Sacha

Readers, I highly recommend the prescient article written by the incomparable and much missed Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, on rabbisacks.org:

Future Tense: The New Antisemitism

What is it & how do we deal with it?

1 November 2007

I’m talking about the kind of change exemplified by luminary psychologist Marsha Linehan, who details her journey from spending 21 months in a psychiatric hospital isolation ward due to severe, intractable Borderline Personality Disorder, to pioneering the world’s first and most widely renowned scientifically-based treatment for same—in a memoir ap... See more

Sora currently works best as a complement to other AI content generation tools: Spin up a scene on Midjourney, generate a voice on ElevenLabs, and produce your video through Sora.

Sora nails the photorealistic details but can't match Runway, or other AI video generation tools,on fluid motion.

Stop trying so hard. Last week I discovered life's greatest irony in a coffee shop at 2 p.m., over-caffeinated and buzzing with excitement about a book titled Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, a treatise on living a life without objectives. What happened next honestly felt like a cosmic joke. My unfiltered brain dump about this book on X—this celebr... See more

Google unveiled Willow , a quantum computing chip that can complete calculations in minutes that would take supercomputers billions of years.

You can try Gemini 2.0 in AI Studio and Deep Research in Gemini Advanced.

Google also (separately?) released Deep Research, which is a truly useful agentic AI tool. Give it a research topic, and it'll spider through hundreds of websites, refining its search based on what it learns, before delivering a comprehensive report with citations.

Google's multimodal capabilities are second to none. It was already the best at understanding images and video. Gemini 2.0 doesn't just understand images and video; it can reason about them in real time—no more waiting for a response.