# new ai (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 10 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover new ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [Actually Good Photography Videos You May Have Missed](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/actually-good-photography-videos-b39) _2026-08-21 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ (August Edition) ## [How I Use Perplexity + NotebookLM to Research Almost Anything (9 Practical Workflows)](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/how-i-use-perplexity-notebooklm-to) _2026-08-21 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Learn how I use Perplexity + NotebookLM to turn internet research into useful answers. ## [🎬 Alibaba's Wan3.0 turns a PDF into a 30-second film](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/alibabas-wan30-turns-a-pdf-into-a) _2026-08-17 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ 🖼 You can finally turn off Google's AI watermark... ## [Best Free AI Headshot Generators (2026): I Tested 20+ Tools — Here's the #1 (Honest Review)](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/best-free-ai-headshot-generators) _2026-08-17 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Finally, I found some of the best free AI headshot generators that actually made me go, "Damn… this actually looks like me". ## [Have We Reached Peak Photo Editor?](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/have-we-reached-peak-photo-editor) _2026-08-16 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ What else can they possibly add to photo editors that isn't gimmicky AI shite? ## [The future of AI content licensing, featuring Michael Ellis](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/newstex-ai-content-licensing-michael-ellis) _2026-08-15 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ Newstex president Michael Ellis on what a fair AI licensing deal actually looks like for publishers big and small. ## [Photo Developer - Clean, Minimal, Mac-Only RAW Editor - Reviewed](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/photo-developer-clean-minimal-mac) _2026-08-12 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ There is certainly no shortage of photo editing apps for the Mac, with options available at all price points and catering to all niches. ## [Your fastest-growing reader is a bot](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/time-ads-for-ai-bots-crawler-advertising) _2026-08-11 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ Time is betting crawlers are an audience, not a threat. Plus we're hiring a managing editor, USA Today brings in Palantir, and News Corp goes after a new target. ## [🎬 Grok Imagine 2.0 is now the second best image model in the world](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/grok-imagine-20-is-now-the-second) _2026-08-10 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ Learn how to become the AI Person on Your Team... ## [10 Practical NotebookLM + Claude Workflows That Will Blow Your Mind (No BS)](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/10-practical-notebooklm-claude-workflows) _2026-08-10 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Here, I'm going to show you 10 practical NotebookLM + Claude workflows you can actually use for work, learning, research, writing, business, and decision-making. ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/F8LnQaF7iCHi) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [🕹️ How I Use Agents Today | PM OS 2.6](https://nurijanian.substack.com/p/how-i-use-agents-today-pm-os-26) _2026-08-09 · 🕹 prodmgmt.world | Becoming Top PMs Together_ Improved skills + Good PM/Bad PM ## [🧮 OpenAI's Next Model Just Solved 10 Math Problems That Stumped Humans for Decades](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/openais-next-model-just-solved-10) _2026-08-06 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ 🎬 Runway's New Model Router Picks the Best AI for Every Creative Job... ## [I Tested 100+ New AI Tools So You Don't Have To (These 5 Save You Hours Every Week)](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/i-tested-100-new-ai-tools-so-you) _2026-08-05 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ In this post, I'm sharing the 5 best AI tools that are genuinely built for real work and solve real problems. ## [Ten Epic Photo Editing Tips for When You Just Can’t Be Fucked](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/ten-epic-photo-editing-tips-for-when) _2026-08-05 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ Look, we’ve all been there. ## [The scalpel beats the hammer on AI slop](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/scalpel-beats-hammer-ai-slop-youtube-substack) _2026-08-04 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ YouTube and Substack chose different tools for the same problem. Plus a Reddit ruling against Perplexity, mandatory EU AI labels, and Google's Top Stories move. ## [🎬 Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second AI videos in a single pass](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/seedance-25-generates-30-second-ai) _2026-08-03 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ 🔓 DeepSeek just ran the first fully autonomous AI cyberattack ## [Amnesty International's Taken-Down Article on the UK Anti-Rights Movement](https://taranis.ie/amnesty-internationals-taken-down-article-on-the-uk-anti-rights-movement/) _2026-08-01 · Taranis · Taranis_ JKR has forced Amnesty International into retracting and apologising for a report into the anti-rights movement in the UK. I am reposting a copy here (which is also available via the Internet Archive). ## [Is Industry Analysis Worth It?](https://stiennon.substack.com/p/is-industry-analysis-worth-it) _2026-07-31 · Richard Stiennon · The Security Industry_ Can AI do it better? ## [Best AI Headshot Generators (2026): I Tested 35+ Tools — Here's the #1 (Honest Review)](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/best-ai-headshot-generators-2026) _2026-07-31 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Finally, I found some of the best AI headshot generators that actually made me go, "Damn… this actually looks like me". ## [🎬Midjourney's Boldest Update Yet Rewires How It Understands Your Style](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/midjourneys-boldest-update-yet-rewires) _2026-07-30 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ 🖼 ByteDance's New Image Model Generates Editable Layers Rivaling GPT Image 2... ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IjOnqbmmxq8R) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [99% of People Still Use AI Wrong — Here's My 3-Step Claude + NotebookLM Workflow for Writing](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/99-of-people-still-use-ai-wrong-heres) _2026-07-30 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Learn my 3-step Claude + NotebookLM workflow for research, writing, and visual creation. ## [The quiet death of the AI byline](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/ai-byline-disappearing-newsrooms) _2026-07-28 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ Newsrooms are backing away from robot bylines, and the reasons matter. Plus: OpenAI’s copyright win, QVC hosts unionize, and Substack scans for AI writing. ## [New AI Security Vendors to Watch in 2026](https://stiennon.substack.com/p/new-ai-security-vendors-to-watch) _2026-07-27 · Richard Stiennon · The Security Industry_ Company formation in AI Security is still progressing at record levels. ## [🎬 FLUX 3 just unified video, image, and audio in one mode](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/flux-3-just-unified-video-image-and) _2026-07-27 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ Elon Musk says Grok will make a feature-length AI film by year-end... ## [Tested Apple’s Huge Update to RAW Photography Coming Soon to MacOS 27 Golden Gate](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/tested-apples-huge-update-to-raw) _2026-07-26 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ I always keep an eye on the annual Apple developers conference (WWDC), in case there is anything whatsoever of interest to photographers, and the vast majority of the time I am disappointed. ## [When bots become the audience](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/akamai-ai-bot-traffic-audience-salem-jackson-sullivan) _2026-07-25 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ Akamai's CMO and its CTO of security strategy on why bots are becoming the most valuable visitor to your website. ## [Photography YouTubers Were All Using Wacom Tablets. Then They Weren’t.](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/photography-youtubers-were-all-using) _2026-07-24 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ Cast your mind back about five or six years. ## [Sphinx of Black Quartz, Judge my Vow!](https://taranis.ie/sphinx-of-black-quartz-judge-my-vow/) _2026-07-24 · Taranis · Taranis_ Type design needs something better than a quick brown fox. Specifically, we need word lists that demonstrate pairs of letter forms efficiently. ## [Photo Competitions Are Still Doing This. Photographers Are Still Falling For It.](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/photo-competitions-are-still-doing) _2026-07-24 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ Read those T&Cs ## [🤖 OpenAI's Smartest Model Broke Out of Its Own Sandbox](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/openais-smartest-model-broke-out) _2026-07-23 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ Google Drops Three New Gemini Models and Confirms Gemini 4... ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aVCNSYHcnIMK) _2026-07-23 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Not every bot is the enemy](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/ai-crawler-strategy-publishers) _2026-07-21 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ Blocking every bot feels safe. It rarely pays off. Plus: newsroom cuts top 2,300, Meta’s crawler math, and Germany’s new AI rules. ## [🎬 Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/google-vids-now-lets-you-star-in) _2026-07-20 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ Learn how to build your Founder Skill Pack on Claude... ## [Nothing Over $50USD: 18 Photo Apps Rated](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/nothing-over-50usd-18-photo-apps) _2026-07-20 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ We live in a world of rapidly escalating costs where the only thing that isn’t rising faster than the price of goods and services, is wages. ## [Calculating and achieving peak TOPS on the DGX Spark](https://y.tsutsumi.io/peak-tops-dgx-spark/) _2026-07-20 · Yusuke Tsutsumi_ You’ll often see “peak TOPS” advertised for accelerators like GPUs - but where does that number come from, and can we achieve it? Let’s break it down using the DGX Spark’s 1000 TOPS as an example. ## [Admiral Archie Clemins and the Birth of Network-centric War Fighting](https://stiennon.substack.com/p/admiral-archie-clemins-and-the-birth) _2026-07-19 · Richard Stiennon · The Security Industry_ A post this morning on reddit/r/ships reminded me of the command ship for the Pacific Fleet, the USS Blue Ridge, pictured below. ## [Never Buy a New Camera (Buy Last Year’s)](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/never-buy-a-new-camera-buy-last-years) _2026-07-18 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ I’ve got a fairly ancient gaming PC that hasn’t seen an upgrade in over six years, and which would struggle to play modern triple-A games in 1080p above 20 frames per second. ## [I Tested 100+ New AI Tools. These 6 Are Built for Real Work & Save You Hours (No BS)](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/i-tested-100-new-ai-tools-these-6) _2026-07-17 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Here, I'm going to share some of the best new AI tools I've found recently that are genuinely useful, practical, and worth your time. ## [🎬 George Lucas on AI: "there's nothing you can do about it"](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/george-lucas-on-ai-theres-nothing) _2026-07-16 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ Thinking Machines Releases Inkling, a free AI Multimodal Model... ## [The Best AI Novel Writing Tools in 2026](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/the-best-ai-novel-writing-tools-in) _2026-07-16 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Here, I shared the best AI novel writing tools I tested in 2026, what they're actually good at, where they fall short, and which one I'd personally choose if I were starting a novel today. ## [The scoop isn't the story anymore](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/authority-beats-speed-ai-news) _2026-07-14 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ AI now rewards authority over speed. Plus: publishers accuse OpenAI of hiding evidence in an escalating copyright fight. ## [🎬 Apple sues OpenAI, Meta's AI tool backfires, and your videos become watercolors](https://theaipixel.substack.com/p/apple-sues-openai-metas-ai-tool-backfires) _2026-07-13 · The AI Pixel · The AI Pixel_ Also learn how to replace your $500/Hour Executive Coach with AI... ## [Playing around with Local LLMs](https://y.tsutsumi.io/playing-with-local-llms/) _2026-07-13 · Yusuke Tsutsumi_ Like many, I’ve started to get really bullish on the future of local LLMs - the open models and weights are getting better every few weeks. Qualitatively, I think it’s still abundantly clear that local LLMs are not at par with the larger hosted models for my high-priority use cases like coding. ## [Lift a Boring Photo With Dreamy Golden Light and AI Masks in Photolab 9](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/lift-a-boring-photo-with-dreamy-golden) _2026-07-13 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ One of the most useful ways of leveraging the new AI masks in Photolab is to create the separation necessary to properly ‘sell’ any tweaks to the light that you add in post. ## [There are 82 SOC Automation Startups](https://stiennon.substack.com/p/there-are-82-soc-automation-startups) _2026-07-12 · Richard Stiennon · The Security Industry_ Is that too many? ## [AI is breaking the internet. But it might fix local news.](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/ai-save-local-news-paul-gewuerz) _2026-07-12 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ Paul Gewuerz on why trust, reinvention, and AI could give local journalism a second act. ## [The Darktable Hater’s Guide to Darktable, Part 3: Beginner's Workflow](https://ahutchinson.substack.com/p/the-darktable-haters-guide-to-darktable-093) _2026-07-12 · Andy Hutchinson · RAW & Unfiltered - Photography in the Real World_ This is the series for the everyman: the poor bastard who just wanted to fix a photo and instead found four kinds of saturation, a tool called wavelet decomposition by frequency band, and a white balance slider hidden in a module called Colour Calibration because darktable believes surprise should be part of the workflow. ## [🕹️ Working Backwards and Catching Edge Cases With PM OS](https://nurijanian.substack.com/p/working-backwards-and-catching-edge) _2026-07-11 · 🕹 prodmgmt.world | Becoming Top PMs Together_ + new skills no one else has ## [How to Use Claude Fable 5 Better than 99% of People (Beginner to Pro)](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/how-to-use-claude-fable-5-better) _2026-07-08 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Learn how to get premium-quality work without premium token costs. ## [Google’s mistakes are your problem now](https://mediacopilot.substack.com/p/google-ai-overviews-accuracy-publishers) _2026-07-07 · Pete Pachal · The Media Copilot_ AI Overviews are wrong millions of times an hour, and publishers can’t just shrug. Plus, an AI fake news site invents the collapse of 47 Alabama newspapers. ## [I Tested 25+ Free AI Presentation Makers in 2026 — These 6 Are the Absolute Best](https://aimadesimple0.substack.com/p/i-tested-25-free-ai-presentation) _2026-07-07 · Nitin Sharma · AI Made Simple_ Here, I shared the best AI presentation makers I tested in 2026, what they’re actually good at, where they fall short, and which one I’d personally use depending on the type of presentation I need to.