New Yorkers: Asking for a friend...if you have a day and are staying by JFK, what are some things you'd recommend seeing? Public transit only. Worth trekking into Manhattan? Family of older ppl who wanna enjoy scenery and take pics.
Ken Yeung
@thekenyeung.bsky.social
Journalist • Founder of "The AI Economy" • Created ClawBeat.co and OnCue • Ex-VentureBeat, TNW, Flipboard • Signal: kenyeung.888 • https://kenyeung.co/
In less than 90 days, Adobe will officially have a new CEO. To Wall Street, he wasn't the "rational choice." Still, Anil Chakravarthy could reshape the company, turning it into the commercially safe content system brands need in the AI era. My thoughts: theaieconomy.substack.com/p/adobe-four...
Been using Grammarly in Google Docs lately, and it's been buggy. Fixing sentences at top of the page can result in fixes being inserted into header section. And sometimes it warps entire sentences, so I have to manually fix the fix. Assuming it's the cost of AI?
Using Claude and Otter AI as part of writing and frustrating. Constant hallucinations and refusal to accept context. Always provoking me w/wrong feedback. When ask for timestamps on transcript, it doesn't read it—gives rando answers. Context makes it better, right? LOL.
@flipboard.com @flipboardcs.bsky.social are you experiencing issues? I can't flip any articles from my Android device.
📑 Bookmarks are now available on Surf on the desktop, Android and in TestFlight, so you can save posts, videos, podcasts and anything else that catches your eye on Surf. Connected your @bsky.app or Mastodon accounts? Bookmarks from there also show up in Surf.
My approach to what stories I write for my "The AI Economy" newsletter is evolving. Now, I'm looking to focus more on deep dives—better understanding the workshop vs. the showroom. Here's what you can expect: theaieconomy.substack.com/p/the-ai-eco...
I attended Glean's customer conference in SF last week. The company pushed context hard—mentioning it 61 times in a press briefing. The argument was that for AI to truly succeed, it needed to know everything about an org. Without it, AI just burns money. theaieconomy.substack.com/p/glean-cont...
Media pros: what type of recorder do you use for interviews? Do you record for transcription an/or to use in podcasts?
I *think* I have figured out my manifesto for my newsletter. Now I just need to put pen to paper and write it out.
Ai2 says its AutoDiscovery tool has helped researchers at the Paul G. Allen Research Center identify immunotherapy potential in "cold" breast cancer, specifically invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC). Read about the findings in my newsletter: theaieconomy.substack.com/p/ai2-autodi...
The AI Built to Be Surprised Flags a ‘Cold’ Breast Cancer
Ai2's AutoDiscovery found immune activity in invasive lobular carcinoma, long written off as immunotherapy-proof. The lab work confirmed it.
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Oh wow! @flipboard.com has acquired(?) Graze, a custom feed builder for Atmosphere. Nice to see updates on how Flipboard is moving further into the fediverse and decentralized web. graze.leaflet.pub/3mtypcuxxc22p
Better, Together
An announcement from Graze
graze.leaflet.pub
Frustrated with @adobe.com Firefly—why can't it generate what I'm looking for? These requests are hours apart, and still Firefly can't generate images. I have available credits!
Fun assignment today for @geekwire.com: Attending the grand opening of King County Library's new central sorting facility. Great to see how robots are used to make sure people get their library books. www.geekwire.com/2026/inside-...
Late to the party but just noticed @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has a new show on @msnowreports.bsky.social! Congratulations!
Agent Plugins launched last week, backed by Vercel, AWS, OpenAI, and Microsoft. One of its architects calls it a Chrome extension for coding agents. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how it came together, from two people who helped build it. theaieconomy.substack.com/p/agent-plug...
How Agent Plugins Got Made
Vercel, AWS, and others set out to make agent add-ons portable. Two people who helped create the standard walk through how it came together.
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Adobe launches AI Collaborators in Workfront, letting you assign tasks to AI agents like teammates. Agents from Copilot Studio, Claude, and Writer do the work — Workfront supplies the context, humans keep final sign-off. theaieconomy.substack.com/p/adobe-work...
Adobe Puts AI Agents on the Payroll With Workfront AI Collaborators
Now generally available, AI Collaborators let you assign tasks to outside AI agents like teammates—with humans keeping final approval
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I'm sorry but GTA 6 has been postponed in favor of GTA: ATC edition. www.cbsnews.com/news/video-g...
Play video games? You, too, could become an air traffic controller.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is touting the success of a campaign targeting video gamers to train as air traffic controllers.
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"The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting 'verbal defiance or belligerence' or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people." Yeah sure, that won't happen at all. apnews.com/article/ice-...
AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Meet Dossier: the newest app I built to replace the spreadsheet I've used to track all my job applications. One-click saves, listing monitoring, and everything I need before an interview in one place. Here's how I built it: thelettertwo.com/2026/08/09/i...
Excited to share that my liveblogging app, OnCue, has been approved by @wordpress.org and is now available in the plugin directory! 1⃣ wordpress.org/plugins/oncu... 2⃣ thelettertwo.com/2026/07/10/i...
AWS just open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language that governs what AI agents are allowed to do. The twist: its rules can factor in what an agent already did—how much it's spent, whether a human approved, what came before. theaieconomy.substack.com/p/aws-dogwoo...
AWS's Dogwood Writes Rules That Remember What Your AI Agent Already Did
The new open-source policy language brings temporal logic to agent authorization. The old model judged one action at a time. Agents broke it.
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Adobe launches plugin for ChatGPT, providing access to 70+ tools from Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Acrobat, Express, and more—just by mentioning "@adobe." It's built for the first + last mile of creative work & builds on prev. ChatGPT connectors. theaieconomy.substack.com/p/adobe-chat...
Welp, never thought it would happen to me, but it did. Claude Code accidentally deleted all my working files for an app I built. Now I'm working to try to recover everything. 😞
Trump administration drops criminal case against ex-Olympian it accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in D.C.—it admits the renovations were "flawed". www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was flawed, drops case against former Olympian | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is now admitting that a Donald Trump-prompted $14 million installation of a pool lining on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping th...
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When I set about vibecoding an app, it's less about building something to solve a problem. I'm also trying to use it as an opportunity to explore third-party tools/platforms I'd only written about before. Am I the only one?
I find it annoying on YouTube when ads are inserted into live broadcasts. Trying to watch Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's press conference about the interim police chief and the Seattle Center shooting, only to have it be interrupted by an ad.
💡 Microsoft's fingerprints are on 1 in 4 Washington tech companies. UW's founder pipeline is one of the largest in the state. New for @geekwire.com: WTIA's 2026 Tech Universe Map traces WA's tech family tree, showing how interconnected the ecosystem is www.geekwire.com/2026/new-map...
