What the smart people are recommending. 7756 books, tools, and products endorsed by the thinkers absorb.md tracks. Ranked by how many times each has been recommended across compiled podcasts, papers, posts, and tweets.
“Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework”
“# Recraft V4: image generation with design taste”
“Learn more here: https://mistral.ai/news/forge”
“And I wrote it about Bitcoin and I said everybody should put 1% of their net worth into Bitcoin and I said it's basically schmuck insurance >> and then they published it in the Bloomberg terminal or w…”
“**letter_opener for the [Resend](https://resend.com) gem.**”
“Agent 4 fixes this.”
“building a working game in excel, with a built-in game AI powered by complex formulas:”
“introducing gpt-5.4 mini:”
“Leanstral: Open-Source foundation for trustworthy vibe-coding”
“We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition.”
“how can I have not just a single session of clot code or codeex or some of these agent harnesses.”
“Coding an app is the new starting a podcast.”
“Explore our latest innovations across research and products”
“@danwwang 's book Breakneck”
“just switching to a different profile on my graphen OS here”
“So uh uh there's a company called Fountain Life that uh created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you.”
“_Blog post by Google DeepMind_ https://deepmind.google/blog/protecting-people-from-harmful-manipulation”
“Uses [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/installation) for package management”
“With thanks to @MorningstarInc”
“Very enthusiastic about what @centivax is doing. We still suffer from an outrageous number of infectious diseases.”
“One of the best AI products I've seen recently: (drumroll) Adobe Podcast”
“More on our approach to the Model Spec: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-the-model-spec/”
“$ stripe projects add posthog/analytics And it'll create a PostHog account, get an API key, and (as needed) set up billing.”
“We're joining @Microsoft's Model Mondays on April 6th to discuss how AI can help you:”
“Maybe even more dramatic example of this is deep wiki where it's not just the raw content of these files. uh this is from Devon but also like they have Devon basically do analysis of the GitHub repo”
“This repository showcases example UI components to be used with the [Apps SDK](https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk), as well as example MCP servers that expose a collection of components as tools. …”
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“Yes: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/”
“Today, we open-source CaP-X: vibe agents, alive in the physical world.”
“A [Pen](https://codepen.io/jjob1391/pen/xeoWYK) by [Jeremy](https://codepen.io/jjob1391) on [CodePen](https://codepen.io).”
“AI natives can now build with Wan 2.7 on Together AI”
“When Opus 4.5 came out, it was a one-way door to a new way of engineering.”
“I drove a Honda Civic that was like, you know, just like, you know, when you graduate from high school, you know, they give you the keys to your older brother of his POS car.”
“Join the [OpenAI Discord server](https://discord.com/invite/openai) and visit the Parameter Golf channels (#parameter-golf-discussions, #parameter-golf-announcements) and ask questions.”
“Use Codex from inside Claude Code for code reviews or to delegate tasks to Codex.”
“• Embeddings: A local @nomic_ai model via @huggingface transformers.js”
“• Vector storage: A local @qdrant_engine edge shard (custom-built in Rust and compiled as a native add-on)”
“you do you do H hand your video over to like Luma Ai and turn it into a Nerf or a gossan Splat no no no I mean I do I'll do it inum decentralized you know me right I'm more of a decentralized guy I do…”
“He's the creator of Pulsia. It's an agentic system. It's not OpenClaw. It was built while Peter was off building OpenClaw. It's a separate agentic system, Jason, that helps businesses run their operat…”
“You should read the red team report: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/”
“I built a better way to keep up with the AI community here on X: https://alignednews.com/ai”
“you're talking through Chain of Thought and how it doesn't produce much novel insights and”
“have you see this paper? https://llm-attacks.org”
“# Aurora _Blog post by Together AI_ https://www.together.ai/blog/aurora”
“👉 Flux: conversational STT with 250ms end-of-turn detection using conversational context”
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“We're doubling Composer 2 usage through the end of this weekend. We recommend trying it out in our new interface, available in Cursor 3.”
“You have a person that was a staunch advocate that I need to use Emacs. You will never see him using an IDE. And he skipped autocomplete. He skipped Chat, and now he is directly using Anti-Gravity to …”
“Actually, we shipped a model called Flash, Gemini 3 Flash. And the coding capability is actually on par with Pro.”
“31B Dense & 26B MoE: state-of-the-art performance for advanced local reasoning tasks – like custom coding assistants or analyzing scientific datasets.”
“SEO audit your site.”
“Perhaps the craziest thing that was introduced on the Keras community call today: Keras Kinetic, a new library that lets you run jobs on cloud TPU/GPU via a simple decorator -- like Modal but with TPU…”
“This was mostly to get sort of the early adopters are right there. There's the early majority there's a book called crossing the cha chasm which sort of defines these terms and I think I remember them…”
“Install this tool using `pip`: ```bash pip install scan-for-secrets”
“My junior year, a good friend of mine gave me a book. He's like, "I think you'll like this." And it was Liar's Poker. I read it in one night. Literally, it was a party that night, and I stayed in my r…”
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“Deepgram Speech-to-Text and Voice Models now available natively on Together AI”
“We can offer you a free chatgpt pro account”
“Honestly, if you don't take it seriously now, >> Alex, welcome to the podcast. Great to have you. >> Thanks for having me. So, Proof of Human is having a moment right now. Why don't you first give a a…”
“I don't even know anymore. You know, I I retained on chrisbroen.com, but it's just sitting there. It's just a shell.”
“New @X API + @Replit is lots of fun.”
“Code to reproduce the figure and play around with this idea: https://t.co/OZPfxCRN3s”
“This is running on a iPhone 17 Pro.”
“Meet the CTO of @NousResearch. Maker of Hermes that is kicking OpenClaw’s behind. Live on X audio space on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Pacific here.”
“Yes, we do. If you go to plaud.ai, plaud.ai/twist, use the code twist, save 10%.”
“Codex app server makes it easy to build your own agentic apps:”
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“So, I want to tell you about Paper OS and why we use it here at our own companies launch in the syndicate. Paper OS has helped over 10,000 founders and investors, including me, automate their workflow…”
“Me, sell half your BTC and buy some tow. I I don't give financial advice, but maybe to family members, I might give a little bit of advice”
“Subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to see our faces. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. That way, you get a new episode every week. And sign up for emails or…”
“a bit like Wikipedia right you you can't have just Wikipedia in one language that has to cover all languages all cultures and everything”
“I decided to write a book called Founders at work and it was based on the writers at work series that how they interviewed writers about how they wrote and stuff like that and I said there's nothing o…”
“I noticed with Vzero um is you took a slightly different approach which I really like and I I thought it was cool was that you empower developers that are specialized in one area which is like really …”
“I always use the example of how we are building an externalized technology today how Google uh created Alpha Zero the chess engine and and Magnus Carlson in our region”
“It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html”
“KPMG's KPMG Audit Chat represents the most advanced integration of AI into professional audit processes, with the dual cloud strategy (Microsoft + Google) providing comprehensive AI capabilities acros…”
“string book as like an alternatives to Jupiter notebooks”
“ChatPwC: Private generative AI tool built with OpenAI's technology, fine-tuned with internal data [5]”
“APP’s Persistent Lies, Denying Use of Persistent IDs (APP US)”
“Agentic coding assistants shine when you want to interact with a mix of local tools installed on your computer as well as cloud services like maybe Postman, [music] Figma, or Google Docs.”
“I know deep learning AI has done so much for educating the community at large. So awesome to see the energy here”
“Enterprise small medium organizations everybody can use webspy and by the way if you're a fan of the program it is your duty it is your honor it is your gir to thank the sponsors on Twitter just say t…”
“you have systems uh uh some systems that we work on like Alpha proof Alpha geometry that are getting you know silver medals in maths olympiads which is fantastic but on the other hand some of our syst…”
“Grocery stores like Kroger, Ralph's, Fred Meyer, and more are now delivering on Uber Eats. Get 40% off your order of fresh quality ingredients. Whether you just got home to an empty fridge or suddenly…”
“This is Jason. It is a It's an open-source notetaking agent that listens into your conversations and provides helpful insights.”
“Rosebud is an interactive Journal designed with therapists to create positive change in people's lives and so the way that it works is we take a daily journaling practice and make it a lot more reward…”
“You can find out more about the podcast this week in aai.ai or if you want to see the YouTube channel this week in aai.ai/youtube.”
“you have to evaluate these robots inside a virtual gym that represents the physical world... That's a second computer. We call that omniverse.”
“Let me just start the show by saying I love Plaude.”
“Network hippo is a layer a social layer that goes on top of all your social connections and your email it consolidates all of your contacts helps you understand your relationships tells you who you sh…”
“but you know who doesn't need any credit is webpy webpy they monitor all kinds of server activity from employee internet access to email service to web host analyze for traffic levels patterns errors …”
“or monopoly”
“For me X is the best way to be best place to be an AI haha but I I can't follow 25,000 people anywhere else and and share that with you right”
“Paper below tested a variety of base LLMs (no TTA) on generalization-focus math problems and found that they can't reason and can't do math.”
“I've been playing We Rule you ever play We Rule iPad I haven't played don't start that's my it's going to be like consider this as a PSA parents I know you see your children playing Farmville and you …”
“you have four square on one side which is just check in”
“you have gowala in the middle which is check in with a little bit of virtual objects and a little bit of playfulness”
“Requirements: Claude Code, [Git](https://git-scm.com/)”
“UB key is the company I use”
“We prove that, in various tasks, quantum machines can learn from exponentially fewer experiments than those required in conventional experiments.”