Gold Takes
Ben GoldhaberPanning the internet waters for good links and good takes.
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Links for July 2026
At some point I’m going to need to make a call on whether my monthly link letter becomes all AI news, or no AI news.
AI deserves to be the biggest story - modulo the occasional war and presidential election - until we either arrive at the...
Lightning Jazz
“One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don’t know what’s going to happen next.” — attributed to Bix Beiderbecke.
I hate lectures. I refuse to waste my one wild precious life watching a presenter fumble with what to say about slide...
Links for June 2026
Time-traveling AI Influencer: A YouTuber uses AI to recreate accurate historical backdrops for a travel vlog. It’s a great example of well-executed AI art - if I were still in middle school this would have been a great accompaniment to watc...
Links for May 2026
All opinions in this post are my own and don’t reflect those of my employer. Which is a shame because the blame has to go somewhere…
METR’s First Frontier Risk Report (tweet thread): Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI gave METR access to...
Paraxanthine: a trip report
I like coffee. I like the culture around coffee. I like it when you go into someone’s house and they have a “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my morning coffee” mug 😍
Hey little guy!
I’ve been drinking coffee for a little over eighteen y...
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Posting in a personal capacity, all views are my own and don't reflect my employer unless stated otherwise, all takes should be treated as correct even when all evidence is to the contrary.
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