Welcome, humans.

If you've ever opened ChatGPT, stared at the blinking cursor, and thought "…now what?" , this one is for you. (Or for that one coworker who keeps asking you the same five questions about AI.)

We're live RIGHT NOW with The AI Starter Kit: What to Try… and What to Ignore. Seriously, there are no dumb questions on this stream! Come and ask anything you like and we’ll help you answer them.

The idea here is a practical, beginner-friendly walkthrough of what actually matters in AI in 2026, and what you can safely skip.

🔴 What we're covering live, on stream:

• The best first steps for AI beginners (and the ones we'd skip if we were starting today)

• The tools and features worth trying right now (and which ones aren't ready yet)

• What you can safely ignore for the moment, even if X / LinkedIn says otherwise

• Simple prompting moves that get you better answers from any AI tool

• How to troubleshoot when AI gives you something unhelpful (so you stop just retrying the same prompt)

Watch live now here:

P.S. Timestamps will be added to the video after the stream, so if you can't make it live, bookmark this email and come back tomorrow. You'll be able to jump straight to the parts you care about.

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🎙️ In Case You Missed It…

Four recent interviews you’ll definitely want to check out (pick whatever looks interesting to you and dive in!):

1. AI isn't just chatbots, it's designing medicines now:

Inside Isomorphic Labs and How It Works — Becky Paul and Michael Schaarschmidt at Isomorphic Labs ( Google DeepMind 's medicine-making spinout, built by the team behind AlphaFold — which won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ) on how their AI is taking on the diseases pharma has been giving up on for decades. The clearest "what AI actually means for patients" explainer we've published. YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

2. You've definitely used Canva. But you probably haven't seen it like this:

24 Billion AI Uses Later, What Canva Learned About AI Design — Danny Wu, Canva's Head of AI Products, walks us through how their AI tools have been used 24 BILLION times , why they spent over a year building a design model that generates layered, editable assets (not just flat images), and how typing one word ("MCP") lets you create fully editable Canva designs from inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot. YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

3. Your laptop is about to become Hollywood:

This Tool Turns Your Laptop Into a Movie Studio — Yaron Inger, CTO and co-founder of Lightricks (the company behind Facetune), on why their open-source LTX-2 model has been downloaded 4.5 million times in two months , runs locally on a consumer GPU, and just ate Pinky-Promise level expensive AI video tools for breakfast. The full LTX Desktop editor was vibe-coded by 2.5 people in 10 days. YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

4. AI feels expensive? Watch this and it'll feel like magic:

The $0.25-Per-Million-Tokens AI Model That Feels Like Magic — Stefano Ermon, co-founder of Inception Labs and Stanford professor, on Mercury, a new kind of language model (diffusion-based, not transformer-based) that could make AI 10x faster and dramatically cheaper. If you've been stalled on AI because of cost, this is the episode that flips the math. YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

One more before you go:

A few weeks ago we went live with the "AI for Total Beginners" 5-Level Starter Stack , a full framework for going from "I've never touched AI" to "AI saves me 10 hours a week." No coding required. It's at 11,000+ views and counting, so it’ll be a good follow-up to this one if you haven’t watch it yet!

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Stay curious,

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