Master negotiators? Or do they know something we don't? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

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.

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...

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.

Hey there Gemini open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

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...

Sora 2 today

Claude 4.5 this week? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

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:

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/...

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/...

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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The spread of intelligence between the various GPT-5 models is pretty wild.

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.

there she blows openai.com/gpt-5/

YouTube link is live for GPT-5 livestream (starting in an hour-ish) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_...

Grok 2 and 3 will be open sourced... any day now... I'm sure it's coming...

GPT-5 tomorrow

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-...

GPT-5 in early August www.theverge.com/notepad-micr...

ditch your accountant, use Cursor's AI agents open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

o3 still the king of cost-per-intelligence, generally. Good showing by Grok 4 but it was overhyped (who expected anything different?)

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/...

Welcome to the age of misalignment. www.anthropic.com/research/age...

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...

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/...

o3-pro is launching today, confirmed by OpenAI

Apple's new #AI features are robust app-killers more: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

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...

Suno updated their song editor, another step on their way to becoming a full on DAW (with AI, of course) suno.com/blog/songedi...

hello Perplexity Labs, goodbye Apple Intelligence read: handyai.substack.com/p/ai-weekly-...

I feel like the significance of Google’s Gemini Diffusion last week was missed read why: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

Last week: Google launches SOTA video generation, Anthropic launches the Claude 4 suite, OpenAI formally hires Jony Ive More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

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/...

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

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

OpenAI is building a 1GW cluster in Abu Dhabi openai.com/index/introd...

I knew I liked this guy www.theverge.com/news/671955/...

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_

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

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/...

OpenAI, Cursor, and Windsurf battle for vibe coding supremacy More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

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/...

if you create things, its time to get passionate about copyright law and the politics surrounding it open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

- The new Pope talks AI - @OpenAI and @Microsoft renegotiate - @Google's new Gemini 2.5 Pro improves coding read more: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

Cursor’s new “improved” pricing model is an illusion. you burn through Fast Requests much more quickly, with their intention being pushing people to pay for Max uses they’ve also removed long context (claiming for “simplification”) for the same reason