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Ethan Holland
@ethanholland.bsky.social
Joined Twitter in June 2006 and was user #314. Keynote speaker at Adobe’s Worldwide Conference. Featured in NYT. Beta partner w/ Google, YouTube, FB, Snap, Insta, and X. Musician. English major. #RIPGoogleReader
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That’s why they call him The Answer! “We're talking about alignment? Not inference. Not interpretability. We’re talking about alignment?”
September 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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.
September 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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"
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Rori and I are ready for college. I'll post the entire story in the comments. It's two parts.
August 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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.
August 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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...
August 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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!
August 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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.
July 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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.
July 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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.
July 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These were incredibly strong offers. In my world, FourSquare is still crushing it.
July 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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!
July 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Meta continues their reverse Midas touch by turning Threads into a garbage fire
July 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Thank goodness!
July 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
AI News #91: Week Ending June 27, 2025 with 35 Executive Summaries, Top 62 Links, and 8 Helpful Visuals

Bluesky can't fit everything into one post because either 10.72 KB of text is too large or "view more" button is too complicated (just joking, sort of)... so the link is below.
July 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
There's still time for a collab, Miuccia Pprada and Angelina Jolie. #sluttylittlefly
July 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
32,000 Links in 90 Weeks

In the past 90 weeks, I've organized 32,000 links by hand into 46 categories. 2,630 blog posts and 4,044 images.

I organize it all by hand, because there is no shortcut for reading and processing. In fact, I only have a blog to force me to learn.
July 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
AI News 90: Week Ending June 20, 2025 with 38 Executive Summaries, Top 56 Links, and 13 Helpful Visuals

I’m a few weeks behind because family and friends continue to come first. This week's AI newsletter category covers are a nod to stereotypical '80s TV infomercials.

Link in comments below.
July 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Today's pep talk from two very smart people....
July 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
AI News 89: Week Ending June 13, 2025 with 33 Executive Summaries, Top 45 Links, and 7 Helpful Visuals

I'm two weeks behind. I wouldn't trade it for the world as I got to make the trip to say goodbye to my college roommate and incredible friend, Mike Bernstein.

This week's summaries are below.
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Quick college roomate trip to NYC with Max and Tom to visit Mike and Daphna. If you want a relaxing place with an incredible view, take the tram to Roosevelt Island and go to The Graduate hotel rooftop bar.
June 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
AI News #88: Week Ending June 06, 2025 with 24 Executive Summaries, Top 22 Links, and 5 Helpful Visuals

I’m two weeks behind, but I would not trade the time I’ve been spending with friends and family. I’m wrapping up the week of June 6th. See link below.
June 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Will the general public shift perception of "AI" from "stochastic writing art thief slop cannon" to "We can ask our computers to do things?" In May, I organized 2,783 AI headlines into 43 categories. Agents is top. Google beat OpenAI thanks to Veo and DeepMind. Anthropic gained due to MCP adoption.
June 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
AI News 87: Week Ending May 30, 2025 with 20 Executive Summaries, Top 47 Links, and 11 Helpful Visuals
June 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Apple iPhone iOS still has hilarious moments.
June 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM