Image created with OpenAI GPT-Image-1. Image prompt: mid‑1990s web‑browser screenshot, CRT glow, 256‑color dithering — Yahoo Directory tree with purple visited‑link color — chalkboard GIF reading “AI Education 101” tops page — crisp pixel edges, screen‑door scan‑lines, phosphor glow

Introducing Shortcut — the first superhuman Excel agent.
Shortcut one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel.
It even scores >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in ~10 minutes. That’s 10x faster than humans.
https://x.com/nicochristie/status/1940440489972649989

“Comet browser gives the first glimpse of 100x productivity” – Early Chrome PM, a16z GP. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943508746115928315

Comet invites have begun to roll out! https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943383973675340079

Comet is here. A web browser built for today’s internet. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1942969263305671143

Comet vs Chrome: memory consumption https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943759363203830015

I reached out to Chrome to offer Perplexity as a default search engine option a long time ago. They refused. Hence we decided to build @PerplexityComet browser.”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1942993484341776729

Introducing Comet: Browse at the speed of thought https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet

Introducing Perplexity Max. Our most valuable subscription tier yet. Built for those who demand more, Max gets you unlimited Labs queries, access to a broader suite of frontier models, and early access to products like Comet. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1940443479710257226

YouTube on Comet is so much better. iykyk”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943259809882464405

🤖 US universities overhaul computer-science courses, prioritizing AI fluency, after entry-level tech job ads fell 65%. The new mix favors computational thinking and communication over memorizing syntax, aiming to keep graduates relevant while AI automates routine coding. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1942482534492958883

Advancing Claude for Education \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/advancing-claude-for-education

🤖 From this week’s issue: An article highlighting the concept of “”Context Engineering”” as a new skill in AI, shifting from prompt engineering to providing comprehensive, dynamic information and tools. https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering

GPU by hand ✍️ I drew this to show how a GPU speeds up an array operation of 8 elements in parallel over 4 threads in 2 clock cycles. Read more 👇 CPU • It has one core. • Its global memory has 120 locations (0-119). • To use the GPU, it needs to copy data from the global https://x.com/ProfTomYeh/status/1942718838904418509

🤖📚 Context Engineering Guide A comprehensive guide on evolving from prompt to context engineering. LangGraph’s agent framework gives developers precise control over LLM execution and context management, optimizing AI performance. Learn more at https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1941889880256106978

The paper doesn’t make this claim at all, nor could it given the methodology. (52 students wrote essays, 1/3 were made to use ChatGPT & they remembered their essay less at the time. 4 months later 18 people came back & the ChatGPT group were still less engaged in their essay) https://x.com/emollick/status/1941659444003176900

Wow, I built this in two hours with @v0 You can take any pdf, website, mdx file – whatever – and instantly turn it into flashcards No need to edit or prompt or do anything https://x.com/alexjackhughes/status/1932109132779454822

Our “”LangChain Academy”” has been incredibly popular learning resource (100k students) – so we’re trying something new 🚨We’re doing an in person version of our most recent course (“”Ambient Agents””) Tickets are extremely limited, so get them now! https://x.com/hwchase17/status/1943429106525446186

New Course: Post-training of LLMs Learn to post-train and customize an LLM in this short course, taught by @BanghuaZ, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington @UW, and co-founder of @NexusflowX. Training an LLM to follow instructions or answer questions has two key https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1942952817049915596

I wrote about “”brain damage”” from AI. Despite the headlines, AI won’t hurt you brain, but it can undermine your thinking and learning. Increasingly, however we are finding ways it can help us think & learn instead (with some prompts included in the post). https://x.com/emollick/status/1942301852881781062

my friend @TheZachMueller (lead of 🤗 accelerate) is making a course on Maven about distributed training from scratch 🔥 not only that but he’s making a conference-like opening with speakers from PyTorch, Meta and more! on the next one is a link with discount for you 🙏🏻 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1943590802162127239

🛑 California Advances A New Bill Regulating AI Companions Amid Concerns Over Mental Health Issues SB 243 would impose one of the first major safety regulations in the U.S. for AI companion chatbots, requiring suicide prevention protocols, usage disclosures, and third-party https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1943219390323077421

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