A week in AI is like a year in other industries. I hope these issues become your weekly source of AI information, inspiration, and ideas. If we haven’t met before, I’m Amanda Smith. I write about AI and the fascinating folks who are building in this brave new world.
Good morning. Over the past few weeks we’ve covered some remarkable founders building in AI, from tools that rewrite the hiring playbook to models competing with OpenAI. In case you missed any of them, here are the ones readers spent the most time with 👇
Paddy Lambros went from being written off in school to running one of the most ambitious recruiting products in Europe. Dex uses voice AI to unearth people’s strengths and map them to roles they didn’t know existed. His belief is simple: people don’t want AI done to them, they want a human experience made better by it.
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What started as a terrifying ER visit turned into Honey Health: a network of AI agents that log into EHR systems, gather documents, prep charts, chase missing labs, and handle the mountain of admin that slows down care. Matt Faustman’s team is proving that some of the most meaningful uses of AI happen far away from the spotlight.
While the biggest AI labs were raising billions, Zeev Farbman and his team quietly built one of the strongest multimodal video models with a fraction of the resources. Lightricks’ LTX-2 is now competing with Sora and Veo, and they’re releasing it with open weights. Their bet is on open ecosystems, not closed stacks.
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