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Posts by Jake Handy

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OpenAI rushes out GPT 5.2 while somehow convincing Disney to pay them $1B AI Weekly Update - December 15, 2025

Master negotiators? Or do they know something we don't?

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GPT-5.2 is here and, while it’s cool to see an incremental release like this have such wild leaps on benches, I’m starting to get more concerned about corps rushing through safety checks to outpace each other.

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The saga of Suno and Udio What the companies’ choices signal for the future of music

Yesterday, Suno announced a $250M raise and Udio announced (another) settlement, this time with Warner Music Group. Why the divergence?

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Google‘s new image model is their Sora moment. Nano Banana Pro seemingly allows any copyrighted content and the image outputs are scary realistic with incredible details around fidelity (up to 4K!) and crisp text generation.

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Google's Gemini 3 is here Google puts scaling laws to the test with its new milestone release

Hey there Gemini
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4 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Google plans Gemini 3 launch this week, following OpenAI's GPT 5.1 update Weekly updates in AI and cutting edge technology.

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Sora 2 and the messy future of AI-generated video OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and if you thought AI-generated images were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet

Sora 2’s separate feed solves some problems, but the model itself (namely the Cameo feature, which allows you to insert real people into AI videos) is going to create some new, hard-to-solve problems. More:

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Sora 2 today

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Rumors point to Claude 4.5 this week; OpenAI begins hiring for hardware AI Weekly Update - September 22, 2025

Claude 4.5 this week? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

6 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Suno is teasing its next generative music model (v5). Their short comings have been vocal quality and general fidelity and this sample seems to indicate some solid progress on both. Take a listen:

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Getting free access to Poke's AI agent Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding?

Poke is a marvel. The bot went from insulting me, to gaslighting me, to haggling with me over setting a price for its services. In the end, I got access to the entire service for free.

Here’s how it went down.

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6 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Inputs and outputs How we can architect a fair future for AI music

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Using Codex CLI to build a web app OpenAI's terminal-based agent is the best AI coding tool yet

Modern product manager must be moving beyond simple wireframes and into building full, functional prototypes with AI coding tools. No excuses.

Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

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Interesting tidbit: ChatGPT’s study mode defaults to a 10th grade level. Does OpenAI consider this the statistical middle in terms of Chat users?

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The spread of intelligence between the various GPT-5 models is pretty wild.

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In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users:

- Auto
- Fast
- Thinking

Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.

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Jake Handy (@jakehandy) In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users, available via the UI model picker: Auto: Decides how long to think. Automatically switches between Fast and Thinking w...

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technically not available yet! sometime today

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GPT-5 is here Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.

there she blows

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Introducing GPT-5
Introducing GPT-5 YouTube video by OpenAI

YouTube link is live for GPT-5 livestream (starting in an hour-ish)

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Grok 2 and 3 will be open sourced... any day now... I'm sure it's coming...

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GPT-5 tomorrow

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The first ethical AI music model? How ElevenMusic's approach to licensing could push the generative music industry in the right direction

it appears as though ElevenLabs has created an Udio-quality competitor with licensed training data and some pretty solid commercial terms

more: soundmachines.substack.com/p/the-first-...

8 months ago 1 0 0 0
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OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August GPT-5 is expected to arrive in early August

GPT-5 in early August

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52% of accountants are using AI; why aren't you? How to set up an AI workspace and have agents automate your personal and professional finances

ditch your accountant, use Cursor's AI agents

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o3 still the king of cost-per-intelligence, generally. Good showing by Grok 4 but it was overhyped (who expected anything different?)

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Your brain on ChatGPT Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent

DON'T: Ditch #AI tools entirely. You’ll be at a detriment.

DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain!

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Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

Welcome to the age of misalignment.

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Vibe coding made a big impact at OpenPlay’s first hackathon The hype around music-industry hackathons may ebb and flow, but they remain an enduring source of good ideas.

thanks Music Ally for featuring me here. lots to chew on in terms of how hackathons are going to look in the future

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