The Week AI Blinked: The Limits of Smart
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From identifying AI's limitations and confusion to insights from leaders in the industry, this weeks newsletter is a whirlwind.
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Today's Ai5:
🧐 Tackling hallucinations: MIT spinout teaches AI to admit when clueless
😵 Anthropic's AI generated blog dies an earl...
by Travis Leonard —
Jun 12, 2025
ainews
anthropic
generativeai
mit spinout
openai
siri update
From diabetes to rumors of an OpenAI device in the works...
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This week we're gathering around the glow of innovation, where AI bonds like a friend, predicts your health, and even takes the stage at a summer talent show. From FDA rollouts to OpenAI’s secretive new device, the tech world feels more human and more ambitious than ever.
Happy...
by Travis Leonard —
Jun 06, 2025
bonds like humans
fda rolls out tool
forcasting blood sugar
openai device
AI Under the Hood: What's Advancing & What's Slipping
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From model degradation to voice-enabled Claude and the quiet battle over AI regulation, this week’s Ai5 dives into the tension between innovation and oversight.
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Today's Ai5:
🧐 General-purpose AI could be getting worse
👋 Anthropic debuts Claude conversational ...
by Travis Leonard —
May 29, 2025
ai enabled web
big beautiful bill
knowledge workers
what the beat
AI on the Move: From Food Trucks to Furtune 500
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This week’s AI5 serves up fresh innovations from Google’s mobile NotebookLM to Deloitte’s leap into deep reasoning. Whether you’re dreaming up a fantasy food truck or following the money trail to Saudi Arabia, AI is shaking up industries faster than ever.
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Today'...
by Travis Leonard —
May 22, 2025
ai entertainment
humain deal
microsoft cutting
notebooklm
unlock deep reasoning
Selfies, Sensors & Shakespeare: This week wierd and wonderful
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From robots with a sense of touch to poetry on electric bikes, this week’s AI5 blends the poetic with the powerful. Peek inside to learn how selfies might predict your lifespan and why short chatbot prompts could backfire.
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Today's Ai5:
🧐 Can AI predict how lon...
by Travis Leonard —
May 15, 2025
hallucinations
robot touch
selfies
From Bugs to Billion-Dollar Wins: AI’s New Chapter
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Today’s Ai5 takes you on a whirlwind through the weird, the worrying, and the wildly promising world of artificial intelligence. You’ll meet a hallucinating chatbot that invented a fake policy, an AI cyborg policing Thai festivals, a U.S. lawmaker chasing down rogue chips—and a...
by Travis Leonard —
May 08, 2025
ai in education
customer agents
hallucinating machines
robot cops
Inside AI: Lawsuits, LinkedIn Trends, and Language Beyond Humans
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From courtroom clashes with Elon Musk to AI-generated action figures and dolphin translators, this week’s AI roundup shows just how fast tech is evolving. Let’s dive into what matters and what’s just vibing.
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Today's Ai5:
🧐 OpenAI counter-sues Elon Musk
👋 'AI ...
by Travis Leonard —
Apr 30, 2025
inside ai: lawsuits
linkedin trends
Power, Policy & Play: The Many Faces of AI Today
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Apple’s novel approach to data privacy, NATO’s AI acquisition, and White House memos are reshaping AI’s role in society. Bonus: Stocks to watch—and a fun creative prompt to design your own action figure.
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Today's Ai5:
🧐 Apple has a complicated plan.
🪖 NATO acq...
by Travis Leonard —
Apr 21, 2025
policy & play: the many faces of ai today
power
AI’s at Work: From Hollywood to Hiring
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From red carpets to boardrooms, AI is shaking things up—whether it’s generating scenes in Oscar-winning films or reshaping how companies hire and develop talent. This week, we dive into how industries are adapting to the inevitable wave of artificial intelligence.
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by Travis Leonard —
Apr 09, 2025
ai career developement
marey ai hollywood
ride-share internal cameras
spotify hiring practices
AI at the Drive-Thru, Ethics at the Wheel.
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From taking fast-food orders to mapping career paths and designing new drugs, AI is making bold moves across industries. But as these tools grow smarter, questions about ethics, human connection, and creativity are demanding equal attention. Do you have concerns about AI? Where...
by Travis Leonard —
Apr 04, 2025
$600m for ai drugs
ai takes your order
fast food gets smarter
is ai helping or hurting hiring
The AI Tipping Point: Creativity, Credit and Coaching in the Age of Agents.
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This week, we explore the evolving landscape of generative AI — from art and authorship to productivity and personal growth. As AI pushes into new frontiers, the question isn’t just what it can do, but how we measure, shape, and share its impact.
Today's Ai5:
🧐 AI Art: The e...
by Travis Leonard —
Mar 27, 2025
agents
ai credit wars
coaching bots
creativity
Surprise! Ai5 Lives, Again.
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Remember a little while back when I decided to call it a day and retire from the Ai5 newsletter? Well, surprise! Ai5 is back in action.
Turns out, this community had a life of its own, and it wasn't ready to fade away. One of you, dear readers, felt the same way and volunteered...
by Travis Leonard —
Mar 19, 2025