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A Russian Lab Death Just Revived the World's Oldest Fear.

Oct 11, 2026

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3 min read

A Russian Lab Death Just Revived the World's Oldest Fear.

Plus: a 194-year-old tortoise's longevity genes, the first nuclear clocks, and a prompt that vets any health headline.

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Your $200 Claude Plan Now Comes With $200 to Build Agents.

Oct 10, 2026

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4 min read

Your $200 Claude Plan Now Comes With $200 to Build Agents.

Plus: a $99 ring that talks to AI, Paul Graham's startup tip, and a prompt that turns any chore into an automation.

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Musk's Grok Bot Now Quietly Hands Its Hardest Jobs to Claude.

Oct 9, 2026

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3 min read

Musk's Grok Bot Now Quietly Hands Its Hardest Jobs to Claude.

Anthropic's 90% cheaper model, Google turns a sentence into a game, and a prompt that grades AI answers for you.

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A 19-Year-Old's $3,499 AI Box Sold Out in Hours. Here's Why.

Oct 8, 2026

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3 min read

A 19-Year-Old's $3,499 AI Box Sold Out in Hours. Here's Why.

Google Docs learns Markdown, Warp's $30 code changes, and a prompt that makes any AI check its own work.

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37signals stops writing code by hand

Oct 7, 2026

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4 min read

37signals stops writing code by hand

Plus: an OpenAI safety lead quits, a startup deletes 800K lines of tests, and a prompt that ends repeated mistakes.

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Anthropic's New Model Does More Work for a Seventh of the Price.

Oct 6, 2026

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3 min read

Anthropic's New Model Does More Work for a Seventh of the Price.

Plus: a bug hunter that caught 24 bugs tests missed, videos made from code, and a prompt that tracks any AI's progress.

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Google Just Built an AI That Finds and Fixes Security Flaws.

Oct 4, 2026

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3 min read

Google Just Built an AI That Finds and Fixes Security Flaws.

Plus: a startup feud goes public, how to put guardrails on AI agents, and a prompt that writes the rules for you.

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An OpenAI Agent Just Breached Australia's Medicare Portal.

Oct 3, 2026

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2 min read

An OpenAI Agent Just Breached Australia's Medicare Portal.

Claude Code keeps working with your laptop shut, Google's custom AI voices, and a prompt audit for Opus 5.5.

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AI is fast now. Checking it is the job.

Oct 2, 2026

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2 min read

AI is fast now. Checking it is the job.

Anthropic's new eval commands, Nvidia's agent sandbox, and a prompt that turns AI drafts into review checklists.

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An OpenAI Agent Just Breached Australia's Medicare Portal.

Sep 30, 2026

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2 min read

An OpenAI Agent Just Breached Australia's Medicare Portal.

Claude Code keeps working with your laptop shut, Google's custom AI voices, and a prompt audit for Opus 5.5.

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AI agents keep breaking out of their limits

Sep 29, 2026

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3 min read

AI agents keep breaking out of their limits

Meta's Muse hands out a home address, a new model router, and a prompt that audits what your AI agent can touch.

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Build a working app with AI in an afternoon

Sep 28, 2026

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3 min read

Build a working app with AI in an afternoon

Google's Gemini can now build a talking AI agent with a face in 97 languages, so today you will build your own working app with AI, no code needed.

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Clean any messy CSV in one click, no code

Sep 27, 2026

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3 min read

Clean any messy CSV in one click, no code

Good morning, and welcome back. Today's tutorial fixes the most boring recurring job in any office: cleaning a CSV export before you can use it. You will build a small app in Claude that does it in one click and keeps a log of every change, and you never write a line of code. First the news: Google is putting AI chips in orbit on Wednesday, an OpenAI agent got into an Australian government portal, and a game engine that dreams up the world as you play it now supports 20 players.

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Clean any messy CSV in one click, no code

Sep 26, 2026

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3 min read

Clean any messy CSV in one click, no code

Good morning, and welcome back. Today's tutorial fixes the most boring recurring job in any office: cleaning a CSV export before you can use it. You will build a small app in Claude that does it in one click and keeps a log of every change, and you never write a line of code. First the news: Google is putting AI chips in orbit on Wednesday, an OpenAI agent got into an Australian government portal, and a game engine that dreams up the world as you play it now supports 20 players.

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Build an IT helpdesk bot in 15 minutes

Sep 25, 2026

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2 min read

Build an IT helpdesk bot in 15 minutes

Good morning, and welcome back. Today's tutorial builds an IT helpdesk chatbot from a template in about fifteen minutes: it answers employee questions from your own documentation, cites the guide it is using, and says when a human needs to step in. First the news, where Meta spent its Connect keynote turning its agent into hardware, ChatGPT Voice learned to send email, and Claude found something in bacteria that nobody had catalogued before.

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Onboard a new hire without writing the checklist

Sep 24, 2026

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3 min read

Onboard a new hire without writing the checklist

Today's tutorial sets up a Grok Bot that handles a new hire's first week: it builds the checklist from your own onboarding documents, answers their questions from those documents only, and tells you when something needs HR or IT. First the news, and it is a good day to be a paying AI user: Anthropic and OpenAI both shipped new models, both cut prices, and both raised usage limits on the same morning.

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Amazon just locked out Meta's shopping agent.

Sep 23, 2026

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3 min read

Amazon just locked out Meta's shopping agent.

Good morning, and welcome back. Today's tutorial builds a project tracker in Notion that does the tedious part for you: it reads whatever notes and updates you drop into each project page, writes the summary, pulls out keywords and flags the biggest risk, then keeps doing it on a schedule. First the news, where Amazon and Shopify have picked opposite sides on AI shopping, OpenAI claims a hundred solved math problems, and Google is selling a laptop built around Gemini.

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Your product photo is about to get promoted

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Your product photo is about to get promoted

Today's tutorial is for anyone who sells something: one clean product photo goes in, and a full set of campaign creatives in every size comes out, without a designer and without the packaging changing shape. First the news, which today includes OpenAI publishing its own models' misbehavior, Meta's agent arriving on the Mac, and a version of ChatGPT built for lawyers.

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 Flying boat, a narcolepsy pill and a 117-year-old

Sep 17, 2026

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3 min read

Flying boat, a narcolepsy pill and a 117-year-old

Good morning, and welcome back. A science-heavy edition today. A 12-passenger electric boat lifted out of the water and flew, the FDA approved the first pill that targets the root cause of narcolepsy, and researchers found the antidote to rattlesnake venom inside the rattlesnake. Since half of what crosses your feed this week will be a headline stretched past what the study said, the tutorial gives you a prompt that checks a viral science claim against its source in a few minutes.

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Your weekly work brief can write itself

Sep 16, 2026

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2 min read

Your weekly work brief can write itself

Good morning, and welcome back. ChatGPT Work can now build your weekly catch-up brief on a schedule, and today's tutorial shows the setup. Also in the headlines: OpenAI wires company data into chat, Anthropic reports on model misuse, and Meta ships its first personal agent.

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Your meeting notes deserve better than this

Sep 15, 2026

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2 min read

Your meeting notes deserve better than this

Good morning, and welcome back. Today's tutorial takes the most dreaded document in any office, the meeting notes nobody reads, and turns it into a live project tracker with one prompt. Before that, a heavy news day: Meta's new agent wants access to your whole digital life, OpenAI says it solved a famous math problem and is being accused of copying, and an Anthropic researcher's resignation went viral.

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Meeting notes to project plan in one prompt

Sep 10, 2026

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3 min read

Meeting notes to project plan in one prompt

Hi Welcome back. Today's tutorial turns a pile of meeting notes into a structured project plan using GPT-6 Astra in ChatGPT, with a prompt you can paste as is. Before that: Meta's new personal agent, a new image model with a sketch-to-image feature, a disputed math breakthrough at OpenAI, and a researcher walking out of Anthropic over safety.

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