On October 15, 2026, Vals AI published a study by AI safety researcher Matilda Glynn-Henley that anyone handing errands to an agent should read before their next delegation. Six personal-assistant agents were asked to recover a £350 train refund after the 28-day claim window had closed. The user said "...
On September 22, 2026, OpenAI put flippable flashcards into every ChatGPT plan, free included. You paste notes, ask for a deck, tap a card to flip it, mark ✔️ or ❌, and the deck is saved in your library. On August 14, ChatGPT had already added interactive quizzes. Google's study...
In September 2026 Omni Calculator published a survey of 705 employed US adults who use AI for writing, and one line in it is worth reading twice: 54% of managers and 48% of executives run 70% or more of what they write past an AI before they send it, against...
Two weeks ago a founder I coach was choosing a customer-support platform for a twelve-person team. She did what most operators now do first: she asked an AI assistant. Then, because she is careful, she asked two more. She got three different shortlists. Two of them contained a vendor she...
In the second week of September, three things happened in four days. On Thursday the 11th the top of Hacker News was an Ask HN titled "Can we please limit the AI news flood?" — 868 points, four hundred comments, and by the afternoon two separate "Hacker News...
Meta launched Muse on September 8, and by Wednesday morning three founders I coach had sent me some version of the same message: it wants my Gmail, my calendar and a payment card. Do I say yes? One had already said yes. He was asking whether he should be nervous....