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Every briefing, fully archived. Five to six new ones every week.
226 briefings. Five to six new ones every week.
- EDITION #294
An AI Tuned Its Own Engine. The Price Fell 80% the Next Day. | Edition 294
Edition 294 — OpenAI let its top model rewrite the code that runs it. A day later, its cheapest model fell to 20 cents per million tokens.
- EDITION #293
Why 2026 Became the Year Companies Started Paying for AI With People | Edition 293
Edition 293 — More than 40 companies named AI when they cut jobs in 2026. Three ran the same 3-step script. Here's your exposure check.
- EDITION #292
OpenAI Just Built Its Own Chip — and It Used AI to Design It in 9 Months | Edition 292
Edition 292 — OpenAI and Broadcom built Jalapeño, a chip for running AI at gigawatt scale, designed in just 9 months using AI.
- EDITION #291
We Ran One Prompt on 3 of Our Own Paragraphs. It Never Wrote a Word. | Edition 291
Edition 291 — One interview-style prompt turns any chatbot into a line editor, not a writer. We ran it on ourselves first.
- EDITION #290
Three Apps Just Moved Into Your Search Bar | Edition 290
Edition 290 — Canva, Instacart and YouTube Music now plug into AI Mode. Some steps finish there; most still hand off to the app.
- EDITION #289
AI Agents Can Now Finish 15.8% of Real Freelance Jobs — Up From 2.5% Eight Months Ago | Edition 289
Edition 289 — 240 real freelance jobs, $144,000 on the line, human-graded. What splits the 15.8% that pass from the 84% that fail.
- EDITION #288
A Computer Simulation Designed This Vaccine's Active Ingredient — and It Just Passed a 39-Person Safety Trial | Edition 288
Edition 288 — Cambridge's computer-designed coronavirus vaccine is safe in its first human trial. The immune response was modest.
- EDITION #287
40 Companies Just Agreed on How AI Agents Are Allowed to Pay | Edition 287
Edition 287 — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google, AWS, Shopify, and Cloudflare just backed the open standard for how AI agents pay online.
- EDITION #286
Why "Turn On Thinking" Is Now an Error Message | Edition 286
Edition 286 — The thinking toggle is gone. Claude and ChatGPT replaced it with the same five settings, then picked opposite defaults.
- EDITION #285
Why This Free AI Model Should Worry Every AI Company | Edition 285
Edition 285 — One trick called "mixture of experts" explains why a 2.8-trillion-parameter AI model can run for free.
- EDITION #284
Why Your ChatGPT Agent Now Only Needs Your Password Once | Edition 284
Edition 284 — ChatGPT Work agents can now log into sites for you — and remember it, so you never repeat that step again.
- EDITION #283
Scammers Deepfaked Ronaldo 254 Times. We Built a Prompt to Catch It. | Edition 283
Edition 283 — AI deepfakes are selling fans on illegal casinos this World Cup. Here's a prompt that catches the next fake.
- EDITION #282
12,637 Real AI Conversations Later, Here's What People Actually Ask It For | Edition 282
Edition 282 — A new study of real AI conversations found its #1 use, two years running, has nothing to do with spreadsheets.
- EDITION #281
Why an AI Can Build You a Spreadsheet — and Then Never Touch It Again | Edition 281
Edition 281 — We tested four AI platforms on the same spreadsheet task. One builds a sheet then freezes; two can only look; two rewrite it live.
- EDITION #280
The AI That Painted a Masterpiece It Couldn't Count | Edition 280
Edition 280 - We asked two AI models to repaint Van Gogh's Sunflowers from words alone. Both captured the soul of it. Neither could count the flowers.
- EDITION #279
Why Google Just Renamed the AI Tool 30 Million People Use | Edition 279
Edition 279 — NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. What's free, what's private, and the nine things it can build from your documents.
- EDITION #278
We Stopped Trusting the AI Leaderboards and Ran Our Own Tests | Edition 278
Edition 278 - A Chinese open model just took the #1 coding spot, with its weights promised for Monday. So we spent the weekend trying to break it, and built a test you can run on your own tools.
- EDITION #277
Why Your Two-Day Report Now Takes Minutes | Edition 277
Edition 277 — OpenAI and Anthropic both shipped office AI agents this month. One venture firm's competitor research already went from two days to minutes. Here's which tool to use for what.
- EDITION #276
Why Claude Just Handed You a Free AI Coach
Edition 276 — Anthropic's new Reflect feature turns your chat history into a personal AI fluency audit
- EDITION #275
Why This Is the Best Week Ever to Be an AI Buyer | Edition 275
Edition 0275 — Three labs, one Wednesday, and a price ladder that now runs from $1 to $50. Here's how to read the menu.
- EDITION #274
The hidden battle inside the mainframe
Edition 274 — BMC's Ken Chism on mainframe ransomware, Zero Trust & resilience
- EDITION #273
Why Anthropic Just Made Its Smartest AI Nearly Free
Edition 273 — The pricing move, the catch nobody's talking about, and who actually saves money.
- EDITION #272
We Sent One Client Email to 5 AI Models. The Cheapest One Lied.
Five models, four runs, one fabrication — and the cost of all five replies was 1.2 cents.
- EDITION #271
Why Smart Professionals Stopped Googling Their Competitors [#271]
There's an engine that reads the internet for you and cites every claim. Here's the exact way to put it to work.
