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AI News 131: Week Ending April 03, 2026 with 48 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers I decided to use a cover theme that would be easy to inpaint with Google Gemini using the API and an image reference. I tried to find something that I could just hot-swap elements of, so I chose a Chanel No. 5 bottle. I went old school with the main cover…
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AI News 130: Week Ending March 27, 2026 with 83 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers This week’s cover is inspired by an actual trunk that my grandmother mailed to America after she fled World War II Germany. My grandmother was a single mom and a Hungarian immigrant who came to the U.S. in the 1950s. As the Russians invaded Hungary, my grandmother ran away from Pécs…
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AI News 129: Week Ending March 20, 2026 with 60 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers This week’s cover image is inspired by the fun milestone of reaching 50,000 links, manually organized into 59 categories over 129 weeks! It’s important to remind anyone reading this that I have a complete and full life beyond my newsletter. I simply replace a lot of dilly-dallying with productivity. I touch…
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AI News #128: Week Ending March 13, 2026 with 49 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers This week’s covers are a memorial to my first boss, Ed Riggin. Ed owned Ed’s Chicken in Dewey Beach, Delaware, which was a little chicken shack at the beach and one of the most popular places to grab a bite in one of the biggest party towns in the United States…
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AI News #127: Week Ending March 06, 2026 with 32 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers This week’s humanities reading inspired the cover image: “If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or,”I’ve had a couple of bad love…
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AI News #126: Week Ending February 27, 2026 with 37 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers For this week’s cover image, I wanted to reference the tension between the Pentagon and Anthropic, so I used the promotional poster from the classic ’80s movie WarGames. I gave Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 the task, since this week also marks the release of the latest image model from Google. I’m…
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AI News #125: Week Ending February 20, 2026 with 49 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers This week’s cover is inspired by a short film produced by one of China’s top movie directors, Jia Zhangke, using ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0. It’s a five-minute video that is almost impossible to tell is AI (Spoiler alert: he purposefully made a few bits look like AI, because they “play AI in…
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AI News #124: Week Ending February 13, 2026 with 35 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers This week’s cover image celebrates my winter offline hobby of floating in the freezing cold bay for ten minutes at sunset every Sunday from Thanksgiving through the start of Daylight Saving Time. The cover is an image I took during my February 1st bay bath. I spent ten minutes in 28.8°…
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2025–2026 Bay Bath 10: 10 minutes, 28.8° water, 23° air temperature, 14 mph wind
Today may have been my favorite bay bath of all time. This also may be the coldest water I’ll experience, and thanks to tracking lots of data over the years, I felt safe and everything went well. The ice was pretty thick on my way into the water. It was high tide, and I had…
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AI News #117: Week Ending December 26, 2025 with 34 Executive Summaries
About This Week’s Covers This week’s cover image is a fun remix using a photo of actual wrapping paper from our family Christmas and a photo of my car after I ran into a deer. An eight-point buck jumped out in front of me. It’s a 10-year-old gray Honda Fit. I gave the wrapping paper…
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AI News #102: Week Ending September 12, 2025 with 29 Executive Summaries, Top 8 Links, and 1 Lonely Visual
About This Week’s Covers This week’s main cover is a collage of photos from my time outside recently. When I dropped my daughter off at college, I decided to take two months off of my newsletter in order to be present and reset. It’s currently the end of November 2025, even though I’m going back…
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Vail YOLO Adventure Part II: Reuniting with the Gore Range and Sending Off My Daughter 30 Years Later
In January 1994, my sophomore college roommate, Caleb, and I bought one way tickets to Vail Colorado, on a mission to be ski bums. We each had a suitcase, skis, and $300 in cash. No cell phones. No internet. No job. No house. No plan. You can read the first part here: My YOLO Vail…
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My YOLO Vail Story – 19 Years Old With a One Way Ticket and No Plan
In January 1994, my sophomore college roommate, Caleb, and I bought one way tickets to Vail Colorado, on a mission to be ski bums. We each had a suitcase, skis, and $300 in cash. No cell phones. No internet. No job. No house. No plan. There wasn’t much to research in advance, since there was…
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My friend Mike’s gift of love
When my dad died, I had to decide how I felt about death. To have my friend Mike call me the next day, and ask me to walk with him for the next three years as he approached death was a big challenge, because I was at a very dark point. Mike didn’t want me…
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Eulogy for Michael Bernstein, my buddy
Eulogy for Michael Bernstein, my buddy Wednesday July 2, 2025Central SynagogueNew York, NY GREETINGS Daph, Allie, Theo, Jana, Seth, Marsha..… Family and friends. Mike asked me to share a bit about who he was when he was younger. I met Mike our first semester in college. It was 1992. We were 18 years old. FRESHMAN…
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AI News #89: Week Ending June 13, 2025 with 33 Executive Summaries, Top 45 Links, and 7 Helpful Visuals
About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter category covers honor the passing of musical great Brian Wilson. Beyond music, Brian had an exceptionally tough life and I admire him as an incredibly gentle soul. Since Brian was such a big part of The Beach Boys, I asked GPT-o3 to create a rubric I could use…
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AI News #86: Week Ending May 23, 2025 with 18 Executive Summaries, Top 93 Links, and 12 Helpful Visuals
About This Week’s Covers This week’s covers celebrate my great friend Mike Bernstein, who introduced me to the Beastie Boys’ album “Paul’s Boutique” many years ago. I asked GPT-o3 to create a rubric I could use for batch producing derivative newsletter covers in the spirit of the Paul’s Boutique album cover. The main cover is…
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AI News #85: Week Ending May 16, 2025 with 25 Executive Summaries, Top 56 Links, and 10 Helpful Visuals
About This Week’s Covers This week’s covers are in honor of my great friend John 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 3×3 inch canvases. I’m thankful to be the caretaker of more…
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Delaware Technical and Community College – Artificial Intelligence Keynote – Ethan Holland – April 2025
Here is the full slide deck from the keynote presentation, below. Let’s connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanholland/ Scroll down to view all 136 slides along with all videos and hyperlinks embedded in between slides as needed. Alternatively, here are two downloadable versions of the presentation:DelTech Keynote Ethan Holland April 17 2025.key (106.9 MB Apple Keynote)DelTech Keynote…
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AI News #82: Week Ending April 25, 2025 with 35 Executive Summaries, Top 67 Links, and 2 Helpful Visuals
About This Week’s Covers This week’s cover is a tribute to the 35th anniversary of Public Enemy’s classic album, “Fear of a Black Planet.” To make it relevant to artificial intelligence, I changed the theme to fear of the paper clip maximizer. The paper clip maximizer is a popular ethical warning where an innocent request…
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Always be kind. To everyone.
A reminder that you never know who you’re meeting. Fourteen years ago today, I presented at a conference with Sam Altman and John Battelle. Of everyone there, Sam was the nicest to me. He genuinely asked me questions and was kind. Everyone else was too cool for school. As the saying goes, ‘People only remember…
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Billie Eilish – Bag Guy
It’s the weekend. Normalize sharing fun things with your professional network. When I was at American Eagle Outfitters, I took a Strengths-Based Leadership test. I got the highest score in the company in creativity. In this case, creativity implies free association, not artistry or talent. Sounds cool, but this trait has been a colossal pain…
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Handmade memes had a posse
Back in the 90s, I used to make and trade stickers with Shepard Fairey before he founded OBEY Clothing. This is an old one my friend Tom found last week. I made it in honor of Swarthmore College president Al Bloom. These stickers ended up all over the world. Before people shared memes on the…
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Apple is pulling a Braveheart and can change the way we use phones whenever they choose
Update: Dec 15, 2024Making onscreen content available to Siri and Apple Intelligence | Apple Developer Documentationhttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/making-onscreen-content-available-to-siri-and-apple-intelligence I believe Apple is purposefully slowing their AI releases because the impacts would be too disruptive. Apple is sitting on a Large Action Model that could “use your phone for you”. It could use apps, navigate interfaces, and take…
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The AI Future: Exploring the Adjacent Possible with Emerging AI Solutions
I’m excited to have written an article in the latest issue of Delaware Lawyer magazine. It addition to forcing me to put ideas to paper, it was a fun opportunity to shout out Jeremiah Owyang, Alan D. Thompson, and Ethan Mollick in print. I wrote the piece in November with a Thanksgiving deadline. The issue came…
