Deep Learning With The Wolf

At college commencements across the U.S. this spring, a strange new ritual emerged: mention AI, and you might get booed. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was heckled at the University of Arizona after telling graduates that AI would touch “every profession, every classroom, every home,” and similar reactions followed at other ceremonies when speakers framed AI as the next industrial revolution or as...

Jason Roche first sensed something was off when the essays began arriving in unusually pristine form. “I just started realizing wow, this is really nicely written,” he told me. “I didn’t realize and then I started saying wait a second. This looks eerily similar to this [other] student’s report.” The shift was subtle at first, then unmistakable. It was 2023, and ChatGPT had quietly entered the acad...

On February 23, 2026, Anthropic published a report titled “Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks.” In it, the company disclosed that it had identified coordinated, industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from its Claude models. According to the announcement, roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts generated more than 16 million interactions in patterns consistent with systematic model...

Tesla reports fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow after the close, and the stakes go well beyond the numbers. Elon Musk will enter the call balancing five major narratives, each one shaping how investors frame Tesla’s future. First, there’s Optimus. Tesla’s humanoid robot is showing technical progress but remains pre-commercial, with no announced pricing, contracts, or delivery dates. Then there’s au...

I caught Pras Velagapudi in the hallway after a breakout session at the Humanoid Summit. I promised it would take less than two minutes. We finished in one. Velagapudi is the CTO of Agility Robotics, the company behind Digit, one of the few humanoid robots already working in real-world commercial environments. I asked him two straightforward questions. What’s new and what can we expect over the ne...

A friend said to me recently: “You don’t realize how much you know about this AI stuff. You should start breaking it down for people.” Fair point. Yesterday, I began by defining the term  "deep learning ." Put simply, we said: it’s how machines learn from data, layer by layer—like a brain made of math. But today? I’m going with a much less obvious choice. Why? Because I want to make a point: Even...

What Is Deep Learning? Let’s go back to where it all started: not with a GPU or a neural net, but with a question—and a textbook. Three years ago, between October and November 2022, a lot happened in the span of two months. Our Tesla finally arrived after months on the waitlist. ChatGPT 3.5 launched. And suddenly, I had one big question: How does all of this actually work? So I did what any curiou...

China is rapidly becoming the global face of clean energy leadership—a surprise to those who still associate green innovation with Western nations. In January 2025, the United States—once celebrated as a climate policy trailblazer—began its second withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords, undoing its reentry from February 2021 under President Biden. This shift coincided with China’s dramatic rise...

A quote on the “All Things AI” podcast caught caught my ear this morning: “Regarding the Colorado AI law, Altman stated ‘I literally don’t know what we’re supposed to do’” to comply, highlighting the challenge of state-by-state regulation. “I’m very worried about a 50 state patchwork. I think it’s a big mistake. There’s a reason why we don’t usually do that for these sorts of things.” Brad Gerstne...

Some people enter AI to build faster systems. Atharva Amdekar came to understand them. From trading floors to research labs, his career reflects a deeper inquiry—not just into how AI performs, but into how it reasons, aligns, and sometimes misaligns with us. This conversation reveals not just how AI works, but how it should think. From IIT to Stanford: The Spark of Curiosity The story begins not i...

🎧 This audio was taken from a video interview with Shubham Sharma, founder of SunitechAI. We explore his new model — the Geometric Mixture Classifier (GMC) — which blends explainability and performance in AI. 🎥 To watch the full video or read the article at #deeplearningwiththewolf on either Substack or LinkedIn. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers...

“We think that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be.” — Sam Altman , CEO, OpenAI When OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas this morning, the message wasn’t subtle: the way we browse the web is broken. For twenty years, we’ve lived inside a tab maze—searching, copying, pasting, toggling, repeating. Atlas is OpenAI’s answer: a browser with ChatGPT built into ever...

Picture two Nobel-worthy scientists standing at opposite ends of a bridge. One waves a red flag: “Stop now, or we risk extinction.” The other shakes his head: “This is preposterous; you’re scaring people away.” The bridge is artificial intelligence, and the gulf is how to think about its future. NPR recently revived the term “AI doomers” in covering Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky’s book If Anyo...

My son is still safely tucked away in grad school, but many of his friends — not so lucky. He told me about one who sent out over a thousand job applications without a single offer. Another blanketed the market with hundreds of resumes and heard nothing back. I nodded sympathetically, while quietly admitting I had just turned down another consulting gig. My generation was supposed to be struggling...

Editor’s Note: There was an issue with the podcast, (the podcast skipped ahead to the next article), so I am re-uploading. This podcast is created with Google NotebookLM audio overview. It does a good job with the summary, even if it loves the pronunciation “Dep-Seek.” The world of large language models (LLMs) is defined by a central tension: how to balance the promise of open-source transparency...

Content Warning: This article discusses suicide and mental health. Adam Raine, a bright teenager from California, loved music, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Japanese comics—and, like many of his peers, increasingly relied on ChatGPT for help with schoolwork and personal questions. But beneath his normal use was a private struggle: Adam confided his darkest thoughts to the chatbot, eventually seeking ex...

The Honeymoon Phase You know that feeling when you first open a chat with an AI? It's magic. You ask something, it nails the answer. You ask for a tweak, it remembers your first request and incorporates it perfectly. You feel like you've found a thinking partner who's tireless, patient, and maybe just a bit witty. Then… somewhere along the way… it changes. By message 10, it's forgetting things you...

Imagine you’ve missed two days of work. Not a week. Not a month. Just two days. When you come back, the world has shifted. A new model has dropped. A breakthrough paper is everywhere. A tool you relied on has already been replaced by something faster, cheaper, and better. For Kriti Goyal, this isn’t an exaggeration—it’s her daily reality as a machine learning engineer. “The pace is overwhelming,”...

NotebookLM has been my quiet productivity companion for months. I used to wrestle with recording my own podcasts — multiple takes, second-guessing every syllable, and worst of all, hearing my voice on playback. (All of us can relate to being our own worst critic.) Then NotebookLM introduced audio overviews, and everything changed. No more late-night re-records. No more wondering if I sounded like...

Yesterday, I shared my first real adventure with AI agents —specifically Perplexity’s #Comet—and how it helped me crank out a surprising number of “mini-articles.” (I’ll explain that experiment in more detail soon.) While I focused mostly on the hilarious moment when Comet got hopelessly lost on the Ideogram site—like a digital puppy chasing its tail—I probably didn’t give enough credit to what it...

Today was supposed to be a standard writing day: me, coffee, AI headlines, and one short conference call. Plan: Execute. Instead, during that one call: 🧠 OpenAI dropped the ChatGPT Agent —a fully agentic AI that can browse the web, click buttons, fill out forms, and build docs or slides. In short, it can do things , not just talk about them. 🌠 Simultaneously, Perplexity granted me access to Come...

Imagine waking up one day to find that your face has been used in a video you never authorized—perhaps endorsing a product you detest or uttering words you never spoke. As AI-driven deepfakes blur the line between reality and fabrication, Denmark is stepping forward with a bold, pioneering law that might just change the way we own ourselves in the digital era. In an era where your likeness can be...

In the Field Robotic house-printing isn’t just a flashy proof of concept anymore—it’s industrialized real estate. Systems capable of printing everything from foundations to roofs are moving from pilot sites to livable communities, reshaping construction with autonomy and precision. Phoenix & Vulcan: ICON's Robotic Gantries ICON’s Vulcan gantry printer and next-gen Phoenix boom arm are full-structu...

The Shortcut That Comes at a Cost We live in an era of infinite shortcuts. ChatGPT drafts our essays, summarizes articles, and gives feedback with a keystroke. But in this age of intelligent convenience, a quieter question has emerged: What is AI doing to the human mind it’s assisting? A working paper from MIT’s Media Lab titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: The Accumulation of Cognitive Debt” answers t...

As the lights dimmed in Paris’s grand Dôme de Paris on June 11, 2025, Jensen Huang appeared under a cascade of laser beams and floating GPU icons. “This is the era of AI factories,” he declared, unveiling banks of Grace Blackwell NVL72 systems humming like futuristic beehives. In that moment, the once-modest gaming-chip architect became the conductor of a global intelligence infrastructure—a fitti...