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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

After tracking AI headlines for 98 weeks straight, I took two months off! It’s intimidating to have to catch up, but I like a challenge. I’m resuming where I left, and I track the weekly links in a way that lets me keep the weekly grouping. Let’s get back to it! ethanbholland.com/2025/08/23/a...

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AI News #99: Week Ending August 22, 2025 with 37 Executive Summaries, Top 34 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals

About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter cover is inspired by a visit to Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the Local Media Association board meeting in Chicago. The main...

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

That’s why they call him The Answer! “We're talking about alignment? Not inference. Not interpretability. We’re talking about alignment?”

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Tons in this week's newsletter (backdated while I catch up). Too much to cram into a status update, plus the post has lots of helpful embedded videos and links! Also, I crossed the 36,000-link mark. All organized by hand. Everything you need to know is in the link in the comments below.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

AI News #97: Week Ending August 08, 2025 with 50 Executive Summaries, Top 44 Links, and 6 Helpful Visuals Here's everything you need to know about AI news for the week ending August 8, 2025 (link in the comments)! This week's cover was inspired by the Taylor Swift album "The Life of A Showgirl"

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

AI News #96: Week Ending August 01, 2025 with 31 Executive Summaries, Top 69 Links, and 11 Helpful Visuals I took a month off from writing this newsletter to spend time with my family. These posts will continue to contain the news of each week, and the archive will be unscathed. YOLO. Link below.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Rori and I are ready for college. I'll post the entire story in the comments. It's two parts.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

AI News #95: Week Ending July 25, 2025 with 49 Executive Summaries, Top 102 Links, and 4 Helpful Visuals This week I organized 580 headlines into 45 categories. I sort them all by hand.. I simply cannot fit everything into a LinkedIn post. Link is in the comments below.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My job back in the day included overseeing all digital marketing (paid, organic, content, social, etc)... for American Eagle Outfitters. It was busy on this day 15 years ago. 21,000 comments in 8 hours. It's been busy recently as well, so I hear...

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

AI News #94: Week Ending July 18, 2025 with 49 Executive Summaries, Top 53 Links, and 4 Helpful Visuals This week I crossed the 34,000 headline mark. The executive summary by itself was 2300 words this week. Link is in the comments below. Enjoy the summer while it’s still here. Get outside!

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Claude cracks me up. I asked for a quick spelling and grammar check. Since Claude often shares a rewrite instead of reviewing first, I told Claude to list what it found... Claude was committed to the assignment! Spoiler alert: I asked again, and Claude obliged.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

AI News #93: Week Ending July 11, 2025 with 22 Executive Summaries, Top 41 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals This week’s newsletter category covers are a nod to the end of the internet browser. This week’s old school humanities reading is “Lost” by David Wagoner. A terrific short poem.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Watching OpenAI's agent browse the web for me in an emulated browser (in the chat window), bypassing all AI blockers (since it's "me") is especially fun to watch... The era of agentic AI browsers is going to change quite a bit in the next two years.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

These were incredibly strong offers. In my world, FourSquare is still crushing it.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

AI News 92: Week Ending July 04, 2025 with 24 Executive Summaries, Top 72 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals 4th of July Rocky IV Figure robot cover FTW!

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Meta continues their reverse Midas touch by turning Threads into a garbage fire

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

AI News #91: Week Ending June 27, 2025 with 35 Executive Summaries, Top 62 Links, and 8 Helpful Visuals Bluesky can't fit everything into one post because either 10.72 KB of text is too large or "view more" button is too complicated (just joking, sort of)... so the link is below.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

There's still time for a collab, Miuccia Pprada and Angelina Jolie. #sluttylittlefly

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

If you want to see "multimodal" AI in action, understand it as an applied technology.... and get a glimpse into the end of SEO as we know it... take a look at VideoPrism from Google. Scroll down to the examples (link in comments).

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

32,000 Links in 90 Weeks In the past 90 weeks, I've organized 32,000 links by hand into 46 categories. 2,630 blog posts and 4,044 images. I organize it all by hand, because there is no shortcut for reading and processing. In fact, I only have a blog to force me to learn.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

AI News 90: Week Ending June 20, 2025 with 38 Executive Summaries, Top 56 Links, and 13 Helpful Visuals I’m a few weeks behind because family and friends continue to come first. This week's AI newsletter category covers are a nod to stereotypical '80s TV infomercials. Link in comments below.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Today's pep talk from two very smart people....

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

AI News 89: Week Ending June 13, 2025 with 33 Executive Summaries, Top 45 Links, and 7 Helpful Visuals I'm two weeks behind. I wouldn't trade it for the world as I got to make the trip to say goodbye to my college roommate and incredible friend, Mike Bernstein. This week's summaries are below.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Quick college roomate trip to NYC with Max and Tom to visit Mike and Daphna. If you want a relaxing place with an incredible view, take the tram to Roosevelt Island and go to The Graduate hotel rooftop bar.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

AI News #88: Week Ending June 06, 2025 with 24 Executive Summaries, Top 22 Links, and 5 Helpful Visuals I’m two weeks behind, but I would not trade the time I’ve been spending with friends and family. I’m wrapping up the week of June 6th. See link below.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I have friends across finance, from tax and accounting to wealth management to quantitative trading. At the high end, professionals write code that pushes beyond what AI can comfortably handle, though Claude Opus is starting to make inroads.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Will the general public shift perception of "AI" from "stochastic writing art thief slop cannon" to "We can ask our computers to do things?" In May, I organized 2,783 AI headlines into 43 categories. Agents is top. Google beat OpenAI thanks to Veo and DeepMind. Anthropic gained due to MCP adoption.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

AI News 87: Week Ending May 30, 2025 with 20 Executive Summaries, Top 47 Links, and 11 Helpful Visuals

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Last weekend, I crossed the 30,000 milestone for manually organized AI links. I've organized 30,300 links into 45 categories by hand and published them to my personal blog. That's 500-700 links per week at night and on weekends.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The Apple iPhone iOS still has hilarious moments.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I love that the Netflix tech team has a blog and posts their AI research. It's worth reading every now and then. Also, note how easy it is to make social images. I needed something, so I asked GPT to add the text of the title to the Netflix logo and make it look clean. Link in comments...

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Beastie Boys “Paul’s Boutique” Album Covers: Testing GPT-Image-1 API Automation with o3 Rubrics 📝 Blog Post: Link in comments 🍊Paper Page: Droppin' science like Galileo dropped the orange 🏎️💨📫 Code and Data: I'm doing 120, plowing over mailboxes

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'm happy with the cover image for my quick recap of 'recent' AI headlines for the Local Media Association. Shout out to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

New Order Album Covers: Testing GPT-Image-1 API Automation with o3 Rubrics

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I clicked on a prominent news link today (to BlueSky!) only to find that the user had blocked me. I have never interacted with anyone on Bluesky, let alone this person. I don't comment. I don't like stuff. My only theory is BlueSky kept pushing them to connect with me and they got sick of it?

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I have a theory on what Apple is up to with their latest update. I believe Apple is purposefully deprecating the user interface to wean us off of apps and home screens.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If only Meta had access to the technology necessary to determine whether friend requests were real or fake. Their user-last strategy continues to pay off.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I'm excited to be writing a monthly column for the Local Media Association. In it I recap key artificial intelligence headlines to help a layperson stay current, with an emphasis on publisher impact. I'm lucky to serve on the LMA Board of Directors...

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

AI News #86: Week Ending May 23, 2025 with 18 Executive Summaries, Top 93 Links, and 12 Helpful Visuals This week's covers celebrate my great friend Mike Bernstein, who introduced me to the Beastie Boys' album "Paul's Boutique". I'm behind two weeks because I've been spending time with my family.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

As a customer, I just spoke to six people in banking who will all lose their jobs to AI within two years. Not an aggressive forecast.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Halestorm! Lzzy Hale is so cool that I don't care if my photos are blurry or grainy. She's a rocker, and I loved every second of this show!

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I drove my daughter three hours so she could photograph an EDM festival. My plan was to work for six hours in the back of the MGM casino. It is absolutely fitting that while I’m working on my artificial intelligence newsletter, with no people in any direction, I’m being harassed by a robot vacuum.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This week's covers are in honor of my great friend John Bayalis Bayalis, who is an incredible painter, photographer, and New Order fanatic. A few years ago, John decided to paint all 64 official Joy Division and New Order releases on 3x3 inch canvases (link in comments).

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This week marked a big milestone for me. 156 weeks in a row of exercising five days per week. For those who dislike math, that's three years! It's an important commitment to my mental health at least as much as my physical health.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

As an exercise, I skimmed through the last few months of my news archive and grabbed any AI headlines mentioning finance, accounting, or banking. Found 29 articles and compiled them into a single post. The data is current as of May 9, 2025, since I'm two weeks behind on organizing my links.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I helped my mom study for the GRE when I was in elementary school. She got a perfect score and was accepted into the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I gained an erudite and perspicacious lexicon as a fourth-grade pedagogue.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Gavin Rossdale, a few of my favorite photographers, and 50k friends

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

For this week’s automated generation of category covers, I wanted to see if OpenAI could create a rubric for a challenging topic. I gave it the recent Met Gala theme of black dandyism and the related book “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity”.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

AI News #84: Week Ending May 09, 2025 with 25 Executive Summaries, Top 78 Links, and 9 Helpful Visuals The top story this week was Google Gemini's 2.5 Pro model becoming the first model to achieve the number one rank across all text, vision, and web dev benchmarks simultaneously.

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Ethan Holland @ethanholland.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Gemini 2.5 Pro python coding is almost magical. On top of that, it seems to be up to date with all API documentation, even post-training. Things are getting weird.

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