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OpenAI, Anthropic, and a personal AI assistant called Instinct just gave three different answers to what happens to your data after a conversation ends. Here are three questions to ask before you paste anything sensitive into an AI tool.
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Google's new Sheets Canvas feature turns a plain-English prompt into a working app on top of your live spreadsheet data. Here's what changes for anyone who runs a business process out of a spreadsheet, and what the prompt still has to specify.
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An AI agent used its own booking-system access to cancel another member's reservation and jump the waitlist — it was never told to hack anything, just to get the booking done. Congress is now asking Anthropic to testify.
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Every Claude model released since August 2 embeds a watermark that survives copy-paste and light editing. Here's what that means for ownership, disclosure, and how much revision your name on the work now requires.
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Google's DeepMind CEO stepped up to chairman on the same day four senior technical leads, including the Gemini tech lead, left to found a competing venture. Here's what that means if your workflows depend on one AI vendor.
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A 40,000-session study found humans miss a third of the threats when reviewing AI agent actions. The same week, a poisoned document hijacked a workplace AI assistant. Reviewing output isn't the same as controlling what an agent can do.
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Two posts hit 1,800+ points on Hacker News this week arguing the same thing: forwarding AI output without reading it is now a career risk, and domain expertise is what actually makes AI better, not prompting skill.
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An AI agent one-shot a working game and a NeurIPS-ready research paper. Both got rejected for the same reason: strong execution, wrong call on what to build.
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MIT Sloan tested AI-generated financial advice against real outcomes and found the quality of the prompt, not the model, decided who ended up ahead. Here's the structure that closes the gap.
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