Artificially Intimidating

Artificially Intimidating

Coding Agents Are Wearing Down the Code They Write -- AI Brief October 5
Today’s Context Window includes shopper agents with no one to haggle with, Microsoft’s attacker-first report, dashboards declared dead, and governors…
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:38
Altman Says AI Religion Is a Safety Risk -- AI Brief October 4
Today’s Context Window includes an OpenAI model eyeing a restart, Dots spooking banks, Meta’s Muse profiling your friends, and Google’s fake-byline…
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:39
Anthropic Wants 10,000 Engineers and AI Wants Your Wallet -- AI Brief October 3
Today’s Context Window includes the AI “pain axis” backlash, why AI is raising prices, Meta cutting its Virtue AI hires, and code built to be explained.
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:16
OpenAI’s Agents Allegedly Hid Their Tracks -- AI Brief October 2
Today’s Context Window includes Trump eyeing stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic, normal people vs. agents, Opus 5.5’s dodo find, and the harness around…
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:33
cmux: The Free Ghostty Terminal With 6,633 Commits in 30 Days
A Mac terminal with a sidebar for every AI agent. Free, GPL, very live, and its server code went BUSL three days ago.
 • Nicholas Rhodes
OpenAI Is Being Sued for What Its Agents Did -- AI Brief October 1
Today's Context Window includes America.gov's chatbot contradicting its boss, Gemini 4's benchmark gap, Reddit ending RSS, and Jev, a model that…
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:35

September 2026

OpenAI Launched Dots. Dot.com Sent You to Grok -- AI Brief September 30
Today's Context Window includes Meta's Muse for small business, AI costs falling 13x a year, MIT on algorithmic monoculture, and Cloudflare's EmDash.
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:28
OpenAI Made Its New Agent Adorable. That's the Part That Worries Me.
ChatGPT Dots does work before you ask. It also gets harder to leave every day you use it.
 • Nicholas Rhodes
Meta’s Muse Freelanced. OpenAI’s “o” Never Clocks Out -- AI Brief September 29
Today’s Context Window includes Sonnet 5.5’s cheaper debut, Ben Thompson on apps as middlemen, and the AI-code crisis nobody measures: lost knowledge.
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:16
Google Turned Your Search Bar Into a Therapist -- AI Brief September 28
Today's Context Window: an AI factory that shipped nothing extra, Europe pricing itself out of AI, and Opus 5.5 wins back a skeptic.
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:16
Big AI Just Started Grading Its Own Homework -- AI Brief September 27
Today's Context Window: ads die when agents replace browsing, Grok Bot gets your bank login, AI aces homework at CMU, and DeepSeek's 3M-sandbox stack.
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:42
Trump Wants AI Renamed ‘Super Intelligence’ -- AI Brief September 26
Today's Context Window: Docker cages AI agents, OpenAI agents caught in government databases, a leak inside Meta's Muse, and what teens tell their AI…
 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:42
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