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A Conversation With Ari Emanuel About Entertainment and AI

So the way advertising is going to work in the future, and it’s already happening, is it’s going to predict what you want. So what you’re going to do is you’re going to get a personalized ad predictor that basically is inside your VM. They’re going to be credibly able to say it’s totally private, because it is totally private.

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🎙️ How I AI: How this PM uses Claude to handle 70% to 80% of his workday

Self-improvement loops learn from the difference between what the AI drafted and what the person actually sent. Daniel built a weekly skill that compares Claude's original drafts with his final versions, then uses those differences to improve future work. It resembles Alex Lieberman's 'write like me' loop, but it relies less on explicit feedback. Instead, it observes Daniel's actual behavior and learns from the small edits he makes instinctively.

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Voice AI Startup Wispr Is Launching A Lab To Bring 'J.A.R.V.I.S.' To Life

Rather than simply dictate instructions, or follow a turn-based conversation with a voice agent, Wispr envisions a more collaborative workflow, in which the interface is continuously learning from your recent actions, following what you're doing on the screen using computer vision, and learning about you enough to understand nuanced instructions, while suggesting and running others behind the scenes.

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The Digital Omotenashi Edition

The dominant paradigm for digital "personalization," the word the industry settled on, is the opposite of omotenashi in almost every important way. For one thing, it announces itself ("Because you watched..."). It benefits the platform first, and the user second. It mistakes behavioral data for understanding, and it arrives with a kind of transactional visibility that Omotenashi specifically refuses: The ryokan host doesn't tell you she noticed you looked cold.