Taking over the AI Pulse

I now edit the AI Pulse, a weekly AI newsletter for Digital Leaders.

I’ve struggled forcing myself to keep up with all the AI “news”.

I’ve gotten lazy. My mental model for AI hasn’t needed to change for over a decade. Putting the time in to search through the deluge of noise to find a glimmer of signal seemed like a bad trade.

But, obviously, it’s something that I should do. It is important to keep up with what’s going on, understand the landscape of the field, and keep a finger on the pulse of AI as an industry. Things are moving faster than ever, and it’s hard to really know in what direction unless you dig through the detail.

So when Digital Leaders mentioned they were looking for someone to continue the AI Pulse newsletter, I said I’d step up to the plate.

Now I have to keep up with it. Every week. Or 60,000 people don’t get their weekly digest. 😅

I’ll be taking over from Prof Alan Brown, who’s done a stellar job in keeping the Digital Leaders community pumped full of the latest AI progress news. As I said in my announcement note (written after England’s semi-final defeat if you can’t tell), “Alan is the Gareth Southgate of the newsletter… and I just have to try not to Tuchel it all up…”