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Jake Handy

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navigating tech and its unholy masters 💼 r&d at pex.com 👨🏻 dad at home

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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 15/12/2025
Master negotiators? Or do they know something we don't? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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OpenAI rushes out GPT 5.2 while somehow convincing Disney to pay them $1B
AI Weekly Update - December 15, 2025
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 11/12/2025
GPT-5.2 is here and, while it’s cool to see an incremental release like this have such wild leaps on benches, I’m starting to get more concerned about corps rushing through safety checks to outpace each other.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 20/11/2025
Yesterday, Suno announced a $250M raise and Udio announced (another) settlement, this time with Warner Music Group. Why the divergence? open.substack.com/pub/soundmac...
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The saga of Suno and Udio
What the companies’ choices signal for the future of music
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 20/11/2025
Google‘s new image model is their Sora moment. Nano Banana Pro seemingly allows any copyrighted content and the image outputs are scary realistic with incredible details around fidelity (up to 4K!) and crisp text generation.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 18/11/2025
Hey there Gemini open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Google's Gemini 3 is here
Google puts scaling laws to the test with its new milestone release
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 17/11/2025
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Google plans Gemini 3 launch this week, following OpenAI's GPT 5.1 update
Weekly updates in AI and cutting edge technology.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 30/09/2025
Sora 2’s separate feed solves some problems, but the model itself (namely the Cameo feature, which allows you to insert real people into AI videos) is going to create some new, hard-to-solve problems. More: handyai.substack.com/p/sora-2-and...
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Sora 2 and the messy future of AI-generated video
OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and if you thought AI-generated images were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 30/09/2025
Sora 2 today
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 22/09/2025
Claude 4.5 this week? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Rumors point to Claude 4.5 this week; OpenAI begins hiring for hardware
AI Weekly Update - September 22, 2025
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 18/09/2025
Suno is teasing its next generative music model (v5). Their short comings have been vocal quality and general fidelity and this sample seems to indicate some solid progress on both. Take a listen:
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 18/09/2025
Poke is a marvel. The bot went from insulting me, to gaslighting me, to haggling with me over setting a price for its services. In the end, I got access to the entire service for free. Here’s how it went down. open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Getting free access to Poke's AI agent
Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding?
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 05/09/2025
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Inputs and outputs
How we can architect a fair future for AI music
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 27/08/2025
Modern product manager must be moving beyond simple wireframes and into building full, functional prototypes with AI coding tools. No excuses. Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Using Codex CLI to build a web app
OpenAI's terminal-based agent is the best AI coding tool yet
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 27/08/2025
Interesting tidbit: ChatGPT’s study mode defaults to a 10th grade level. Does OpenAI consider this the statistical middle in terms of Chat users?
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 14/08/2025
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 13/08/2025
The spread of intelligence between the various GPT-5 models is pretty wild.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 13/08/2025
In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users: - Auto - Fast - Thinking Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 13/08/2025
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In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users, available via the UI model picker: Auto: Decides how long to think. Automatically switches between Fast and Thinking w...
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 07/08/2025
technically not available yet! sometime today
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 07/08/2025
there she blows openai.com/gpt-5/
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GPT-5 is here
Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 07/08/2025
YouTube link is live for GPT-5 livestream (starting in an hour-ish) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_...
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Introducing GPT-5
YouTube video by OpenAI
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 06/08/2025
Grok 2 and 3 will be open sourced... any day now... I'm sure it's coming...
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 06/08/2025
GPT-5 tomorrow
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 05/08/2025
it appears as though ElevenLabs has created an Udio-quality competitor with licensed training data and some pretty solid commercial terms more: soundmachines.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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The first ethical AI music model?
How ElevenMusic's approach to licensing could push the generative music industry in the right direction
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 24/07/2025
GPT-5 in early August www.theverge.com/notepad-micr...
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OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
GPT-5 is expected to arrive in early August
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 10/07/2025
ditch your accountant, use Cursor's AI agents open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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52% of accountants are using AI; why aren't you?
How to set up an AI workspace and have agents automate your personal and professional finances
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 10/07/2025
o3 still the king of cost-per-intelligence, generally. Good showing by Grok 4 but it was overhyped (who expected anything different?)
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 26/06/2025
DON'T: Ditch #AI tools entirely. You’ll be at a detriment. DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain! More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Your brain on ChatGPT
Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 20/06/2025
Welcome to the age of misalignment. www.anthropic.com/research/age...
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Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 13/06/2025
thanks Music Ally for featuring me here. lots to chew on in terms of how hackathons are going to look in the future musically.com/2025/06/13/v...
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Vibe coding made a big impact at OpenPlay’s first hackathon
The hype around music-industry hackathons may ebb and flow, but they remain an enduring source of good ideas.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 11/06/2025
ChatGPT doesn’t care about you (or its 400 million active users) how can we mitigate the dangers of this architectural reality? read: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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ChatGPT can’t pronounce my kid's name
The very human side effects of our non-human tech
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 10/06/2025
o3-pro is launching today, confirmed by OpenAI
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 09/06/2025
Apple's new #AI features are robust app-killers more: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Apple expands its AI features
Everything AI announced at Apple's annual keynote
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 05/06/2025
async agents (specifically Codex, Jules, and Claude Code) are now to a point where they can truly lessen manual your work load check out how: handyai.substack.com/p/your-async...
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Your async AI workforce
Using Codex and other coding agents for non-coding work
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 04/06/2025
Suno updated their song editor, another step on their way to becoming a full on DAW (with AI, of course) suno.com/blog/songedi...
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A Whole New Level of Creative Control
A brand new editing interface. Enhanced audio uploads. Stem separation. Total creative control—for artists who want more.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 03/06/2025
hello Perplexity Labs, goodbye Apple Intelligence read: handyai.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-...
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AI Weekly Update - June 3, 2025
Perplexity's agent is here, Apple skips AI for this year's WWDC
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 27/05/2025
I feel like the significance of Google’s Gemini Diffusion last week was missed read why: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Google's text diffusion experiment
Gemini Diffusion pivots from the standard language model architecture with surprising results
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 26/05/2025
Last week: Google launches SOTA video generation, Anthropic launches the Claude 4 suite, OpenAI formally hires Jony Ive More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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AI Weekly Update - May 26, 2025
Google launches SOTA video generation, Anthropic launches the Claude 4 suite, OpenAI formally hires Jony Ive
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 23/05/2025
OpenAI is updating Operator to use o3. This is a significant jump in logic for the computer use agent, and starts the acceleration to the inevitable conclusion I talked about here in January (I was off by a few months, whoops): open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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The death of online work
How AI agents will kill the internet
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 23/05/2025
Really interesting project from Anthropic and Rick Rubin. Worth exploring (but I imagine there’s a large amount of people that never want to hear “Rick Rubin” and “vibe coding” mentioned in the same breath) wayofcode.com
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Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The...
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 22/05/2025
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet is often the model-of-choice for coding tasks. The new Sonnet 4 (and an even more powerful Opus 4) look to continue that trend. Impressive stuff. More: www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4
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Introducing Claude 4
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 22/05/2025
OpenAI is building a 1GW cluster in Abu Dhabi openai.com/index/introd...
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 21/05/2025
I knew I liked this guy www.theverge.com/news/671955/...
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Jony Ive says Rabbit and Humane made bad products
Remember last year’s big AI gadgets?
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 21/05/2025
This video (visuals + audio + dialogue) is 100% AI. Google’s new Veo 3 is pretty insane and you can guarantee we’ll start seeing one-off AI shots all over video content in the near future. Vid cred: x.com/laszlogaal_
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 20/05/2025
like come on
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 20/05/2025
Veo 3 is the best thing out of Google I/O if you had told me this was a real video, I would have believed it
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 20/05/2025
hackathons are about to change forever last week I won $500 using only vibe coding tools, and nearly everyone there was vibe coding, too open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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I won $500 vibe coding at a hackathon
What my win means for the future of product prototyping (and hackathons-at-large)
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 19/05/2025
OpenAI, Cursor, and Windsurf battle for vibe coding supremacy More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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AI Weekly Update - May 19, 2025
OpenAI, Cursor, Windsurf, and others fight for AI coding supremacy
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 16/05/2025
OpenAI's new coding agent takes a unique (and highly resource intensive) approach to #AI coding that looks extremely promising. open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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OpenAI's coding agent is here
The new Codex graduates coding bots from autocomplete to autocommit
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Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 13/05/2025
if you create things, its time to get passionate about copyright law and the politics surrounding it open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...
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Copyright, AI & American politics
The Copyright Office backs licensing, Trump fires its chief, and America’s AI copyright future hangs in the balance
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