About a week ago, I bit the bullet. Reading the writing very clearly on the wall, I abandoned the Arc browser and jumped ship over to Dia, the new AI-first web browser built by The Browser Company. It took a while, but now I think I’m sold. I’m not sure that Dia itself will be the browser of the future, but I’m more certain than ever that an AI-centric browser will be.

At first, I found Dia to be a bit too simple for my taste. Because Arc had such a plethora of power-user features, many of which took a lot of training to get used to, it was hard to “downgrade”. Of course, that’s also the exact reason why The Browser Company shifted the focus to Dia. While Arc had a dedicated fan base, it was also clearly never going to go fully mainstream. They had made a better browser for web power users, but most people were not web power users – at least not in the sense that they would take the time to learn new tricks when Chrome was likely good enough for them. It was a tricky spot for the company to be in, they had sort of painted themselves into a dreaded middle ground.

So they sort of went down a third path, letting Arc live on, but really just with underlying engine (Chromium) updates. — Read More

OpenAI is reportedly developing a suite of collaborative tools that could directly challenge the dominance of Microsoft Office and Google Workspace in the enterprise productivity market. The company is said to be working on document collaboration and chat communication features, which are designed to compete with the existing offerings from Microsoft and Google. This move is part of a broader strategy to position ChatGPT as a “super-intelligent personal work assistant,” a vision outlined by the company’s leadership. — Read More

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Relying on ChatGPT significantly affects critical thinking abilities, according to a new study.

Researchers from MIT Media Lab, Wellesley College, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design conducted a four-month study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” and found users of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s chatbot “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” — Read More

Around half of people are worried they’ll lose their job to AI.¹ And they’re right to be concerned: AI can now complete real-world coding tasks on GitHub, generate photorealistic video, drive a taxi more safely than humans, and do accurate medical diagnosis.² And it’s set to continue to improve rapidly.

But what’s less appreciated is that, while AI drives down the value of skills it can do, it drives up the value of skills it can’t— because they become the bottlenecks to further automation (for a while at least). As I’ll explain, ATMs actually increased employment of bank tellers — until online banking finished the job.

Your best strategy is to learn the skills that AI will make more valuable, trying to ride the wave one step ahead of automation.  — Read More

[T]oday, we are examining the latest research from Google, Cohere, Apple, MIT, Mistral, NVIDIA, and more to determine what the incumbents are most excited about and what breakthroughs will matter in the coming months.

It’s an honest, hard look at what AI is (and isn’t) currently, and, by the end, you will be fully up-to-date with the industry on a deeper level hardly attained by almost anyone. — Read More

His bet: whoever nails memory + context around decent model at a product level wins. Users will suddenly feel like they’re talking to AGI. — Read More

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If you’ve worried that AI might take your job, deprive you of your livelihood, or maybe even replace your role in society, it probably feels good to see the latest AI tools fail spectacularly. If AI recommends glue as a pizza topping, then you’re safe for another day.

But the fact remains that AI already has definite advantages over even the most skilled humans, and knowing where these advantages arise — and where they don’t — will be key to adapting to the AI-infused workforce.

AI will often not be as effective as a human doing the same job. It won’t always know more or be more accurate. And it definitely won’t always be fairer or more reliable. But it may still be used whenever it has an advantage over humans in one of four dimensions: speed, scale, scope and sophistication. Understanding these dimensions is the key to understanding AI-human replacement. — Read More

Last week I attended the 2025 AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco with a bunch of other founders from Seattle Foundations.

There were over 20 tracks on specific topics, and I went particularly deep on Evals, learning firsthand how companies like Google, Notion, Zapier, and Vercel build and deploy evals for their AI features.

While there were meaningful unique details in each talk, there was also surprising consistency on the general framework which I’m representing with this flywheel. — Read More

A fifth of the UK workforce will be supported with the AI skills they need to thrive in their jobs, breaking down barriers to opportunity and unlocking economic growth.

That’s the message Technology Secretary Peter Kyle delivered this week (Friday 13 June) as he brought together leading tech firms for a first round of focused talks. 

Peter Kyle met the likes of Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, and Salesforce, as a new government-industry partnership unveiled by the Prime Minister during London Tech Week formally kicked off its work. — Read More