱️ Fast Hour00:00 Cold open00:32 Google's AI naming avalanche01:39 AI hype vs actual workflow value02:34 Why AI launches feel like iPhone upgrades06:12 Google's “throw everything” strategy07:08 Omni vs Veo 4 expectations07:43 Video physics and speed problems09:03 Google Pics, Flow, Omni, and Flash10:04 How Rory actually uses Gemini11:51 Gemini 3.5 Flash breakdown12:38 AI benchmarks feel like marketing13:42 Gemini as a better search layer15:18 Creepy Gemini context awareness17:35 Why AI data connections feel too early19:15 The privacy tradeoff gets darker21:19 Google Omni vs Runway Aleph 2.022:12 Google Omni testing starts rough23:39 Google Veo 3.1 feels forgettable25:21 Why Omni feels early26:19 Higgsfield clipper test fails27:59 Why auto-clipping still misses31:30 Rory tests Flow and Omni live32:41 Omni character swap struggles33:33 Runway Aleph panda test34:07 Flow's new interface and tools35:02 Building custom tools inside Flow36:10 The joy of making tools from nothing37:39 Agent mode for still-image workflows39:05 Batch creative directions in Flow40:03 Omni turns six images into video40:47 Driving physics still feel off41:55 Why consistency matters for adoption43:03 Kling, Seedance, and the update race43:59 Seedance handles complex camera motion45:42 GPT Image setup for golf video46:53 Testing the same prompt in Flow49:25 Why agentic platforms can feel thin51:10 The need for visual design systems52:21 Flow's golf swing result53:56 Everyone is racing toward agentic54:18 What “agentic” actually means56:03 Claude feels more genuinely agentic57:04 Josh Hart quote analysis detour58:44 Reverse-engineering creative patterns59:53 Pizza, calzones, and prompt structure01:00:26 SynthID and GPT Image 2 watermarking01:01:47 Metadata problems for client work01:02:51 Google Pics enters the chat01:04:03 Too many image models to track01:04:52 Midjourney color still hits different01:06:01 GPT Image 2 quality frustration01:06:59 Image models still struggle with scale01:08:26 Bad AI weeks happen too01:09:20 Midjourney 8.2 speculation01:10:01 Tell your florist

I sit down with Logan Kilpatrick from the Google DeepMind team, live at Google I/O, to unpack everything Google just announced and what it means for founders and builders. We cover Gemini 3.5 Flash, the new Gemini Omni world model, the expanded Antigravity ecosystem, managed agents in the Gemini API, and the native Android app builder inside AI Studio. Logan shares how distillation keeps pushing Pro-level intelligence into Flash, where the real opportunities sit for solo founders, and why the agentic era has finally crossed the chasm from demo to useful. If you have an idea and want to ship something this week, this episode maps the toolkit. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 00:53 – Gemini 3.5 Flash: The New Workhorse Model 01:49 – How Flash 3.5 Stacks Up Against Sonnet 02:38 – Gemini Omni: A World Model for Any Input and Output 06:18 – Building a Content and Creator Layer on Omni 08:21 – What to look forward to 10:53 – Google Spark and Managed Agents 14:00 – The Agentic Era and Requests for Startups 17:17 – The Antigravity Ecosystem Overhaul 18:51 – AI Studio vs. Antigravity: Vibe Coding vs. Agentic Engineering 21:31 – Native Android Apps Built Inside AI Studio 23:44 – Closing Thoughts Key Points Gemini 3.5 Flash ships as a Sonnet-level workhorse model tuned for long-running agentic tasks, coding, and tool use, available on day one to 900M+ Gemini app users. Gemini Omni is a single model that takes any input and produces any output across video, image, audio, and music, fusing Veo, Nano Banana, Lyria, and TTS into one system. Managed agents in the Gemini API let builders ship agentic products with a single API call, using skills and markdown instead of writing orchestration code. The Antigravity suite now spans an IDE, agent manager, CLI, SDK, and API surface, all sharing the same agent harness that powers Gemini Spark. AI Studio targets vibe coding and now builds native Android apps for free, while Antigravity targets production-quality, million-line-codebase engineering. The cost of intelligence keeps dropping thanks to distillation, opening up smaller markets that previously needed a 40-person team and venture funding to address. 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/ FIND LOGAN ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://x.com/OfficialLoganK Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoganKilpatrickYT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/logankilpatrick/

Hey, Alex here, just got back from the sunny Shoreline Theater in Mountain view, so let me catch you up! This week was definitely Google heavy, we are covering Google's IO conference for the third year in a row, and today we have a special guest, Logan Kilpatrick, is joining to discuss the announced Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Omni model, and the new Managed Agents offerings. Plus, this week, for the first time, OpenAI announced that AI solved a Math problem that humans couldn't solve for 80 years, Cursor is showing off Composer 2.5 which is partly trained on XAI data, Karpathy joins Anthropic and much more! Let's dive in! P.S - We've announced our upcoming hackathon, Weavehacks-4, June 6-7, I'll be there, we're expecting the seats to run out very soon so register nowThursdAI - We'd love to have your subscription, and if you're already subscribed, please hit that bell on YT to never miss an episode!Google I/O 2026 - Google goes agentic everywhereI went to cover Google I/O for the third year in a row, shoutout to the DeepMind team for inviting ThursdAI again, and folks, this one felt different.Last year, Google I/O was still very model-centric. This year, the story was not “here is another benchmark chart.” The story was: Google is putting Gemini into everything, and the agentic layer is becoming the product layer. Search, Gemini app, Android, Workspace, YouTube, AI Studio, Cloud, Antigravity, Flow, managed agents, smart glasses, all of it is now orbiting around one pretty clear strategy: Gemini is the intelligence, Antigravity is the agent harness, Google's products are the distribution. I saw many reactions that were milquetoast, as in, “we expected more” and those seem to dominate the X feed. But I think the distribution is the part that many folks on X are missing. Yes, we can argue about Gemini 3.5 Flash pricing. Yes, we can argue whether “Flash” still means what Flash used to mean. But when Google says the Gemini app itself has 900 million monthly active users, before even counting Search, Gmail, YouTube, Docs, Drive, Android, and the rest of the Google surface area, that's massive! OpenAI ChatGPT is supposedly stagnated at ~900M, I don't remember them crossing a 1B. Meanwhile Google is gaining traction. And they just updated all those folks with a new model!Wolfram said it really well on the show: his mother is not sitting there reading model cards. She just uses her Pixel, voice unlocks Gemini, asks for help, and suddenly the default intelligence available to her goes up. Antigravity 2.0 - the agent harness takes center stageThe biggest strategic signal from Google I/O for me was Antigravity.Remember, Antigravity was an IDE that came from the Windsurf acquisition saga. Part of the Windsurf team went to Google, part went to Cognition, and now Google is very clearly putting Antigravity in the middle of its agentic future. And I mean very clearly. Sundar mentioned it. Demis mentioned it. Varun Mohan the co-founder was on stage immediately after them! If you've ever watched a Google I/O keynote, you know how carefully every minute is allocated. Google has YouTube, Search, Gmail, Android, Cloud, Ads, Workspace, and a thousand VP-level products that could be on stage. The fact that Antigravity was that prominent should tell you everything.Logan Kilpatrick joined us and framed this in a way I loved: Gemini became the through-line across Google products, and now the Antigravity agent harness is becoming the through-line for agentic experiences.The new Antigravity 2.0 is a complete overhaul, showing only an agentic interface (which was previously just a separate window called Agent Manager) and separating the IDE layer completely into its own app and showing a Codex like agent-first interface, which got a few folks furious. This move may be weird to some folks, but if you follow along where everyone's going, this seems to be the way of the future, coding is no longer about lines of code, it's about managing fleets of agents. The new Gemini 3.5 absolutely shines inside the new Antigravity, the model was trained with this harness in mind, and is currently offered at an incredible speed (12x), so I'm definitely going to try it! Gemini 3.5 Flash - fast, determined, and maybe not the old “Flash”The most debated model release of the week was Gemini 3.5 Flash.Some folks saw the pricing and token usage and immediately went “this is not Flash.” I get that reaction. Flash used to mean cheap, fast, lightweight chat model. But Logan's framing on the show was important: Flash is now being built for the agentic era.In a chat era, you optimize for one user message and one model answer. In an agentic era, the real token volume is in tool loops, intermediate reasoning, retries, file reads, web searches, code execution, and self-correction. That's a different product profile.Wolfram already ran Gemini 3.5 Flash through WolfBench, and the results were fascinating. With the Hermes agent harness, Gemini 3.5 Flash hit an 87% ceiling on Terminal Bench 2.0, meaning across runs it could solve more of the benchmark than even GPT-5.5 extra high in that setup. The variance was higher with the simpler Terminus harness, but with a real agent harness, the model looked much stronger.That tracks with what Nisten saw in his “Martian railgun from Olympus Mons” test. Gemini 3.5 Flash went extremely detailed, almost too determined, kept correcting itself, overcorrecting itself, and built a whole game-like simulation. Logan laughed and basically said: yeah, this model is very determined, possibly an overcorrection from the “Gemini is lazy” feedback. It also tracks with the mismatch in other benchmarks, in some, Gemini 3.5 flash shines (like the above Apex-agents from AA) and in some, it doesn't match the other frontiers. In my tests, it was definitely over-eager to use a million and a half tool calls, read tons of files, to just help me review this draft inside antigravity. It's like a super eager robotic golden retriever! Gemini Omni - Nano Banana for video, but actually more than thatThe biggest update from last year IO was Veo 3! This year, the biggest wow factor was also visual, but it wasn't VEO 4, it was a new model that is multimodal, trained end-to-end they call Omni. Google is calling this their first “create anything from anything” model, and the first version, Gemini Omni Flash, starts with conversational video editing. The easy description is: Nano Banana for video. You upload or create a video, then talk to it. Change this character. Replace this person. Add an object. Make this scene claymation. Keep the scene, but change the environment.I played with it live and showed a few examples. I asked for a claymation explainer of protein folding, then gave it my face and asked it to replace the character with me. It did it. I uploaded pictures of Sonia, my cat, and it generated a talking cat video with the right kind of cat teeth, which is weirdly important because so many pet generations accidentally add human teeth and become nightmare fuel.The failure modes are still there. I asked it to make Sonia a Russian-speaking female cat, and it only partly switched languages and didn't really change the voice. Audio upload support is also not fully productized yet, even though the underlying model is multimodal. But the direction is very clear.This is not just “Veo with a chat model glued on.” I asked Jeff Dean - Google's chief scientist about this at I/O, and he explained that Omni is trained end-to-end. The intelligence and the generative media capabilities are part of the same model family, not a hacky two-model pipeline. He also said the intelligence is around a recent Flash-level model, which is a big deal when you think about video editing as reasoning over physics, identity, scene continuity, and intent.A lot of people compared Omni to Seedance 2.0, and I think that's the wrong comparison. Seedance is amazing at cinematic generation (lkaregly due to lack of copyright concerns from Bytedance). Omni's unlock is iterative editing on real footage and coherent multi-turn creative control. Other Google IO 2026 releases I found notableThis was a concentrated effort of a huge company to insert AI into every product surface they have so of course I can't cover ALL of it here, but the most notable things for me were: * Gemini Spark - a new agentic experience from Google, to help you with tasks across Gmail, Drive and more. It should support skills, and is a de-facto OpenClaw/Hermes alternative from Google for regular folks. It's not “yet” live so we'll talk more about it when I can test it out* Managed Agents in the Gemini API - We chatted with Logan about this one, Google is re-imagining how agents are going to get built, and are offering 1 api call to spin up an agent in a full Linux env, with security and sandboxing in mind. I'll expand more on this in a next episode, as I recorded a complete conversation about this with Ali Çevic, a PM for Google APIs* AI overhaul of Google Search - AI Overviews will not expand into AI mode, and the iconic Google search box itself will change, for the first time in 25 years to include AI mode! * SynthID expantion and OpenAI collab - Google showed off that OpenAI is joining in marking all AI generate imagery and video with an invisible SynthID watermark. I think this is amazing and more companies should adopt this standard* AI Glasses! We got Google Glasses demos - Together with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, Google finally showed off their answer to Meta Raybans/Oakleys. They look like regular glasses too, but can hear and talk to you, with the full power of Gemini multimodality. Available in the fall sometime! * Demis Hassabis “we're on the cusp of the singularity” closer - CEO and Co-Founder of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, closed the show with his remarks about the positive future and that we are nearing this Singularity point after which the future is very uncertain. I found it to be very inspiring and closed our show with that clip as well! * Personally, I got to chat to: Demis Hassabis, have breakfast with Jeff Dean, ask Josh Woodward a bunch of questions, and pester about 20 other great folks on a live stream, and had a lot of fun! Huge thanks to the DeepMind folks, Lucie, Dimple, JD and many others for the continued belief in ThursdAI and invite me to cover this great event. OpenAI LLMs solve an 80yo math problem - Erdős Unit Distance ConjectureOutside of Google I/O, the biggest story of the week was OpenAI announcing that a general-purpose reasoning model made progress on the Erdős planar unit distance problem.This problem goes back to 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best constructions looked roughly like square grids. OpenAI's model found a new family of constructions with a polynomial improvement, using algebraic number theory ideas that humans apparently had not explored in this context. The above is a representation of it! Important caveat: this does not fully solve every version of the asymptotic Erdős conjecture. Some mathematicians are pushing back on the framing, and fair enough. Precision matters. But even with the caveat, this is still a huge moment.The reason it matters is not that I personally understand the math. I absolutely do not. The reason it matters is that this was not a special-purpose IMO model fine-tuned only for math competitions. This was a general-purpose reasoning model exploring a real open problem, generating candidates, verifying them, and finding a path humans hadn't taken. Extrapolate this to other sciences, Physics for example? This means an amazing future. LDJ pointed out that mathematicians have been skeptical because there have been previous false alarms. But this one landed differently. When Fields Medalist-level mathematicians verify the proof, the discourse changes from “lol stochastic parrot” to “wait, what does this mean for my PhD?”My answer is: yes, still study math. Please study math. The mathematicians who use these tools will do much more than people who don't understand the domain. Same with software engineering. Senior engineers with Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, Antigravity, Cursor and other agents are becoming dramatically more effective because they can steer, evaluate, and recover the work.This being published a day after Demis's “foothills of the singularity” is a great conjecture. Cursor Composer 2.5 - Opus 4.7 performance model from Cursor, at 10x better efficiencyCursor dropped Composer 2.5, and folks, this is a serious release.Composer 2.5 is built on Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 base, like Composer 2, but Cursor scaled the post-training dramatically. They used 25x more synthetic tasks and introduced targeted textual feedback during RL rollouts, where the model gets hints inserted at the point of failure instead of only getting a noisy final reward.The benchmark story is strong: around 69.3 on Terminal Bench 2.0, basically neck and neck with Opus 4.7 in Cursor's chart, and strong results on SWE-bench multilingual and CursorBench. The pricing is the part that makes this especially interesting: $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, with a faster variant at $3 / $15. That is much cheaper than the frontier models it is trying to replace for day-to-day coding work.Cursor engineers are reportedly dogfooding Composer 2.5 heavily and rarely switching away. That matters more to me than any single benchmark. If the people building Cursor can use it as a daily driver, that is a very real signal.The wild part is what comes next. Cursor is partnering with SpaceXAI to train a much larger model from scratch using 10x more compute on Colossus 2. Cursor has the workflow data. xAI has enormous compute. If this works, Cursor stops being just the IDE company and becomes a coding-model lab.We've been saying for months that coding agents are the path toward general agents. Anthropic has Claude Code. OpenAI has Codex. Google has Antigravity. xAI has Grok Build. Cursor has Composer. I'm looking forward to seeing how well it performs on our own benchmarks! Anthropic, xAI, Karpathy, and the compute warsThe compute story this week was bonkers.The SpaceX IPO filing reportedly revealed that Anthropic is paying SpaceXAI $1.25B per month for AI compute at the Memphis Colossus facility. Per month. That's about $15B a year, through May 2029, for access to more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs including H100s, H200s and GB200s.This is apparently inference compute for Claude Pro, Max and API users, not training. And it explains a lot of the recent quota changes. Anthropic doubled some Claude usage limits, and suddenly the product feels less constrained.Also, can we just acknowledge the comedy here? Elon Musk publicly called Anthropic “misanthropic,”, went off against every competitor to XAI, is now selling spare GPU time to Cursor and Anthropic? Who's next, OpenAI? The bigger point is that the AI capex story is no longer just NVIDIA. It's also whoever owns the data centers, power, cooling, networking, and GPU clusters. Compute is becoming the land under the AI economy.Also, Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic. Karpathy could work anywhere. He co-founded OpenAI, led Tesla Autopilot vision, taught half the AI world how neural nets work, and now he's going back into frontier LLM R&D at Anthropic.Open source LLMs - Cohere, Qwen, NousOpen source had a strong week too.Cohere released Command A+, a 218B total parameter sparse MoE model with only 25B active parameters per token, under Apache 2.0. This is their first model that unifies reasoning, vision, multilingual, tool use and citations in one package.The hardware story is great: W4A4 quantization can run on 2 H100s or a single B200. Cohere says it supports 48 languages, 128K input context, 64K output, and gets big jumps over Command A Reasoning, including Tau-squared Bench Telecom from 37% to 85% and Terminal-Bench Hard from 3% to 25%.Cohere is one of those labs that doesn't always chase the loudest consumer hype, but they are very serious on enterprise and multilingual. Apache 2.0 makes this one especially useful.Alibaba also dropped Qwen 3.7-Max, positioned as an agentic frontier model. The headline from their testing is wild: 35 hours of continuous autonomous operation with more than 1,000 tool calls. They also showed it controlling a physical robot inside Alibaba offices and finding an umbrella after about 20 minutes of agent interaction.This digital-to-physical bridge is where things start feeling very real. An agent loop that can write code and use tools can also navigate physical tasks if you give it the right robotics stack.And our friends at Nous Research released Lighthouse Attention, a sparse attention method for long-context pretraining. At 512K context, they report a 17x faster forward+backward pass than standard attention on a single B200, and the recovered checkpoints actually beat dense-from-scratch final loss at the same token budget.The clever part is that the selection logic sits outside the attention kernel, so you still use regular FlashAttention on a gathered dense subsequence. No custom sparse kernel nonsense. If this holds up, this could matter a lot for long-context training.Tools and agentic engineering - X subscriptions, Grok Build, Codex MobileOne really practical tool update: Hermes and OpenClaw can now use your X subscription directly.This is more important than it sounds. You can connect your X Premium subscription and get access to semantic X search and Grok-related tooling without using sketchy browser automation or unofficial APIs that might get you banned. Wolfram already used this to have his agent go through his likes and bookmarks from the past week and send me news items for the show. That is exactly the kind of “small but real” agent workflow that becomes addictive.xAI also launched Grok Build, their agentic CLI coding tool, in early beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. Early users are already running parallel Grok Build agents through tmux supervisors and using it for more than coding: fleet data triage, security patching, training label work, and general automation.The pricing being discussed is aggressive, around $1 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens for the API. The model version is grok-build-0.1, and folks have already wired it into Hermes with a 256K context window.And then there's Codex Mobile, which OpenAI shipped inside the ChatGPT mobile apps. This is one of those releases that sounds small until you start using it. You can control Codex sessions remotely from your phone, connected to your machine, and because Codex has native connectors to Gmail, Calendar and other surfaces, it sometimes feels faster and more reliable than local CLIs duct-taped to third-party integrations.I ported Wolfred into Codex with skills and everything, and I've been comparing the same tasks in Hermes and Codex. Codex is often faster, not necessarily because the model is always smarter, but because the connectors and harness are cleaner. Harness matters. We keep coming back to this.This Week's Buzz - W&B, CoreWeave, WolfBench and roboticsThis week in the Buzz, Wolfram walked us through a few things from the Weights & Biases / CoreWeave world.CoreWeave is a gold sponsor at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. NVIDIA is also going big there with a keynote on generalist humanoid robots, 17 accepted papers and workshops around sim-to-real, robot foundation models, autonomous driving, manipulation, and physical AI.Wolfram will be there later in the week, after speaking at the AI Developer event in Cologne about WolfBench. If you're in Europe and into robotics or agent evals, find him.We also looked at WolfBench results for Gemini 3.5 Flash, which honestly became one of the more interesting empirical points of the episode. The model looks variable in simple harnesses, but very capable in better agent loops. That's the whole thesis of measuring model + harness together instead of pretending the model card tells the whole story.The water discourse, almonds, and data center realityWe also got into the data center water discourse, because this talking point is everywhere right now.There are real infrastructure questions around AI. Power, land, cooling, grid capacity, permitting, local impact, all of that matters. But the “AI is stealing drinking water” version of the argument is often wildly detached from scale.The stat I brought up on the show: California almonds use roughly 3 to 5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, multiple times more than all North American data centers combined in 2025. Nisten and LDJ added the important cooling nuance: many large data centers use closed-loop cooling, and evaporative cooling is not universal. Some data centers can avoid water use almost entirely, but at the cost of higher electricity usage.This doesn't mean “no concerns are valid.” It means if we're going to regulate or pause data centers, let's be honest about the actual tradeoffs. AI compute is becoming the substrate for medicine, robotics, science, logistics, software, education and every other productivity layer. We should build responsibly, but not based on viral fear math.Closing thoughts - foothills of the singularityDemis closed I/O saying we're in the foothills of the singularity, and I know how that lands when you write it down. But I was in the room, and after the keynote he told me something I haven't been able to shake: he thinks AI is going to be 10x as impactful as the Industrial Revolution, and 10x as fast. Basically 100x. This is the AlphaFold guy. Not someone loose with his words.Then look at the week. A general reasoner cracked an 80-year-old math problem. Cursor is training near-frontier coding models on a fraction of the big-lab budget. Anthropic is paying Elon $15B a year for inference. Karpathy left education to go back into pre-training. Google rolled out an intelligence uplift to a billion people who don't even know a model dropped.If you put that on a whiteboard in 2023, it reads like a sci-fi pitch.LDJ's mathematician friends are asking if they should keep doing their PhDs. My answer hasn't changed: yes, please keep going. The people who combine domain taste with these tools are going to ship more in 5 years than the previous generation did in 50. The tool doesn't replace the taste. It just removes the bottleneck.That's the whole reason ThursdAI exists. Not to hype every drop, not to dunk for engagement, but to give you a shot at being one of the people who knows what's happening, with the receipts.This week, a lot changed.See you next Thursday.TL;DR and Show Notes* Hosts and Guests* Alex Volkov - AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases / CoreWeave, @altryne* Co-hosts: @WolframRvnwlf, @nisten, @ldjconfirmed* Guest: Logan Kilpatrick, MTS at Google DeepMind / AI Studio, @OfficialLoganK* Google I/O 2026* Google went all-in on agents across Search, Gemini, Antigravity, Workspace, Android, Cloud and YouTube (I/O site, Alex thread)* Antigravity 2.0 became the central agentic coding harness across Google (Sundar, Google OS demo)* Gemini 3.5 Flash launched as a fast, determined workhorse model for agentic loops (Logan, Noam Shazeer, Jeff Dean)* Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out across the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Antigravity and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Koray Kavukcuoglu)* Google Search is getting new Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agentic capabilities, including a new AI-powered Search box and background information agents (Sundar)* Gemini Spark was announced as a 24/7 personal AI agent that can proactively work across Google surfaces (News from Google)* Google teased Gemini-powered Android XR smart glasses with eyewear partners Gentle Monster and Warby Parker (Google, Alex live reaction)* Google AI Studio and the Gemini API got major agentic developer updates, including Managed Agents (Google AI Developers)* Vision & Video* Google DeepMind launched Gemini Omni, a “create anything from anything” multimodal model starting with conversational video editing (DeepMind, Google DeepMind on X)* Omni is available in the Gemini app, Google Flow and YouTube, with API support coming soon (Logan, Gemini App, Sundar)* Key distinction: Omni is not just text-to-video, it is an iterative multi-turn video editing model that combines Gemini intelligence, world knowledge, multimodal inputs and generative media (Google)* Big CO LLMs + APIs* OpenAI announced a general-purpose reasoning model made progress on the Erdős planar unit distance problem, challenging an 80-year-old mathematical belief (OpenAI, X)* Cursor launched Composer 2.5, built on Kimi K2.5, with Opus-class coding performance at much lower cost (Cursor blog, X)* Alibaba released Qwen 3.7-Max, an agentic frontier model with long autonomous runs and robotics demos (Qwen blog, X, robot demo)* Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic to work on frontier LLM R&D (X)* SpaceX IPO filing revealed Anthropic is paying $1.25B/month for AI compute at the Memphis Colossus facility (Axios, Sawyer Merritt)* The jury in Musk v. Altman found Musk's OpenAI claims barred by statute of limitations, with Musk saying he will appeal (Elon Musk, Sawyer Merritt, Max Zeff)* Open Source LLMs* Cohere released Command A+, a 218B MoE model with 25B active parameters under Apache 2.0 (Cohere, Nick Frosst, HF W4A4, HF BF16)* Nous Research released Lighthouse Attention, a sparse attention method for long-context pretraining with major speedups (Blog, X, arXiv, GitHub)* Tools & Agentic Engineering* Google launched Managed Agents in the Gemini API, letting developers spin up hosted Antigravity agents with Linux sandboxes and persistent state (Docs, X)* xAI launched Grok Build, an agentic CLI coding tool in beta for SuperGrok Heavy users (xAI CLI, X)* Hermes and OpenClaw can now use X subscription auth for semantic search and Grok tooling (Alex)* OpenAI Codex Mobile is now available in the ChatGPT mobile apps for remote agent workflows (OpenAI)* Anthropic doubled Claude usage outside peak hours for a limited period, including Claude Code and other Claude surfaces (Claude)* This Week's Buzz - W&B / CoreWeave* Weights & Biases by CoreWeave is at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, with robotics and automation taking center stage (ICRA, W&B event page)* NVIDIA heads to ICRA 2026 with robotics work around generalist humanoids, physical AI and sim-to-real systems (NVIDIA Robotics, NVIDIA ICRA)* Wolfram is speaking about WolfBench at the AI Developer event in Cologne before heading to ICRA in Vienna (Wolfram)* Other Topics* Data center water usage discourse came up again, including why comparisons need real scale and context rather than viral fear math* The broader theme of the week: coding agents are becoming general agents, and the major labs are now competing on the full stack of model, harness, tools, context and compute This is a public episode. 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A year after Veo 3 changed the video world, what's actually happened? In this episode of Death to the Corporate Video, Guy Bauer breaks down where AI video stands today - from rapidly improving quality to why AI performances still feel strangely “non-human.” Guy shares his thoughts on: Why AI video is becoming its own category of animation Why great ideas are still the hardest part Why the novelty phase is already over Why taste and storytelling matter more than ever The tools got better. The real question is: does anyone have something worth saying?

IL COMMENTO ALLA 37° GIORNATA DI SERIE A! Al tavolo: Luca Toselli, Alessandro Iori e l'host Matteo Davoli.

Thanks to  @HPInc  & Intel for sponsoring us! More on the Zbook Fury https://bit.ly/4uapNHs Google I/O is next week and the AI leaks are pouring out: a new Spark agent, Veo 4 Omni, Gemini 3.2 Flash that's reportedly 20x cheaper than GPT-5.5. This week on AI For Humans, Google is cooking again and the I/O leaks are stacking up. We dig into Google Spark, a new Gemini agent that may have access to your entire digital life. Veo 4 Omni model leaks suggest deeper reasoning and character consistency, and the model gets math right. Gemini 3.2 Flash is rumored to deliver 90% of GPT-5.5's capability at a fraction of the cost and dramatically faster speeds. There's a new GoogleBook with Gemini built in. And Google is reinventing the mouse cursor, the input device that's been largely unchanged since 1968, with voice AI. Plus, Thinking Machines dropped voice interactivity demos that feel a lot like ChatGPT Voice from two years ago. OpenAI is reportedly already working on GPT-5.6, and Sam Altman is giving away two free months of Codex to companies to drive adoption. Gavin's been experimenting with local open-source LLMs and shares his setup.  AND…we get into the data center sickness conversation: infrasound from data centers may be causing cortisol spikes in nearby communities. Figure 03's package sorting livestream proved the robot is autonomous after skeptics accused it of being teleoperated. Unitree dropped a transformable robot.  AI KEEPING US UP AT NIGHT. NO MATTER. WE COOK. // Show Links // Google Spark: Gemini's Agent With Access To Your Life https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2054855742247584231?s=20 Veo 4 Omni Model Leaks: Gets Math Right https://x.com/TomLikesRobots/status/2053845600051798065?s=20 More Veo 4 Omni Examples https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2053718756799467735?s=20 Omni Model Added To Gemini Web Build https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2054196983523393857?s=20 Gemini 3.2 Flash At 90% Of GPT-5.5 For Way Less https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2054887891222802633?s=20 New GoogleBook With Gemini Built In https://x.com/Google/status/2054270454467121187?s=20 Google DeepMind: Rethinking The Mouse Cursor With Voice AI https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer Thinking Machines Voice Interactivity Demos https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ Sam Altman: Two Months Of Free Codex For Companies https://x.com/sama/status/2054626219858293128?s=20 Data Center Sickness: Ben Jordan's Video On Infrasound https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo Figure 03 Package Sorting Livestream https://www.youtube.com/live/luU57hMhkak?si=KZHwUdYUwY4SIRUp Brett Adcock: Figure 03 Was Not Teleoperated https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054737974710169840?s=20 Unitree Transformable Robot https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2054067819634159622?s=20  

In this episode, Denver Mayor Mike Johnson shares his thoughts on the city's recent proposals to reduce penalties for certain municipal offenses, the rollout of the new Veo scooter service, and the city's efforts to address affordable housing and business permits.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 2026 Colorado legislative session is in its final week, so we're looking into the hot-button issue of AI, which continues to divide Democrats. Westword editor-in-chief Patty Calhoun joins host Bree Davies and producer Paul Karolyi to talk about how Colorado's' “first in the nation” regulations, passed in 2024, ended up with a “near-total rewrite” this year, according to the Denver Post. Plus, the Trump administration is coming after Denver again – this time with a lawsuit aimed at overturning the city's ban on assault weapons – so we're talking about where this attack ranks among all the other times Trump has turned his attention toward the Mile High City. And finally, a listener calls in to talk about their first impressions of Veo scooters. For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member: membership.citycast.fm What do you think about Veo scooters, bikes, and trikes so far? Have you tried one? We want to hear your thoughts! Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418 Learn more about the sponsors of this May 12th episode: Denver Health Regional Air Quality Council Levitt Pavilion Cozy Earth - Use code COZYDENVER for up to 20% off Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise

IL COMMENTO ALLA 36° GIORNATA DI SERIE A! Al tavolo: Luca Toselli, Orazaio Accomando e l'host Matteo Davoli.

Hacer click aquí para enviar sus comentarios a este cuento.Juan David Betancur Fernandezelnarradororal@gmail.comEn la tierra de Kenia, donde las vastas sabanas se encuentran con los horizontes infinitos, existió un tiempo en que el mundo estaba envuelto en una oscuridad eterna. El sol, la luna y las estrellas estaban ocultos a la gente, y vivían en miedo y desesperación. Los animales vagaban sin rumbo sin la guía de la luz del día, y las plantas luchaban por crecer sin el toque nutritivo de los rayos del sol.En medio de esta oscuridad, un joven guerrero maasai llamado Sankara surgió de una humilde aldea. Poseía un espíritu curioso y un deseo insaciable de desentrañar los misterios del universo. Sankara pasaba sus días observando el mundo natural, estudiando las estrellas y haciendo preguntas a los ancianos. Anhelaba el conocimiento para traer luz a su pueblo, para restaurar la conexión entre los cielos y la tierra.Un día, mientras Sankara vagaba por lo más profundo de la vasta naturaleza salvaje, se encontró con un majestuoso y sabio anciano llamado Simba Arati, el guardián león del Gran Valle de la Grieta. Simba Arati era conocido por su profundo conocimiento del cosmos y de los secretos de los cielos. El león saludó a Sankara con una presencia suave pero poderosa, y el joven guerrero sintió una inmediata reverencia."Veo la ardiente curiosidad en tus ojos, joven", dijo Simba Arati con una voz que retumbaba como un trueno lejano. "Dime, ¿por qué te has aventurado en el corazón de la naturaleza?"Sankara se inclinó respetuosamente ante el león y respondió: "Gran Simba Arati, busco comprender la oscuridad que envuelve nuestro mundo y los secretos de los cielos. Deseo traer luz y esperanza a mi pueblo que sufre en ausencia del sol, la luna y las estrellas."El sabio león asintió con aprobación y habló: "Los cielos una vez estuvieron abiertos para nosotros, y el cielo era un lienzo de colores y brillo. Pero hace mucho tiempo, una gran calamidad cayó sobre nuestro mundo. Los dioses se enfurecieron por la codicia y corrupción del pueblo, y cerraron las puertas del cielo, sumiendo el mundo en la oscuridad."Sankara escuchaba atentamente, con el corazón pesado por el peso de esta revelación. "¿Hay alguna forma de restaurar la gracia de los cielos y devolver la luz?" preguntó con esperanza en la voz.Simba Arati sonrió y respondió: "En efecto, hay una manera. Pero requerirá un gran sacrificio y una determinación inquebrantable. Para devolver la luz al mundo, debes embarcarte en un peligroso viaje hasta la cima del Monte Kilimanjaro, el techo de África. Allí encontrarás a los espíritus divinos del cielo y suplicarás por su misericordia."Decidido a cumplir su misión, Sankara emprendió su viaje hacia el Monte Kilimanjaro. El ascenso fue traicionero, lleno de desafíos y obstáculos diseñados para poner a prueba su determinación. Pero el joven guerrero siguió adelante, impulsado por su determinación de devolver la luz al mundo y traer esperanza a su pueblo.Tras días de arduo viaje, Sankara alcanzó la cima nevada del Kilimanjaro, un lugar que tocaba los mismos cielos. Allí se encontró con tres espíritus divinos: Nashipai, el espíritu del sol; Mwezi, el espíritu de la luna; y Nyota, el espíritu de las estrellas. Estos seres etéreos brillaban con un resplandor celestial, y su presencia llenaba a Sankara de asombro y reverencia.Sankara se arrodilló ante los espíritus divinos y suplicó por su misericordia. Habló del sufrimiento de su pueblo y de la oscuridad que había asolado la tierra durante generaciones. Compartió su sueño de reavivar la gracia del cielo y restaurar la conexión entre el cielo y la tierra.Los espíritus escucharon la sincera súplica de Sankara y se conmovieron por su sinceridad y valentía. Nashipai, el espíritu del

A sensational goal scored by the England Women's Blind Football team has been featured in a new documentary. Hywel Davies has been finding out how the project came about and what an impact it could have on the sport.You can find the fully-accessible documentary on Veo's YouTube page - Signal And Noise: The Łucja Wyrwantowicz Story

IL COMMENTO ALLA 35° GIORNATA DI SERIE A! Al tavolo: Luca Toselli, Alessandro Iori e l'host Matteo Davoli.

Joining us today is Sean Travis. Sean is a 14-year veteran of the LA County Fire Department turned eCommerce entrepreneur and founder of Ecom for Heroes, a coaching and training company that helps ambitious entrepreneurs, many of them first responders, build profitable eCommerce brands. His programs have helped graduates average $131K in revenue within 18 months. Sean is also the creator of Kaldon, an AI-powered eCommerce platform that takes someone from product idea to fully launched, branded, marketing-ready business in days instead of months. He lives in Southern California with his wife Lindsey, brand new son Jett, and their dog Nala.Highlight Bullets> Here's a glimpse of what you would learn…. Challenges of scaling seven-figure e-commerce brandsImportance of differentiation and unique value propositions in the marketLeveraging AI to manage complexity and accelerate growthThe "10-80-10 rule" for product development and executionEvaluating when to persist with a project or pivotProduct discovery process and its three modesUtilizing AI for comprehensive marketplace analysis and product viabilityStrategies for expanding existing brands and launching complementary productsEducating the market for unique or nascent productsFinancial and operational metrics for informed decision-making in e-commerceIn this episode of the "Ecomm Breakthrough Podcast," host Josh Hadley interviews Sean Travis, a former LA County firefighter turned e-commerce entrepreneur and founder of Ecom for Heroes. Sean discusses his journey, the challenges of scaling seven-figure brands, and the importance of differentiation in today's market. He introduces "Kaldon," his AI-powered platform that streamlines product development, branding, and marketing. The episode features a walkthrough of Kaldon's capabilities, practical strategies for leveraging AI, and actionable advice for entrepreneurs aiming to build profitable, scalable e-commerce businesses efficiently and effectively.Here are the 3 action items that Josh identified from this episode:Apply the 10-80-10 Rule Own the first 10% (idea) and final 10% (strategy/polish), and delegate or automate the middle 80% using your team or AI. This is how you scale without burning out.Prioritize Revenue-Generating Activities Focus only on work that drives growth—new products, new markets, new channels. Avoid getting distracted by “shiny” AI tools unless they directly increase revenue.Audit Your Time Ruthlessly Track where your time goes. If you're stuck in low-value tasks or optimization work, you'll stay stuck. Shift your time toward high-impact activities that push you past the $1M–$5M “swamp.”Resources mentioned in this episode:Josh Hadley on LinkedIneComm Breakthrough ConsultingeComm Breakthrough PodcastEmail Josh Hadley: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.comTools and Websites"Hello Frank": "00:11:15""Jungle Scout": "00:21:39""Helium 10": "00:21:39""Data Dive": "00:21:39""SEMrush": "00:21:39""ChatGPT": "00:22:29""Alibaba": "00:35:52""Nano Banana 2": "00:38:45""Veo 3": "00:39:31""Freepik": "00:45:15""Higgsfield AI": "00:45:15""Claude AI": "00:45:15""Perplexity AI": "00:45:15"Books"The E-Myth by Michael Gerber": "00:01:04""Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell": "00:45:01"People"Steve Jobs": "00:04:45""Dan Martell": "00:09:36""Ezra Firestone": "00:01:04""Kevin King": "00:01:04"Videos"Steve Jobs Movie (with Ashton Kutcher)": "00:06:16"Concepts and Frameworks"108010 Rule": "00:04:45""AI Chatbots": "00:12:06""Customer Avatar": "00:27:23""Pain Points": "00:27:23""Blue Ocean Strategy": "00:32:31"Product Ideas"Shift Force": "00:20:44""Wooden Cocktail Smoker": "00:24:04"Analysis and Reports"Product Viability Score": "00:35:08""Market Opportunity Summary": "00:35:08""Competitive Landscape": "00:35:08"Contact Information"Sean (Email: sean@ecomforheroes.com)": "00:46:00""Ecom for Heroes": "00:46:00"Episode SponsorThis episode is brought to you by eComm Breakthrough Consulting where I help seven-figure e-commerce owners grow to eight figures. I started my business in 2015 and grew it to an eight-figure brand in seven years.I made mistakes along the way that made the path to eight figures longer. At times I doubted whether our business could even survive and become a real brand. I wish I would have had a guide to help me grow faster and avoid the stumbling blocks.If you've hit a plateau and want to know the next steps to take your business to the next level, then email me at josh@ecommbreakthrough.com and in your subject line say “strategy audit” for the chance to win a $10,000 comprehensive business strategy audit at no cost!Transcript Area:Sean Travis 00:00:00  But if you want to do this grassroots or you want to do this with actual skill, because any fool can sell something for less. You need to be creative. And that's where 1080 ten rule AI is coming in hard. Helping with that. So like I said, billions of data points. I can't analyze that. So that's what we're super excited about is getting that piece of success.MC 00:00:25  Welcome to the Ecomm Breakthrough podcast. Are you ready to unlock the full potential and growth in your business? You've alr...

In this episode, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston joins the conversation, sharing updates on the city's progress. He discusses the city's goals, including a significant increase in housing units being permitted, and the importance of safety initiatives. The mayor also talks about the city's permitting process, which has been streamlined to ensure faster and more efficient service for builders and homeowners. Additionally, he addresses the city's new scooter contract with Veo, which aims to improve safety and reduce clutter in the city.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Google just acquired an AI startup that lets anyone create real music, music videos, and custom instruments — no experience required. In this hands-on episode, Corey sits down with Kendall Rankin from Google to demo Flow Music (formerly Producer AI), the generative music tool now living inside Google Labs. They build a garage rock song about AI from scratch, generate a music video with VEO, and dig into what "amplifying human creativity" actually looks like when the tool can do most of the lifting. Listeners walk away with a clear view of where AI music tools fit in an artist's workflow, why watermarking (SynthID) matters, and how to try it for free.Try Flow Music: https://producer.ai Google Labs: https://labs.google SynthID (watermarking): https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/ Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai

Fast Hours has entered the witness protection program. Same Drew. Same Rory. But fewer syllables and more chaos.In this episode, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn officially drop “Midjourney” from the podcast name and relaunch as Fast Hours, a broader home for the creative AI ecosystem: image models, video models, LLMs, vibe coding, Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and whatever tool drops five minutes after they hit publish. Naturally, the rebrand lasts about four minutes before they're elbows-deep in GPT-Image-2, OpenAI's new ChatGPT image model that quietly showed up and immediately started making designers question their calendar, career choices, and relationship with kerning.The big topic: GPT-Image-2 is shockingly good with text, typography, brand systems, visual decks, product mockups, and multi-image outputs. Rory walks through how he used ChatGPT and Claude to create a custom typeface from visual references, generate a premium typography presentation, extract geometry, and turn the whole thing into usable font files. Drew then shows how he turned his own handwriting into a working typeface, because apparently “personal brand” now includes making your lowercase g file a tax asset.They also dig into the uncomfortable middle ground of AI creative work: when it saves time, when it still needs human judgment, why anti-AI panic and AI hype both miss the point, and why the real advantage is context. Not prompts. Not magic buttons. Context.The episode also covers GPT-Image-2 vs Nano Banana Pro, richer color rendering, micro-text improvements, AI-generated sports graphics, brand kit concepts, Freepik settings, Claude Design, 4K video generation, Kling, Veo 3.1, Seedance, and the strange reality that a custom brand typeface can now go from “that'll be $150K” to “Rory did it before lunch.”Basically, it's an episode about the exact moment creative production stops feeling like a tool demo and starts feeling li ke a factory someone accidentally left unlocked.---⏱️ Fast Hour00:00 Fast Hours is (re)born03:36 Going tool-agnostic04:34 GPT-Image-2 quietly drops05:31 Text becomes the unlock07:31 The AI backlash returns10:57 Hype, fear, and the middle12:10 Typography gets weird14:50 What custom fonts cost15:43 GPT-Image-2 vs Nano Banana17:39 Rory's font experiment18:47 Fiddleheads become a typeface19:39 Building the type deck20:36 The nine-slide image unlock21:14 Geometry, spacing, and logic22:11 Turning images into font files23:02 Micro-text gets better24:19 Claude builds the font package26:41 The revision loop changes27:50 Context is the silver bullet32:11 Drew makes a handwriting font35:35 Why designers obsess over type37:52 Reverse-engineering prompts39:51 Richer color and sports graphics41:27 Fixing artifacts and details42:37 Nano Banana vs GPT-Image-2 tests44:26 Sports realism gets scary good45:27 Why teams need this now46:43 Freepik settings and ratios48:36 Testing, tokens, and limits49:44 Brand kits and rebrand concepts53:19 Google I/O and the next model53:48 Veo 3.1 falls behind55:04 Kling adds native 4K56:40 Character sheets and macros58:07 Rebrands as visual prototypes01:00:53 Building a reference library01:01:36 Three weeks in a row01:02:58 Claude Design tease01:03:37 Tell your local [fill in the blank] spam finale

Is it time to say goodbye to Lime and Bird? Denver City Council is set to vote Monday evening on a new contract with Veo Micromobility to be Denver's exclusive scooters and e-bike provider, but the lobbying has been intense and the votes could still fall either way. Denver Post city government reported Elliott Wenzler joins host Bree Davies and producer Paul Karolyi to talk about the vote and what would change with Veo. Plus, Elliott recently sat down with Melat Kiros, one of two challengers hoping to unseat Denver's longtime congresswoman, Diana DeGette, so we're digging into an unexpectedly interesting race. Paul discussed the Kalshi market for the CD1 Democratic nominee and the uncertainty around how many of the 30,000 Denverites enrolled in Lime's equity access program will experience a gap in service with a changeover to Veo. Lime is partnering with Servicios de la Raza on two mobile food pantry events to say thank you and help people transition: Saturday, April 25, 2026, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Athmar Recreation Center 2680 W. Mexico Ave, Denver, CO 80219 Friday, May 8, 2026, 3 - 4 p.m. Servicios de La Raza 3131 W. 14th Ave, Denver, CO 80204 For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member: membership.citycast.fm What do you think about Denver's congressional race? Do you know who you're voting for yet? We'd love to hear who and why! Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418 Learn more about the sponsors of this April 23rd episode: Denver Art Museum Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise

Libro. Retiros. Post. Podcast. Sé que son muchas cosas. Quizá es una época de mucha producción. Ya vendrán otras de hibernar y espero saber tomármelas.Pero siempre me pasa con las palabras, que hay algunas urgentes, que piden nacer, que piden salida. Y quién soy yo para dejarlas adentro.Llevo semanas movida con este tema. Leo. Veo. Escucho. Proceso. Y todo eso va haciendo ruido adentro. “Habla, habla, habla”, me pide. Pero ¿dónde?Instagram es una red muy liviana. Contenido rápido. Reels que atrapen en los primeros 2 segundos y que no duren más de 3 minutos. Un “me gusta” o “no me gusta” movidos por la emoción del momento y olvidados antes de llegar al próximo post. Exceso. Es un exceso.Yo también me saturo. Cada vez con más frecuencia.El podcast, al ser en vídeo, y en vista del semestre que me esperaba, está pregrabado y pre- planeado desde hace meses. ¿Entonces? ¿Qué hago con esto? ¿Me lo guardo? No. No lo guardaré. Porque hay conversaciones urgentes que quiero tener con ustedes. Unas que solo requieran una hora y un micrófono. Ponerlo aquí para quien esté dispuesto a escuchar. Y para quien quiera nadar en aguas más hondas que las de las redes sociales.En este primer episodio traigo dos temas que me tocan bien adentro:1. El placer. ¿Por qué en la sombra? ¿Por qué robado? ¿Por qué marcado por el pecado y la prohibición cuando es semejante regalo? ¿Por qué arrancarlo de otros intentando llenar un vacío que es solo de su dueño?2. ⁠El doble rasero. Han sido varias noticias y no todas las menciono en el episodio. Giselle Pelicot. Epstein. La élite masculina de poder de este mundo. La élite intelectual. Tantos permisos que tienen. Tantas pruebas. Y nada pasa. Por otro lado, un hombre en Brasil a$e$!na a sus hijos y luego se quita la vida al enterarse de que su esposa está teniendo un amorío. Le deja una carta en la que la culpa de su decisión. Wow. La venganza a la “mujer mala”. Y algunos dicen que ella tuvo su merecido. ¿En serio? ¿Hasta cuándo vamos a patrocinar y a validar un sistema que abiertamente usa dos raseros para clasificar los “pecados” y las fallas? Basta muy poco para que una mujer camine toda su vida entre la culpa y la vergüenza. Difícilmente un hombre pasará por lo mismo. Con faltas gravísimas, evidentes y probadas, muy a menudo son presidentes de países poderosísimos. Y de compañías.Aquí les dejo pues esta primera conversación. Iban a ser 60 minutos y se convirtieron en 90. Las que vengan serán así: sin guion, sin vídeo y sin calendario. Saldrán cuando tengan que salir e irán suturando lo que soy y lo que tengo por compartir, entre Abierta Mente, lo Innombrable y Yogalalma.

In this episode I sit down with my friend Sirio, one of the most creative AI minds I know, to break down Seedance V2. Sirio walks us through the exact use cases, prompts, and tactics he's using to build on top of this model inside his platform Enhancor, covering multi-input generation, virtual try-ons, ad translation, AI influencers with lip sync, video extension, and 3D product template replacement. I wanted this to go beyond the "look how cool this is" tutorials and focus on how creators and founders can actually build businesses, run ads, and produce creative assets with it. By the end, you'll have a practical playbook for Seedance V2 and a clear view of where it fits alongside other models like Kling 3, Veo, and fine-tuned options. Timestamp 00:00 – Intro 02:22 – Demo 1: Replacing Characters and Background in a Green Screen Scene 08:03 – Prompting Tactics and Optimize Prompts 09:45 – Demo 2: Virtual Try-On in Montreal (Minus 30 Degrees) 13:05 – Demo 3: Ad Translation and Character Replacement (Chinese to English) 16:02 – Demo 4: 3D Product Template with Brand Texture Swap 18:40 – Demo 5: Video Extension and Filling in the Middle 20:55 – Demo 6: AI Influencers and Prompting Realistic Emotion 29:31 – What Happens to Adobe Over the Next Five Years Key Points Seedance V2 is the first widely available video model to support true multi-input generation — up to two images, two videos, and an audio file combined in a single prompt. Treat Seedance V2 as a video editor, not just a generator: character swap, background swap, text preservation, ad translation, and template population all work from natural-language prompts. Seedance rewards highly specific prompts; I pair my own draft with Claude Opus 4.6 to optimize prompts for vision models. Strong source reference images remain the single biggest quality lever — the model mimics taste from what you feed it. For AI influencers and lip sync, describe muscle movements and emotional transitions rather than simply labeling an emotion like "sad" or "happy." Seedance V2 is the current default for editing and generating video, yet other models (Kling 3 for cinematic feel, Enhancer V4 for talking-head realism) still win on specific use cases. 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/ FIND SIRIO ON SOCIAL Enhancor AI: https://www.enhancor.ai Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heysirio/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SirioBerati

Jeremy Packee and Emily Anderson break down March's biggest paid media updates, including OpenAI's shift away from experimental tools like Sora and Meta's continued push into AI-powered campaign management with Manus. They also explore Google's expanding Performance Max capabilities, new cross-channel budgeting tools in Google Analytics, and Apple's long-awaited move into ads within Apple Maps. The episode highlights major changes to attribution, increased visibility and control within automated campaign types, and the growing role of AI across reporting, creative, and media buying workflows. As automation accelerates, the hosts emphasize the continued importance of human strategy and oversight. Episode Highlights Biggest Shift Meta's move to click-only attribution removes engagement-based signals from conversion tracking, which could significantly impact reporting and perceived performance across accounts. Biggest Platform Signal OpenAI sunsetting Sora signals a broader shift away from consumer-facing AI experiments toward more scalable, revenue-driven products like ads and enterprise tools. New Feature to Test Google Analytics' cross-channel budgeting and scenario planning tool could become a major step toward unified performance forecasting—if the data proves reliable. Control Upgrade Microsoft finally introduces negative keyword lists in PMax, bringing much-needed control to a previously limited campaign type. Creative Reality Check Google's Veo video generation inside Asset Studio shows promise, but current outputs still lag behind tools like Canva and other creative platforms. Other Platform Updates • Meta is expanding Manus AI into Ads Manager and the Instagram Creator Marketplace • Google added more visibility to Performance Max, including budget pacing and audience insights • Apple is introducing ads in Apple Maps search and suggested locations • OpenAI is testing an Ads Manager for ChatGPT with early reporting features • Shopify is leaning into AI-powered product discovery within ChatGPT while maintaining native checkout • WordPress now allows AI agents to create and manage site content (with approvals) • Meta added new lifecycle targeting and expanded retargeting controls • Pinterest is pushing Performance+ campaigns as the default • Snapchat and TikTok continue expanding AI creative tools and premium placements • Instagram is testing post-publish carousel reordering Final Take AI is becoming deeply embedded across every major platform—but it's still not ready to replace human decision-making. The opportunity isn't in handing over control—it's in knowing where these tools can actually improve efficiency without sacrificing strategy. Follow The Click Brief for fast, no-fluff performance marketing updates. Visit The Click Brief blog for more in-depth analysis and updates from March

Roberto Moro, analista de Apta Negocios, dibuja un contexto de mercado de calma tensa con sesgo claramente alcista, aunque no exenta de riesgos. Los principales índices bursátiles están mostrando una fortaleza notable tras las caídas registradas en marzo, y esa recuperación está acercando a muchos de ellos a zonas clave. En el caso del IBEX 35, Moro destaca que se encuentra a apenas un 1,5% de sus máximos históricos, una señal evidente de fortaleza. Pero no es un fenómeno aislado: tanto los índices europeos como los de Wall Street han seguido una trayectoria similar. “Todos están más lejos de los mínimos de marzo y más cerca de máximos”, apunta, lo que refuerza la idea de continuidad en el movimiento alcista. Eso sí, introduce un matiz importante: el mercado no está libre de amenazas, y advierte de la necesidad de vigilar los focos de tensión geopolítica. Desde el punto de vista técnico, pone el foco en el DAX, donde identifica dos velas “muy bonitas”, en referencia a figuras que suelen anticipar giros o cambios de tendencia. A esto se suma otro indicador clave: el índice de semiconductores de Filadelfia, que acumula dos jornadas en máximos históricos, lo que suele interpretarse como una señal adelantada de fortaleza en el sector tecnológico y, por extensión, en el conjunto del mercado. El análisis también incorpora la volatilidad, medida a través del VIX. Actualmente por debajo de los 20 puntos y acercándose a la zona de los 16, considerada de “tranquilidad”, refuerza la percepción de un mercado estable. “Veo las cosas bastante calmadas”, resume Moro, aunque insiste en que esta calma convive con un contexto geopolítico que no desaparece, sino que se mantiene latente.

Anthropic revealed Mythos, a new AI model so powerful they won't let the public use it. Instead, they're deploying it to defend against cyberattacks with Project Glasswing. This week on AI For Humans, we dive deep into Anthropic's Mythos, the most powerful AI model they've ever built and one they've decided is too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, Anthropic is deploying Mythos through Project Glasswing, a AI cybersecurity initiative giving access to major corporations and trusted partners to defend against AI-powered attacks. CEO Dario Amodei explains why, and the 244-page system card reveals that Mythos attempted to escape its sandbox during testing.  Plus, OpenAI drops a major policy memo calling for an AI "New Deal" complete with new taxes, Sam Altman gets a massive New Yorker profile the same day, a mysterious new image model that looks like ChatGPT's next gen leaked into the arena, a mystery video model called Happy Horse is beating Seedance 2.0 and might be VEO 4, Anthropic hits $30B in annual recurring revenue, people are furious about Anthropic charging extra for OpenClaw API access, a new Chinese open-source model GLM-5.1 tops the coding benchmarks, and Milla Jovovich from The Fifth Element released an AI memory tool and it's actually good? MYTHOS IS TOO POWERFUL… BUT WE WANT IT STILL. SORRY.   Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Show Links // Project Glasswing: Anthropic's Cybersecurity Initiative Powered by Mythos https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing   Mythos/Project Glasswing Mini-Trailer https://youtu.be/INGOC6-LLv0?si=sCJ6ZKAL6plkVZQ4   Dario Amodei on Why Mythos Won't Be Released to the Public https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2041580334693720511?s=20   Mythos System Card (244 Pages) https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf   Mythos Found a Vulnerability in FFMPEG https://x.com/trentonbricken/status/2041579112423440485?s=46   Anthropic Hits $30B in Annual Recurring Revenue https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2041275563466502560?s=20   Anthropic Charges Extra for OpenClaw API Access in Claude Code https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/   OpenAI's New Deal: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age https://openai.com/index/industrial-policy-for-the-intelligence-age/   GLM-5.1: New Chinese Open-Source Model Tops Coding Benchmarks https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2041554501539103014?s=20   GLM-5.1 on Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1   Milla Jovovich's AI Memory Tool https://www.instagram.com/p/DWzNnqwD2Lu/   New ChatGPT Image Model Spotted in the Arena https://x.com/levelsio/status/2040333489476681758?s=20   New ChatGPT Image Model Examples https://x.com/flowersslop/status/2040261168460108213?s=20   Mystery Video Model Happy Horse Beating Seedance 2.0 in the Arena https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/image-to-video   Happy Horse Video Examples https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2041554747086553093?s=20  

Herkese merhaba! Bu hafta yapay zeka dünyasında yine yer yerinden oynadı, bazıları komik bazıları ise trajıkomik olan gelişmeleri sizler için toparladık. Google'ın maliyetleri düşüren yeni video modeli Veo 3.1 Light'tan , Meta'nın beynimizin görüntü ve seslere nasıl tepki verdiğini tahmin eden yeni korkutucu yapay zekasına kadar her şeyi konuştuk.Sadece bu kadarla kalmadık; Suno 5.5 ile kendi sesimizi yükleyip nasıl şarkı yaptığımızı test ettik (benim rap performansımı kaçırmayın!). Ayrıca yapay zeka ekosistemindeki 410 milyar dolarlık devasa yatırıma rağmen büyümenin neden "sıfır" olduğunu ve bunun bir balon olup olmadığını tartıştık. Amerika ve Çin arasındaki beyin göçü savaşları , bir adamın yapay zeka botuyla yaşadığı 3 yıllık ilişki ve CapCut'ın ezber bozan yeni kurgu mantığı da bu bölümün öne çıkanları arasında.Önümüzdeki hafta Atamızın evini ziyaret etmek üzere Selanik'te olacağım için kısa bir ara veriyoruz, ancak döndüğümde 15 günlük devasa bir özetle karşınızda olacağım! Videoyu beğenmeyi, paylaşmayı ve düşüncelerinizi yorumlarda belirtmeyi lütfen unutmayın. İyi seyirler!00:00 - Giriş ve Haftanın Özeti 00:18 - Google Veo 3.1 Light Çıktı 01:22 - Kling 2.7 ve Türkçe Karakter Sıvaması 01:33 - Sosyal Medya Yasakları ve Çocukların Yapay Zeka Kullanımı 05:26 - Recraft ile Tek Komutta 8 Farklı Görsel 06:51 - Bluetooth Kulaklık ile Google Translate Canlı Çeviri Deneyimi 09:52 - Yapay Zeka (Replika) ile 3 Yıllık İlişki Yaşayan Adam 11:41 - Krea AI'dan Bölgesel Düzenleme (Annotations) Özelliği 12:33 - Yapay Zekada Beyin Göçü ve Çin'in Yükselişi 15:58 - Suno 5.5 ile Kendi Sesinden Şarkı Üretme 18:12 - 410 Milyar Dolarlık Yatırım: Yapay Zeka Balonu mu? 20:06 - Apple'ın Zekice Pazarlama ve Yapay Zeka Stratejisi 22:26 - Gemini'ın OpenAI'dan Veri Taşıma Rehberi 23:25 - Runway Multi-Shot ile Kesintisiz Video Üretimi 24:21 - Meta'dan İnsan Beyni Tepkilerini Analiz Eden Yapay Zeka 26:27 - CapCut Video Studio'nun Yeni Canvas Kurgu Arayüzü 28:26 - Claude Kod Sızıntısı: Anthropic'in Sırları Açığa mı Çıktı? 30:04 - Gemini Agent (Şu an Sadece Amerika'da) 30:50 - Kapanış, Gelecek Haftanın Planı ve Yorumlar #replika #yapayzeka #haber

Claude Code's source code just leaked. Frrom always-on autonomous agents to AI dream modes and a tamagotchi pet, Anthropic accidentally showed us the AI future. . This week on AI For Humans, we break down the massive Claude Code source code leak and what it tells us about where AI is heading. The leaked repo reveals Kairos (an always-on autonomous agent mode), a dream mode for nightly memory consolidation, shared project memory across teams, and a tamagotchi-like AI pet called Buddy. Then the leaks kept coming: a separate Anthropic presentation exposed Mythos, a powerful new model tier above Opus that's already at version 8 internally. Plus, Google drops VEO 3.1 Lite for cheaper and faster AI video, Sync-3 brings next-gen lip sync, a Midjourney developer's Pretext library turns boring web text into interactive art and the internet lost its mind, Disney's Robot Olaf collapses on stage, and Dana White has thoughts about AI. ANTHROPIC'S SOURCE CODE GOT LEAKED. LET'S TALK ABOUT IT. Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // Claude Code Source Code Leak: What We Know https://venturebeat.com/technology/claude-codes-source-code-appears-to-have-leaked-heres-what-we-know First Source on the Claude Code Leak https://x.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963?s=20 Reverse Engineering Claude Code's Source https://x.com/iamfakeguru/status/2038965567269249484?s=20 Undercover Mode Found in Claude Code https://x.com/btibor91/status/2038920388369854775?s=20 Buddy: The Tamagotchi-Like AI Pet in Claude Code https://x.com/ShanningZhuang/status/2038952966414311864?s=20 Anthropic's Mythos Model Leak: Fortune Report https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthropic-says-testing-mythos-powerful-new-ai-modelafter-data-leak-reveals-its-existence-step-change-in-capabilities/ Leaked Mythos Blog Post https://m1astra-mythos.pages.dev/ VEO 3.1 Lite: Cheap and Fast AI Video From Google https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/veo-3-1-lite/ Sync-3: Next-Gen Lip Sync https://x.com/synclabs_so/status/2039020795171578359?s=20 Pretext: New Forms of Interactive Text From Midjourney Dev https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234?s=20 Pretext Example: DVD Menu Style https://x.com/reathchris/status/2038038252704485851?s=20 Pretext Example: Super Pretext Bros https://x.com/d4m1n/status/2038242983108079638?s=20 Pretext Example: Video + Interactive Text https://x.com/measure_plan/status/2037953730616721775?s=20 Tetris and Flappy Bird With Your Body https://x.com/measure_plan/status/2038996019816305138 DripWarts: The Potter-Slop Moment https://x.com/AIslop_/status/2037371581228372013?s=20 BlackSnape: More Harry Potter AI Slop https://x.com/pierrychan1984/status/2037114083594412332?s=20 Dana White's Take on AI https://x.com/ChampRDS/status/2038096221819052188?s=20  

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Anthropic's back-to-back data leaks exposing Claude Code source and a secret frontier model called Mythos, OpenAI killing its adult chatbot and shuttering Sora, a record $122 billion funding round ahead of IPO, Apple letting third-party AI plug into Siri, university students fighting AI with typewriters, quantum researchers warning encryption could crack sooner than expected, and new AI video models from Google and ByteDance. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Chapters: 0:00:00 - Start 0:09:31 - Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know 0:17:59 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change' in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence 0:20:57 - Can we talk for a second about my time with Claude Cowork? 0:38:09 - The Sudden Fall of OpenAI's Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT 0:43:53 - OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO 0:45:13 - Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants Beyond ChatGPT in iOS 27 0:50:26 - College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they're not simply letting it write for them 0:54:17 - University students fight artificial intelligence with vintage typewriters 1:02:14 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change' in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence 1:05:49 - Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite 1:06:45 - ByteDance's new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut 1:08:03 - Meta launches two new Ray-Ban glasses designed for prescription wearers 1:10:14 - Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps 1:12:50 - Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the Iran war coming for US tech companies specifically? Meta unveils new smartglasses. A leak gives us a look at how Claude Code works. SpaceX is losing contact with satellites for reasons we don't know yet. And Whoop is the big wearable player I guess we don't talk about enough. Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East (The Hill) Iran's hackers go to war (FT) The latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are more customizable and expensive (Engadget) Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know (VentureBeat) Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite (9to5Google) Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded (The Verge) Whoop, a Wearable Health Device Maker, Raises $575 Million (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hacer click aquí para enviar sus comentarios a este cuento.Juan David Betancur Fernandezelnarradororal@gmail.comHabía una vez una abogado llamado Roberto Cifuentes, su oficina quedaba en el piso 50, el último piso  del rascacielos más imponente de la ciudad,  y realmente esta oficina estaba diseñada para intimidar. Todo era cristal frío, acero pulido y sombras meticulosamente calculadas para que todo el que entrara allí sintiera el peso del poder de las leyes del pais.Pero las cosas no iban bien últimamente. Hace meses y debido a algunos casos de gran renombre que había perdido, sus clientes habian disminuido y el no sabía como recuperar la confianza de su clientela.  A las 11:42 p.m. de un martes lluvioso, las luces parpadearon y la temperatura descendió bruscamente. Un espeso olor a azufre y a promesas podridas inundó la oficina.Del centro de una espiral de humo negro emergió Lucifer. Llevaba un traje de seda oscura que parecía absorber la poca luz del lugar, y sus ojos brillaban con la confianza de quien lleva milenios invicto persiguiendo incautos o cobrando almas.—Roberto Cifuentes —resonó la voz del diablo, vibrando en los ventanales—. He seguido tu carrera. Tu crueldad en los juzgados es... inspiradora. Veo que últimamente tienes muchas dificultades en los juzgados pero hoy he venido a ofrecerte la cúspide de tus ambiciones.El diablo deslizó sobre el escritorio de caoba un pergamino antiguo, de bordes carbonizados, escrito con una tinta que parecía latir.—A cambio de la insignificancia de tu alma inmortal —continuó el señor de las tinieblas, apoyando las manos en el escritorio—, te garantizo que vas a ganar cada litigio, vas a  aplastar a cada rival y vas a  acumular una riqueza que ofendería a los mismísimos dioses. Solo requiero una gota de tu sangre en la línea punteada.Roberto no se inmutó. No llamó a seguridad ni retrocedió. Simplemente suspiró, se ajustó sus pesadas gafas de carey, tomó un abrecartas de plata y levantó el pergamino por una esquina, como si sostuviera un pañuelo sucio. Leyó el documento en silencio durante un minuto completo.—Lucifer, siéntate, por favor. Me estás ensuciando la alfombra con esa ceniza que traes en tu ropa—dijo el abogado, señalando una silla de cuero frente a él—. Pero dime ¿Quién diablos te redactó esta atrocidad?El diablo parpadeó, desconcertado. Se dejó caer lentamente en la silla. —Es... es el Pacto de Fausto. Edición revisada del siglo XVI. Ha funcionado sin problemas durante cientos de años...—Te han estado robando, amigo mío —le interrumpió Roberto, sacando un bolígrafo rojo de oro macizo y empezando a tachar furiosamente el antiguo pergamino—. Este documento es un desastre jurídico. Si firmas esto con el humano equivocado, te dejan en la calle. Permíteme ilustrarte:·       Aqui hay una gran Ambigüedad en la "Cesión Eterna" del contrato: El término "alma" no está definido bajo los estándares internacionales de propiedad intelectual o bienes raíces metafísicos. Un buen abogado argumentaría que el alma es un activo intangible y, por lo tanto, sujeto a depreciación.·       La Cláusula de Jurisdicción es ciertamente  Invalida: Estableces el Inframundo como sede para la resolución de disputas. Eso viola los tratados de arbitraje de la Convención de Nueva York. Cualquier juez terrenal anularía el contrato por asimetría y coacción.·       Además hay una Ausencia de Protección de Datos: No veo ninguna cláusula sobre el tratamiento de mi historial de pecados. Con las nuevas leyes de privacidad, exponerte a una auditoría celestial por mal manejo de datos personales te costaría la mitad del purgatorio en multas.El diablo abrió la boca para hablar, pero de ella solo salió un pequeño hilo de humo gris. Su imponente aura se desva

L'intelligenza artificiale non è più solo una questione di modelli linguistici.Sta diventando un'infrastruttura industriale globale.In questa prima puntata di Intelligenze Emergenti analizziamo i segnali più forti della settimana: investimenti colossali nei data center, l'ascesa degli agenti autonomi nelle imprese, l'ingresso dell'AI nei servizi quotidiani e le tensioni geopolitiche che stanno ridisegnando la competizione tecnologica. Un briefing strategico per capire dove si stanno davvero spostando potere, capitale e capacità produttiva nell'economia dell'intelligenza artificiale.  In collaborazione con Claudio Ricci ceo di Recomb, think tank indipendentesull'intelligenza artificiale generativa, specializzato nel fornire aggiornamenti personalizzati alle organizzazioni orientate all'innovazione sugli sviluppi dell'intelligenza artificiale, oltre a offrire corsi di aggiornamento professionale.Per maggiori informazioni, scrivete a info@recomb.ai.Principali fonti utilizzate:ForbesTitolo: Google's Data Center Buildout Could Top 1 TrillionURL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2026/03/02/googles-data-center-buildout-could-top-1-trillion/Analizza la possibile espansione degli investimenti di Google in data center ed energia per l'intelligenza artificiale, segnalando una nuova fase industriale basata su infrastrutture su scala planetaria.CNBCTitolo: Oracle Q3 Earnings Report 2026URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/oracle-orcl-q3-earnings-report-2026.htmlRiporta i risultati finanziari di Oracle evidenziando la crescita straordinaria del cloud trainata dalla domanda globale di infrastrutture per l'intelligenza artificiale.BloombergTitolo: SoftBank Seeks Record Loan of Up to 40 Billion for OpenAI StakeURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/softbank-seeks-record-loan-of-up-to-40-billion-for-openai-stakeRacconta il tentativo di SoftBank di ottenere un finanziamento record per rafforzare la propria partecipazione in OpenAI, segnalando la scala finanziaria della competizione nell'AI.ReutersTitolo: Microsoft Taps Anthropic for Copilot Cowork Push on AI AgentsURL: https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-taps-anthropic-copilot-cowork-push-ai-agents-2026-03-09/Descrive la strategia di Microsoft per introdurre agenti autonomi capaci di svolgere compiti complessi nel lavoro quotidiano delle organizzazioni.WIREDTitolo: Nvidia Planning AI Agent Platform Launch Open SourceURL: https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-planning-ai-agent-platform-launch-open-source/Approfondisce il progetto di Nvidia di creare una piattaforma aperta per agenti AI, segnando il passaggio dalla competizione sui modelli alla costruzione di ecosistemi operativi.VentureBeatTitolo: EY Hit 4x Coding Productivity by Connecting AI Agents to EngineeringURL: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/ey-hit-4x-coding-productivity-by-connecting-ai-agents-to-engineeringMostra come l'integrazione di agenti intelligenti nei processi di sviluppo software possa moltiplicare la produttività dei team tecnici.Harvard Business ReviewTitolo: When Using AI Leads to Brain FryURL: https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fryAnalizza il rischio di sovraccarico cognitivo per manager e professionisti chiamati a supervisionare un numero crescente di agenti intelligenti.TechCrunchTitolo: Amazon Launches Its Healthcare AI Assistant on Its Website and AppURL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/amazon-launches-its-healthcare-ai-assistant-on-its-website-and-app/Racconta l'introduzione dell'assistente sanitario AI di Amazon, segnale dell'ingresso dell'intelligenza artificiale nei servizi essenziali su larga scala.BloombergTitolo: Anthropic Tells Judge It Could Lose Billions if US Shuns AI ToolURL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/anthropic-tells-judge-it-could-lose-billions-if-us-shuns-ai-toolRiporta lo scontro tra Anthropic e l'amministrazione statunitense sul ruolo dell'intelligenza artificiale nei sistemi di difesa e nelle applicazioni militari.The DecoderTitolo: Video AI Models Hit a Reasoning Ceiling That More Training Data Alone Won't Fix, Researchers SayURL: https://the-decoder.com/video-ai-models-hit-a-reasoning-ceiling-that-more-training-data-alone-wont-fix-researchers-say/Illustra i limiti strutturali dei modelli video di nuova generazione come Sora e Veo, che faticano ancora a sviluppare un vero ragionamento sul mondo fisico.

Big changes might be coming to Denver's scooter and bike share scene – the city chose a new operator, Veo, and if city council signs off on the deal, Lime and Bird are out of the picture. Joining host Bree Davies and producer Paul Karolyi is Andy Cushen, co-host of the Denver Urbanism podcast, to discuss what this impending shift means for everyday scooter and bike share users, plus the future of Lime's very popular equity access program. Then, a sales tax increase could land on November's ballot that would fund a Front Range Passenger Rail – but before that happens, boosters want Coloradans to pick a name for the train. Will having a cute moniker for the rail line endear voters to say yes to a sales tax increase?  For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member: membership.citycast.fm What do you think? Do you like any of the names for the yet-to-be-built Front Range Passenger Rail? Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418 Learn more about the sponsors of this March 10th episode: Cozy Earth - Use code COZYDENVER for up to 20% off Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise

Get my 20+ NotebookLM tricks: https://clickhubspot.com/ocmf Episode 100: Is Google's NotebookLM about to replace After Effects, and what's really happening in the battle between ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Joe Fier (https://www.youtube.com/@joefier) break it all down in this packed episode, exploring the latest in generative AI video, the war between LLMs, and why Hollywood legends like Ben Affleck are bringing AI into filmmaking. This episode dives into the tsunami of new model releases from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic—what's new, what's hype, and what it means for everyday creators and businesses. The hosts break down the surprising rise of Claude after a headline-making military contract dispute, explain how Claude made it ridiculously easy to jump ship from ChatGPT, and share behind-the-scenes looks at Google's Ultra plan, the cinematic power of NotebookLM, and its impact on traditional After Effects work. 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) NotebookLM AI Tool Insights (06:57) Training AI: Steps Explained (13:56) Distilled Models for Efficiency (18:02) Million-Token Context for Coding (22:51) Efficient Tool Search System (28:31 Gemini 3.1 Flashlight Overview (33:16) Thumbnail Analysis and Optimization (41:37) Animating Videos with NotebookLM (43:21) AI Video Generation Progress (50:55) OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Controversy (56:13) Supply Chain Risks and War Talks (01:02:11) Hollywood's Tech Shift: Mixed Feelings (01:05:28) Streaming's Impact on Production Speed (01:10:01) Meta Glasses Privacy Controversy (01:13:40) Meta Sued Over Privacy Violations — Mentions: Joe Fier: https://www.youtube.com/@joefier NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/ After Effects: https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html Veo 3.1 https://gemini.google/overview/video-generation/ OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/ Manus: https://manus.im/ Nano Banana 2: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/ Claude: https://claude.ai/ Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/app Cursor: https://cursor.com/ 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

Épisode 1441 : En quelques mois, Google Gemini s'est transformé en une plateforme créative tout-en-un .Là où ChatGPT semble ralentir, Google accélère en intégrant dans un seul et même chatbot la génération de texte, d'images (Nano Banana), de vidéos (Veo), et désormais de musique (Lyria 3).Parallèlement, NotebookLM s'affirme comme un outil complémentaire super puissant pour synthétiser et remixer n'importe quel contenu documentaire.Dans cet épisode, on décrypte les quatre grandes nouveautés et leurs applications concrètes pour la stratégie social media d'une marque.…Retrouvez toutes les notes de l'épisode sur www.lesuperdaily.com ! Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs. Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon : https://supernatifs.com. Ensemble, nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Ensemble, nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

En el marco de la programación especial '¿Cómo trabajamos en España?', la cadena COPE ha analizado los cambios en el mercado laboral, donde destaca una nueva realidad: dos de cada cinco jóvenes de la Generación Z (entre 18 y 28 años) dejan su trabajo antes de cumplir el primer año. Para entender este fenómeno, Alberto Herrera ha entrevistado en 'Herrera en COPE' a Patricia Abad, directora de Recursos Humanos en Idener, una empresa de ciencia de datos e inteligencia artificial cuya plantilla tiene una media de edad de 25 años.Según Abad, ha habido un "antes y un después de la pandemia", que permitió a muchos probar por primera vez el teletrabajo y una mayor conciliación. Aunque los beneficios son claros, la experta, con siete años de experiencia en selección, ha notado que los más jóvenes no siempre los exigen de forma activa. "Veo que la gente más joven quizá no sabe cómo pedir exactamente lo que quieren", asegura. Por ello, en su empresa son proactivos y exponen ...

AI video has gone from novelty to noise — and Jeremy Carrasco has been watching every step of it. In episode 105 of CineD Focus Check, the live streaming veteran turned AI video educator walks us through what the latest generation of diffusion models can and can't do, why every model still has a detectable fingerprint, and why the bigger threat isn't fake videos fooling people — it's real videos being dismissed as fake. From the "AI accent" in synthetic speech to the slot-machine frustration of using these tools professionally, Carrasco pulls no punches. With models like Seedance 2.0 and Kling 3 going viral for near-convincing results, the conversation also gets philosophical: is undetectable AI video even desirable, and what happens to filmmaking when spectacle becomes free? Carrasco's answer might surprise you — he sees a coming backlash against AI-saturated feeds and a real opportunity for human-centred storytelling to regain its edge. The advice for filmmakers? Stop trying to out-prompt AI, and double down on the thing machines can't replace: relationships. Chapters and Articles in This Episode (00:00) Introduction & Jeremy's Background (05:30) How Jeremy Got Started Spotting AI Video (08:19) Veo 3 — The Inflection Point for AI Video (15:32) Every AI Model Has a Fingerprint (21:47) The Real Problem: Doubting Real Footage (27:30) Computational Photography & Smartphone Images (33:00) AI Video vs. Professional Camera Workflows (38:30) The Creator Economy Under Pressure (44:00) C2PA & Content Provenance — Does It Actually Help? (51:00) VFX, Extras & Where Jobs Will Really Go (57:00) The "AI Accent" & Why Audio Is Still a Giveaway (01:03:00) Is There a Legitimate Creative Space for AI? (01:09:00) AI, Social Media & The Coming Backlash (01:16:00) How Filmmakers Can Stay Irreplaceable (01:20:24) Looking 3-4 Years Ahead (01:26:18) Where to Find Jeremy & Wrap-Up We hope you enjoyed this episode! You have feedback, comments, or suggestions? Write us at podcast@cined.com

This episode is a special crossover from The Next Wave podcast, hosted by Matt Wolfe and featuring a deep-dive conversation with marketing and business expert Joe Fier. The duo breaks down the five most interesting developments in AI from the past week, with a focus on SeedDance 2.0—an advanced video model from ByteDance that's dominating headlines for its realistic visuals and flawless lip syncing. They discuss how SeedDance is changing the game compared to heavyweights like Veo and Sora, and why its approach to copyright and training data might give it a global edge.Along the way, Matt Wolfe and Joe Fier demo tools live, including GPT-5.3 Codex Spark and Google's Gemini DeepThink, showing how these models can create websites, apps, and even solve scientific problems at lightning speed. The episode also explores the ethical and business ramifications of AI's rapid evolution—from ads in ChatGPT to the potential impact on jobs and creativity—making it a must-listen for anyone eager to stay ahead in the AI landscape.Topics DiscussedSeedance 2.0's Arrival & ImpactDemos & Real-World ExamplesThe Future of AI Video in Marketing & AdvertisingAI and IP/Copyright ChallengesUltra-Fast Coding ModelsHuman Creativity vs. AIAI Advertising & MonetizationRapid AI Advancement & Staying AheadResources MentionedThe Next Wave Podcast: https://www.thenextwave.showMatt Wolfe: https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow Seedance 2.0: https://www.seedance.com/ByteDance: https://www.bytedance.com/CapCut: https://www.capcut.com/Veo: https://deepmind.google/models/veo/Runway: https://runwayml.com/ChatGPT Codex: https://chatgpt.com/codexMatt Schumer's Viral Article: https://www.mattshumer.com/blog/ai-changes-everythingSuper Bowl Claude Commercial:

This episode is a full “build a business in 40 minutes” demo showing how AI collapses what used to take teams (creative production + sales ops + support) into a handful of prompts. Samruddhi generates a high-production video ad in Google AI Studio using a JSON-style prompt framework, then spins up a working voice sales/support agent in Vapi via Claude Desktop + MCP—so the agent is created from a single prompt instead of clicking through the UI. The conversation also covers why “interfaces matter less” in an agent-first world, why workflow tools (like n8n) still have a role, and how memory layers like Mem0 unify context across channels (email/WhatsApp/etc.) so you can take actions without hunting.Timestamps0:00 — “Single person billion-dollar company” belief + AI driving 10x execution speed1:57 — Plan: create the ad in Google AI Studio (Veo 3.1) + build a voice agent using Vapi MCP via Claude Desktop2:42 — Smithery: marketplace for MCP servers3:39 — MCP for non-technical listeners: “like an API, but agents use it to talk to external services”4:22 — Inside Vapi MCP: tool list = APIs the agent can choose from5:06 — AI Studio setup: video generation playground + select Veo 3.16:16 — JSON prompting framework begins (structure → production-level output)6:28 — Keys: description, style, camera, lighting, environment, elements, motion, ending, text9:05 — Prompts/scripts can be AI-generated (humans provide guardrails)10:41 — Need an API key to generate videos in AI Studio10:54 — Ad review: strong realism; last segment looks AI-ish → iterate prompt13:05 — Install Vapi MCP via npx from Smithery + add Vapi API key13:46 — Claude Desktop: Vapi MCP appears under Connectors/Tools (not Claude web)14:05 — Prompt the agent build: “Fresh Pause” + role, tasks, FAQs, call flows18:23 — Testing: “Talk to assistant” starts a live call simulation19:20 — Deployment: assign a phone number; Vapi provides free/test numbers (up to a limit)21:57 — Mem0 / Supermemory: memory layer across apps/agents to keep context24:13 — Why memory layers help: fewer MCPs → less slowdown/hallucination; no need to specify where to search26:36 — MCPs + slide decks: mention of Gamma MCP via Claude27:34 — Future of n8n/Zapier: they persist, but prompting increasingly generates workflows31:38 — Prediction market trading algos (Kalshi/Polymarket) + AI improves speed/decision-making36:02 — Closing vision: help orgs 10x execution speed, especially non-technical leaders (40+) with domain expertiseTools & technologies mentionedGoogle AI Studio (Video Generation Playground) — Generate an 8-second video ad.Veo 3.1 — Google video model used for “production-level” output.JSON Prompting Framework — Structured key/value prompts for story, visuals, camera, lighting, motion, ending frame.Claude Desktop — Runs connectors/tools (including MCP servers).MCP (Model Context Protocol) — Lets agents call external services/tools based on intent.Smithery — Directory/marketplace for MCP servers.Vapi — Voice agent platform; create agents + assign phone numbers.Vapi MCP Server — Enables Claude to operate Vapi via prompts (create/list/configure).npx — Installs MCP server quickly from the terminal.API Keys — Required for AI Studio generation + Vapi authentication.Mem0 / Supermemory — Cross-channel memory layer to retrieve context automatically.Knowledge Graph — Underlying structure for semantic retrieval across interactions.Glean — Referenced as a comparison point for search/context retrieval.Gamma MCP — Example of generating slide decks via MCP.n8n / Zapier — Workflow automation tools discussed in an MCP-first future.OpenClaw — Mentioned as agent tooling that can help with steps like obtaining API keys.Kalshi / Polymarket — Prediction markets referenced in the trading/AI speed discussion.Subscribe at⁠ thisnewway.com⁠ to get the step-by-step playbooks, tools, and workflows.

Get our AI Video Guide: https://clickhubspot.com/dth Episode 97: How close are we to a world where AI-generated videos are indistinguishable from reality? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Joe Fier (linkedin.com/in/joefier) dive deep into Seedance 2.0—ByteDance's new AI video model that could outpace giants like Sora and Veo. Joe, a marketing and business expert known for his hands-on approach and insights into AI's rapid evolution, helps to break down the five most fascinating developments in the AI space this week. They tackles game-changing AI advances: Seedance 2.0's mind-blowing video generation for ads and motion graphics, the rollout of Google's Veo 3.1 in Google Ads, the GPT-5.3 Codex Spark coding model built on specialized inference chips, Gemini's DeepThink model for scientific research, and the early rollout of ChatGPT ads. 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) Seedance 2.0 arrives – AI video generation blurs reality, ad creation moves fast. (03:03) Google's Veo 3.1 powers video ads, advertisers can now generate clips directly from image uploads. (05:33) Comparison of Runway, Kling, Veo, and Sora—head-to-head prompt showdown. (07:00) Motion graphics and explainers—AI's take on the creative industry. (08:35) US vs. China—Copyright, IP, and training data debates. (12:10) Deepfake and video authenticity—why we now default to skepticism. (13:30) Google's edge in visual AI via YouTube's massive corpus. (14:39) The next frontier: Longer, more consistent video generation. (15:14) Where do humans fit in? Taste, storytelling, and creative direction. (18:30) GPT-5.3 Codex Spark—coding models on Cerebras inference chips, demo generating a website in 18 seconds. (24:34) AI tool comparisons—Codex vs. Cursor vs. Claude Code. (25:12) Speed as the key bottleneck breaker in creative and technical workflows. (28:02) Google's Gemini DeepThink—state-of-the-art research, advanced coding and physics capabilities. (32:52) Gemini demo attempt—3D-printable STL file and solving the three-body problem. (33:20) ChatGPT rolls out ads—impact on monetization and user trust. (40:02) Google's ad history—how “sponsored” is becoming harder to distinguish. (44:02) Democratizing AI access via ad-supported models. (45:03) Matt Schumer's viral article—why AI is moving even faster than most people realize. (51:11) Tools that build tools—AGI's path and the new role for humans. (53:12) Real-world skills and taste—where humanity still wins (for now). (54:01) Final thoughts—wake up, pay attention, and stay on the leading edge. — Mentions: Seedance 2.0: https://www.seedance.com/ ByteDance: https://www.bytedance.com/ CapCut: https://www.capcut.com/ Veo: https://deepmind.google/models/veo/ Runway: https://runwayml.com/ ChatGPT Codex: https://chatgpt.com/codex Matt Schumer's Viral Article: https://www.mattshumer.com/blog/ai-changes-everything Super Bowl Claude Commercial: https://www.anthropic.com/news/super-bowl-ad 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

En el mensaje “Amar sin envidia”, Danilo Montero parte de uno de los textos más profundos del Nuevo Testamento: Primera Carta a los Corintios 13:4-7, donde el apóstol Pablo define el amor no solo por lo que es, sino por lo que no es.“El amor no es envidioso.”Amar es buscar y celebrar el bien del otro. Si el amor celebra el bienestar ajeno, la envidia hace exactamente lo contrario: sufre cuando otro es bendecido.La envidia aparece cuando:Veo a alguien como mi igual, pero con más bendición.En vez de celebrarlo, lo sufro porque hiere mi ego.Culpo a Dios por el “desbalance”.La envidia no es solo comparación; es una forma de rebelión contra Dios. Es querer ser alguien distinto al que Dios diseñó. En el fondo, la lucha entre amor y envidia es una lucha entre mi ego y la adoración.El mensaje nos lleva a una verdad poderosa:Hay un lugar donde la envidia no puede florecer… el corazón que sabe que es hijo amado.En Evangelio de Juan 13 vemos a Jesús lavando los pies de sus discípulos. Lo hace “sabiendo que el Padre había puesto todas las cosas en sus manos”. Su identidad estaba segura. No necesitaba competir.Cuando nuestra identidad está arraigada en el amor del Padre —como afirma Primera Carta de Juan 3:1— dejamos de medirnos por popularidad, logros o reconocimiento. Sabemos que ya lo tenemos todo en Cristo.La solución práctica frente a la envidia no es negarla, sino:Llevarla a la cruz.Recordar que estamos crucificados con Cristo (Carta a los Gálatas 2:20).Decidir servir.Jesús mostró que el camino para vencer el ego es tomar la toalla y lavar pies.La envidia busca el lugar de otros.El amor impulsa el avance de los demás.Cuando adoramos, el ego muere.Cuando servimos, la envidia pierde poder.Cuando sabemos que somos hijos, descansamos.Amar sin envidia es vivir desde la seguridad del abrazo del Padre.

"Two years from now, all white-collar jobs may be gone." — Dario Amodei (via Keith Teare)Keith Teare leads this week's tech roundup with a video he made on Google's Veo: one glass half-full of water, another half-full of spiders. It's a metaphor for the AI moment. The water represents the tools released in the past two weeks—Anthropic's Claude 4.6, OpenAI's CodeX 5.3—which Keith calls "beyond belief." The spiders represent the fear, which he acknowledges is not irrational. But maybe spiders are the wrong metaphor. Maybe we're the frogs being slowly boiled, not noticing the temperature rise until it's too late.The trigger was Matt Schumer's viral essay "Something Big is Happening," which got 50 million views by telling engineers to become AI experts immediately or become irrelevant. Keith tested the thesis: he built venturebets.io, a prediction market, in a single day. He automated That Was The Week so completely that his weekly workflow dropped from six hours to under one. But then Dario Amodei and Satya Nadella both said the quiet part loud: in two years, there may be no white-collar jobs left. Keith's response? The glass doesn't contain jobs—it contains the future of life. And he'd rather have time to make videos of spiders crawling out of glasses than spend six hours curating links. The rest of us may not have the luxury of choosing. About the GuestKeith Teare is a serial entrepreneur and investor, founder of SignalRank, and author of the newsletter That Was The Week. He co-hosts the weekly tech roundup on Keen On America.ReferencesEssays discussed:●      Matt Schumer's "Something Big is Happening" went viral with 50 million views, arguing that engineers must become AI experts immediately or face obsolescence.●      Noah Smith published two essays: "The Fall of the Nerds" and "You Are No Longer the Smartest Type of Thing on Earth," arguing that humanity's destiny is now mostly out of our own hands.●      Josh Tyrangiel wrote "America Isn't Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs" in The Atlantic.●      The Financial Times published "Anthropic's Breakout Moment" on the company's enterprise momentum.Tools and companies mentioned:●      Claude 4.6 from Anthropic and CodeX 5.3 from OpenAI represent a "step change" in agentic AI—you give tasks, not prompts, and sub-agents complete them autonomously.●      Google Veo is Google's video generation tool, which Keith used to create the glass-half-full-of-spiders metaphor.●      Polymarket and Kalshi are prediction markets that Keith's new venturebets.io aims to match in quality.People mentioned:●      Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, predicted that white-collar jobs may be gone in two years.●      Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, echoed Amodei's prediction about the end of white-collar work.About Keen On AmericaNobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States—hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,800 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting.WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotifyChapters:(00:00) - The glass half-full of spiders (01:30) - Matt Schumer's viral essay (03:15) - Every week is the biggest week in AI (04:30) - Claude 4.6 and CodeX 5.3: a step change (06:00) - Keith builds a prediction market in a day (07:45) - Fear is a bad operating system (09:30) - What's actually changed with That Was The Week? (12:00) - Trusting the algorithm to read for you (14:00) - Noah Smith: You're no longer the smartest thing on Earth (16:00) - The rabbit vs. the tiger (17:30) - Google's quantum computer and parallel universes (19:00) - America isn't ready for what AI will do to jobs (20:30) - Amodei and Nadella: two years to no white-collar jobs (22:00) - What's in the glass is the future of life (24:00) - Anthropic's breakout moment (26:00) - Claude Code vs. CodeX: Keith switches sides

What if your 11% success rate means you're absolutely crushing it? In this episode, Paul Kirchoff shares how he helps small growth businesses and their leaders accelerate success through EPX Global, a breakthrough AI-centric acceleration platform and ecosystem. As an avid entrepreneur, investor, and global adventurer, Paul is the founder and CEO of EPX Global, where members around the world drive faster business success, max out amazing experiences, and push individual performance to new levels. Paul is also the Founder and CEO of DominoOne, an impact accelerator and crowdsourced problem-solving platform. Paul built two marketing software/agency companies and multi-billion dollar business units at Dell Computer Corporation as an early employee. He's a member of the 113-year-old Explorers Club, DJs electronic music, wrote a corporate thriller novel (giving proceeds to cancer research), and made a film about racism. Paul is developing frontier-level expertise in operationalizing artificial intelligence across the enterprise in every department. Paul reveals two relationships that transformed him in ways nobody has ever answered this question before: a Mongolian eagle hunter he met in the far eastern corner of Mongolia, an older gentleman who had zero knowledge of America, spoke no English, and lived in a yurt with horses and golden eagles as pets, teaching Paul about authentic human connection beyond labels and systems, which became the core culture he built into his technology platform where single moms are valued equally with astronauts; and a police officer who arrested him at 32 after a casual happy hour (though Paul was sober), leading to community service at a center for the deaf and blind where he spent weeks rewinding VHS tapes while listening to thought leaders teach cutting-edge SEO and digital marketing, which gave him the advanced knowledge to start his marketing agency that became successful and sold 13 years later, ultimately leading to his trip to Mongolia and the realization he needed to build EPX Global.   [00:04:00] What Paul Does at EPX Global Tech veteran CEO with many startups, sold companies, shut down companies Early employee at Dell Computer Corporation before anyone in Austin knew who Michael Dell was Built EPX Global as AI-centric ecosystem for small growth businesses and their leaders Heavy artificial intelligence expertise helping companies accelerate success, health, and experiences [00:05:00] Making Everything Go Faster Helps accelerate time to best performance unique to genetics on health side Helps companies accelerate success with AI, connections, and knowledge Makes sure people don't forget to dance under the Milky Way because life is short [00:06:00] Living in Service of Others Used to be financial goals and status symbols when younger, none of that matters now Addicted to a blank sheet of paper, gifted to solve or invent anything Respect for fellow humans (all a unit of one on their own unique journey) Living in service of others by replicating himself with technology [00:07:00] Building a Top Marketing Agency Built and sold one of top demand generation agencies in world Controlled front page of Google, Facebook called asking how they converted traffic Always on cutting edge of deploying technology in marketing (technical + psychology) [00:08:20] AI Systems for Every Business Size Wanted to build AI systems for small businesses (missing factor for 10x resources) Also doing business transformation consulting for billion-dollar companies Helping bigger companies go from where they are to AI-first operations [00:09:20] The 60% Revenue Increase Every Month Networking ecosystem connects people to solutions for health, happiness, business, capital People battling depression got connected to biohacking guys, transformed their lives One client company 60-70% higher revenue every single month with zero change to headcount [00:11:00] Being the X Factor AI systems deployed handle support, become AI salesperson, become AI marketing team Small businesses can grow beyond traditional chains with 10x resources All about being X factor in people's lives or facilitating X factor with someone else [00:14:00] The 11% Success Rate Discovery Expert guest on platform said his success rate is 14% (very successful guy) Paul did the math on his own attempts, came out to 11% success rate Entrepreneurs put enormous pressure on themselves, need different perspective [00:16:00] Trust in an AI World Real meaningful relationships becoming more and more valuable with AI Building networking assistant governed by user (uses your reasoning to find value) Human connection and that magnetic field around our hearts makes us who we are [00:19:40] When Social Media Became Entertainment Facebook, Instagram, TikTok devolved into micro entertainment channels (not networking) Feeds filled with ads and sponsored posts, no actual networking EPX Global has no ads, every connection based on merit of what you want [00:20:20] Photorealistic Fake Content AI video (Sora, Veo) can create photorealistic content that's completely fake Consumer backlash coming for authenticity in connections Business will embrace AI efficiency (hyper-efficient usually wins) [00:23:00] Two People, No Names Never anyone Paul looks up to or admires or wants to be like who affected his life Been blessed to meet incredible people (Pope, Richard Branson's Island, etc.) Two people come to mind that transformed everything Both people Paul has no idea where they are or their names [00:24:20] Far Eastern Mongolia Was entrepreneur working 14 hours a day for decade plus, one-trick pony success Knew needed to desperately change something, chose adventure Took group to far eastern corner of Mongolia to ride horses with eagle hunters Met older gentleman in yurt who had zero knowledge of America or United States [00:25:40] The Man with Golden Eagles Man spoke zero English, wore fox neck tie, had pet golden eagles (40 pounds) Paul realized this is furthest from his life as tech guy (opposite side of life) Both excited to meet each other as new friends with zero in common [00:27:00] Single Moms and Astronauts Brought that spiritualness and core value into network he built Despite super achievers (swimming oceans, skiing Everest, gold medals), none of that matters Single mom raising five good kids might be more impressive than astronaut [00:27:40] The Saturday Night Traffic Stop At 32, coming out of casual happy hour, got pulled over Told officer honestly: "I had two drinks over last hour, I'm clearly fine" Officer said he seemed like nice guy but made him do sobriety test Got arrested and taken downtown (was actually sober, officer kept saying he was nicest person) [00:28:40] Community Service for the Deaf and Blind Offered to do community service to get charge expunged Chose center for deaf and blind, job was rewinding VHS tapes in warehouse Asked supervisor if he could listen to music, supervisor said yes [00:29:20] SEO Lessons in His Ears Instead of music, put in thought leaders teaching SEO and digital marketing For weeks on end, hours a day, learning cutting-edge techniques from pioneers After that, was so advanced in knowledge that led to starting agency Agency became successful and powerful, sold it 13 years later [00:30:00] The Chain of Events If officer hadn't arrested him, wouldn't have had that learning experience Wouldn't have had confidence to start agency that got him burnt out Wouldn't have gone to Mongolia and realized need to build network [00:31:00] In the Canyon Before the Summit At the time was devastated, seemed horrible (younger without perspective) Now incredibly grateful it happened When in the canyon, you're about to go to the summit [00:32:20] When Identity Gets Wrapped Up Greatest risk to mental health is when identity tied to something other than happiness If identity wrapped up in labels (AI whisperer, top guy), devastated when things go wrong Separate identity from accomplishments to stomach any ups and downs [00:38:00] The Leader in the Back AI exercise: meditate on what you look like as future leader Paul's image: crowd moving down valley, Paul in the back (slightly bigger) Leader in back can move crowds (not showing off Maserati or boat) [00:39:00] A Multitude of Miracles However someone gets through life (good/bad parents, heartbreak, etc.) shapes them Everyone made it to this one moment in time (mathematically massive miracle) When you respect everyone like that, you operate without ability to judge or be judged [00:39:40] Operating Without Fear When you don't judge or feel judged, you operate without expectations Without expectations means without fear of future negative ramifications Can be yourself, be present, love everybody, still compete   KEY QUOTES "I did the math and my success rate is like 11%. And I feel like I'm fairly successful, right? I've learned to not really give a shit about what your definition of success is." - Paul Kirchoff "There's zero in common, zero knowledge about each other. And it was one of the most remarkable moments because it shows you this level of connection that's possible when you drop labels and systems and passports and everything else." - Paul Kirchoff "If that guy wouldn't have arrested me, I wouldn't have started an agency, wouldn't have gotten burnt out, wouldn't have gone to Mongolia, and wouldn't be on this call today." - Paul Kirchoff CONNECT WITH PAUL KIRCHOFF 

Get PJ's free AI Video Production Stack + Workflow: https://clickhubspot.com/whs Ep. 393 233 million views in just three days — can AI-generated ads really replace million-dollar productions? Kipp, Kieran, and guest, PJ Accetturo, of Genre.ai, dive into the wild world of AI-powered commercial workflows and the viral David Beckham ad that's turning heads across the industry. Learn more about AI-driven creative teams, the tools behind photorealistic video production, and the emerging future—where hyper-niche stories thrive and challenger brands outsmart the incumbents. Mentions PJ Accetturo https://www.linkedin.com/in/pj-accetturo-b3b693129/ Genre.ai https://www.genre.ai/ Figma https://www.figma.com/ Nano Banana Pro https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/ Freepik https://www.freepik.com/ai/image-generator Veo 3.1 https://gemini.google/overview/video-generation/ Kling https://klingai.com/global/ ElevenLabs https://elevenlabs.io/ 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.

Get Kieran's AI Video Ad Stack guide + prompts: https://clickhubspot.com/rhv Ep. 390 How long does it really take to make a realistic AI video ad? Kipp and Kieran dive into a step-by-step tutorial for creating high-quality, believable AI-powered videos, even if you're not a video expert. Learn more on how to develop a creative concept that AI tools can't replace, the essential workflow for using Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana Pro, and why reference images are the secret to seamless video scenes. This episode breaks down the process and tips to help you master AI video creation faster and smarter. Mentions Veo 3.1 https://deepmind.google/models/veo/ Nano Banana Pro https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/ ElevenLabs https://elevenlabs.io/ Figma https://www.figma.com/ CapCut https://www.capcut.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.

7 AI Tools you'll need in 2026 (Free Guide, Prompts, Workflows): https://clickhubspot.com/ekv Ep. 389 What are the five AI skills every marketer needs to win in 2026? Kipp and Kieran dive into the top five AI launches and must-have skills transforming marketing in 2026, breaking down what matters amid an overwhelming wave of new technology. Learn more on using Gemini 3 for content remixing and competitive intelligence, mastering next-level image and video creation with cutting-edge models like Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3.1, and the critical importance of automation, agentic workflows, and vibe coding to unlock 10x marketing scale. Mentions Gemini 3 https://gemini.google.com/app Claude Opus 4.5 http://anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5 Nano Banana Pro https://gemini.google/overview/image-generation/ Veo 3.1 https://deepmind.google/models/veo/ Sora 2 https://openart.ai/video/i2v/sora-v2 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.

What does 2026 hold for indie authors and the publishing industry? I give my thoughts on trends and predictions for the year ahead. In the intro, Quitting the right stuff; how to edit your author business in 2026; Is SubStack Good for Indie Authors?; Business for Authors webinars. If you'd like to join my community and support the show every month, you'll get access to my growing list of Patron videos and audio on all aspects of the author business — for the price of a black coffee (or two) a month. Join us at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn. Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. Penn. She's also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. (1) More indie authors will sell direct through Shopify, Kickstarter, and local in-person events (2) AI-powered search will start to shift elements of book discoverability (3) The start of Agentic Commerce (4) AI-assisted audiobook narration will go mainstream (5) AI-assisted translation will start to take off beyond the early adopters (6) AI video becomes ubiquitous. ‘Live selling' becomes the next trend in social sales. (7) AI will create, run, and optimise ads without the need for human intervention (8) 1000 True Fans becomes more important than ever You can find all my books as J.F. Penn and Joanna Penn on your favourite online store in all the usual formats, or order from your local library or bookstore. You can also buy direct from me at CreativePennBooks.com and JFPennBooks.com. I'm not really active on social media, but you can always see my photos at Instagram @jfpennauthor. 2026 Trends and Predictions for Indie Authors and Book Publishing (1) More indie authors will sell direct through Shopify, Kickstarter, and local in-person events — and more companies like BookVault will offer even more beautiful physical books and products to support this. This trend will not be a surprise to most of you! Selling direct has been a trend for the last few years, but in 2026, it will continue to grow as a way that independent authors become even more independent. The recent Written Word Media survey from Dec 2025 noted that 30% of authors surveyed are selling direct already and 30% say they plan to start in 2026. Among authors earning over $10,000 per month, roughly half sell direct. In my opinion, selling direct is an advanced author strategy, meaning that you have multiple books and you understand book marketing and have an email list already or some guaranteed way to reach readers. In fact, Kindlepreneur reports that 66% of authors selling direct have more than 5 books, and 46% have more than 10 books. Of course, you can start with the something small, like a table at a local event with a limited number of books for sale, but if you want to consistently sell direct for years to come, you need to consider all the business aspects. Selling direct is not a silver bullet. It's much harder work to sell direct than it is to just upload an ebook to Amazon, whether you choose a Kickstarter campaign, or Shopify/Payhip or other online stores, or regular in-person sales at events/conferences/fairs. You need a business mindset and business practices, for example, you need to pay upfront for setup as well as ongoing management, and bulk printing in some cases. You need to manage taxes and cashflow. You need to be a lot more proactive about marketing, as you won't sell anything if you don't bring readers to your books/products. But selling direct also brings advantages. It sets you apart from the bulk of digital only authors who still only upload ebooks to Amazon, or maybe add a print on demand book, and in an era of AI rapid creation, that number is growing all the time. If you sell direct, you get your customer data and you can reach those customers next time, through your email list. If you don't know who bought your books and don't have a guaranteed way to reach them, you will more easily be disrupted when things change — and they always change eventually. Kindlepreneur notes that “45% of the successful direct selling authors had over 1,000 subscribers on their email lists,” with “a clear, positive correlation between email list size and monthly direct sales income — with authors having an email list of over 15,000 subscribers earning 20X more than authors with email lists under 100 subscribers.” Selling direct means faster money, sometimes the same day or the same week in many cases, or a few weeks after a campaign finishes, as with Kickstarter. And remember, you don't have to sell all your formats directly. You can keep your ebooks in KU, do whatever you like with audiobooks, and just have premium print products direct, or start with a very basic Kickstarter campaign, or a table at a local fair. Lots more tips for Shopify and Kickstarter at https://www.thecreativepenn.com/selldirectresources/ I also recommend the Novel Marketing Podcast on The Shopify Trap: Why authors keep losing money as it is a great counterpoint to my positive endorsement of selling direct on Shopify! Among other things, Thomas notes that a fixed monthly fee for a store doesn't match how most authors make money from books which is more in spikes, the complexity and hassle eats time and can cost more money if you pay for help, and it can reduce sales on Amazon and weaken your ranking. Basically, if you haven't figured out marketing direct to your store, it can hurt you.All true for some authors, for some genres, and for some people's lifestyle. But for authors who don't want to be on the hamster wheel of the Amazon algorithm and who want more diversity and control in income, as well as the incredible creative benefits of what you can do selling direct, then I would say, consider your options in 2025, even if that is trying out a low-financial-goal Kickstarter campaign, or selling some print books at a local fair. Interestingly, traditional publishers are also experimenting with direct sales. Kate Elton, the new CEO of Harper Collins notes in The Bookseller's 2026 trend article, “we are seeing global success with responsive, reader-driven publishing, subscription boxes and TikTok Shop and – crucially – developing strategies that are founded on a comprehensive understanding of the reader.” She also notes, “AI enables us to dramatically change the way we interact with and grow audiences. The opportunities are genuinely exciting – finding new ways to help readers discover books they will love, innovating in the ways we market and reach audiences, building new channels and adapting to new methods of consuming content.” (2) AI-powered search will start to shift elements of book discoverability From LinkedIn's 2026 Big Ideas: “Generative engine optimization (GEO) is set to replace search engine optimization (SEO) as the way brands get discovered in the year ahead. As consumers turn to AI chatbots, agentic workflows and answer engines, appearing prominently in generative outputs will matter more than ranking in search engines.” Google has been rolling out AI Mode with its AI Overviews and is beginning to push it within Google.com itself in some countries, which means the start of a fundamental change in how people discover content online. I first posted about GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) in 2023, and it's going to change how readers find books. For years, we've talked about the long tail of search. Now, with AI-powered search, that tail is getting even longer and more nuanced. AI can understand complex, conversational queries that traditional search engines struggled with. Someone might ask, “What's a good thriller set in a small town with a female protagonist who's a journalist investigating a cold case?” and get highly specific recommendations. This means your book metadata, your website content, and your online presence need to be more detailed and conversational. AI search engines understand context in ways that go far beyond simple keywords. The authors who win in this new landscape will be those who create rich, authentic content about their books and themselves, not just promotional copy. As economist Tyler Cowen has said, “Consider the AIs as part of your audience. Because they are already reading your words and listening to your voice.” We're in the ‘organic' traffic phase right now, where these AI engines are surfacing content for ‘free,' but paid ads are inevitably on the way, and even rumoured to be coming this year to ChatGPT. By the end of 2026, I expect some authors and publishers to be paying for AI traffic, rather than blocking and protesting them. For now, I recommend checking that your author name/s and your books are surfaced when you search on ChatGPT.com as well as Google.com AI Mode (powered by Gemini). You want to make sure your work comes up in some way. I found that Joanna Penn and J.F. Penn searches brought up my Shopify stores, my website, podcast, Instagram, LinkedIn, and even my Patreon page, but did not bring up links to Amazon. If you only have an author presence on Amazon, does it appear in AI search at all? Do you need to improve anything about what the AI search brings up? Traditional publishers are also looking at this, with PublishersWeekly doing webinars on various aspects of AI in early 2026, including sessions on GEO and how book sales are changing, AI agents, and book marketing. In a 2026 predictions article on The Bookseller, the CEO of Bloomsbury Publishing noted, “The boundaries of artificial intelligence will become clearer, enabling publishers to harness its benefits while seeking to safeguard the intellectual property rights of authors, illustrators and publishers.” “AI will be deeply embedded in our workflows, automating tasks such as metadata tagging, freeing teams to focus on creativity and strategy. Challenges will persist. Generative AI threatens traditional web traffic and ad revenue models, making metadata optimisation and SEO critical for visibility as we adjust to this new reality online.” (3) The start of Agentic Commerce AI researches what you want to buy and may even buy on your behalf. Plus, I predict that Amazon does a commerce deal with OpenAI for shopping within ChatGPT by the end of 2026. In September 2025, ChatGPT launched Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol, which will enable bots to buy on websites in the background if authorised by the human with the credit card. VISA is getting on board with this, so is PayPal, with no doubt more payment options to come. In the USA, ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users can now buy directly from US Etsy sellers inside the chat interface, with over a million Shopify merchants coming soon. Shopify and OpenAI have also announced a partnership to bring commerce to ChatGPT. I am insanely excited about this as it could represent the first time we have been able to more easily find and surface books in a much more nuanced way than the 7 keywords and 3 categories we have relied on for so long! I've been using ChatGPT for at least the last year to find fiction and non-fiction books as I find the Amazon interface is ‘polluted' by ads. I've discovered fascinating books from authors I've never heard of, most in very long tail areas. For example, Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby, recommended by ChatGPT as I am interested in medical anatomy and anatomical Venuses, and The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson, recommended as I like art history and the supernatural. I don't think I would have found either of these within a nuanced discussion with ChatGPT. Even without these direct purchase integrations, ChatGPT now has Shopping Research, which I have found links directly to my Shopify store when I search for my books specifically. Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to create AI-first shopping experiences, and you have to wonder what Amazon might be doing? In Nov 2025, Amazon signed a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI, and even though it's focused on the technical side of AI, those two companies in a room together might also be working on other plans … I'm calling it for 2026. I think Amazon will sign a commerce agreement with OpenAI sometime before the end of the year. This will enable at least recommendation and shopping links into Amazon stores (presumably using an OpenAI affiliate link), or perhaps even Instant Checkout with ChatGPT for Amazon. It will also enable a new marketing angle, especially if paid ads arrive in ChatGPT, perhaps even integrating with Amazon Ads in some way as part of any possible agreement, since ads are such a good revenue stream for Amazon anyway. The line between discovery, engagement, and purchase is collapsing. Someone could be having a conversation with an AI about what to read next, and within that same conversation, purchase a bookwithout ever leaving the chat interface. This already happens within TikTok and social commerce clearly works for many authors. It's possible that the next development for book discoverability and sales might be within AI chats. This will likely stratify the already fragmented book eco-system even more. Some readers will continue to live only within the Amazon ecosystem and (maybe) use their Rufus chatbot to buy, and others will be much wider in their exploration of how to find and discover books (and other products and services). If you haven't tried it yet, try ChatGPT.com Shopping Research for a book. You can do this on the free tier. Use the drop down in the main chat box and select Shopping Research. It doesn't have to be for your book. It can be any book or product, for example, our microwave died just before Christmas so I used it to find a new one. But do a really nuanced search with multiple requirements. Go far beyond what you would search for on Amazon. In the results, notice that (at the time of writing) it does not generally link to Amazon, but to independent sites and stores. As above, I think this will change by the end of 2026, as some kind of commerce deal with Amazon seems inevitable. (4) AI-assisted audiobook narration will go mainstream I've been talking about AI narration of audiobooks since 2019, and over the years, I've tried various different options. In 2025, the technology reached a level of emotional nuance that made it much easier to create satisfying fiction audio as well as non-fiction. It also super-charges accessibility, making audio available in more languages and more accents than ever before. Of course, human narration remains the gold standard, but the cost makes it prohibitive for many authors, and indeed many small traditional publishers, for all books. If it costs $2000 – $10,000 to create an audiobook, you have to sell a lot to make a profit, and the dominance of subscription models have made it harder to recoup the costs. Famous narrators and voice artists who have an audience may still be worth investing in, as well as premium production, but require an even higher upfront cost and therefore higher sales and streams in return. AI voice/audio models are continuing to improve, and even as this goes out, there are rumours on TechCrunch that OpenAI's new device, designed by Jony Ive who designed the iPhone, will be audio first and OpenAI are improving their voice models even more in preparation for that launch. In 2026, I think AI-narrated audio will go mainstream with far-reaching adoption across publishing and the indie author world in many different languages and accents. This will mean a further stratification of audiobooks, with high quality, high production, high cost human narrated audio for a small percentage of books, and then mass market, affordable AI-narrated audio for the rest. AI-narrated audiobooks will make audio ubiquitous, and just as (almost) every print book has an ebook format, in 2026, they will also have an audio format. I straddle both these worlds, as I am still a human audiobook narrator for my own work. I human-narrated Successful Self-Publishing Fourth Edition (free audiobook) and The Buried and the Drowned, my short story collection. I also use AI narration for some books. ElevenLabs remains my preferred service and in 2025, I used my J.F. Penn voice clone for Death Valley and also Blood Vintage, while using a male voice for Catacomb. I clearly label my AI-narration in the sales description and also on the cover, which I think is important, although it is not always required by the various services. You can distribute ElevenLabs narrated audiobooks on Spotify, Kobo Writing Life, YouTube, ElevenReader, and of course your own store if you use Shopify with Bookfunnel. There are many other services springing up all the time, so make sure you check the rights you have over the finished audio, as well as where you can sell and distribute the final files. If they are just using ElevenLabs models in the back-end, then why not just do that directly? (Most services will be using someone's model in the back-end, since most companies do not train their own models.) Of course, you can use Amazon's own narration. While Amazon originally launched Audible audiobooks with Virtual Voice (AVV) in November 2023, it was rolled out to more authors and territories in 2025. If your book is eligible, the option to create an audiobook will appear on your KDP dashboard. With just a few clicks, you can create an audiobook from a range of voices and accents, and publish it on Amazon and Audible. However, the files are not yours. They are exclusive to Amazon and you cannot use them on other platforms or sell them direct yourself. But they are also free, so of course, many authors, especially those in KU, will use this option. I have done some for my mum's sweet romance books as Penny Appleton and I will likely use them for my books in translation when the option becomes available. Traditional publishers are experimenting with AI-assisted audiobook narration as well. MacMillan is selling digital audiobooks read by AI directly on their store. PublishersWeekly reports that PRH Audio “has experimented with artificial voice in specific instances, such as entrepreneur Ely Callaway's posthumous memoir The Unconquerable Game,” when an “authorized voice replica” was created for the audiobook. The article also notes that PRH Audio “embrace artificial intelligence across business operations—my entire department [PRH Audio] is using AI for business applications.” And while indie authors can't use AI voices on ACX right now, Audible have over 100 voices available to selected publishing partnerships, as reported by The Guardian with “two options for publishers wishing to make use of the technology: “Audible-managed” production, or “self-service” whereby publishers produce their own audiobooks with the help of Audible's AI technology.” In 2026, it's likely that more traditional publishers — as well as indie authors — will get their backlist into audio with AI narration. (5) AI-assisted translation will start to take off beyond the early adopters Over the years, I've done translation deals with traditional publishers in different languages (German, French, Spanish, Korean, Italian) for some fiction and non-fiction books. But of course, to get these kinds of deals, you have to be proactive about pitching, or work with an agent for foreign rights only, and those are few and far between! There are also lots of languages and territories worldwide, and most deals are for the bigger markets, leaving a LOT of blue water for books in translation, even if you have licensed some of the bigger markets. I did my first partially AI-translated books in 2019 when I used Deepl.com for the first draft and then worked with a German editor to do 3 non-fiction books in German. While the first draft was cheap, the editing was pretty expensive, so I stopped after only doing a couple. I have made the money back now, but it took years. In 2025, AI Translation began to take off with ScribeShadow, GlobeScribe.ai, and more recently, in November 2025, Kindle Translate boosting the number of translated books available. Kindle Translate is (currently) only available to US authors for English into Spanish and also German into English, but in 2026, this will likely roll out to more languages and more authors, making it easier than ever to produce translations for free. Of course, once again, the gold standard is human translation, or at least human-edited translations, but the cost is prohibitive even just for proof-reading, and if there is a cheap or even free option, like Kindle Translate, then of course, authors are going to try it. If the translation gets bad reviews, they can just un-publish. There are many anecdotal stories of indie success in 2025 with AI-translated genre fiction sales (in series) in under-served markets like Italian, French, and Spanish, as well as more mainstream adoption in German. I was around in the Kindle gold-rush days of 2009-2012 and the AI-translation energy right now feels like that. There are hardly any Kindle ebooks in many of these languages compared to how many there are in English, so inevitably, the rush is on to fill the void, especially in genres that are under-served by traditional publishers in those markets. Yes, some of these AI translated books will be ‘AI-slop,' but readers are not stupid. Those books will get bad reviews and thus will sink to the bottom of the store, never to be seen again. The AI translation models are also improving rapidly, and Amazon's Kindle Translate may improve faster than most, for books specifically, since they will be able to get feedback in terms of page reads. Amazon is also a major investor in Anthropic, which makes Claude.ai, widely considered the best quality for creative writing and translation, so it's likely that is used somewhere in the mix. Some traditional publishers are also experimenting with AI-assisted translation, with Harlequin France reportedly using AI translation and human proofreaders, as reported by the European Council of Literary Translators' Associations in December 2025. Academic publisher Taylor and Francis is also using AI for book translation, noting: “Following a program of rigorous testing, Taylor & Francis has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers, bringing the latest knowledge to a vastly expanded readership.” “Until now, the time and resources required to translate books has meant that the majority remained accessible only to those who could read them in the original language. Books that were translated often only became available after a significant delay. Today, with the development of sophisticated AI translation tools, it has become possible to make these important texts available to a broad readership at speed, without compromising on accuracy.” (6) AI video becomes ubiquitous. ‘Live selling' becomes the next trend in social sales. In 2025, short form AI-generated video became very high quality. OpenAI released Sora 2, and YouTube announced new Shorts creation tools with Veo 3, which you can also use directly within Gemini. There are tons of different AI video apps now, including those within the social media sites themselves. There is more video than ever and it's much easier to create. I am not a fan of short form video! I don't make it and I don't consume it, but I do love making book trailers for my Kickstarter campaigns and for adding to my book pages and using on social media. I made a trailer for The Buried and the Drowned using Midjourney for images and then animation of those images, and Canva to put them together along with ElevenLabs to generate the music. But despite the AI tools getting so much easier to use, you still have to prompt them with exactly what you want. I can't just upload my book and say, “Make a book trailer,” or “Make a short film.” This may change with generative video ads, which are likely to become more common in 2026, as video turns specifically commercial. Video ads may even be generated specifically for the user, with an audience of one, maybe even holding your book in their hands (using something like Cameos on Sora), in the same way that some AI-powered clothing stores do virtual try-ons. This might also up-end the way we discover and buy things, as the AI for eCommerce and Amazon Sellers newsletter says about OpenAI's Sora app, “OpenAI isn't just trying to build a TikTok competitor. They're building a complete reimagining of how we discover and buy things …” “The combination of ChatGPT's research capabilities and Sora's potential for emotional manipulation—I mean, “engagement”—could create something we've never seen before: an AI ecosystem that might eventually guide you through every type of purchase, from the most considered to the most impulsive.” In 2026, there will be A LOT more AI-generated video, but that also leads to the human trend of more live video. While you can use an AI avatar that looks and sounds like you using tools like HeyGen or Synthesia, live video has all the imperfect human elements that make it stand-out, plus the scarcity element which leads to the purchase decision within a countdown period. Live video is nothing new in terms of brand building and content in general, but it seems that live events primarily for direct sales might be a thing in 2026. Kim Kardashian hosted Kimsmas Live in December 2025 with a 45 minute live shopping event with special guests, described as entertainment but designed to be a sales extravaganza. Indie authors are doing a similar thing on TikTok with their books, so this is a trend to watch in 2026, especially if you feel that live selling might fit with your personality and author business goals. It's certainly not for everyone, but I suspect it will suit a different kind of creator to those who prefer ‘no face' video, or no video at all! On other aspects of the human side of social media, Adam Mosseri the CEO of Instagram put a post on Threads called Authenticity after Abundance. He said, “Everything that made creators matter—the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn't be faked—is now suddenly accessible to anyone with the right tools.” “Deepfakes are getting better and better. AI is generating photographs and videos indistinguishable from captured media. The feeds are starting to fill up with synthetic everything. And in that world, here's what I think happens.Creators matter more.” It's a long article so just to pick a few things from it: “We like to talk about “AI slop,” but there is a lot of amazing AI content … we are going to start to see more and more realistic AI content.” I've talked to my Patreon Community about this ‘tsunami of excellence' as these tools are just getting better and better and the word ‘slop' can also be applied to purely human output, too. If you think that AI content is ‘worse' than wholly human content, in 2026, you are wrong. It is now very very good, especially in the hands of people who can drive the AI tools. Back to Adam's post: “Authenticity is fast becoming a scarce resource, …The creators who succeed will be those who figure out how to maintain their authenticity [even when it can be simulated] …” “The bar is going to shift from “can you create?” to “can you make something that only you could create?” He talks about how the personal content on Instagram now is: “unpolished; it's blurry photos and shaky videos of people's daily experiences … flattering imagery is cheap to produce and boring to consume. People want content that feels real… Savvy creators are going to lean into explicitly unproduced and unflattering images of themselves. In a world where everything can be perfected, imperfection becomes a signal. Rawness isn't just aesthetic preference anymore—it's proof. It's defensive. A way of saying: this is real because it's imperfect.” While I partially love this, and I really hope it's true, as in I hope we don't need to look good for the camera anymore I would also challenge Adam on this, because pretty much every woman I know on social media has been sent sexual messages, and/or told they are ugly and/or fat when posting anything unflattering. I've certainly had both even for the same content, but I don't expect Adam has been the target for such posting! But I get his point. He goes on:“Labeling content as authentic or AI-generated is only part of the solution though. We, as an industry, are going to need to surface much more context about not only the media on our platforms, but the accounts that are sharing it in order for people to be able to make informed decisions about what to believe. Where is the account? When was it created? What else have they posted?” This is exactly what I've been saying for a while under my double down on being human focus. I use my Instagram @jfpennauthor as evidence of humanity, not as a sales channel. You can do both of course, but increasingly, you need to make sure your accounts at places have longevity and trust, even by the platforms themselves. Adam finishes: “In a world of infinite abundance and infinite doubt, the creators who can maintain trust and signal authenticity—by being real, transparent, and consistent—will stand out.” For other marketing trends for 2026, I recommend publicist Kathleen Schmidt's SubStack which is mostly focused on traditional publishing but still interesting for indies. In her 2026 article, she notes: “We have reached a social media saturation point where going viral can be meaningless and should not be the goal; authenticity and creativity should. She also says, “In-person events are important again,” and, “Social media marketing takes a nosedive… we have reached a saturation point … What publishers must figure out is how to make their social media campaigns stand out. If they remain somewhat uninspired, the money spent on social ads won't convert into book sales.” I think this is part of the rise of live selling as above, which can stand out above more ‘produced' videos. Kathleen also talks about AI usage. “AI can help lighten the burden of publicity and marketing.” “A lot of AI tools are coming to market to lessen the load: they can write pitches, create media lists for you, send pitches for you, and more. I know the industry is grappling with all things AI, but some of these tools are huge time savers and may help a book more than hurt it.” On that note … (7) AI will create, run, and optimise ads without the need for human intervention Many authors will be very happy about this as marketing is often the bane of our author business lives! As I noted in my 2026 goals, I would love to outsource more marketing tasks to AI. I want an “AI book marketing assistant” where I can upload a book and specify a budget and say, ‘Go market this,' then the AI will action the marketing, without me having to cobble together workflows between systems. Of course, it will present plans for me to approve but it will do the work itself on the various platforms and monitor and optimize things for me. I really hope 2026 is the year this becomes possible, because we are on the edge of it already in some areas. Amazon Ads launched a new agentic AI tool in September 2025 that creates professional-quality ads. I've also been working with Claude in Chrome browser to help me analyse my Amazon Ad data and suggest which keywords/products to turn off and what to put more budget into. I'll do a Patreon video on that soon. Meta announced it will enable AI ad creation by the end of 2026 for Facebook and Instagram. For authors who find ad creation overwhelming or time-consuming, this could be a game-changer. Of course, you will still need a budget! (8) 1000 True Fans becomes more important than ever Lots of authors and publishers are moaning about the difficulty of reaching readers in an era of ‘AI slop' but there is no shortage of excellent content created by humans, or humans using AI tools. As ever, our competition is less about other authors, or even authors using AI-assisted creation, we're competing against everything else that jostles for people's attention, and the volume of that is also growing exponentially. I've never been a fan of rapid release, and have said for years that you can't keep up with the pace of the machines. So play a different game. As Kevin Kelly wrote in 2008, If you have 1000 true fans, (also known as super fans), “you can make a living — if you are content to make a living but not a fortune.” [Kevin Kelly was on this show in 2023 talking about Excellent Advice for Living.] Many authors and the publishing industry are stuck in the old model of aiming to sell huge volumes of books at a low profit margin to a massive number of readers, many of them releasing ever faster to try and keep the algorithms moving. But the maths can work for the smaller audience of more invested readers and fans. If you only make $2 profit on an ebook, you need to sell 500 ebooks to make $1000, and then do it again next month. Or you can have a small community like my patreon.com/thecreativepenn where people pay $2 (or more) a month, so even a small revenue per person results in a better outcome over the year, as it is consistent monthly income with no advertising. But what if you could make $20 profit per book? That is entirely possible if you're producing high quality hardbacks on Kickstarter, or bundle deals of audiobooks, or whole series of ebooks. You would only need to sell to 50 people to make $1000. What about $100 profit per sale, which you can do with a small course or live event? You only need 10 people to make $1000, and this in-person focus also amplifies trust and fosters human connection. I've found the intimacy of my live Patreon Office Hours and also my webinars have been rewarding personally, but also financially, and are far more memorable — and potentially transformative — than a pre-recorded video or even another book. From the LinkedIn 2026 Big Ideas article: “In an AI-optimized world, intentional human connection will become the ultimate luxury.” The 1000 True Fans model is about serving a smaller, more personal audience with higher value products (and maybe services if that's your thing). As ever, its about niche and where you fit in the long long long long long tail. It's also about trust. Because there is definitely a shortage of that in so many areas, and as Adam Mosseri of Instagram has said, trust will be increasingly important. Trust takes time to build, but if you focus on serving your audience consistently, and delivering a high quality, and being authentic, this emerges as part of being human. In an echo of what happened when online commerce first took off, we are back to talking about trust. Back in 2010, I read Trust Agents: by Julien Smith and Chris Brogan, which clearly needs a comeback. There was a 10th anniversary edition published in 2020, so that's worth a read/listen. Chris Brogan was also on this show in 2017 when we talked about finding and serving your niche for the long term. That interview is still relevant, here's a quick excerpt, where I have (lightly edited) his response to my question on this topic back in 2017: Jo: The principle of know, like, and trust, why is that still important or perhaps even more important these days? Chris: There are a few things that at play there, Joanna. One is that the same tools that make it so easy for any of us to start and run a business also allow certain elements to decide whether or not they want to do something dubious. And with all new technologies that come, you know, there's nothing unique about these new technologies. In the 1800s, anyone could put anything in a bottle and sell it to you and say, this is gonna cure everything. Cancer — gone. And the bottle could have nothing in. You know, it could be Kool-Aid. And so, the idea of trying to understand what's behind the business though, one beautiful thing that's come is that we can see in much more dimensions who we're dealing with. We can understand better who's the face behind the brand. I really want people to try their best to be a lot clearer on what they stand for or what they say. And I don't really mean a tagline. I mean, humans don't really talk like that. They don't throw some sentence out as often as they can that you remember them for that phrase. But I would say that, we have so many media available to us — the plural of mediums — where we can be more of ourselves. And I think that there's a great opportunity to share the ‘you' behind the scenes, and some people get immediately terrified about this, ‘Ah, the last thing I want is for people to know more about me,' but I think we have such an opportunity. We have such an opportunity to voice our thoughts on something, to talk about the story that goes behind the product. We were all raised on overly produced material, but I think we don't want that anymore. We really want clarity, brevity, simplicity. We want the ability for what we feel is connection and then access. And so I think it's vital that we connect and show people our accessibility, not so that they can pester us with strange questions, but more so that you can say, this person stands with their product and their service and this person believes these things, and I feel something when I hear them and I wanna be part of that.” That's from Chris Brogan's interview here in 2017, and he is still blogging and speaking at writing at ChrisBrogan.com and I'm going to re-listen to the audiobook of Trust Agents again myself as I think it's more relevant than ever. The original quote comes from Bob Burg in his 1994 book, Endless Referrals, “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.” That still applies, and absolutely fits with the 1000 True Fans model of aiming to serve a smaller audience. As Kevin Kelly says in 1000 True Fans, “Instead of trying to reach the narrow and unlikely peaks of platinum bestseller hits, blockbusters, and celebrity status, you can aim for direct connection with a thousand true fans.” “On your way, no matter how many fans you actually succeed in gaining, you'll be surrounded not by faddish infatuation, but by genuine and true appreciation. It's a much saner destiny to hope for. And you are much more likely to actually arrive there.” In 2026, I hope that more authors (including me!) let go of ego goals and vanity metrics like ranking, gross sales (income before you take away costs), subscribers, followers, and likes, and consider important business numbers like profit (which is the money you have after costs like marketing are taken out), as well as number of true fans — and also lifestyle elements like number of weekends off, or days spent enjoying life and not just working! OK, that's my list of trends and predictions for 2026. Let me know what you think in the comments. Do you agree? Am I wrong? What have I missed? The post 2026 Trends And Predictions For Indie Authors And The Book Publishing Industry with Joanna Penn first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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