Claude

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A 2025 survey by Fishbowl found that 68% of knowledge workers now use two or more AI tools weekly, up from 22% in 2023. The shift isn’t about loyalty to one platform; it’s about matching the right model to the right job. I’ve spent the last year testing this approach daily, and the performance gap between a specialized tool and a general-purpose one is real. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been using Claude daily for automations, coding, and content work — and I thought I understood how it worked. You type a question, it generates an answer. Simple. Then Anthropic published a paper last week that made me stop and re-read it twice. They found a hidden layer of internal processing in Claude that looks a lot like a working memory — words and concepts Claude activates but never shows you. And they built a tool to read it. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last week, I woke up to find the AI model powering my client automation had been pulled — not because it broke, but because the government decided it needed to review it first. If you’re using Claude, ChatGPT, or anything built on top of them, the same thing could happen to your tools. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I was in the middle of a Claude session on June 12 when everything went dark. No warning, no error message — just gone. The most powerful AI model I’d been using for weeks simply stopped existing, and for the next 18 days, nobody could tell me if it was coming back. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been running AI agents for months, and the bill was the part that hurt the most. Not the setup, not the prompts — the raw token cost of letting a model plan, call tools, verify its own work, and loop. Agentic workflows eat tokens like a starving man at a buffet. So when Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 last week as a “cheaper way to run agents,” I had to find out if it actually changes the math. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Three weeks ago, the US government banned one of the most powerful AI models ever built. Yesterday, it came back online. And if you’re using Claude for anything — work, coding, research — you need to know what just happened. On June 12, 2026, the US Department of Commerce applied export controls to Anthropic’s newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Access was suspended globally overnight. No warning, no grace period. Just gone. As of July 1, Fable 5 is back for everyone — but the story behind the ban tells you something important about where AI is headed. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been watching AI agents evolve for months, and most of them share the same problem: they’re built for people who already know how to code. Anthropic just changed that. Their new feature called Cowork runs directly inside the Claude desktop app, reads and edits files on your computer, and requires nothing more than typing what you want in plain English. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If your entire business runs on Claude, last week should have scared you. On June 12, 2026, the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to pull its most powerful models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — offline. Not because the models were broken. Not because Anthropic did something wrong. Because a jailbreak was flagged as a national security risk, and the government gave Anthropic 90 minutes to comply. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I used to tell people that $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus was the best money I spend on tools. Then Google cut its AI Plus plan to $4.99 a month and doubled the storage. That changes the conversation — and if you’re wondering about Google Document AI pricing in 2026, this shift tells you everything about where the market is heading. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. You paste a prompt. The AI returns three paragraphs that sound like every LinkedIn post you’ve ever scrolled past. Generic opener. Vague advice. A closing line about “leveraging synergies.” You close the tab and think the tool is broken. It’s probably not the model. It’s the input. ...