Ian’s Bookmarks

Updated Mar 2025

Generative AI Resources

Newsletters

Iterate This! Ian’s LinkedIn Newsletter covering communication and AI

One Useful Thing by Professor Ethan Mollick

The Edge Newsletter

The Atlas (LinkedIn)

Data Points by Deep Learning AI

Learning AI

OpenAI’s prompt engineering guide

Google’s intro to Generative AI (YouTube)

LinkedIn Learning for AI (free courses!)

Stable Diffusion 1.5 Cheat Sheet (references over 900 different art styles for prompts)

What AI can do today (A large directory of many AI apps)

Prompts for Instructors by Lilach and Ethan Mollick

Industry Trends

Stanford University’s The AI Index 2024

The Future of Jobs Report 2025

Top 100 Gen AI apps in 2025 by Andreesson Horowitz

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024

Books To Read

Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick

The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-fu Lee

AI apps that I use (or keep track of)

Large Language Models I recommend: ChatGPT, DeepSeek,, Claude,

Other LLMs: Gemini, Meta AI, Grok

“Search engine”: Perplexity

Online Notebook: NotebookLM by Google

AI Imaging apps that I recommend: ImageFX by Google, Bing Image Creator, Midjourney (paid), Adobe Firefly (paid)

Image Upscaling: Upscayl (download the free app as the website requires payment)

Audio Transcription: Whisper AI, Otter, ElevenLabs

AI Music: Suno

Voice Cloning: ElevenLabs

AI Video: Sora by OpenAI, Hailuo Minimax, RunwayML, Adobe Firefly, Kling

Geeky AI apps

Local LLM installation: Ollama (and it’s recommended to use this with WebUI)

Whisper AI audio-to-text transcription installation guide (YouTube)

Hugging Face (a big resource for AI data models)

Marker: Convert PDFs to Markdown text

PPTX2MD: Convert PPT decks to Markdown text

Image Generator Interface: ComfyUI (this is the interface, you need to download the models. Watch YouTube videos to learn this complex stuff.)

Thought-Provoking Stuff

Don’t quit your day job: Generative AI and the end of programming by Mike Loukides