Rowan's Notes

Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to break down: Why AGI is coming in 2030, plus or minus a yearHow AI will compress drug discovery from 10 years to weeksWhy glasses are the killer app form factor AI was waiting forWhat Demis will work on after AGI (and what's left for human meaning)__ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subs...

Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google CEO Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) to break it all down: Why today's AI will look "primitive like a flip phone" in 3 yearsEngineers now becoming agent managers The Omni model: "Nano Banana for video" + the future of contentSundar's advice for young people navigating the AI shift__ Join our daily AI newsletter: ht...

Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking. It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling. In this conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with HubSpot Founder & CTO Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh) to unpack: AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): SEO for the AI eraHow to structure content to get cited in AI answersThe hidden risk of low-quality AI contentEffectively us...

Google just revealed Gemini 3.0 -- its most intelligent AI model yet with SOTA reasoning and 1501 Elo on the LMArena. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) to unpack: Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategyGoogle's new Antigravity toolMedical-grade AI and proactive healthcareThe skill of "learning how to learn" __ Join our daily AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Learn AI hands-on with our AI U...

OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora in the API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (@sama) to unpack: Sam's Sora AI deepfakes going viralZero-person billion dollar companies run by agentsAI starting to make scientific discoveries on Twitter ChatGPT's 800M weekly users and the new distribution platform__ Join our dail...