Ethan Holland

AI News #99: Week Ending August 22, 2025 with 37 Executive Summaries, Top 34 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter cover is inspired by a visit to Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the Local Media Association board meeting in Chicago. The main...

After tracking AI headlines for 98 weeks straight, I took two months off! It’s intimidating to have to catch up, but I like a challenge. I’m resuming where I left, and I track the weekly links in a way that lets me keep the weekly grouping. Let’s get back to it!
ethanbholland.com/2025/08/23/a...

That’s why they call him The Answer! “We're talking about alignment? Not inference. Not interpretability. We’re talking about alignment?”

AI News #98: Week Ending August 15, 2025 with 40 Executive Summaries, Top 47 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter cover is inspired by my family dropping off our daughter Rori at the University of Colorado Boulder. I took a photo of Colorado football head coach, Coa...

ethanbholland.com/2025/08/16/a...

Tons in this week's newsletter (backdated while I catch up). Too much to cram into a status update, plus the post has lots of helpful embedded videos and links! Also, I crossed the 36,000-link mark. All organized by hand. Everything you need to know is in the link in the comments below.

AI News #97: Week Ending August 08, 2025 with 50 Executive Summaries, Top 44 Links, and 6 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter cover was inspired by the new Taylor Swift album “The Life of A Showgirl” I gave the original album art to GPT and asked for a prompt to give an image t...

ethanbholland.com/2025/08/09/a...

AI News #97: Week Ending August 08, 2025 with 50 Executive Summaries, Top 44 Links, and 6 Helpful Visuals

Here's everything you need to know about AI news for the week ending August 8, 2025 (link in the comments)!

This week's cover was inspired by the Taylor Swift album "The Life of A Showgirl"

AI News #96: Week Ending August 01, 2025 with 31 Executive Summaries, Top 69 Links, and 11 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter cover was inspired by the Astronomer CEO caught on the Coldplay kiss cam. I gave the original cam photo to GPT and three pictures of the Figure robot. T...

ethanbholland.com/2025/08/02/a...

AI News #96: Week Ending August 01, 2025 with 31 Executive Summaries, Top 69 Links, and 11 Helpful Visuals

I took a month off from writing this newsletter to spend time with my family. These posts will continue to contain the news of each week, and the archive will be unscathed. YOLO. Link below.

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 in...

Part One: ethanbholland.com/2025/08/10/m...

Rori and I are ready for college. I'll post the entire story in the comments. It's two parts.

AI News #95: Week Ending July 25, 2025 with 49 Executive Summaries, Top 102 Links, and 4 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter cover was inspired by Google Gemini’s recent gold medal in the International Math Olympiad. Additionally, Google’s image tool, Imagen 4, topped the imag...

ethanbholland.com/2025/07/26/a...

AI News #95: Week Ending July 25, 2025 with 49 Executive Summaries, Top 102 Links, and 4 Helpful Visuals

This week I organized 580 headlines into 45 categories. I sort them all by hand..

I simply cannot fit everything into a LinkedIn post. Link is in the comments below.

My job back in the day included overseeing all digital marketing (paid, organic, content, social, etc)... for American Eagle Outfitters. It was busy on this day 15 years ago. 21,000 comments in 8 hours. It's been busy recently as well, so I hear...

AI News #94: Week Ending July 18, 2025 with 49 Executive Summaries, Top 53 Links, and 4 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter’s cover was inspired by Meta’s insane spending spree on both hiring and data centers. Mark Zuckerberg paid $100 million signing bonuses to poach top tal...

ethanbholland.com/2025/07/19/a...

AI News #94: Week Ending July 18, 2025 with 49 Executive Summaries, Top 53 Links, and 4 Helpful Visuals

This week I crossed the 34,000 headline mark.

The executive summary by itself was 2300 words this week. Link is in the comments below.

Enjoy the summer while it’s still here. Get outside!

Claude cracks me up. I asked for a quick spelling and grammar check. Since Claude often shares a rewrite instead of reviewing first, I told Claude to list what it found... Claude was committed to the assignment! Spoiler alert: I asked again, and Claude obliged.

blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

YouTube video by Lex Fridman Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvH...

AI Mid-Term Outlook: Ethan Holland Presentation at the National Association of Broadcasters - Sept 20, 2023 I encourage you to skim the slides from September 2023 (which felt conspicuously silly and Quixotic) and see how they aged with time. Executive Overview: Mid-Term Outlook for Artificial Intelligence P...

Sept 2023: Slide 14 predicts the end of the web browser
ethanbholland.com/2023/09/20/h...

developer.chrome.com/docs/ai

Perplexity Comet Browse at the speed of thought.

comet.perplexity.ai

Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

AI News #93: Week Ending July 11, 2025 with 22 Executive Summaries, Top 41 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter category covers are a nod to the end of the internet browser and a throwback to the early browsers of the 1990s. The main cover was created with GPT-Ima...

ethanbholland.com/2025/07/12/a...

AI News #93: Week Ending July 11, 2025 with 22 Executive Summaries, Top 41 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals

This week’s newsletter category covers are a nod to the end of the internet browser.

This week’s old school humanities reading is “Lost” by David Wagoner. A terrific short poem.

We'll emulate the browser for a while, and then just not show it to the user. And when we do have a browser it will be fully agentic. This is the most exciting time for tech since 1995. More than mobile and social. This is the internet itself remade.

Watching OpenAI's agent browse the web for me in an emulated browser (in the chat window), bypassing all AI blockers (since it's "me") is especially fun to watch... The era of agentic AI browsers is going to change quite a bit in the next two years.

These were incredibly strong offers. In my world, FourSquare is still crushing it.

AI News #92: Week Ending July 04, 2025 with 24 Executive Summaries, Top 72 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals About This Week’s Covers This week’s newsletter category covers are a nod to the 4th of July holiday. The main cover was created with GPT-Image-1, Magnific, and Photoshop. I gave GPT an image from Roc...

ethanbholland.com/2025/07/05/a...

AI News 92: Week Ending July 04, 2025 with 24 Executive Summaries, Top 72 Links, and 3 Helpful Visuals

4th of July Rocky IV Figure robot cover FTW!

Meta continues their reverse Midas touch by turning Threads into a garbage fire