Chain of Thought

Thinking at the edge of AI.

Feb 3, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Deep Research—Here’s What We Found

Vibe check: It’s awesome.

Jan 23, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Agent—Here’s What We Found

Operator (Could you help me do this task?)

Nov 14, 2024

Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall?

No.

Nov 1, 2024

Writing as a Way of Thinking

Why managers might offer our best clue about AI’s impact on writing

Oct 18, 2024

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Oct 11, 2024

Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines

AI is turning science into engineering—with unprecedented changes for how we see the world

Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI Launches a Document and Code Editor Integrated Into ChatGPT

Canvas is an Artifacts competitor aiming at the future of AI-human collaboration

Oct 2, 2024

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom (2023)

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Oct 1, 2024

Everything OpenAI Launched at DevDay

A real-time API, prompt caching, higher rate limits, model distillation tools, and more

Sep 26, 2024

GPT-4: A Copilot For The Mind (2023)

Never forget what you read again

Sep 25, 2024

GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine (2023)

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

Sep 20, 2024

Admitting What Is Obvious

I’m a writer—what are you?

Sep 13, 2024

OpenAI’s o1 Model, Explained

Chain of thought opens a new paradigm in AI progress

Sep 9, 2024

AI Journaling Changed My Life

Your new best friend for personal development

Sep 6, 2024

Why Generalists Own the Future

In the age of AI, it’s better to know a little about a lot than a lot about a little

Aug 30, 2024

OpenAI’s New Model, Strawberry, Explained

ChatGPT’s next big evolution lies in its ability to solve the ‘strawberry’ problem

Aug 21, 2024

The Mantra of This AI Age: Don’t Repeat Yourself

AI won't kill your job. But it will steal your repetitive tasks.

Aug 9, 2024

Review: ChatGPT’s New Advanced Voice Mode

AI’s new voice is a leap into the future

Aug 2, 2024

The Great AI Unbundling

Why ChatGPT and Claude will spawn the next wave of startups

Jul 26, 2024

How I Built Spiral

Paying-subscriber benefit: My chat with Claude to write the code for our new prompt builder

Jul 26, 2024

AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions

Navigating one-way-door decisions with a little prompting

Jun 28, 2024

When AI Gets More Capable, What Will Humans Do?

We used to be sculptors. We're all about to be gardeners.

Jun 12, 2024

Apple Embraces the Enemy

What its unlikely AI alliance with OpenAI and Microsoft means

Jun 7, 2024

LLMs Turn Every Question Into an Answer

Part two: Language models as text expanders