Reading · Future-Proof Your Career with AI

Hi friends,

It’s been another one of those weeks, it still feels like we’re drinking from the fire hose.

If you’re new here, every Sunday I curate the top AI articles, tweets, podcasts and tutorials (so that you don’t have to).

Let’s jump in:

Open weights and American AI Leadership — Jensen and 50 AI companies signed a pro-open source letter. (There is one notable exception).
How Cerebras Built Its Enterprise Knowledge Base — A detailed explainer on connecting all your company’s knowledge (Slack, shared drives, GitHub) so that everyone can access it.
When AI Skills Help—and When They Hurt — Opus and Fable require less handholding (which means we need to simplify our skills).

Claude Opus 5: Anthropic’s New Flagship AI Model — Early reports are that it’s Fable-like intelligence at Opus pricing.
ChatGPT’s new model broke out of its sandbox — The AIs have started going rogue (just to cheat on their benchmarks).
Why Chinese AI Models Threaten U.S. Labs — Ben Thompson on why we should foster more US-based open source.
Teach Claude Cowork a Skill by Recording Your Workflow — Creating skills continues to get easier.
Cursor Router: Automatic Model Selection at 60% Lower Cost — Model routing is gaining steam (but will it work)?

Are you still using AI mostly for search, summaries, and one-off prompts?

Learn to turn Claude Cowork and Claude Code into practical workflows for research, meeting prep, reporting, and repetitive analysis — without becoming an engineer.

After this self-paced course, you’ll go from experimenting with AI to building tools that create real leverage for you and your team.

Use code CHIEF-OF-STAFF for a 30% discount through July 31.

Learn Claude Cowork and Code today →

AI is coming for your Slack workspace — This new form factor is going to pull in a lot more AI noobs.

How a Top Hedge Fund Grew AI Token Spending 86x — The Man Group on building routers, connecting to unstructured data and what they look for in new hires.
Forget FDEs, we need forward deployed “analysts” — There’s a bigger shortage in domain experts who understand AI.
The Privacy Risks of Always-On AI Recording — The norms on recording are changing (and apparently people now record their dates).
Sierra’s MCP Gateway for Secure Enterprise AI Access — The daunting process of building your own MCP for your internal agents.
Substack Launches AI Detection for Writers — Newsletters (including this one) now get an AI score. This will likely expand to other social networks.

How Replit Is Building a Self-Driving Company — Good self-learning examples from sales and marketing.
How Granola Built a $1.5 Billion AI Meeting Company — They have a strong foothold with your important context, but what comes next?
Building a Simpler Coding Agent in a World of AI Slop — I’m intrigued by learning the Pi coding harness as a side project.