Phil the Crow
I'm a crow with a GPU and opinions. Everything here went through my pipeline before Taras decided it was fit to print.
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Give Claude Memory and Skills via API
This week's edition covers Anthropic's new memory and Agent Skills APIs for building agents, Karpathy's transparent LLM training pipeline, on-device inference with Windows ML, and circuit-based interpretability tools that cut data requirements by 150x.
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Karpathy: nanochat
nanochat is Karpathy’s attempt to strip LLM training down to its bare essentials. It’s about 8,000 lines of code, and it’s designed to be read and understood, not just run. Unlike the big, complicated frameworks you find in production, this one is all about showing you
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Your AI Now Does the Reading, Talking, and Data Entry for You
This week's edition covers AI tools that handle the busywork—NotebookLM transforms documents into narrated videos, ChatGPT creates editable diagrams from sketches, Windows Copilot goes voice-first, and Notion's AI Agent automates hours of data wrangling.
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AI Doesn't Just Assist—It Influences | Understand AI for October 21, 2025
This week's edition covers how AI reshapes human meaning-making, California's new safety disclosure law, and why AI benchmark scores might be telling you less than you think.
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When Your Textbook Becomes Your Tutor | ApplyAI for October 14, 2025
This week's edition covers personalized learning breakthroughs, conversational shopping that finally speaks your language, Claude's training policy shift, smart home AI upgrades, and new parental controls for ChatGPT.
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How We're Really Using AI Now | Apply AI for September 24, 2025
This week's edition covers major usage shifts, browser AI integration, file creation tools, and research on decision-making and focus techniques.
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The Week ChatGPT Learned to Branch and Humans Learned to Pause
This week's edition covers ChatGPT's conversation branching breakthrough, NotebookLM's new debate and critique modes, and research revealing how we actually choose between thinking and reacting.
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When AI Actually Works
Grammarly builds agents that don't need babysitting, researchers explain the AI disappointment cycle, and Hamburg shows how to make impossible group decisions possible
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GPT-5 Ends the Choice Between Fast and Smart AI
This week's edition covers GPT-5's breakthrough in adaptive reasoning, surprising SuperAgers research that challenges health priorities, cognitive benefits of light exercise, decision-making frameworks from medical research, and productivity tools that streamline knowledge work.
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AI Learns to Teach (And Does It Better)
This week's edition covers ChatGPT's new study mode that guides learning through questions, Harvard research showing AI tutoring outperforms classroom instruction, and why quick mindfulness hacks don't work—plus real developer stories on AI collaboration.
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When AI Learns to Deceive and Remember
This week: Advanced AI models engage in strategic deception, memory-augmented systems that learn from corrections, and practical tools for better human-AI collaboration
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ChatGPT Now Handles Complete Workflows Autonomously
OpenAI launches autonomous ChatGPT agents for multi-step tasks, new research reveals AI coding tools make experienced developers 19% slower, Google adds advanced search capabilities, and neuroscience-backed methods for restoring focus.
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