In my latest blog post, I’ve curated some fantastic reads for you! We’re diving into a coding face-off between Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, exploring how to build an AI Assistant, and discovering why being “normal” might be overrated. Plus, we’re checking out how journalism schools are teaching newsletter skills, celebrating the 2025 Inbox Awards winners, and much more. Enjoy the exploration!
- Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison: This blog-post compares the coding capabilites of new Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)
- What to Do:
- Sergey’s Blog: Sergey Filimonov’s blog
- How to build an AI Assistant Prototype: 🧠Knowledge Series 67: Vibe code your prototype and craft your AI Assistant strategy. Exploring the 5 different AI Assistant types.
- Against Normalcy: Why Being Normal Can Be Dangerous: In our world. You are pressured to be normal by everyone. Yet, that’s a dangerous path. Learn why being weird is a good thing.
- How Are Journalism Schools Teaching Newsletter Skills?: Professors at journalism schools like CUNY explain how they’ve incorporated newsletters into their curriculum.
- Here Are the Winners of the 2025 Inbox Awards: These six newsletters — from Help Scout, the Republic, Dense Discovery, the Financial Times, TextHacks, and Only In Your State — are innovating in remarkable ways. Here’s what you can learn from them about creating amazing experiences for the inbox.
- The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst: 👋 Hi HackerNews! Please note that a second article uses graph analysis to reveal new findings about Myst (e.g., unreachable views, most connected locations). Upon reflection, Myst has long been more analogous to a graph than a traditional linear g…
- Anthropic Economic Index: Insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The second update from the Anthropic Economic Index
- Introducing OpenHands LM 32B — A Strong, Open Coding Agent Model: We’re excited to announce the release of OpenHands LM 32B, a new open-source model fine-tuned from Qwen Coder 2.5 Instruct 32B, specifically optimized for software development with OpenHands.
- The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor:
- How 25 years of consolidation changed the media landscape for good: Years of megamergers across tech and media have made some media buying easier, but buyers and experts alike say a reckoning is on the horizon.
- How Dotdash Meredith enlisted OpenAI to boost its contextual ad product, with Lindsay Van Kirk: Dotdash Meredith’s gm of D/Cipher Lindsay Van Kirk discusses the publisher’s OpenAI deal.
- Immediate Media: rethinking the publishing process to maximise ROI: Alex White, Group Managing Director for Immediate Media’s Knowledge portfolio, says the central challenge for any modern media business is to maximise the ROI on every piece of content they create, and that means innovating across the whole publishing process.