What's genuinely new
in AI, health, and software.
Chosen for what's genuinely new, high-impact or interesting — not how many people are posting about it. Browse by theme, find the right tool for a job, or skim the latest.
Overall = breadth + depth + substance + ½·novelty
Genie 3
DeepMind's new world model turns a sentence into a place you can walk through — and the breakthrough isn't the picture, it's the persistence.
Ollama
Run a capable open model on your own laptop with a single command. The friction it removes is the whole product.
nanoVLM
A complete vision-language model in about 750 lines — small enough to read in an afternoon, and that's exactly the point.
The Bitter Lesson, ten years on
A 2026 re-read of Rich Sutton's famous essay, with a decade of scaling results to mark its homework.
Granola
A meeting-notes app that finishes your notes instead of replacing them — a small design choice that turns out to matter.
Explore by theme
All themes →Frontier & AGI
Scaling laws, timelines, and the takeoff debate.
Agents
Models that act, not just answer — tool use and long-horizon reliability.
Artificial Intelligence
Models, agents, and AI–human collaboration — general-purpose capability scaling into every domain.
Longevity & Health
Aging biology, GLP-1, diagnostics, and ML moving into the clinic.
Neurotech
BCIs and neural decoding — reading signal straight from the brain.
Open Models
Open weights and local inference — the democratisation track.
Robotics
Humanoids, manipulation, sim-to-real — the hardware catching up to the models.
Picks — best tool for the job
Browse all picks →Claude Code
paidBest agentic coding tool right now — holds long multi-step tasks, edits across files, and runs its own checks before handing back.
Ollama
ossBest one-command local model runner — pull a model, start chatting.
MacWhisper
paidBest desktop transcription — Whisper quality, fully local, nothing leaves the machine.