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1/ Today we’re proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367
I just love this. The new =COPILOT() function in Excel lets you analyze, generate content, and brainstorm directly in the grid. https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1957493248718680571
Build rich experiences with connectors to: – Read emails – Fetch calendar events – Search files and chats Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Dropbox, Teams, Outlook Calendar + Email, and SharePoint are available now. They work with deep research, too! https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1958660214057791853
Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for Publishers – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/business/media/perplexity-ai-search-publisher-revenue-507987e5?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAh7IXUez7FN0pV8tS6RJPJiyucYbQ7TqVVq5v5uIQCmptaIEy7EmDeq7YP8qA%3D%3D&gaa_ts=68acf00e&gaa_sig=9LlQZ1VfgdWZeHollVleg5iI8GhXdOYPZrqyfcFsJu2MvpLol1OCDH19znUZBcg-D6zi8CV0qZGZxh6WAHnF-g%3D%3D
Perplexity’s $42.5M publisher peace offering https://www.therundown.ai/p/perplexitys-42-5m-publisher-peace-offering
Swipe from right to see the smoothest and most informative daily timeline of information on Perplexity. Personalizes as you use more and will get integrated with SuperMemory for even more personalized ranking once we ship widely https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1959689988989464889
Exclusive | Silicon Valley Launches Pro-AI PACs to Defend Industry in Midterm Elections – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/politics/silicon-valley-launches-pro-ai-pacs-to-defend-industry-in-midterm-elections-287905b3
MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure https://venturebeat.com/ai/mit-report-misunderstood-shadow-ai-economy-booms-while-headlines-cry-failure
Built an AI agent called Ava that you can CC in any email to find time and book meetings Love my Sundays https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1959671075526041815
Anthropic made Claude Code available to Team and Enterprise users It features a new admin control for managing spend, policy settings, and more, ensuring teams get the flexibility to scale with their usage https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/1958432715046265016
Nuro Closes $203 Million Series E Financing to Advance Its AI-First Self-Driving Technology and Commercial Partnerships https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250821665495/en/Nuro-Closes-%24203-Million-Series-E-Financing-to-Advance-Its-AI-First-Self-Driving-Technology-and-Commercial-Partnerships
Our early studies (and many others) found 20-30% productivity gains in controlled experiments in fields ranging from consulting to coding But translating gains to the organizational level takes time, and leadership. I wrote about many of the reasons here. https://x.com/emollick/status/1958350546831630810
Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in U.S. as tariffs start to hit https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/sony-raises-playstation-5-prices-in-us-as-tariffs-start-to-hit.html
When you ask people in companies who are “”using AI,”” what they use AI for, they seem to mostly be summarizing meetings/documents and helping with minor writing tasks. AI adoption is quite high, but a lot of users don’t take advantage of what these systems are capable of doing.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1959448394834845904
Has anyone seen a copy of the Project NANDA report on 95% of AI pilots failing? It has been reported about widely, but I haven’t been able to actually read it, though I filled out a form to get access. I want to understand what they found and how they measured it. Any links?”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1958598242884854077
Okay, got the report. I would read it yourself. I am not sure how generalizable the findings are based on the methodology (52 interviews, convenience sampled, failed apparently means no sustained P&L impact within six months but no coding explanation). https://x.com/emollick/status/1958602041367961972
AI is already transforming the global economy, and America should lead in advancing a policy governing AI expansion that drives innovation and broad economic growth for working people across the country. LTF and its affiliated organizations will promote policies that unlock the”” / X https://x.com/LeadingFutureAI/status/1959956536370790436
Australian Billionaire Couple’s Canva Valued At $42 Billion In Employee Share Sale https://www.forbes.com/sites/yessarrosendar/2025/08/21/australian-billionaire-couples-canva-valued-at-42-billion-in-employee-share-sale/
Kimi Slides is live! 🎉 Ideas in, decks out. In minutes. Coming soon: Adaptive Layout, auto image search & agentic slides. Try it out👉 https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1961011693745811542
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf
There has not been a lot of evidence so far that AI is actually impacting jobs. This paper suggests this may be starting, showing a decrease in entry-level job openings relative to experienced ones & in the jobs where AI is mostly automates, not augments, work (like coding).”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1960340823972647393
A useful thing that GPT-5 can do that wasn’t previously possible before powerful AI is to monitor complex topics by asking it to give you scheduled reports. Example: I have a weekly report on “reproducible, benchmarked evidence of autonomous or recursive self‑improvement in AI” https://x.com/emollick/status/1959424313502961824
Musk Tried to Enlist Zuckerberg to Help Finance OpenAI Bid https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/musk-tried-to-enlist-zuckerberg-to-help-finance-bid-for-openai/ar-AA1KZ6y5
