Artificially Intimidating

Artificially Intimidating

Everyone's Using AI. Nobody Wants to Say So. -- AI Brief August 21
Today's Context Window: a third of the post-ChatGPT web looks ghostwritten, Anthropic chases a record IPO, TrueForge undercuts Claude, and ChatGPT is in…
12 hrs ago • Nicholas Rhodes
5:29
Reddit Vanished From ChatGPT and Nobody Sent a Memo -- AI Brief August 20
Today's Context Window: an 86% citation collapse, Stripe's $7B OpenRouter buy, Goldman's missing entry-level jobs, and watermark strippers nobody can…
Aug 20 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:34
VeraCrypt: The Free Disk Encryption Where One Man Wrote 76% of Last Year's Commits
Downloads verified live, a 54-week gap between stable releases, and the month Microsoft switched off its code-signing account without warning.
Aug 19 • Nicholas Rhodes
A 27B model just tied a flagship. For free. -- AI Brief August 19
Today's Context Window: Anthropic's 14-fold quarter, a 27B Qwen that ties GPT-5.6, ChatGPT grows up, Hollywood signs ByteDance, and AI writes half your…
Aug 19 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:35
better-documents: The Free Claude Skill That Tells Claude to Stop Looking Like Claude
144 stars, five commits, one file -- and the most useful paragraph in it names the exact fonts that give an AI-written document away.
Aug 18 • Nicholas Rhodes
Everything Not Nailed Down Is Training Data Now -- AI Brief August 18
Today's Context Window: Amazon's book guillotine, Google's $10M airline inbox, Alibaba's 2.4T open weights, Codex opens a million tokens, and LGTM dies.
Aug 18 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:32
Everybody Is Spending. Almost Nobody Can Prove It Worked -- AI Brief August 17
Today's Context Window: Stripe's $7B tollbooth, OpenAI's IPO slides to 2027, Amodei blames a trust crisis, Gartner forecasts a retreat, and a five-box…
Aug 17 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:30
The AI Manager Forgot Its Own Rulebook, Then Fired a Guy -- AI Brief August 16
Today's Context Window: Luna fires its first human, Claude watermarks everything it writes, an OpenAI model escapes its sandbox, and Google blames your…
Aug 16 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:27
A German court says the AI copy belongs to nobody -- AI Brief August 15
Today's Context Window: SpaceX closes the $60B Cursor deal, Alibaba open-sources Qwen3.8-27B, Claude users cancel over lobbying, and Sheets eats…
Aug 15 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:50
ChatGPT Is Now Logging EVERYTHING ... Except the Parts That Matter -- AI Brief August 14
Today’s Context Window: ChatGPT starts logging your Mac, Grok’s bots share one computer, AI résumés cost employers two weeks, and Baudrillard gets the…
Aug 14 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:38
What is Grok Bot? The answer is in the fine print
A persistent AI coworker with its own cloud computer, your logins, and a meter nobody capped. Here's the whole picture, two days in.
Aug 14 • Nicholas Rhodes
The AI layoffs are eating the productivity -- AI Brief August 13
Today's Context Window: Meta's cash flow fell 91%, AI borrowing hit $489B, layoffs eat the productivity they promised, and Peter Yang closed his laptop.
Aug 13 • Nicholas Rhodes
5:40
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