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84 Percent of Humanity Has Never Used AI. Let That Land.
There is a chart making the rounds right now that stops you cold if you actually look at it. 2,500 dots. Each one represents 3.2 million people. The entire grid is 8.1 billion humans. 84 percent of the dots are grey. Never used AI. Not once. Not even a free chatbot. The green dots — free chatbot users, your ChatGPT-curious colleagues, the people who tried it once and maybe still use it occasionally — those are 16 percent. Around 1.3 billion people. The gold dots? People payi

Rich Washburn
Mar 244 min read
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That Escalated Quickly: NVIDIA Just Dropped a Nuke on the AI Market
You know that moment in a movie where someone casually walks into a room, sets something down on the table, and everyone just stares? That's what NVIDIA did this week. They released Nemotron 3 Super — a free, open-weight AI model with 120 billion parameters that only activates 12 billion at a time. And they didn't just drop the weights. They dropped the entire training dataset. 10 trillion tokens. The recipes. Everything. For free. Let that sit for a second. What We're Actual

Rich Washburn
Mar 193 min read
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The Day the Computer Caught Up to My Brain: When Plain English Became a Programming Language
I was halfway through writing an article about how badly this whole thing had just broken my brain when my phone rang. It was Jimmy. Now, this wasn’t some staged testimonial call. I didn’t send him a survey. I didn’t ask him for a quote. He wasn’t calling to help me finish a thought. He was calling because he’d been using this thing for about a week in the real world, in the middle of serious work, and he was basically having the exact same holy-shit moment I was. That timing

Rich Washburn
Mar 157 min read
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The AI Haters Have a Point—Now What?
Every time I scroll, there’s another meme about how AI is ruining civilization. The temptation is to roll my eyes, laugh, and move on....

Rich Washburn
Sep 24, 20254 min read
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Google’s Triple Threat AI: Mangle, Nano Banana, and the Rise of the Autonomous Dev Army
Happy Friday, folks. If you’ve been heads-down this week, you might’ve missed the fact that Google went full mad scientist—dropping not...

Rich Washburn
Aug 29, 20253 min read
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90% of You Are Already Using AI—It’s Basically Coffee at This Point
Right now—today, this very moment—90% of your workforce is already using AI. Not in some pilot program. Not in some sanctioned tool. Not...

Rich Washburn
Aug 26, 20253 min read
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$100 Billion in 90 Days: Still in the Dial-Up Days of the AI Revolution
Let’s take a moment and let this sink in: in Q2 of 2025—just three months—the so-called “Magnificent Seven” spent over $100 billion  on...

Rich Washburn
Aug 2, 20253 min read
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There's a Prompt for That: From Idea to Exit in the Age of AI
Let’s get something out of the way: we’re not guessing anymore. We’re not theorizing. We’re not wondering if  AI-powered app creation...

Rich Washburn
Jun 25, 20253 min read
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This Week in AI: Dolphins, Deepfakes & the Dawn of the Robot Olympics
Happy Easter, and welcome to another episode of "AI is evolving faster than your GPU drivers."Â This week, we saw machines talk to...

Rich Washburn
Apr 20, 20253 min read
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Welcome to the Great AI Efficiency Era: Why Your Skills Matter More Than Ever
It’s the best of times—and the worst of times. AI is accelerating faster than ever. Models are getting better, smarter, and cheaper by...

Rich Washburn
Apr 12, 20253 min read
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Tokenization & AI Factories: Welcome to the Age of Intelligence Assembly Lines
Picture this: You walk into a high-tech factory—not the greasy, clanging type from old documentaries, but a temple of glass, LEDs, and...

Rich Washburn
Apr 3, 20255 min read
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This Week in Tech: GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, and the Anime Apocalypse
Well, that escalated quickly. This week in tech felt less like a news cycle and more like a full-blown time warp. In a few short days, we...

Rich Washburn
Mar 28, 20253 min read
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The AI Surge of 2024: Insights and Reflections from the Trenches
If you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground in the tech world, you know AI has been on a tear. But even I was a bit floored by...

Rich Washburn
Aug 22, 20242 min read
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How Generative AI is Redefining Human Potential
Imagine having an Einstein in your basement—an amalgamation of the collective intellect of history's greatest minds..

Rich Washburn
Aug 3, 20243 min read
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The Hidden Energy Crisis Behind the AI Boom
The digital age has brought us an array of technological marvels, with generative AI standing out as a transformative force. However,...

Rich Washburn
Jul 28, 20242 min read
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Generative AI: The Hype is Real and So Are the Opportunities
Generative AI has rapidly transitioned from a nascent technology to a transformative force, and the buzz surrounding it is well-deserved....

Rich Washburn
Jul 11, 20243 min read
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The Battle for Unbiased AI: Freedom GPT
The emergence of advanced AI tools has revolutionized various sectors, yet it has also introduced significant ethical and operational...

Rich Washburn
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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DSPy: Transforming Prompt Engineering and AI Optimization
Prompt engineering has become a crucial element for optimizing language model performance. Recently, a groundbreaking framework known as...

Rich Washburn
Jun 25, 20242 min read
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AI Assistants: The Next Frontier of Human-Machine Collaboration
For centuries, computers have been mere calculators - executing instructions fed by human programmers. But a seismic shift is underway....

Rich Washburn
May 29, 20242 min read
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Nvidia's Blackwell: A Defining Moment in Computing
In a world constantly reaching for the next frontier in technology, Nvidia stands at the precipice of a revolution. At their recent GTC...

Rich Washburn
May 25, 20243 min read
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