The week in AI at a glance

• You can’t believe your eyes anymore: Solving image generation will have second- and third-order effects for years to come. Then comes video.

• Be wary of the demons hiding under pitiful masks: A comic strip of “My Life As ChatGPT” goes viral… with an unexpected twist.

• New Anthropic study: On the biology of an LLM: We don’t know how AI works, so we have to do experiments like a biologist: open up that thing and look inside.

• Two new books on AI: On scaling and OpenAI’s story: Dwarkesh Patel’s “The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025” and Karen Hao’s “EMPIRE OF AI.”

• Artists have already accepted that AI won: The moment you compare every unique artwork to AI, you’ve made AI your yardstick—whether you like it or not.