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Evan Armstrong

Boston, Salt Lake City

Lead Writer, Napkin Math at Every

Lead writer at @every. Hunting for rebels with @indievc.

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  • 2 weeks ago | ttnews.com | Evan Armstrong

    [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Things have changed dramatically in the United States since the beginning of January. At that time, the economy was growing well, inflation was declining, the stock market was hitting all-time highs and consumer sentiment was strong. However, the introduction of punitive import tariffs — some as high as 54% on imports from China announced April 2 — created uncertainty among businesses and consumers.

  • 1 month ago | every.to | Alex Duffy |Gareth Edwards |Evan Armstrong |Dan Shipper

    Hello, and happy Sunday! It was another jam-packed week both in AI and at Every. Alex Duffy explains Anthropic's and OpenAI's briefs to the U.S. government on their AI plans, Google's major robotics advances, and the newest benchmarks.

  • 1 month ago | every.to | Evan Armstrong

    Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Over the last few years, I’ve frequently wished for dumber colleagues. Each of my fellow laborers on the S.S. Every is a kind, intelligent spirit, devoted to their craft. They work incredibly hard. But wouldn’t it be better if it didn’t take a team of exclusively smart people to keep the ship afloat? Every is successful, but it's taken us working hard every single day for years to make it happen.

  • 1 month ago | every.to | Evan Armstrong

    Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. We've spent years trying to get large language models to obey instructions, but what happens when they start obeying our feelings instead? Most conversations around GPT-4.5 (and whatever other model we're currently fussing about) obsess over functionality: code debugged, emails written, summaries summarized, or benchmarks outperformed.

  • 2 months ago | every.to | Evan Armstrong

    Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. The pending unemployment of millions is a casual thing to announce with a tweet, but such is the age we live in.

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Evan Armstrong 📧 @itsurboyevan
23 Apr 25

AI slop + romance genre + quibi has 200M+ in revenue the media literacy crisis is now large enough that all of society should be concerned

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Deedy @deedydas

This startup from China has 150M+ users and the weirdest take on entertainment: micro dramas. It's Netflix with 60-90s vertical video episodes. First few free and then you pay per episode. Cheap actors with AI-gen scenes. $200M+ in revenue! ...and they're all woman romance https://t.co/Qr71mdfWEa

Evan Armstrong 📧
Evan Armstrong 📧 @itsurboyevan
23 Apr 25

RT @ReustleMatt: I enjoy @itsurboyevan because he calls it like he sees it. He says the "quiet things out loud". He goes against consensu…

Evan Armstrong 📧
Evan Armstrong 📧 @itsurboyevan
23 Apr 25

First day of operations and I'm #3 on Substack's rising leaderboard for tech. Not a bad start!! https://t.co/JE21wtDlN2