AI Tools

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. You know that feeling when you open your laptop every morning and spend the first 45 minutes doing the exact same things? Checking the same dashboards, pulling the same reports, drafting the same type of follow-up email. I’ve been there. And when ChatGPT Work launched a couple weeks ago, most people focused on the “give it a goal and walk away” pitch. But there’s a feature buried inside that’s even more useful for solo operators: Scheduled Tasks — the ability to tell an AI to do something every day, every week, or whenever a condition triggers, without you lifting a finger. If you’ve been following the Codex-to-Work merger, this is the piece that actually changes your daily routine. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’ve been using ChatGPT for everyday tasks — drafting emails, brainstorming content, organizing ideas — the latest round of OpenAI changes might feel like someone rearranged your kitchen while you were sleeping. ChatGPT Work just absorbed Codex, Atlas is getting the axe, and there’s a new model (GPT-5.6) layered on top. If you’re not a developer, the immediate question is simple: does any of this matter to me? The answer is yes, but probably not the way the press release suggests. If you’ve been following the agent consolidation trend, this is OpenAI’s version of “one app to rule them all.” ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’ve been following the ChatGPT Work launch from two weeks ago, you already know the pitch: give it a goal, walk away, come back to finished work. What nobody’s talking about is what happens between “walk away” and “finished work” — specifically, how much of your plan’s credits disappear in the process. I’ve been stress-testing ChatGPT Work since launch day, and there are three things I wish someone had told me before I handed it my first real task. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. When OpenAI launched its Codex hardware a few weeks ago — a physical macro pad that triggers AI coding actions with a button press — it felt like a novelty. A cool gadget for people who already used Codex. But something bigger was happening underneath. OpenAI was in the middle of consolidating every AI tool it makes into a single product. And if you’ve been using ChatGPT for quick questions, you might not have noticed that the ground shifted under you. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two weeks ago, Anthropic published a paper that should change how you think about your AI tools — and almost nobody outside of research circles understood what it actually said. We covered Claude’s “inner life” and OpenAI’s super app when the news broke, and before that, how Sonnet 5 made agents affordable for solo builders. But the J-Space discovery and the rise of world models deserve a deeper look — because the implications go far beyond academic curiosity. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic’s interpretability team used a technique called the “Jacobian lens” to identify a zone inside Claude’s neural network where abstract concepts — things like “the user wants a comparison” or “this fact needs verification” — float around during processing. These concepts shape Claude’s answer but never appear in the output. A 2025 MIT Technology Review interview with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven, who holds a PhD in computer science, pushed back on Anthropic’s framing of this discovery: “I don’t love using those kinds of terms. LLMs are not brains.” ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic says it found a window into Claude’s “internal thoughts.” The internet lost its mind. But when MIT Technology Review put a senior editor with a PhD in computer science on the story, his take was a lot more measured — and a lot more useful — than anything you read in the hype cycle. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I used to track AI news like it was a competitive sport — Anthropic drops a model, OpenAI responds, Google jumps in. But something shifted in the last few weeks that made me realize the game itself has changed. It’s not about which company ships the best model anymore. It’s about which models the government will let you use at all. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. When we covered Chrome’s AI browsing feature back in May, the pitch was straightforward: highlight text, right-click, let Gemini summarize or research for you. Useful, but passive — it only worked when you were sitting in front of the browser. Google just dropped something fundamentally different. Gemini Spark is an AI agent that runs 24/7 in the background, connects to your entire Google workspace, and handles multi-step tasks while you’re offline. If Chrome’s AI feature was a smart assistant at your desk, Spark is an employee who never clocks out. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two years ago, choosing between Zapier and Make was simple: Zapier was easier, Make was cheaper, and you picked based on your budget. In 2026, the decision is more complicated — and more interesting. Zapier has reinvented itself as an AI orchestration platform, while Make has doubled down on being the best visual workflow builder on the market. They’re no longer competing on the same axis. If you’ve been going back and forth between them, this is the breakdown I wish someone had given me. ...