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This week in AI: trust just got a price tag
"People will trust AI more than they trust each other....
Read the full post → AI Is Buying Up Old Books, and Two Other Things This Week
New York bookseller James Payne has had an odd few months....
Read the full post → This Week in AI: What Happens When You Stop Doing It Yourself
A Polish endoscopist who has performed more than two...
Read the full post → Interviews stopped testing code. The AI era asks something else
"We can't expect engineers to work with AI and then...
Read the full post → AlphaFold Won the Nobel. The Team Is Gone. AI Runs the Labs Now.
Harvard physics professor Strominger brought a problem to...
Read the full post → AI Answers Faster Than Books. There's One Thing You Still Need a Room For.
Tim Ferriss said his most famous kind of book stopped...
Read the full post → You're using AI, and paying a second bill
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said something in an interview...
Read the full post → The closer you get to AI, the more replaceable you become
"The real job of a senior engineer is to make more senior...
Read the full post → How One Reviewer Spots AI-Written Papers Without Any Tools
One academic journal reviewer has now read through thirty...
Read the full post → Why AI made you search more but click less
The June 2026 search market data has an odd pair of numbers....
Read the full post → The AI Jobs Story Nobody Talks About
You've probably thought about which jobs AI is most likely...
Read the full post → Each New AI Problem Means the Last One Was Solved
A new term showed up in AI circles this year: Graph...
Read the full post → AI Security Tests Escaped the Lab and Hit Real Companies
When testing began, Anthropic told Claude: "This is a...
Read the full post → They Deleted 80% of Their AI Instructions. The Model Did Better.
The team behind Claude Code deleted 80% of the instructions...
Read the full post → Students had AI write their homework. Nobody read what it wrote.
Jason Gibson hid a line of invisible white text in his...
Read the full post → AI Can Learn What You Did, But Not Why
The running coach put it like this: the day he heard Garmin...
Read the full post → AI Shrank the Newsroom. Now Tech Companies Are Competing for Journalists.
U.S. journalism has lost nearly half its editorial jobs...
Read the full post → Why Trump and Anthropic Became Unlikely Allies on Open-Source AI
You may have seen the news this week: the United States is...
Read the full post → What Big Firms Spent Decades Building, AI Lets You Ask Today
A firm called Bridgewater spent fifty years writing down...
Read the full post → AI opened the door to coding wider. Who pays for it?
Between your phone powering on and the first app loading, a...
Read the full post → Who Should Actually Pay for AI Tools at Work?
"Why won't you just pay for AI? It's so useful!...
Read the full post → AI made rewriting fast. Picking the good version is another job
Three versions appeared on the screen....
Read the full post → AI Did the Homework. Where Did the Learning Go?
Homework scores went up 18%. Completion time dropped from...
Read the full post → Why Anthropic Paid $1.5 Billion When AI Training Was Ruled Legal
"Fair use." That was the court's ruling at the heart of...
Read the full post → Is Your AI Actually Challenging You, or Just Agreeing With You?
A friend switched from Sonnet to Opus and asked a simple...
Read the full post → AI Models Are Getting Cheaper, but the Bill Might Actually Get Bigger
Kimi K3 costs a fraction of Claude Opus to use. It has 2....
Read the full post → The Engineers Stopped Writing Code. Who Walked In?
Yesterday, someone rebuilt their company website from...
Read the full post → Losing to AI Taught the World's Top Go Player Where He's Actually Strong
You probably haven't thought of it this way: knowing you...
Read the full post → Why a Medical AI That Finds Only 30% of Patients Keeps Saving More Lives
In Pennsylvania, a hospital system runs an AI tool to...
Read the full post → In the AI era, your fragmented attention might actually be fine
Seventy percent of Gen Z say they're worried AI will hurt...
Read the full post → AI Has Read More Code Than Anyone, and Never Understood a Line
In 1952, Grace Hopper sat down at a Mark I computer and...
Read the full post → When AI Writing Can Pass as Human, What Happens to Trust?
Jie Ding, a researcher at the University of Minnesota,...
Read the full post → Why AI Getting Better Makes Your Imperfections More Valuable
An investor who is among the earliest AI bulls in Silicon...
Read the full post → Which Decisions at Work Can You Actually Hand Off to AI?
You probably have a handful of tasks where you make the...
Read the full post → He Stopped Coding for a Decade. AI Brought Him Back.
In 2013, Andy Fang wrote DoorDash's first lines of code...
Read the full post → When AI Helps You Ace a Test, Is That Cheating?
"Except for three students, everyone else seems to have...
Read the full post → The AI That Predicts Cancer Treatment Better Than Any Current Method: Hospitals Say Not Yet
This July, a Harvard Medical School team published a model...
Read the full post → Chasing the Best AI Model Might Be Asking the Wrong Question
Before Boris Cherny built Claude Code, he spent two years...
Read the full post → AI is taking over a layer of what you paid to learn
"This launch has been my worst in years....
Read the full post → Does a rejection from AI feel the same as one from a real person?
Joyce Carol Oates is 88. She has spent more than six...
Read the full post → AI Bills Are Growing. So Why Can't Companies Show the Results?
Tesla's engineers were spending thousands of dollars a week...
Read the full post → When AI image generation gets almost free, what gets harder?
Judy Fan's research landed on a finding worth sitting with:...
Read the full post → The Workers AI Replaced Are Now Teaching AI What It Doesn't Know
"We wrongly assumed that by deploying AI and feeding it our...
Read the full post → Everyone Uses AI. Nobody Will Admit It.
Atlassian's Teamwork Lab ran an experiment in June 2026....
Read the full post → Apple Skipped AI, So Why Did Your Mac Get 25% More Expensive?
Have you checked Mac prices lately?...
Read the full post → Google Announced an AI Tool. The Engineer Who Built It First Was Already Gone.
He got 28,000 stars on GitHub. Two months later, Google let...
Read the full post → Versions expire. The habit of asking doesn't.
ChatGPT's GPT-4.5 option quietly disappeared late June....
Read the full post → A Bestselling Author's Numbers Show What AI Did to Books
Tim Ferriss built his reputation on telling people how to...
Read the full post → Why AI Companies Are Now Hiring Philosophers
In 2024, the unemployment rate for philosophy graduates in...
Read the full post → In the AI Era, What's Worth Learning? There's a More Stable Question
Fiona Fung managed five hundred engineers at Meta....
Read the full post → The people who know AI best are saying: use a little less
OpenCode is an AI coding tool used by nearly a million...
Read the full post → You Found the Answer with AI. But the Next Person Will Have to Start Over.
"These days, eight or ten questions out of ten, I just ask...
Read the full post → More AI Doesn't Always Mean More Revenue
Most companies have accepted that AI tools make their...
Read the full post → Wikipedia Set a New Rule for AI Content. The ChatGPT Market Share Drop Is Related.
"Want to keep that AI-generated content?...
Read the full post → AI's Biggest Breakthroughs Came From Pairing Opposites
This week, Google's AI division lost two people....
Read the full post → What You Won't Hand Off to AI
Have you ever had this moment: someone suggests you let AI...
Read the full post → When AI Makes Output Cheap, What's Worth Money?
At a recent founders' gathering, a dozen owners of...
Read the full post → That Idea in Your Head: AI Now Lets You Actually Build It
Anyone who has organized an event has probably hit this:...
Read the full post → A Design Google Hadn't Touched in 25 Years, Forced to Change by AI
"No one ever wanted to touch the interface that earns them...
Read the full post → AI Can Take a Task Off Your Plate, but It Can't Take Your Learning
Last week, at an annual conference on language education,...
Read the full post → AI Is Ready. But This Step Is One a Lot of People Haven't Thought Through
Gartner put out a report last week: by 2027, four out of...
Read the full post → The AI You Use, but Someone Else Holds the Switch
There's an engineer in Taiwan who, just yesterday...
Read the full post → AI Can Help You Prep What to Say, but Only You Know the Person
In one classroom, a teacher asked everyone to think about a...
Read the full post → AI Frees Up Your Time. So What's the More Valuable Thing?
Have you ever been sold on this line by an AI tool: it...
Read the full post → Before Tim Cook Bows Out, Apple Hands Siri Over to Google's AI
Tim Cook stood on the stage at Apple Park....
Read the full post → An Accountant Handed 240 Hours to AI. Which Part Did He Keep for Himself?
Doing the sales-tax filing for one client takes two to...
Read the full post → Why AI Would Rather Make Something Up Than Say "I Don't Know"
You've probably run into this: you ask AI a question, and...
Read the full post → Google Cut the Team That Trains Engineers. What Kind of Livelihood Is AI Reaching?
This June, Google eliminated its entire "engineering...
Read the full post → Now That AI Thinks Things Through for You, Are You Still Thinking?
Someone recently noticed a subtle thing: more and more...
Read the full post → AI Finished Your Homework, Then You Bombed the Final
Berkeley's spring grades came out, and the failure rate in...
Read the full post → Half of All Papers Have AI Ghostwriting. So Why Do Mathematicians Refuse to Use It?
One study combed through 7 million academic journal...
Read the full post → Before You Ask AI, Tell It About Yourself First
At the most stressful point in his life, a young man in...
Read the full post → The More AI Helpers You Open, the More Tired You Get
You might do this too: you fire up one AI assistant, then...
Read the full post → How Much You Use AI Is Now Going on the Bill
GitHub Copilot (the AI coding tool many engineers use every...
Read the full post → After AI Arrived, a Whole Floor of Office Desks Sat Empty
Answer the phone and write it down, pass the form to the...
Read the full post → Why, When You Ask AI "Is This Okay?", It Almost Always Says Yes
Take the same plan. Ask AI "is this okay?...
Read the full post → The First People to Go Through All of College Alongside AI Have Graduated
This summer a batch of new graduates walked out the school...
Read the full post → There Are Now People Whose Job Is Scrubbing the "AI Flavor" Out of AI Writing
There's a group of engineers now whose work sounds a bit...
Read the full post → Some of AI's Safety Limits Can Be Stripped Off in Ten Minutes
A security researcher opens a laptop, downloads a public...
Read the full post → She Used AI Better Than Anyone. Then She Got Laid Off
She built an AI system that could answer the off-the-cuff...
Read the full post → AI Made Answers Cheap. Here's Why Daydreaming Just Got More Valuable
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, recently said...
Read the full post → AI made everyone faster, but the whole thing got more stuck
Friday afternoon, you use AI to wrap up something you'd...
Read the full post → The same sentence costs 60% more to ask AI in Chinese than in English
For the very same sentence, asking AI in Chinese is billed...
Read the full post → The prettier AI makes your resume, the less anyone remembers you
Someone read a few hundred engineers' job applications, and...
Read the full post → AI keeps getting better at the work, but it's this kind of person who gets cut first
Inside companies, the first to be taken over by AI and the...
Read the full post → The jobs AI is taking over look a lot like what ATMs did back in the day
In the 1970s, ATMs arrived in American banks....
Read the full post → Does AI hold back? Research says it might only be giving you a six out of ten
There's a study that asked a question nobody usually says...
Read the full post → Let AI run on its own for three days and it drifts further and further off course
Someone handed AI a goal, let it run on its own for three...
Read the full post → Veterans get more stuck with AI than newcomers do
A senior engineer with ten years under their belt and a...
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