A Quick Note to End the Year
It's a wrap...
Fellow human, it’s the last week of 2025. AI hasn’t taken over the world yet.
But this one’s different. No news roundup today. Just me, talking.
When I started this newsletter back in August, I had one selfish reason: I wanted to stay close to AI. Richard Feynman said something about developing an obligation to talk about something if you want to learn it. So I thought, why not write about it?
Every Sunday morning, before my kid wakes up, I sit down and dig through the AI chaos of the week. It’s become my version of what my dad used to do with newspapers, except my newspaper is the internet.
And it worked. I’ve learned more by writing this newsletter than by passively reading ten others. And every now and then, one of you subscribers replies with something like “this helped me” or “I finally understand this now, and I go: “Oh, interesting…”
But I’ve noticed something about the AI news part of this newsletter.
The weekly news has become… predictable.
It’s either:
A new model just dropped
China did something
Europe is regulating something
Or AI Godfather issued another warning
Rinse and repeat every week.
Don’t get me wrong, important things are still happening. But the weekly cadence is starting to feel like I’m reading the same story with different titles attached.
So here’s what I’ll change in 2026:
My weekly AI news digest will now happen monthly.
This actually gives me time to find things worth writing about. Not just “another model, another benchmark”.
However, I’ll still drop random AI gems whenever I stumble on or think of something interesting.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for the emails telling me this is useful.
See you in 2026.
And Happy New Year from your fellow human, Kay