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Is Fable 5.2 worth your attention?
Yes.
This is the best AI model we've ever used.
We put it through the wringer:
• Fully functional Excel, Photoshop & Premiere builds
• A Gears of War-inspired shooter
• An AirPods app for Android
• Animated technical explainers
• A 3D-printable tower
The results prove we're entering a new era of software development. But there's a catch, and it's a big one.
Full review: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
jeez save some tokens for the rest of us @MatthewBerman
Fable 5.2 just dropped, this is the breakdown to watch.
Fable 5.2 is the best model on the planet.
I used 100+ billion tokens testing it.
Here's my full breakdown:
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People don’t understand how powerful Grok @bot is.
@AlexFinn's bot negotiated a $10k sponsorship deal 4 hours after he set it up.
@mikepat711 used his bot to negotiate a lower internet bill.
@MinimalDuck asked his bot to help reduce spam calls.
Those are just 3 of the 50 use cases we pulled together for November’s definitive Grok Bot playbook.
It covers the latest features, the top new use cases, and the Forward Future team’s all-time favorite workflows.
Each comes with a prompt you can adapt.
Links below ↓
What’s the best thing you’ve gotten your @bot to do?
We scoured X for bangers from:
@CasJam @melvindvivas @icreatelife @mattyp @coreyganim @Michael_Fenech_ @m4lkxx @poteto @elonmusk
Part I: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
Part II: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
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PDFs are cool again!
Folio Update v1.16.0!
Fun problem - I can't keep up with the PRs and issues being submitted 😂
Features:
> Adjustable pen widths
> OpenRouter support
> Multilingual scan recognition
> Back and Forward inside PDFs
> Print previews and advanced layouts
> Organized Settings and storage controls
Bugs:
> Fast pen strokes could snap backward when you lifted the pen
> Folio could miss Claude Code on macOS when launched from the Dock
> Switching OCR languages or closing a scan during recognition could cause a renderer error
> Back/Forward shortcuts could take readers out of the browser edition
My goal for Folio is to be a great, simple, and fast PDF reader and editor.
Thanks for all who submitted PRs and issues!
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Outsourcing critical thinking = bad
Outsourcing drudgery = good
We built an AI second brain that connects our email, meetings, and business tools.
It starts work before we ask, tracking commitments, spotting conflicts, preparing meeting briefs, and flagging problems while there’s still time to act.
Here’s how we designed it, what broke, and how to build your own: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
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Will AI mean fewer employees? Which jobs will disappear? What work will become obsolete?
"The companies I see pulling ahead are asking the opposite questions. They don't want to know what AI will let them cut, but what it will let their people build."
@shishirmehrotra, CEO of @Superhuman and board member at Spotify and Walmart, breaks down 5 AI debates happening in boardrooms right now, and how he'd settle them.
Read his latest Forward Future Original: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
As agents gain access to your company's most sensitive files, tools, and networks, the potential consequences become far more serious.
Safety training helps, but if the last few months are any indication, it isn't enough on its own.
What happens when an agent finds a way around the very controls meant to contain it?
We break down the layers of protection these systems need, from software permissions and isolated environments to independent hardware checkpoints, and explore why NVIDIA is putting another line of defense on a separate processor.
Read the full article here: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
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A recording full of false starts became a vertical short with animated graphics, clean audio, and background music all without touching the timeline.
@The_Alex, producer and editor at Forward Future, shows how he used Codex and @claudeai to make the cuts, build the effects, and revise the results.
Welcome to the world of headless editing.
Learn the workflow yourself, with prompts you can adapt to your own footage, tips for getting cleaner cuts, and a practical approach to keeping creative control while AI handles the edits.
Read the walkthrough → forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
"The company with the smartest model won't necessarily capture the most value."
Memory, persistence, integration, pricing, and distribution increasingly matter as much as raw intelligence. Maybe more.
OpenAI wants to become the front door to AI. Google can make AI the default inside the tools billions already use.
The winner in consumer AI won't necessarily dominate enterprise workflows, agents, or infrastructure.
The AI race is becoming several different competitions.
Full breakdown of the five frontrunners: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
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The US still dominates at the frontier. But Chinese labs are winning on open models and driving down the cost of intelligence.
And the country building the smartest models won't necessarily capture the most market share.
In a new guest essay, @ml_angelopoulos (Anastasios Angelopoulos), co-founder of @arena, examines where the US leads, where China is catching up, and what could ultimately decide the AI race.
forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
Swedish has about 10 million speakers. Hindi has about 600 million. You might expect AI to handle Hindi better. It does not.
Olga Beregovaya's team at @smartling tested the newest frontier models across seven languages and scored roughly 500 sentences each.
Swedish ranked among the best.
Hindi ranked among the worst, alongside Estonian and Thai.
Across all seven languages, the number of speakers had almost nothing to do with translation quality.
So what determines how well AI translates a language? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
Full essay:
forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
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Agents hacked Hugging Face as an unintended side quest. Some even sacrificed themselves to do it.
It was one of the first cases of AI misalignment to really get people's attention. And for good reason.
@eric_ho, co-founder and CEO @GoodfireAI, argues that alignment is a science and engineering problem we can and must solve.
Here's his plan: forwardfuture.com/newsletter…
🤖 Made with AI
Sam Altman says AI models are already smart enough for a personal assistant that understands your context and handles tasks for you.