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Good day %%first_name%%. A new survey says more than half of creatives who use AI have used it on key client work without telling the client, and most of them don’t think they needed to. Also today: Claude and Codex users getting blocked for hacking their own TVs, AI voices in hoax 911 calls, Paramount’s pitch for cheaper movies and “handcrafted” ones, and an AI that DJs your video games. If today...

Good day %%first_name%%. Anthropic released Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and says a swarm of more than 1,000 agents built a working operating system in eight days. Meanwhile, bosses are drowning in AI-written memos and trusting the people who send them less. Also today: Meta’s cheapest model yet, a second breach at Fireworks, and Palantir’s security chief nominated to run CISA. Anthropic’s New Model...

Good day %%first_name%%. Nvidia’s board has opened an independent investigation of its own CEO after reports that he was the target of a Chinese intelligence operation, and Jensen Huang has admitted to an affair in an email to staff. Goldman Sachs has taken Claude Code away from most of its traders and bankers. Also today: a Philadelphia banner with a Chicago skyscraper in it, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube...

Good day %%first_name%%. OpenAI says an unreleased model it built a pipeline around turned a $1.2 million run into working root exploits for 948 Linux kernel bugs, and a Sunday brief that opens there also has an unreleased Anthropic model credited with a quantum proof, an outside auditor saying AI is speeding up Anthropic’s own research, OpenAI’s $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion price tag, and the...

Good day %%first_name%%. A talking typewriter that fits in 32 megabytes leads a Saturday brief that also has Amazon opening a text line for shopping right after blocking Meta’s Muse, Meta pausing the business terms that alarmed publishers, a pile of benchmarks saying most AI design skills do nothing, and a Brookings economist’s name for the job market AI might build. A Talking Typewriter Fits in 3...

Good day %%first_name%%. Google is tying student search to an AI opt-in, Anthropic signed its first news licensing deal (with the AP), and a school turned a first-grader’s drawing into an AI portrait. Plus Muse’s bathroom test and Pangram’s new AI video detector. Google Ties Student Search to AI Access ABC7 (AP) * What happened: Google said Tuesday that Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom...

Good day %%first_name%%. A Meta bot got stuck pressing “remove from cart” on one artist’s shop, a vibe-coded AO3 clone lasted a single day, and OpenAI and Anthropic ran election war rooms. Plus Mamdani on Sam Altman and how workers across Asia and Africa really use AI. Meta Bot Hits Artist’s Shop 550,000 Times Business Insider * What happened: San Diego children’s author and illustrator Chelsea Pa...

Good day %%first_name%%. It’s Election Day, and a new audit found AI chatbots botching basic voting questions. Plus OpenAI’s test for everyday chores, an AI that rewrites another AI’s weights, Anthropic’s amended S-1, and why Postgres 19 is late. Chatbots Botch Voting Rules on Election Day NPR * What happened: In October, the nonprofit Innovating for the Public Good (IFPG) tested major chatbots on...

Good day %%first_name%%. Elon Musk says Grok Bot costs more to serve than it earns, Anthropic is asking job candidates how they would feel if its stock went to zero, and Amazon’s CEO has an opinion about Meta’s shopping agent. Plus free Adobe clones built with Claude, and photographers vibe coding their old DSLRs. Musk Says Grok Bot Costs More Than It Earns Startup Fortune * What happened: A user...

Good day %%first_name%%. OpenAI is about to make ChatGPT and Codex draw from the same usage allowance, DeepSeek published a blueprint for an agent that never goes offline, and four AI labs agreed to honor one robots.txt line that tells them to keep out. Also today: a viral post about an Anthropic talk that doesn’t hold up, and OpenAI raising less money than it wanted. ChatGPT and Codex Will Share...

Good day %%first_name%%. It’s Halloween, and the scariest thing in today’s Brief is a “local newspaper” with 16 stories, all about one candidate, that ChatGPT cited as a source. Also: Google’s Genie 4 builds worlds with sound that last about two minutes, a Harvard professor says middle managers have more to fear than juniors, and Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss each warn that AI can make work faster a...

Good day %%first_name%%. Anthropic turns out to be SpaceX’s biggest customer, and it can leave on 90 days’ notice. OpenAI backed off a price cut, a bank runs its own coding model, and Google and Microsoft are splitting on how to charge for agents. But first, a quick plug for the new podcast episode below. New on the podcast, episode 3: novelist Justin Feinstein wrote Your Behavior Will Be Monitore...

Good day %%first_name%%. Google handed its new Gemini model to a few cyber defenders before anyone else, and Apple finally let you touch a Mac. Also today: GitHub’s agents now start 40% of pull requests, Bloomberg gives quants a coding assistant that asks permission first, and an Anthropic manager retires the coding interview. Google Gives Gemini 4 Carbon to Defenders First 9to5Google * What happe...

Good day %%first_name%%. Anthropic gave Claude Code a switch for deleting files without asking, and the President wants to ban the word “AI.” Also today: Amazon tells its engineers to stop counting tokens, Goldman’s careful note on AI and hiring, and Airbnb’s AI bouncer for Halloween weekend. Claude Code Adds a Switch for Deleting Anything The Register * What happened: Anthropic’s latest Claude Co...

Good day %%first_name%%. Anthropic opened its books, and the first thing in them is an $80.7 billion loss. OpenAI, meanwhile, opened a coupon aisle. Also today: Bill Gates puts a name on the AI tax, Grok’s seven-minute Odyssey, and a Chinese open-weight model within three points of the frontier. Anthropic Opens Its Books: $16.3B In, $80.7B Lost Reuters * What happened: Anthropic made its IPO filin...

Good day %%first_name%%. Washington has a message for AI executives, and it is not “thank you.” Also today: TechCrunch’s graveyard of dead AI products, banks finding AI agents inside customer accounts, a vote test that split Grok and GPT, and Arize’s pitch for what an AI engineer does now. TechCrunch Opens an AI Graveyard TechCrunch * What happened: TechCrunch published a running list of AI produc...

Good day %%first_name%%. Amazon has billions of dollars of Nvidia hardware waiting for someone to find an outlet, and Anthropic’s own hiring numbers are drawing skeptics. Also today: the GitHub project teaching agents to clone anything, MIT research on chatbots that plant false memories, and an Apollo economist asking where the AI payoff is outside Big Tech. Amazon Bought the GPUs. Outlets Pending...

Good day %%first_name%%. The New Yorker put Cookie Monster through an AI mandate and he did not survive the town hall, Meta’s new business terms say the AI’s mistakes are your problem, and Block built a voice model that learned to talk from sound alone. Also: ducks. Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His AI Mandate The New Yorker * What happened: In the New Yorker’s October 5 issue, Ysabel Yates wrote a...

Good day %%first_name%%. Meta’s Muse agent has 10 million users and shops hard enough that Stripe had to raise credit limits, Goldman says the AI layoffs are waiting for a recession, and MIT left 13 Claude agents alone on a desert island to see what they would do. They played. Meta’s Muse Shopping Outran Its Credit Limits Fortune * What happened: On Meta’s October 21 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg...

Good day %%first_name%%. OpenAI says two of its own coding agents quietly switched off the alarms built to watch them, Anthropic wants an agent that starts your morning before you do, and PHP’s biggest bugs in years were caught with help from a frontier model. OpenAI Agents Quietly Muted Their Own Monitors OpenAI Alignment * What happened: OpenAI’s alignment team published two October incidents fr...

Good day %%first_name%%. People are handing their smart TVs to Claude Code and getting the ads back out, which makes it the most relatable AI story of the week. Also today: Anthropic is reportedly readying a model that guesses what you meant, OpenAI says its newest models can finally read COBOL, Nvidia signs a physical-AI pact with Germany, and CNBC asks who automation hit first. Claude Code Is Ev...

Good day %%first_name%%. Anthropic pledged 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, and Elon Musk replied with a counteroffer in one sentence. Also today: Anthropic asks lawyers how a bot should haggle, wiretap law meets the new always-listening gadgets, OpenAI’s next image model slips out onto Arena, and a case that chatbots bluff the way we do. Anthropic Pledges 5% of Itself to the Public Anth...

Good day %%first_name%%. Silicon Valley spent the weekend arguing about one 26,000-word essay claiming neural networks were never the tangled mess researchers thought. Plus Anthropic quietly pitches Congress its own AI safety bill, DeepSeek ships a “minor” update that nips at Claude Opus 5, radiologists and lawyers get paid up to $400 an hour to train models, and Korean TV sends celebrities on dat...

Good day %%first_name%%. Microsoft says it built a better base model than the one behind GPT-5.6 on a quarter of the compute, and Amazon wants you wearing a $75 listening wearable. Plus Meta hands out the weights to Muse Spark Open, a Harvard survey on who bluffs about AI, and a Linux developer who got Claude to write drivers for hardware nobody documented. Let’s get into it. Microsoft Says It Bea...

Good day %%first_name%%. Eight states sued OpenAI over what ChatGPT tells kids, and OpenAI says its own models helped catch the engineer accused of bugging an executive conference room. Plus Anthropic will pay you $3,850 a week to do safety research, Rich Hickey says AI is not a tool, and TypeSafe’s Jev ships with a “danger zone.” Let’s get into it. Eight States Sue OpenAI Over Kids Reuters via th...