Notes on building a selfin the age of intelligent machines.
Google officially released Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash at Google I/O 2026, unveiling the Deep Think mode. By exploring multiple hypotheses in parallel, the model achieves record scores on math, coding, and multimodal benchmarks. We analyze what this shift in AI reasoning architecture means for education and work.
READ MORESouth Korea's Ministry of Education unveiled its first-ever 'AI Talent Development Plan for All' in early 2026 β a β©1.4 trillion ($960M) national blueprint spanning elementary AI labs to doctoral research programs. The ambition is sweeping, but critics warn that speed may be outrunning strategy.
READ MORENotion launched Plan Mode in May 2026. Instead of executing immediately, the AI agent asks clarifying questions first and presents an action plan. Combined with Slack private channel access and calendar/inbox integration, Notion is evolving from a note-taking app into an AI-powered work operating system.
READ MOREThe OECD's Digital Education Outlook 2026 revealed an uncomfortable truth: students using AI produced better assignments, but scored up to 17% lower on follow-up tests without AI. When a tool does the thinking, real learning disappears.
READ MORESuno released v5.5 in March 2026, introducing voice cloning (Voices), personalized style training (Custom Models), and passive preference learning (My Taste). AI music tools are evolving from "something anyone can use" to "something that is truly yours."
READ MOREAs of 2026, 42 U.S. states and Washington D.C. have passed laws or implemented policies mandating evidence-based reading instruction. The decades-long 'reading wars' are reaching a verdict. Georgia just invested $70 million to place literacy coaches in over 1,300 schools.
READ MOREIn May 2026, Claude Code's Hooks system received a significant upgrade. PostToolUse hooks can now intercept and replace output from any tool (not just MCP), hooks can read the current effort level via effort.level or $CLAUDE_EFFORT, and duration_ms tracks actual tool execution time. A new claude ultrareview subcommand also enables non-interactive code review from CI pipelines.
READ MOREOn May 5, 2026, Notion officially launched Custom Agents out of beta β just three months after more than 1 million agents were created during the preview period. The GA release brings new admin controls for creation permissions, per-agent credit limits, a spending dashboard, and automatic safeguards against unexpected costs.
READ MOREIn early 2026, Obsidian released Bases β a new core plugin that creates table, card, and list views from note properties. It looks similar to Notion databases, but your data stays in Markdown files on your own machine.
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