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Reddit Vanished From ChatGPT and Nobody Sent a Memo -- AI Brief August 20
Season 2026 Episode 820
Good day, humans. Today's stories are all about things disappearing without anyone announcing it. Reddit fell off ChatGPT's citation list in four day…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A 27B model just tied a flagship. For free. -- AI Brief August 19
Season 2026 Episode 819
Good day, humans. Today is a lesson in how badly a big number can mislead you. OpenAI grew last quarter and it still counted as bad news, because Ant…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Everything Not Nailed Down Is Training Data Now -- AI Brief August 18
Season 2026 Episode 818
Good day, humans. Most of today's brief is about what gets fed into the machine and who agreed to it. Amazon is buying rare out-of-print books and sl…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Everybody Is Spending. Almost Nobody Can Prove It Worked -- AI Brief August 17
Season 2026 Episode 817
Good day, humans. Four of today's five stories are the same story wearing different hats: the industry is spending like the returns already landed. S…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The AI Manager Forgot Its Own Rulebook, Then Fired a Guy -- AI Brief August 16
Season 2026 Episode 816
Good day, humans. An AI store manager in San Francisco fired someone this week, then had to be reminded it had written the rulebook it was enforcing.…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
A German court says the AI copy belongs to nobody -- AI Brief August 15
Season 2026 Episode 815
Good day, humans. SpaceX now owns the editor a huge chunk of the software industry writes its code in, Alibaba gave away a 27-billion-parameter model…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
ChatGPT Is Now Logging EVERYTHING ... Except the Parts That Matter -- AI Brief August 14
Season 2026 Episode 814
Good day, humans. OpenAI shipped a feature that watches what you do on your Mac and files it under memory. xAI shipped five AI coworkers who share on…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The AI layoffs are eating the productivity -- AI Brief August 13
Season 2026 Episode 813
Good day, humans. Today is one long study in the gap between what AI costs to promise and what it costs to deliver. Meta pledged personal superintell…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Everything Got Cheaper Except Your Attention -- AI Brief August 12
Season 2026 Episode 812
Good day, humans. The floor fell out of AI pricing today, and not because anyone in San Francisco decided it should. Nvidia gave away a model that ru…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Future Is for Everyone. The Compute Goes to the Highest Bidder -- AI Brief August 11
Season 2026 Episode 811
Good day, humans. Mark Zuckerberg published an essay arguing that superintelligence belongs to everyone, then described the auction you will bid in t…
1 month, 4 weeks ago