June 3, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
Jay Gallman recently shared a link about Adobe for Creativity available in Claude, and I was immediately intrigued. One of Claude's most notable gaps compared to Gemini and ChatGPT has been native image and video creation — so the idea...
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May 31, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
[caption id="attachment_5649" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Google and Samsung's glasses, left, and Google and Xreal's Project Aura, right, are two parts of a new wave of Gemini-powered tech arriving this fall. - Scott Stein/CNET[/caption] To understand why Google’s new intelligent eyewear is...
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May 30, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
In a recent article, I explored how Obsidian can be used to organize information for AI-assisted work. Since then, I have been looking more closely at how an Obsidian-based approach relates to Retrieval-Augmented Generation, commonly known as RAG. This is...
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May 28, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
On Saturday, May 23, 2026, Major League Soccer and Apple TV quietly shifted the landscape of sports broadcasting. Instead of rolling out the traditional fleet of multimillion-dollar broadcast trucks and massive, crane-mounted stadium cameras for the LA Galaxy vs. Houston...
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May 27, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
At Google I/O 2026, the paradigm shifted from AI that simply answers questions to AI that takes action. Leading this transition is Gemini Spark, an autonomous personal agent designed to work in the background on your behalf, even when your...
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May 26, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
I'm doing a "video" paper talk this Wednesday. Was checking the video presentation on a video monitor and it looked terrible. Of course it would. I created the video "waiting" in Keynote and it looked fine on my laptop but...
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By: Stephen Toback
The trade-off between adopting a highly specialized enterprise legal platform like Harvey versus deploying a standalone model like Anthropic's Claude is a defining strategic choice for modern legal departments. The landscape has evolved rapidly since the early days of generative...
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May 23, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
Google I/O 2026 just wrapped up, and the theme is clear: AI is moving from a passive chatbot that answers questions to an active partner that completes multi-step, long-horizon tasks. Instead of general, incremental updates, Google unveiled a highly specialized...
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May 13, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
Every so often, a new phrase starts making the rounds in AI circles that sounds like a fundamental shift. Lately, one of those phrases is some variation of: “Deterministic AI as a guardrail for stochastic AI.” It has the cadence...
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May 12, 2026
By: Stephen Toback
I had an interesting conversation and short demo with my boss Michael Greene today about how he is using Obsidian as a personal wiki to organize his work information - as well as use it as marked up information to...
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