I'm thrilled to announce the definitive course on Claude Code, created with Anthropic and taught by Elie Schoppik Elie Schoppik. If you want to use highly agentic coding - where AI works autonomously for many minutes or longer, not just completing code snippets - this is it.

Prof. Yugank Goyal and his team at FLAME University launched the District Project (indiandistricts.in) with the country’s and state’s chief economic advisors - Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran and Shri Praveen Pardeshi this Saturday in #Pune. The project is first ever detailed

Got to talk about one of my most contrarian takes with Peter H. Diamandis, MD: I think the AGI "race" is a huge misnomer. There won't be one single AGI, but infinite variations and styles and forms. And that's way more exciting than a zero-sum race. youtube.com/watch?v=XWGnWc…

New NotebookLM: notebooks as time capsule. Our partners The Economist have curated a new Featured Notebook with an extensive collection of their reporting from 1945, letting you experience that momentous year as it was happening. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/34510…

Cambridge Handbook on AI This Cambridge University Press - Law Handbook, edited by Nathalie Smuha, considers AI from the perspective of the law, ethics and policy. It also studies AI in the context of education, the media, healthcare, and the public administration. Open Access: cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

If you haven’t yet, you can read the full book online: bit.ly/4on8vUw

We are primates, with a third of our brain dedicated to vision. Graphics are the most effective way to communicate quantitative, spatial, and causal information, but they are as hard to master as clear and stylish prose. Here's an excellent guide to data visualization by Saloni

‘The Thinking Game’ documentary has just passed 200M views on YouTube in just 4 weeks! 🤯Perfect holiday viewing if you’re interested in a behind-the-scenes look at how an AGI lab works, or what goes into making a Nobel Prize winning project like AlphaFold happen.🧬🚀

Beyond the Washington Consensus This book offers a great synthesis of new thinking about the economy. It covers issues such as innovation and productivity, trade, macro policy, the labor market, social policy, the environment & state capacity Open Access press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.313…

Feeling optimistic after my interview with Bill Gates about health on BBC Radio 4 Today. "AI advances are the one reason that, even in the face of these aid cuts, I think we'll be able to continue to make huge progress." Full conversation at the 1:51:30 mark: bbc.com/audio/play/m00…

Last book of 2025 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, by political scientist Michael Albertus, argues that throughout history land ownership determines whether a society is egalitarian, develops economically, and cares for the environment. It discusses cases from around the world. Check it out!

What's in store for the global economy in 2026? Ruchir Sharma unpacks the coming year's top trends:

Ethan Mollick I spent a while looking for this for a friend and ended up with missing.csail.mit.edu as the best option

The annual "The World Ahead" issue of The Economist has always been essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of important global trends. We're honored to make the 2026 issue available to NotebookLM users in this new Featured Notebook: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/84216…

I used Claude Code to re-classify 300k congressional speeches and presidential communications from 1880 to the present, which is based on a PNAS by Leah Boustan and coauthors. I've been filming myself doing it, and this is 3rd one. 1/ causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-code-…

Introducing a new age of policy research and impact using AI: “India’s Diet & Nutrition Dashboard Suite” EAC-PM Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation Mudit Kapoor …-diet-nutrition-dashboard.netlify.app

This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a high-stakes trial accusing his company and YouTube of harming children's mental health. Are social media platforms addictive? I talked to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt:

1/ Some Simple Economics of AGI—🔥🧵 Right now, there is a low-grade panic running through the economy. Everyone is asking the same anxious question: what exactly is AI going to automate, and what will be left for us?

Major new report on global trends in mental health, out today from Sapien Labs. Data from 2.5 million people across 85 countries. Some of the most important findings: 1) Young adults used to generally have good mental health, compared to older generations. But now, in ALL