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The Weekly AI Briefing

🧑‍🏫 Latest AI thoughts, tools, and news from unburdn Stop worrying about the "AI divide." You’re thinking about it wrong. I keep meeting smart business leaders who think they’ve already lost the race because they don’t have a seven-figure R&D budget or some cutting-edge experimental tech running in a server basement. Here’s the reality: The only true "have nots" are the ones who haven't rolled out anything and refuse to let their people experiment. If you are using basic tools to punch up emails, you are an "AI Have." I’m seeing leaders do what I call "brute force augmentation." They aren't building custom software. They are just using a simple "Me Bot" (a basic chatbot trained on their voice) to do their daily heavy lifting. They write better emails, faster. They stop agonizing over word choice and start focusing on persuasion and strategy. It’s a massive force multiplier that costs almost nothing. Yet, I still see companies dragging their feet. It is wild to me that this tech is available, easy to use, and executives are still treating it like the internet in 1999. "Oh, that's neat, but let the nerds handle it." Meanwhile, the "nerds" are accelerating at breakneck speed. The gap between what is technically possible right now and how most executives are actually working (using AI like glorified Google) is wider than at any point in history. Don't let your "business moat" convince you that you can sit this one out. Pro-tips: Build a "Me Bot" today: Take 10 of your best emails, feed them into an LLM, and ask it to analyze your tone. Save that analysis as a prompt. Force it: For one week, refuse to write a single email from scratch. Draft bullets, let the AI write the prose, and then edit. Ignore the hype: You don't need a custom enterprise solution to get ROI. You just need to open the browser tab and go to ChatGPT or Gemini. PS: Keep reading for hot-takes on headlines, AI tools, and a personal story + pic

📰 AI News Worth Knowing

💸 The Ticking Time Bomb of GPUs The "hyperscalers" are spending billions on data centers, but GPU hardware depreciates incredibly fast. It feels like building a luxury apartment building, renting it out, and then having to tear it down three years later to rebuild. The economics are going to get weird. Read Here ♊ Google Just Woke Up Google’s "Gemini 3" dropped this week, and the early reviews are in: It is really good. This is their state-of-the-art model aimed directly at ChatGPT. The big takeaway for business leaders? It’s fast, and the creative writing finally feels human. It's my new daily driver. Read Here 📉 "AI-Washing" Hiring Trends Headlines are claiming companies are slowing entry-level hiring "because of AI." I call BS. This feels more like companies blaming AI for standard budget tightening, but it’s worth reading to see how the narrative is shifting regarding junior talent. Read Here 🧠 First Social Media, Now This? We lost a generation of kids to social media addiction; now AI is coming for their cognitive development. The danger isn't just distraction anymore—it's a fundamental reshaping of how young people think. We need to decide what to protect before it's too late. Read Here

🛠️ AI Tools You Need to Try

♊ Gemini 3 We ask our clients to try a new tool 1-2x per year to break their habits. If you are "married" to ChatGPT, this is your wake-up call. Early benchmarks show Gemini 3 smoking the competition. Go MAFO (Mess Around Find Out). Check it out here ✈️ Google Search Travel Planning Google is integrating agentic AI into travel. Use this to build itineraries, find deals, and turn vague plans into actual bookings without 50 open tabs. Check it out here 🧰 Unburdn’s Vault A curated library of AI tools mapped to Crawl → Walk → Run stages. Great cheat‑sheet for leveling up your team’s stack. Explore Here. Subscribe

From the Field: 🥟 Soup Dumplings & Strategy

I was on the road last week for the second-to-last flight of 2025. Usually, business travel is a solo grind, but this time my wife, Lauren, tagged along to NYC. Spent the day doing high-level AI strategy (with an awesome client!), and at night, we grabbed a table at Din Tai Fung. We are obsessed with their soup dumplings (we’ve eaten them all over Asia). Nothing else hits quite the same. I love the work I do but doing it in a great city with my favorite person (and favorite food) is just perfection. Thanks for reading. 🙏 Copyright (C) 2025 AI for the Rest of Us LLC dba Unburdn. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe