Innovating with AI
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Can an AI actually teach you to be a better human?
Hey Reader, This week's newsletter is a new article from Innovating with AI Magazine journalist Michael Kurko. Enjoy! Can an AI actually teach you to be a better human? 📚 Read online or share this article Soft skills like empathy and leadership have long been considered uniquely human; too intuitive and personal to be taught by a machine. But developers are building AI systems that aim to do exactly that. • Artificial intelligence has been gradually taking over tasks once thought to require...
Is there a new AI wealth gap?
Hey Reader, This week's newsletter is a new article from Innovating with AI Magazine journalist Toni Matthews-El. Enjoy! Is there a new AI wealth gap? 📚 Read online or share this article IWAI contributor Toni Matthews-El digs into the data, sharing her concerns and advice that newcomers to AI should take into consideration. • While researching the AI gender gap, I discovered another study that gave me pause. According to a 2025 Pew Research Study, a full 55% of college graduates and 60% of...
Small language models and the push for offline, localized AI
Hey Reader, This week's newsletter is a new article from Innovating with AI Magazine journalist Toni Matthews-El. Enjoy! The rise of small language models (SLMs) and push for offline, localized AI 📚 Read online or share this article From flip phones to film cameras, more people are stepping away from the always-online world. Small, local AI models may offer a way to keep the benefits of automation and assistance without going fully back to the cloud. • With apologies, Nyasha Green turned off...
Can we use AI without wrecking the planet?
Hey Reader, Last week I shared an impressive medical AI outcome – an OpenAI model performed better than ER doctors in making diagnostic and treatment recommendations. When every doctor has an AI partner to provide a second opinion and deep analysis, it's pretty much a sure thing that lives will be saved and patients will have a better experience. Here at Innovating with AI, though, we work very hard not to be myopic AI boosters. We're optimists but realists too. We are excited for the future...
AI outperformed ER doctors with a model that's already obsolete
Hey Reader, Amid all the scary and shocking AI headlines, there are at least two big areas where large language models will have obvious and immediate positive impacts on daily life: education and medical care. Today we got great news on the medical front: In real-world test, an AI model did better than ER doctors at diagnosing patients (NPR reporting on a study in Science) When you read the underlying study, it gets even better. The large language model that accomplished this feat was...
Danger is Anthropic's middle name
Hey Reader, Anthropic has really been on a roll lately... ...but building the best AI models has a dark side, even if you genuinely care about ethics and safety. Case in point: the upcoming release of a new model, codenamed Mythos, which Anthropic believes will make it much easier for hackers to attack banks and other important infrastructure. It's indisputable that Anthropic is a leader in AI safety and ethics (relative to its peers), as well as the creator of many of this year's coolest new...
From SEO to AEO: How publishers survive when AI eats their traffic
Hey Reader, Today we have in-depth reporting from Tim Keary, journalist for Innovating with AI Magazine, on one of the hottest topics of the year: how to optimize a business website for AI search as it rapidly replaces traditional web search. We call this "AEO" – Answer Engine Optimization – and it's the successor the old-fashioned Search Engine Optimization. While many of the core tenets are the same, there are big new differences that publishers, business owners and AI consultants are...
OpenAI just became optional
Hey Reader, Remember TiVo? The company revolutionized television and its innovations eventually led to online streaming, now the ubiquitous way we watch movies and TV. My son doesn't even understand what it means to "watch a TV channel" that's only broadcasting one thing at a time. TiVo was revolutionary, but ultimately forgotten. And the same thing is happening to OpenAI. OpenAI's ChatGPT is the most well-known brand in AI right now – and one of the most recognizable brands in the world....
Anthropic isn't the "good guy" you think it is
Hey Reader, This week, the U.S. Department of Defense moved to end its contract with Anthropic and switch to OpenAI for working with classified documents with AI. On the surface, this looks like a battle between good guys who want more guardrails (Anthropic) and madmen who want AI to shoot people (the Department of Defense), with OpenAI selling its soul to poach a $200 million contract. That's how I originally thought about it – but as I researched it more deeply for this newsletter, my...
The million-dollar moat that disappeared overnight
Hey Reader, In Star Trek, everything is free. If the last few weeks are any indication, it seems like the software industry is (unwillingly) headed in that direction, too. 🖖 For example, I spent the last couple days coding a really cool new app for the pilot students in our AI Executive System program. So far, I have spent 8 hours "guiding" Claude Code on this – I am the architect and AI is the builder. It is now at a level of quality that would have taken me (a professional software...
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