AI Literacy · Ritchie

Claude Code New Features, Explained

For anyone looking to learn or brush up: Greg Isenberg put together a thoroughly updated tutorial. Well worth watching to review the basics or pick up a couple of new tricks.

TutorialGreg Isenberg

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Chicago Law’s AI position, in writing

A top law school publishes its AI strategy: what it allows, what it prohibits, and how it folds AI into legal training. The document most universities still haven’t dared to write.

DocumentUniversity of Chicago Law School

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South Korea opens the door to registering AI-assisted works

South Korea now registers copyright for AI-assisted works — with precise requirements and scope. The contrast with Mexico’s line (creating with AI gives you no rights) is worth reading firsthand.

AnalysisSheppard Mullin · August 18, 2026

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Genspark, after two months of real use

I used it for a couple of months. Honestly my stack is mostly covered by Claude and Codex; I try everything, but I keep coming back to the usual — it strikes me as the best combination. I just bought their Plaud-style recorder; if it turns out good I’ll report back, but I’ll be watching closely where my data goes.

ToolGenspark · my own take after real use

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Anthropic will tag everything you make with AI

A remarkably detailed explanation by Jon Hernández of how Anthropic’s labeling of AI-generated text works, released last week. If you write with AI, this one lands close to home. In Spanish.

VideoJon Hernández · Inteligencia Artificial

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AM I? — A Documentary About AI Consciousness

It came up in a group conversation about living in a world of probabilities and inferences. My recommendation was simple: watch it.

DocumentaryAM I? · A Documentary About AI Consciousness

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My own article

AI’s promise stops being a promise

This week’s article — genuinely interesting: the USPTO purged more than 70,000 baseless filings with AI fraud detections, while Mexico keeps legislating how to watch a machine it hasn’t bought.

Articlealdoricardo.com · also on LinkedIn · in Spanish

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Is using AI confidential? — my talk at AIMX

My talk before the Legal & Government Relations Committee of Mexico’s Internet Association. "In case you’d like to join, see you in an hour," I told the group that morning; in the afternoon I shared the full deck: 37 slides, in Spanish.

TalkAIMX · August 13, 2026

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Mercury now gives AI agents a card of their own

Mercury — a US bank — launched the Agent Card: a virtual card built specifically to hand to an AI agent, with its own limits and controls. Less than a month after we discussed it in the group: agents can now pay.

FactMercury · official documentation

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Claude Cowork now lives in Chrome’s side panel

Claude update: Cowork arrives in the browser’s side panel. The same session you carry on desktop and mobile, now reading and working on the page you’re already on.

UpdateAnthropic

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Mexico on AI literacy: 9.1 against a global average of 38.6

This matters because GIRAI separates AI literacy from everything else. Mexico scores 9.1 on AI Literacy, 33.1 on Labour & Skills and 27.95 overall. We are 81st in the world.

Data pointGIRAI — Global Index on Responsible AI 2026 · 81st of 135 countries and jurisdictions

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5 Best Practices for Building AI Agent Skills

For those who already have agents: how to make them better. It is about skills — the file that tells an agent how to do a specific task well.

AdvancedIBM Technology

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Session 1 — Course Overview

Stanford CS329A, session 1: Course Overview. Below it, the listenable version I made in NotebookLM — the NB is the notebook, the easy-to-follow version.

LectureStanford Online · with its audio version

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Session 2 — Test-Time Compute Scaling

Stanford CS329A, session 2: Test-Time Compute Scaling. Below it, the listenable version I made in NotebookLM — the NB is the notebook, the easy-to-follow version.

LectureStanford Online · with its audio version

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Session 3 — Robust Verification

Stanford CS329A, session 3: Robust Verification. Below it, the listenable version I made in NotebookLM — the NB is the notebook, the easy-to-follow version.

LectureStanford Online · with its audio version

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Session 4 — Learning from Feedback with Tools/Code

Stanford CS329A, session 4: Learning from Feedback with Tools/Code. Below it, the listenable version I made in NotebookLM — the NB is the notebook, the easy-to-follow version.

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Session 5 — Planning and Multi-Step Reasoning

Stanford CS329A, session 5: Planning and Multi-Step Reasoning. Below it, the listenable version I made in NotebookLM — the NB is the notebook, the easy-to-follow version.

LectureStanford Online · with its audio version

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Session 6 — Train Time Scaling / Scaling RL

Stanford CS329A, session 6: Train Time Scaling / Scaling RL. Below it, the listenable version I made in NotebookLM — the NB is the notebook, the easy-to-follow version.

LectureStanford Online · with its audio version

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AI agents explained: Build your first agent in 8 minutes

For anyone who still is not clear on what an agent is. It is a small reinforcement of everything from Stanford, and with this it all clicks.

VideoGoogle Cloud Tech

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Every AI Model Explained In 20 Minutes (Update)

Tina Huang’s update: the state of every AI model as of August 10, in twenty minutes.

UpdateTina Huang

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MCP vs API: Why traditional APIs are failing AI agents

This question comes up constantly: what is an API and what is an MCP. This video answers it in twelve minutes, with no code. The difference is not cosmetic for us: an agent that discovers and uses tools on its own changes what you have to write into a data-access clause.

VideoGoogle Cloud Tech · MCP was created by Anthropic; its governance moved to the Linux Foundation in December 2025

Anthropic hires Head of Claude for Legal

It is a clear intention from the lab to grow the niche, and obviously a threat to projects like Harvey and Legora. To me the vertical is very clear.

IndustryArtificial Lawyer

An AI designed brand new viruses

Stanford scientists used AI to design, for the first time, complete functional virus genomes. Of roughly 300 designs built in the lab, 16 worked. Two clarifications from the authors themselves, because they matter: these are bacteriophages — they infect bacteria, not people — and they were not designed from scratch, but from the ΦX174 phage as a template.

FactBBC News · the study came out the same day in Science (DOI 10.1126/science.aec2657)

The Infinity Machine — Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

It came out in late March and I am only about to read it, in case you are interested. What draws me are the governance decisions it recounts — the Google acquisition, the ethics board, the fights among founders — which is where a lawyer finds usable material. When I finish it I will tell you whether it was worth it.

BookSebastian Mallaby · Penguin Press, March 31, 2026 · his publisher bills it as an Instant NYT Bestseller

Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents

Stanford dropped this course on YouTube, for every level from college through doctorate. I tried to take it as it comes and got a little bored: it is a graduate seminar built on research papers. I keep it for the sessions on robust verification and agent evaluation — the exact vocabulary you need to negotiate a performance clause.

CourseStanford Online · nine lectures released August 3, 2026, free

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The Stanford course, in listenable form (parts 1 and 2)

Since the course bored me a little, I made a podcast in NotebookLM. Great result: very digestible. This is part 1; part 2 covers test-time compute scaling.

RecordingMy own recording · requires a Google account

The AI Agent Every Company is About to Build — Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch

We start with a relatively technical one. Guillermo Rauch is Argentine, and in this interview with Riley Brown — who is worth following — they talk, among other things, about the future of agents and the importance of Soul.md.

InterviewRiley Brown

Why Graph Engineering will 10x your Claude/Codex

The second piece is graph engineering, a very new trend. It is relatively technical, but Greg Isenberg is very good at explaining these things. Today got a bit technical, but give it a try: it is worth it, even bit by bit.

AdvancedGreg Isenberg

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Labeling AI-generated content: the European Union and California

Starting August 2026, the European Union and California set a new legal paradigm that transforms how AI-generated content must be labeled. To me this is Europe writing absurd laws again: good intentions, terrible execution, and that is why they have no place in this race. In Mexico there is nothing yet, but our legislators love to copy-paste European ideas as if they were good ones.

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China’s law on emotional bonds between AI and humans

This one is straight out of Black Mirror. As of July 15, China issued a law on the emotional bond that can develop between AIs and humans, and all its ramifications. It is remarkably interesting, and the reality is that this is the immediate future: it is not a bill, it is regulation in force.

RecordingMy own recording · requires a Google account

AI NEWS: the new OpenAI Astra

The week’s news with Jon Hernández, a Spanish AI communicator, covering OpenAI’s new model, Astra.

NewsInteligencia Artificial · in Spanish

The future of agentic payments

Today’s topic is the agents’ ability to pay. The problem is that today, for many operations, the agent needs the user to pay on its behalf — and that is a brake on a great many workflows.

VideoStripe Developers

“AI and Our Economic Future” with Professor Chad Jones

This Stanford talk explores, with Professor Chad Jones, what the economic future looks like once you add AI and robots to the equation. His concept of weak links is genuinely interesting.

LectureStanford Graduate School of Business

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The internet is no longer only for humans

Agents are changing the infrastructure of the internet. The figure that sums it up: 57% of internet requests today are made by bots.

RecordingMy own recording · requires a Google account

Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency

An interview with Altman came out three days ago: a good contrast with the Musk one. He talks about the current state from the other side of the table.

InterviewInvest Like The Best

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Dynamic workflows: how agent teams actually work today

In non-technical terms, how dynamic workflows actually run. Do not let the title scare you: it is explained simply. You trigger them through Claude Code, and not only to write code — you can use them for whatever work you want. It is enough to say: run a team of subagents to do this. You can tell them how many, what roles, and let them work.

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Context engineering: why the prompt stopped being the point

I constantly read people worrying about prompts — “what prompt did you use for that”. A few years ago companies hired prompt engineers; now they hire context engineers. Context is king.

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Jack Dorsey’s Buzz: Clearly Explained

For advanced users — for the grown-up kids. A very recurring question is how do I get my agents to talk to each other. It is not simple and it is not for beginners: it took me real effort to make it work.

AdvancedGreg Isenberg

Claude Code + Codex Can FINALLY Work Together

I put them to debate positions in prediction markets like Kalshi or Polymarket. I am not a bettor, but I could not think of another setting where their judgment would be measured. They decided to invest in a well-paying position on how hot it would get in Dallas that day.

ExperimentRiley Brown

Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt

The video of the day. Boris Cherny is the creator of Claude Code, and this was recorded on Saturday at Y Combinator.

VideoY Combinator

AI 2027

In April 2025 a team produced a document that projects — almost prophesies — the evolution of AI, and puts 2027 as the breaking point. It is general knowledge: you should read it. Just remember it is a catastrophic perspective, but one with scientific method.

Documentai-2027.com · I also made its audio in NotebookLM

The full-length interview with Elon Musk

The last piece of the day, to leave playing in the background. Teasers were circulating last week, but here it is in full. Elon gives a very practical read on the current state of things.

InterviewThe Economist

Por qué CHINA regala su IA al mundo

Gustavo Entrala’s analysis of what happened in China last week. It extends the explanation of open source as a Chinese strategy that opened this group.

AnalysisGustavo Entrala · in Spanish

AI Dictionary for Lawyers

A very valuable piece by someone I admire: Dr. Joel Gómez Treviño took the trouble to build this glossary. Genuinely top-notch.

ReferenceJoel Gómez Treviño · free, in Spanish

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Open-source language models — and why they are a Chinese strategy

The topic of the day. The truth is I was asking myself, without knowing, how they work or what benefits they have: it is thirty minutes explaining the topic and how it is a strategy on China’s part. I opened the group with this piece.

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What’s new in Gemma 4

My sense is that operating systems will have these built in within a few years; I think it is a bet being played among the big tech companies. I do not have that much information yet, but it is a good topic. Listen to it in full: the conclusion is interesting.

VideoGoogle for Developers · the model page is on deepmind.google

A Conversation with Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind

The last one of the day. Over the weekend I went through this Stanford conversation with Demis Hassabis. If you do not know who Demis is, listening to this is mandatory.

ConversationStanford Graduate School of Business