Skip to content
Launchpad Library logo

Resource Hub

Everything I'd send you, in one place

3505 hand-picked resources for students, job seekers, career changers, founders, and AI learners — 100% free to browse with no account required.

Type
Platform
Topics
Cost

Filtered by tag

Ask a question about careers, business or AI

Answers come only from resources in this hub, with the sources listed.

701 resources

strada.org
Free
Report
Hiring Trends & Job Market Data
Context

2026 State Opportunity Index

Strada Education Foundation's state-by-state framework linking education to opportunity, with an interactive map, key findings, a downloadable full report and executive summary, technical appendices, and state comparisons of measures such as early-career earnings and job placement.

#education#state-data#early-career
strada.orgAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
stateof.ai
Free
Research
AI & Future of Work
Context

AI Adoption in 2026: Use, Spending, and Returns

A State of AI page by Nathan Benaich of Air Street Capital, reviewed October 31, 2026, comparing separate estimates of AI adoption, spending and financial returns, and explaining who each source measured, when, and what it counted as adoption.

#ai-adoption#research#business
stateof.aiAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
sre-bench.lol
Free
Research
AI Models & Benchmarks
Context

SRE-Bench: Agentic Reverse Engineering Benchmark

A Columbia University-hosted benchmark that tests AI agents on reverse engineering complex binary software. The page reports results from evaluations run with OpenAI, stating that GPT-6 Astra solves nearly all tasks while other evaluated models stay below 60%, and describes pilot evaluations of harder settings.

#benchmarks#cybersecurity#agents
sre-bench.lolAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
resume-now.com
Free
Report
Workplace & Leadership
ContextVendor researchAuthor sells services

Values vs. Vibes: Resume Now Values Gap Report

A Resume Now survey report on workplace values, stating that 70% of surveyed workers say leaders bend rules for favorites, with findings on fairness, favoritism and alignment between stated and practiced company values. Resume Now sells résumé-building services.

#workplace#survey#culture
resume-now.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
artificialanalysis.ai
Free
Article
AI & Tech News
Context

Muse Ember: Artificial Analysis benchmark and task-cost evaluation

Artificial Analysis reports Muse Ember benchmark scores and task-cost estimates, including an Intelligence Index score of 36 and $0.14 per task in its evaluation. These are evaluator-specific results, not a verified Meta launch announcement or evidence of free model access.

#ai#research
artificialanalysis.aiAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
epoch.ai
Free
Report
AI & Tech News
Context

Inference Performance Index: changing the way we measure inference capacity

Epoch AI explains an Inference Performance Index for estimating chip capacity across agentic workloads and output-speed requirements. Its modeled comparisons, expressed in GB300 equivalents, depend on workload and hardware assumptions and are not universal real-world performance guarantees.

#ai#research
epoch.aiAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
openai.com
Free
Article
AI & Tech News
ContextVendor researchPromotional

ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace

OpenAI announces that organizations can purchase ChatGPT Enterprise through AWS Marketplace using existing procurement and billing arrangements. The announcement is freely readable; ChatGPT Enterprise is a paid service, not a free tool.

#ai#research
openai.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
9to5google.com
Free
Article
AI & Tech News
Context

Google Gemini rolling out ‘Memory summary’ with everything it remembers about you

9to5Google reports a web settings view for seeing, editing and deleting Gemini's remembered information. The article is free to read; the reported feature requires eligible Google AI subscribers in US English, and the reporter had not observed Android or iOS availability.

#ai#research
9to5google.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
openai.com
Free
Article
AI & Tech News
ContextVendor researchPromotional

Closing the AI guidance gap in education

OpenAI discusses educator support, AI literacy and education partnerships in EMEA, drawing on ThinkYoung research and early program experience. The freely readable company article describes context-specific findings; it does not establish that every partnership or product is freely available.

#ai#research
openai.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
anthropic.com
Free
Article
AI & Tech News
ContextVendor researchPromotional

Anthropic launches roadshow for proposed initial public offering

Anthropic announces a proposed IPO roadshow with 825 million shares at an expected $70–$78 range and an underwriter option for up to 123.75 million additional shares. The announcement is free to read; the offering remains proposed and the registration statement was not yet effective.

#ai#research
anthropic.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
arxiv.org
Free
Research Paper
Technology & Ethics

Early career researcher responses to AI in math

Authors
Anna Brandenberger, Hanna Mularczyk, Dora Woodruff
Venue
arXiv preprint, not yet peer-reviewed
Published
2026-10-29
ID
arXiv:2610.40584

Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, by Anna Brandenberger, Hanna Mularczyk, and Dora Woodruff. The paper surveys more than 260 early-career mathematicians at nearly 60 institutions about their experiences and concerns around AI in mathematics.

#research#mathematics#academic-careers
arxiv.orgAdded Nov 4, 20260 opens
ecommerceresearch.org
Free
Research Paper
Marketing & Platform Tools

Can Advertising Fund Free AI? Evidence from ChatGPT’s International Advertising Rollout

Authors
Maximilian Kaiser, Christian Schulze
Venue
Working paper, under review (not yet peer-reviewed)
Published
October 2026

Working paper, under review and not yet peer-reviewed, by Maximilian Kaiser and Christian Schulze. The authors examine ChatGPT’s advertising rollout using data from 1,898 websites over 60 weeks, comparing referrals, conversions, and advertising value.

#chatgpt#advertising#ecommerce
ecommerceresearch.orgAdded Nov 4, 20260 opens
alignment.anthropic.com
Free
Program
Career & Professional Optimization

Anthropic Residency

A paid, fixed-term research program from Anthropic with placements of six weeks to six months, aimed at established technical leaders such as professors in quantitative fields, technical founders and staff-level engineers moving into AI safety work. A machine-learning background is not required. Applications for this round close November 22, 2026.

#fellowship#ai-safety#career-change
alignment.anthropic.comAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
csinva.io
Free
Research Paper
Research & Papers

Weight-Space Programming From Scratch on Simple Tasks

Authors
Chandan Singh
Published
2026-11-02

An interactive report showing small transformer networks whose weights were written directly by an AI agent, with no training, to solve toy tasks such as bit-string parity. Every weight matrix is displayed, and code, run logs and saved programs are published on GitHub.

#weight-space-programming#interpretability#machine-learning
csinva.ioAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
rikiyat.github.io
Free
Research Paper
Research & Papers

Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs Can Natively Read & Write Neural Network Weights

Venue
Blog post (not peer-reviewed)
Published
2026-11-02

A research blog post from MIT CSAIL researchers reporting that frontier language models can identify what a neural network was trained to do from its raw weights and can write small working networks directly. The post is not yet peer-reviewed; results are the authors' own.

#weight-space-programming#interpretability#llms
rikiyat.github.ioAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
arxiv.org
Free
Research Paper
Research & Papers

Safety First: Psychological Safety as the Key to AI Transformation

Authors
Aaron Reich, Diana Wolfe, Matt Price, Alice Choe, Fergus Kidd, Hannah Wagner
Venue
arXiv (preprint, not yet peer-reviewed)
Published
2026-02-26
ID
arXiv:2602.23279

Preprint examining whether psychological safety is associated with workplace AI adoption and usage, using survey data from 2,257 employees at a global consulting firm.

#ai-adoption#workplace#psychological-safety
arxiv.orgAdded Oct 29, 20260 opens
npr.org
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics

How schools are experimenting with AI

NPR report on teachers using AI for lesson plans and districts using chatbots for student feedback, and on how limited the research on AI and student learning remains.

#education#schools#ai
npr.orgAdded Oct 29, 20260 opens
wiz.io
Free
Website
Technology & Ethics

Wiz Blog

The blog of cloud security company Wiz, with guides, vulnerability research, and announcements about cloud security.

#cybersecurity#cloud-security#research
wiz.ioAdded Oct 27, 20260 opens
forethought.org
Free
Website
Technology & Ethics

Forethought

A research organization studying how to navigate rapid AI progress, including a possible intelligence explosion, with research papers, open projects, a podcast, and a newsletter.

#ai#ai-safety#research
forethought.orgAdded Oct 26, 20260 opens
seroundtable.com
Free
Article
Marketing & Platform Tools

AI Search Studies Roundup (Search Engine Roundtable)

Barry Schwartz summarizes three studies on AI search visibility and search investment, including their stated limitations and conclusions.

#seo#ai-search#search-marketing
seroundtable.comAdded Oct 26, 20260 opens
cacm.acm.org
Free
Article
AI & Assistive Tools

AI and the Future of Accessible Work (Communications of the ACM)

Communications of the ACM research article synthesizing a 44-person workshop on AI, accessibility, and employment for disabled workers. It covers employment gaps, AI errors and hallucinations in situations where accuracy is critical, AI-scored video interviews that can screen out workers with non-normative speech or movement, accessibility overlays that may not work as advertised, and accountability gaps when inaccessible tools come from third-party vendors. Free to read.

#accessibility#disability#employment
cacm.acm.orgAdded Oct 23, 20260 opens
joe-baumann.com
Free
Research Paper
Technology & Ethics

Stop Automating Peer Review Without Rigorous Evaluation

Authors
Joachim Baumann, Jiaxin Pei, Sanmi Koyejo, Dirk Hovy
Venue
ICML 2026 — Position Paper Track (Oral)
Published
2026-05-04
ID
arXiv:2605.03202

Peer-reviewed ICML 2026 position paper by Joachim Baumann, Jiaxin Pei, Sanmi Koyejo, and Dirk Hovy, accepted for an oral presentation. Compares human and AI ICLR 2026 reviews and tests automated paper rewriting, reporting excessive reviewer agreement and susceptibility to stylistic changes. The authors argue for rigorous evaluation before automating peer review.

#research#peer-review#ai-evaluation
joe-baumann.comAdded Oct 23, 20260 opens
gking.harvard.edu
Free
Research Paper
Technology & Ethics

AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices

Authors
Gary King, Steven Worthington
Venue
Working paper, Harvard University
Published
2026-10-22

Shows that AI-generated article reviews scored better, by every measure the authors constructed, than reviews written by well-compensated human experts judged to be of unusually high quality, and discusses implications for journal policy. Working paper.

#peer-review#publishing#research
gking.harvard.eduAdded Oct 23, 20260 opens