Archive - Artificially Intimidating

Your Robinhood account can now trade itself -- AI Brief July 5

Today’s Context Window: agents trading your Robinhood account, no “FDA for AI,” ChatGPT flunking Urdu poetry, and AI’s confidence-theater problem.

8 hrs ago • Nicholas Rhodes

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Alibaba's Claw Machine Just Grabbed Four New Superconductors -- AI Brief July 4

Today's Context Window: ByteDance charts how fast agents learn, Washington's AI biopic, Midjourney demands Hollywood's homework, and Thiel vs the Pope.

Jul 4 • Nicholas Rhodes

4:05

Fable 5 Is Back After 18 Days. The Precedent It Set Isn't Going Anywhere.

The US lifted the ban after 18 days. The Amazon phone call, the China scare, the tiered restoration, and the new rulebook that outlasts the outage.

Jul 3 • Nicholas Rhodes

China's $2.25-a-month answer to Cursor is here -- AI Brief July 3

Today’s Context Window: Big Tech starts asking if AI has feelings, WhatsApp meters its agents, Z.ai chases Cursor, and Vercel says agents aren’t apps.

Jul 3 • Nicholas Rhodes

4:25

Why every chatbot picks 7 (and the model that won't) -- AI Brief July 2

Today’s Context Window: Fable 5’s 20-day timeout ends, Google predicts spreadsheets cold, Meta rents out GPUs, the UN grades AI, and every chatbot picks…

Jul 2 • Nicholas Rhodes

4:23

The AI-heavy companies are hiring more juniors -- AI Brief July 1

Today's Context Window: Sonnet 5 goes default, Google's 3-cent image machine, Cursor in your pocket, Hermes 60x faster, and AI adopters hiring more…

Jul 1 • Nicholas Rhodes

4:15

Life goes on and on and on and on and on and On and on and on ...

A month where the business didn’t stop, the algorithm wouldn’t let go, and a bunch of strangers I now love made the soundtrack.

Jul 1 • Nicholas Rhodes

June 2026

The central bankers just said 'AI bubble' -- AI Brief June 30

Today’s Context Window: the BIS calls bubble, Warner wants loyal AI agents, Groq’s $650M comeback, Google’s agentic web, and A24’s $75M Google deal.

Jun 30 • Nicholas Rhodes

4:25

Krugman Says AI Is Eating Our Brains -- AI Brief June 29

Today's Context Window: Nadella's grow-your-own model, a cure for amnesiac coding agents, Austria courts Anthropic, China's free AI hacks like Mythos.

Jun 29 • Nicholas Rhodes

3:52

Frontier AI Got 80% Cheaper and Named After a Crypto Crash -- AI Brief June 28

Today's Context Window: GLM 5.2 guts AI pricing, OpenAI's Sol/Terra/Luna spook crypto, ‘agentjacking’ hits coding agents, plus Žižek's satanic AI.

Jun 28 • Nicholas Rhodes

4:17

Washington Found the Off Switch for Anthropic -- AI Brief June 27

Today’s Context Window: the feds un-ban Anthropic’s Mythos 5, enterprises dump pricey tokens for DeepSeek, Apple’s headset chief jumps to OpenAI, and…

Jun 27 • Nicholas Rhodes

3:57

AI Coding Is About to Cost More Than the Coders -- AI Brief June 26

Today's Context Window: Gartner's token-bill bombshell, Claude's quiet consumer win, Gemini reads your screen, and Krugman calls the backlash an inside…

Jun 26 • Nicholas Rhodes

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