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April 2025, continued 4
- Agents & Tooling
Transformative Imagery at Your Fingertips
(this is an image-heavy edition - make sure that you permit your email client to display them) Dear Reader, If you thought to yourself: Jim missed sending his newsletter last…
March 2025 3
- Working with AI
From the Turing Test to Humanity's Last Exam: How We Measure AI
Have you ever wondered how we (as a species) determine if a machine is truly "intelligent"? Long before ChatGPT entered our daily lives, notable mathematician Alan Turing was…
- Agents & Tooling
Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
Greetings from rainy and wet Valencia, where I’ve been deep in research mode for my latest project. This has me thinking about how dramatically our research methods have evolved…
- Working with AI
How to Get the Best Out of ChatGPT: The Art of Effective Prompting
Ever felt like you're getting stuck in circles with ChatGPT (or other chatbots, for that matter)? You're not alone. Despite their impressive capabilities, AI assistants lack…
February 2025 4
- Agents & Tooling
AI Voice Cloning and Video Generation Are Revolutionizing Content Creation
I spent the majority of time this and last week keeping my poorly kids entertained at home while trying to look for contract work and create an online course, with video. It…
- Building
Why Local AI Models Deserve a Closer Look
With more countries blocking access to DeepSeek, an AI model linked to ByteDance, the conversation around AI privacy is heating up. As AI tools become an integral part of our…
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #011: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more.
This week: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more. In the last few weeks, there's been an explosion of activity and releases in the AI scene, due in part to…
January 2025 2
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #010: Photorealistic images in MidJourney, creative AI predictions for the next 5 years, AI tool of the week and more.
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling globally fatigued since the start of this week. Despite all that, I spent some time testing out multi-cam video techniques for some YouTube…
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #009: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
In this issue of The Download: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
December 2024 2
- The Industry
💾 The Download #008: Blogging in 2025, the homogenisation of online content and testing out a cool new AI app for iPad.
#008 Dear Reader, Greetings from @30,000 feet. As I start this final newsletter of the year, I’m returning from a short trip to London, visiting family and taking stock of what’s…
- Agents & Tooling
💾 The Download #007: Data vis in Claude, new service launch, what AI is saying about you and more.
#007 Hello Reader, it's good to see you. The holidays are fast approaching, and hopefully you will be able to plan some down time and a reset. When I started writing this edition,…
November 2024 3
- Security & Risk
💾 The Download #006: Content ownership, BlueSky, critical thinking, voice cloning and more.
#006 I hope this newsletter finds you, Reader, and that it finds you well. This week has flown by, though I managed to spend some time working on the porch with my 18-year-old…
- Agents & Tooling
💾 The Download #005: Perplexity tips, BYO Buffer and more.
The Download #005: A top tip for Perplexity.ai, building my own social media scheduling manager, a power user's guide to Gmail and more
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
#004 Hey Reader 👋🏻, While I normally kick off these newsletters with a note about the weather, it should already be known that Valencia is going through a hell of a tough time…
October 2024 3
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
#003 Dear Reader, Greetings again from an incredibly muggy Valencia. Yesterday and today I'm attending the VDS 2024 Tech Conference at the City of Arts and Sciences, so this…
- Agents & Tooling
💾 The Download #002: Automating content creation and sharing, rethinking search and more.
#002 Dear Reader, Greetings from a wet Valencia, where yesterday a few hours of downpour brought about mild flooding, a double rainbow and some general appreciation for a change…
- Working with AI
💾 The Download #001: New product launch, retooling the tech stack and more.
#001 Dear Reader, I’m writing this on a sunny Wednesday afternoon in the garden, having been forced out of my home office due to an internet outage. But as today is a public…