The Neuron: AI Explained

BONUS: Learn Video Prompting for TOTAL Beginners w/ NEW LTX-2.5 + LTX Team 14.08.2026 58min

Want to make better AI videos but have absolutely no idea what you’re doing?Perfect. Neither did most of us at first. 😹Join The Neuron LIVE this Thursday at 10 AM PT for a total beginner’s guide to AI video generation and video prompting, featuring the team behind the newly announced LTX-2.5.We’re going hands-on with the new model while learning the fundamentals of actually prompting video models effectively.What we’ll cover:🎬 How video prompting is different from image prompting✍️ How to write your first good AI video prompt🎥 How to control shots, motion, subjects, and scenes🧠 What video models actually understand when you describe a scene🛠️ A live demo of the brand-new LTX-2.5❓ Live Q&A with members of the LTX teamNo previous AI video experience required.If you can describe the video you want to make, we’ll show you how to turn that idea into a much better prompt.And because this is live, bring your weird prompts, difficult questions, and video ideas. We’ll put the model through its paces together.📅 Thursday, August 13⏰ 10 AM PTLearn more about LTX-2.5🔗 Explore LTX-2.5: https://ltx.io/model/ltx-2-5📰 Read the announcement: http://ltx.io/newsroom/introducing-ltx-2-5🤗 LTX-2.5 on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.5

AI Can Now Write DNA. What Does This Promise, And What Could Go Wrong? With Eric Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics 12.08.2026 51min

AI can now read DNA like language, generate working biological sequences, and help scientists identify disease-related mutations. Radical Numerics CEO Eric Nguyen explains how genome language models work, why his earlier model Evo helped scientists design CRISPR systems and bacteriophage genomes, and how the company’s newer model, Omnii, combines DNA with RNA, proteins, and other biological signals. The conversation explores personalized medicine, gene therapy, AI-designed biological threats, “deepfake viruses,” and whether the same technology that creates new biology can also defend against it.Learn more about Radical Numerics: https://www.radicalnumerics.ai/

BONUS: How to Use AI Agents for Total Beginners: A Crash Course w/ Agent Builder James McAulay 07.08.2026 1u 59min

This is the #1 request we get every week: how to actually use agents to save time in your business.We’re bringing in James McAulay, founder of The Agent Accelerator, for a practical crash course on what AI agents are, how they work, and how beginners can start using them to get real work done.James has spent the past year building at the front lines of the agent economy. After helping ElevenLabs grow from $110M to more than $300M in annual recurring revenue, he launched a fully AI-native business that reached $80K in monthly revenue by its third month and recorded its first $200K+ month by month five.He did it without a single employee or a dollar spent on paid ads. Instead, James delegates work to multiple AI agents every day.Through The Agent Accelerator, James now teaches founders, CEOs, and their teams how to become AI-native. The program has trained more than 400 people across 100 companies, including startups, 200-person organizations, and the UK Government. Participants report automating an average of five hours of manual work every week after four weeks.In our session, James is going to teach: EVERYTHING you need to build helpful, proactive agents in Claude Cowork/CodeHe'll walk through the following concepts: • Quick primer on agent foundations: how do we move from prompting a chatbot to delegating Agentic work• Starting your second brain: the key files that make the biggest difference• Tips & tricks for optimizing Claude's behavior with CLAUDE.md• Skills - where to find good ones - how to create great ones• And his 4-level framework for proactive agents that work without being prompted in Cowork and CodeFormat will be a blend of James teaching concepts, screensharing, and showing demos of his own setup.Whether you have experimented with a few AI tools or have no idea where to begin, this session will help you understand what agents can realistically do and how to start using them.Learn more about James and The Agent Accelerator:https://agentaccelerator.ai/

AI Agents Are About to Move Off the Cloud. Here’s What Changes 05.08.2026 54min

What happens when the most capable AI lives in the cloud, but the work you want it to do is too private, expensive, or repetitive to send there every time?Dr. Olena Zhu, Head of AI Solutions & Ecosystem for Intel’s Client Computing Group, joins Corey Noles and Grant Harvey to explain Intel’s vision for hybrid AI: systems that route each task to the right place, whether that is a local model on a PC, a larger model on an edge server, or a frontier model in the cloud.The conversation explores why cloud-only AI may be difficult to scale, how an orchestration layer decides where work should run, and how Intel’s new SuperClaw beta combines local and remote intelligence. Dr. Zhu also explains how hybrid agents could conduct deep research without exposing confidential data, why routing and auditability matter when agents fail, and why the next wave of useful AI may come from specialized agents built for specific jobs.Listen for a practical look at the tradeoffs among capability, privacy, cost, reliability, and control, and what it could mean when powerful AI agents begin running partly on the computers we already own.Try Intel SuperClaw: https://aibuilder.intel.com/#/superclawIntel AI Builder: https://aibuilder.intel.com/Intel SuperClaw GitHub: https://github.com/intel/intel-ai-builder/tree/main/superclawIntel’s SuperClaw overview: https://newsroom.intel.com/opinion/solving-the-agentic-ai-trilemma-cost-scale-and-data-securitySubscribe to The Neuron for daily AI news and analysis built for humans: https://www.theneurondaily.com/Sponsored by Nerdio: Get a demo of Nerdio Manager for Enterprise today:

BONUS: How to Publish Your AI-Built App to the App Store 31.07.2026 1u 8min

Update! The definitive follow-along walkthrough guide is ready! Check it out here: https://theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/how-to-publish-an-ai-built-iphone-app-to-the-app-store/Building an app with AI is getting easier. Getting it through Apple's doors is still a different adventure.Join Corey Noles and Grant Harvey live on Thursday, July 30 at [10AM PT / 12PM CT / 1PM ET] as they walk through what it actually takes to move an AI-built app from a working prototype into TestFlight and the Apple App Store.In this livestream, we'll cover:📱 Setting up App Store Connect🧪 Preparing your app for TestFlight📝 Creating your App Store listing🖼️ Making screenshots and store assets🔒 Answering Apple's privacy questions🚀 Uploading and submitting your build✅ Navigating Apple's review process⚠️ The mistakes, delays, and confusing steps we ran into💡 What we'd do differently next timeWhether you're using AI coding tools, no-code platforms, or building from scratch, this beginner-friendly walkthrough will help you get your app across the finish line.💬 Bring your questions and click Notify Me so YouTube reminds you when we go live.🔔 Subscribe to The Neuron for practical AI news, tools, tutorials, and conversations that help you understand what matters and what to do with it: https://www.youtube.com/@theneuronai?sub_confirmation=1📰 Read The Neuron Daily:https://www.theneurondaily.com/

AI Can Build It, But Can AI Ship It? 29.07.2026 23min

AI can now help almost anyone turn an idea into a working prototype. But what happens when that vibe-coded experiment needs to become secure, reliable software that real customers can trust—and pay for?Corey Noles and Grant Harvey speak with Deap Ubhi, Global Director of Technology for Startups at AWS, about AWS Startup Advisor, an AI-powered builder assistant designed to bring AWS architecture, security, cost, deployment, and scaling guidance directly into a founder’s workflow.Deap explains why generative AI has compressed startup iteration cycles from months into days or hours, how nontechnical founders can test ideas before making major technical investments, and why human judgment, product taste, and focus matter even more when building becomes dramatically easier. The conversation also explores the crucial leap from proof of concept to production, including the infrastructure, authentication, resilience, observability, and security decisions that first-time builders may not know to ask about.Listen to hear how Startup Advisor works inside tools including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, and Kiro—and why the next generation of founders may start with an AI coding agent and a virtual AWS solutions architect on their shoulder.For more practical conversations about how AI is changing work, business, and technology, subscribe to The Neuron and The Neuron: AI Explained.https://www.theneurondaily.com/Explore AWS Startup Advisor:https://aws.amazon.com/aws-startups/advisor/Learn more about the launch:https://aws.amazon.com/aws-startups/from-idea-to-revenue-at-startup-speed-with-ai/The Neuron Academy helps professionals build practical AI skills they can use right away, with lessons on prompting, workflows, and real workplace use cases. Check out https://theneuronacademy.com/ today!

BONUS: We Built 15+ Apps With AI. Here’s What Actually Worked 24.07.2026 2u 20min

Join Grant Harvey and Corey Noles live on Thursday, July 23, for a show-and-tell featuring the apps, games, extensions, and delightfully specific tools they’ve built with AI, plus tips to help you build your own without burning through as many tokens.Corey will demo:☕ Bean Counter, which tracks how many cups of coffee he has saved🗂️ Tab Crusher, a Chrome extension for conquering tab overload✍️ Threadline, his editorial operating system for writers🎮 Circle Back, a gamified task-management app🍽️ On Deck, which answers Corey’s eternal question: What should I eat next?Getting AI to choose his next meal is Corey’s personal AGI benchmark. Pizza arriving through a voice command remains the final boss.Grant will show:🌊 FlowState, a focused writing app🎛️ Orchestrator, a local command center for managing AI chats through APIs🎬 LTX CineScript, a system that turns a script into an edited film🐿️ Sqwirl World, a RuneScape-style mini MMO starring squirrels🧪 Plus other experiments, prototypes, and tools built to solve very specific problemsThey’ll explain what each project does, how it was made, how they got it live through trial and error, and what they’ve learned over the past year and a half as non-technical builders creating software with AI.Building your own apps is one of the best ways to learn what AI can actually do. Your idea may not become the next breakout product, but it can save you time, solve a persistent headache, and be a lot of fun to create.Whether you want to build an internal tool, automate an annoying task, or finally create the weird app living in your head, this session will show you what is possible.

Will AI Robots Perform Surgery Better Than Humans? 22.07.2026 1u 10min

Autonomous surgery may sound futuristic, but automation already plays an important role in procedures requiring extraordinary precision. Mathias Unberath of Inner Logic joins Grant Harvey to explain how AI could help surgical robots understand anatomy, respond to unexpected events, and gradually take on more responsibility in the operating room. They explore which procedures could be automated first, how robots can learn to recover from mistakes, and why these systems may expand access to care without eliminating the need for human surgeons.For more information please visit Inner Logic: https://semaphorsurgical.com/innerlogic/ Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.aiSponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. Learn more at https://www.techrepublic.com/hubs/the-enterprise-guide-to-scalable-ai/

BONUS: AI Agents Are Here. Now What? 17.07.2026 2u 58min

Neuron Live is back and we are going deep on Microsoft’s big move in AI agents. 🤖This week, we’re joined by Bryan Goode, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications Marketing at Microsoft, to unpack Microsoft Agent 365, the new control plane for AI agents.Agent 365 is Microsoft’s answer to a question every company is about to face: how do you actually deploy, manage, and secure AI agents at scale? Think of it as a registry, an access control layer, and a security system for your entire fleet of AI agents, whether you built them in Copilot or brought them in from elsewhere.On the live, we’ll cover how agents work inside the Copilot ecosystem, what Agent 365 actually gives IT teams, and how to think about getting started with agents at your company. 💻👀If we’re lucky, Bryan will walk us through a live demo defining a use case, building an agent in Copilot from scratch, deploying it through Agent 365, and tracking how it performs in real time. If you’ve been wanting to build your first AI agent but didn’t know where to start, this is the one to watch live. Subscribe for weekly AI coverage from The Neuron and more livestreams like this.💌 https://theneuron.ai

Inside the Hidden Geometry of AI 15.07.2026 57min

What if neural networks are less like mysterious black boxes and more like systems we can inspect, debug, and eventually design with intention?In this episode of The Neuron: AI Explained, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey talk with Eric Ho, Cofounder & CEO of Goodfire, an AI interpretability company working to understand what’s happening inside neural networks. Eric explains why models may contain meaningful internal structures — including features, representations, circuits, and curved manifolds — and how mapping those structures could make AI systems safer, more reliable, and more useful.They discuss why models may “think in shapes,” how Goodfire uses AI to interpret other AI systems, what neural geometry can reveal about hallucinations and model behavior, and why interpretability could change how companies train and control their own models.They also get into consciousness, robotics, multimodal models, the bitter lesson, and why Eric thinks more people should be looking under the hood of the most consequential technology of our time.Subscribe to The Neuron for more grounded conversations about how AI actually works: https://www.theneuron.ai/Sponsored by SAS AI Governance: Visit https://www.sas.com/en_us/solutions/ai/governance.html?utm_source=other&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=sas-vpl-gbc-gps-global#The Neuron Academy helps professionals build practical AI skills they can use right away, with lessons on prompting, workflows, and real workplace use cases. Check out https://theneuronacademy.com/ today!

AI That Rides Along With Truck Drivers 13.07.2026 41min

AI agents are not just coming for laptops, inboxes, and office workflows. Samsara Cofounder and CTO John Bicket says they’re also coming for fleets, drivers, dispatchers, safety teams, and the physical infrastructure that keeps the world moving.Recorded on-site at Samsara Beyond 2026 in Las Vegas, this conversation explores how Samsara is layering AI onto dash cams, telematics devices, asset trackers, vehicle data, and operational workflows. John explains how Agent Studio helps companies build useful AI tools without overwhelming frontline teams, why physical operations create different challenges than software-only environments, and how AI can help turn raw vehicle and safety data into coaching, risk reduction, maintenance insights, and real-time decisions.Corey, Grant, and John also dig into AI ride-alongs, privacy concerns around in-vehicle cameras, why driver safety programs need to be framed around trust instead of surveillance, and what the day-to-day work of dispatchers, drivers, and maintenance leaders could look like three years from now.Subscribe to The Neuron for more practical conversations about how AI is changing real businesses, not just demos.https://www.theneuron.ai/

BONUS: GPT-5.6 Sol Goes Live: Must-Try Use Cases We’re Testing Live 10.07.2026 2u 13min

Join Grant Harvey and Corey Noles from The Neuron live on Thursday, July 9 at 10AM PT as we test OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 model family in real time: Sol, Terra, and Luna.Instead of just reading benchmark charts, we’re going hands-on with the use cases people should actually try first.We’ll test:🛠️ Building a working mini-app from a messy product idea🧹 Refactoring a broken codebase without babysitting it🧠 Using Ultra mode as a project manager with subagents⚙️ Automating one annoying weekly workflow🥊 Testing Sol vs. Terra vs. Luna on the same job🔍 Running the same prompts head-to-head against FableAlso: OpenAI just announced a 10AM PT livestream on July 9 for the next generation of ChatGPT Voice, reportedly featuring an upgraded bidirectional voice model, real-time capabilities, new voice samples, and voice orb colors tied to accent settings.So we’ll also react to what OpenAI shows, explain what “bidirectional voice” actually means for normal users, and test where voice might finally become useful for work instead of feeling like you’re leaving a voicemail for a robot receptionist.By the end, you’ll know what to try first, which model to use for which task, and whether GPT-5.6 or the new ChatGPT Voice actually changes your daily AI workflow.📩 Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.theneuron.ai

ComfyUI Proves AI Art Is Not Zero Effort 08.07.2026 57min

Most AI image tools give you a prompt box and a result. ComfyUI gives creators the pipeline underneath - the models, parameters, nodes, and repeatable workflows that can turn visual AI from a toy into production infrastructure.In this episode of The Neuron, Corey Noles and Grant Harvey talk with Yannik Marek, co-founder and original creator of ComfyUI, about why node-based workflows matter, how open-source visual AI is moving into real creative production, and what teams gain when they can inspect, modify, and repeat every step of generation.They cover how diffusion models work in plain English, why Comfy is useful for VFX, gaming, animation, e-commerce, and creative studios, and how Comfy balances open-source values with Cloud, API, and Enterprise products. Yannik also shares practical hardware advice for running models locally, where open models are catching up fastest, and why the future of creative AI may depend less on a universal prompt box and more on visible, controllable workflows.Try ComfyUI at comfy.org, and subscribe to The Neuron for more grounded conversations about AI in practice.https://www.theneuron.ai/The Neuron Academy helps professionals build practical AI skills they can use right away, with lessons on prompting, workflows, and real workplace use cases. Check out theneuronacademy.com today!

BONUS: Government Banning AI Fallout: China, the economy, what's at risk, and what you should do. 03.07.2026 1u 23min

This week on The Neuron: AI Explained, Grant and Corey break down the strangest week in frontier AI so far: Fable 5 relaunching and getting yanked almost immediately, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 rollout arriving in a weird half-launch state, and the bigger question underneath all of it.What happens when governments can slow, restrict, or pause the most powerful AI systems right as the economy starts depending on them?We’ll get into why these false starts matter beyond Silicon Valley drama. If U.S. labs keep getting caught between safety fears, export controls, and uneven release rules, China may get more room to catch up through open-source models, faster iteration, and fewer distribution bottlenecks. Meanwhile, businesses betting on AI have to plan for a world where the “best model” might disappear, degrade, get delayed, or become unavailable to half their stack overnight.So this episode is our guide to navigating the current AI chop:Why Fable 5’s relaunch and takedown became a warning shotWhat GPT-5.6’s limited launch says about frontier model accessHow restrictions could reshape the U.S. vs. China AI raceWhy every company needs an open-source backup strategyHow AI uncertainty could ripple into the broader economyWhat we’d do now as builders, buyers, workers, and AI-curious professionalsJoin us for a strategic read on what’s changing, what’s fragile, and how to make smarter decisions while the AI ocean gets weird.

Can AI Agents Learn From Expert Corrections? 01.07.2026 52min

OpenAI and Thrive Holdings built Tax AI, a Codex-powered agent that helps prepare complex tax returns while preserving evidence for accountant review. In this episode, Corey and Grant talk with OpenAI’s John de Wasseige and Arthur Fernandes Araujo about how expert corrections become structured signals, how Codex turns repeated failures into evals and scoped engineering tasks, and why the best AI deployments still need humans close to the work. They also dig into what this pattern could mean for bookkeeping, audits, IT help desks, and other expert workflows where the system can measure what “right” looks like.Relevant links:OpenAI Tax AI case study: https://openai.com/index/building-self-improving-tax-agents-with-codex/OpenAI Codex: https://openai.com/codex/Harness engineering: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/Thrive Holdings: https://www.thriveholdings.com/Crete: https://www.cretepa.com/Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai

BONUS: Humanoid Robots Need More Than Servo Motors: Here's What 26.06.2026 1u 39min

Humanoid robotics challenges go beyond movement and servo motors. The hardest problems are often AI problems. Bringing intelligence into the physical world means dealing with gravity, friction, uncertainty, and real consequences. Mistakes can break hardware.This week on Neuron Live, we’re joined by Nikita Rudin, Co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics, to unpack what it actually takes to build intelligence for humanoid systems.What we’ll cover:🤖 Training control policies and perception models🧪 Bridging simulation and the real world (sim-to-real)🛠️ Robotics training pipelines and the embodied AI stack🔮 Where humanoid and physical AI is headed nextIf large language models are the brain in the cloud, what does intelligence look like when it has to walk, grasp, and not fall over?Expect a deep dive into embodied AI, physical AI, and the systems powering the next generation of humanoid robots.

HP Built an AI That Fixes Your Computer Before It Breaks 24.06.2026 51min

Larry Meadows, Head of Product Strategy & Evangelism for HP's Workforce Experience Platform (WXP), joins us to break down how HP is using AI to predict and prevent IT problems before employees ever notice them. We get a live demo of the platform—from AI-powered software recommendations across 50M+ devices to automated remediation in 3–4 clicks—and dig into the global memory crisis, shadow AI risks, and why IT leaders are drowning in portals. Whether you manage a fleet of 50 devices or 50,000, this one's worth your time.HP WXP: https://www.hp.com/wxpThe Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai

BONUS: AI Skills vs Agents vs GPTs: Which One Do I Use? 19.06.2026 2u 6min

Confused by AI Skills, Projects, Gems, Custom GPTs, and Agents?You're not alone. It's important to separate which is best for which use-case, because each has a place depending on what you're trying to get done. In this beginner-friendly live episode, we break down what these AI terms actually mean, who creates them, and when everyday users should use each one.Think of this as your plain-English map to the new AI assistant world:✅ Projects = places to organize ongoing work✅ Gems & Custom GPTs = reusable custom assistants✅ Skills = reusable instructions and workflows✅ Agents = AI systems that can take actions on your behalfBy the end of this live session, you'll understand the practical difference between creating a custom assistant, organizing work in a project, giving AI a repeatable skill, and letting an agent complete tasks for you.What You'll Learn:🔹 What an AI Skill is🔹 What an AI Project is🔹 What Google Gemini Gems are🔹 What Custom GPTs are🔹 What AI Agents are🔹 Which one beginners should start with🔹 The simple framework for choosing the right tool for your workflowGet beginner-friendly AI explainers, practical tutorials, and daily updates on what matters in AI.📩 Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.theneuron.ai

Why Frontier AI Still Sees Like a Toddler, w/ Andrew Dai 17.06.2026 42min

AI can write code, pass exams, and summarize the web, but ask it to reason through a real-world image, and the magic often breaks. Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian, joins The Neuron to explain why visual reasoning may be one of the biggest unsolved problems in AI.Andrew spent years at Google Brain and DeepMind, including work connected to Gemini and sparse mixture-of-experts systems. Now, he’s building Elorian around a simple but powerful idea: if AI is going to understand the physical world, it needs more than text-based reasoning layered on top of images.In this episode, Corey and Grant talk with Andrew about why frontier models struggle with counting, navigation, design, engineering, charts, and physical reasoning; why scaling language models hasn’t solved vision; what a “visual chain of thought” might look like; and how better visual reasoning could accelerate robotics, satellite analysis, product design, and mechanical engineering.Sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. Learn more at techrepublic.com/hubs/the-enterprise-guide-to-scalable-ai/.Sponsored by Outshift: Visit https://outshift.cisco.com/?utm_campaign=fy26q3_outshift_ww_paid-media_ioc-neuronai-outshift_podcast&utm_channel=podcast&utm_source=podcast to learn more about the Internet of Cognition.Subscribe to The Neuron for more conversations with the people building the future of AI.

BONUS: Scott Hanselman Showcases Engineering with AI LIVE from Microsoft Build 2026 12.06.2026 44min

Live from Microsoft Build, Corey Noles sits down with Scott Hanselman for a hands-on Neuron LIVE episode about AI-augmented software development, how it differs from just "vibe coding", and the surprisingly practical things people can now build with tools like GitHub Copilot and more.Scott is one of the best technical explainers in software: a longtime Microsoft and GitHub developer, teacher, speaker, author, blogger, and podcaster who has helped millions of developers understand new technology without making it feel impossible to learn.This episode turned into a live demo tour of what AI coding can already do, led by Scott's own use-cases. Corey and Scott walked through a series of examples showing how AI can help people build useful apps, prototypes, workflows, and small tools from everyday ideas, including Scott's own vibe-coded tools Baby Smash (https://www.babysmash.com/), which lets babies press random buttons for fun shapes and sounds, and Tiny Tool Town (https://www.tinytooltown.com/), which showcases random, cool tools Scott found around the web. But in the coolest demo of all, Scott shows how to take an open source tool and create software a personal blood sugar tracking app for his own diabetes management. If that doesn't get your idea blood flowing for what you can do with AI, we don't know what will! https://www.theneuron.ai/

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