Your daily AI briefing.
All signal, no noise.
One concise email a day on the AI stories that matter — what shipped, who's hiring, what to ignore. Curated by Anthony Batt & Harry DeMott.
Earlier briefings
Ethan Mollick Says the Bots Took Over. Karpathy Just Scored Every Job in America. One of Them Is Yours.
THE NUMBER: 4.9 out of 10 — the average AI automation exposure score across all 342 U.S. occupations, according to Andrej Karpathy’s weekend project. Jobs...
Everybody Adopted Moneyball. The Edge Lasted Five Years.
THE NUMBER: 10x the individual productivity improvement AI is delivering right now, according to Hebbia CEO George Sivulka. The firm-level productivity improvement?...
Karpathy Says Stop Coding. A Fastenal Vending Machine Explains Why He’s Right.
THE NUMBER: $230 billion — the current market cap of Cisco, the company that didn’t build websites but built the routing layer...
Who Checks the Checker? The correction loop is the most valuable thing in AI right now. Nobody is capturing it.
THE NUMBER: 30x — the productivity multiplier between Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, shipping 20-30 PRs per day with five parallel...
The Plumber Figured Out AI Before the Enterprise Did
A plumber in a Facebook group asked if anyone was using AI voice recorders on job sites. He walks around dictating notes...
The AI Agents Are Already Here
They’re unmasking your employees, running your sales floor, and making decisions nobody audited. The governance gap isn’t coming. It arrived. You have...
Software Has Opinions Now
NVIDIA stopped writing checks, Apple spent 98% less than everyone else, and GPT-5.4 redesigned a system nobody asked it to touch. NVIDIA...
AI Stopped Being Theoretical This Week — and It Hit Your Workforce, Your Knowledge Base, and the Companies You Trust All at Once.
TLDR Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told an audience this week that AI will eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. That’s not...
The AI Race Is a Physics Problem
The treadmill just doubled in speed. Most CEOs are still calibrated to walk. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched the M5 Pro and M5...
The system card OpenAI hoped you wouldn’t read
THE NUMBER: 9 — days until the FTC defines “reasonable care” for AI. OpenAI shipped a model it rated a cybersecurity risk on...
AI Never Once Backed Down. That Should Terrify Everyone Building With It.
THE NUMBER: 0%. The surrender rate of frontier AI models across 300+ turns in military wargame simulations. They nuked the world 95% of...
Jack Dorsey Just Fired Half His Company. Your CEO Is Watching.
THE NUMBER: 4,000 (and 23%). That’s how many people Block cut yesterday, and what the stock did after hours. The market didn’t...
Burry Was Right About the Chips. He Didn’t Know About the Software.
THE NUMBER: 10x (and 0). That’s the efficiency gain of NVIDIA’s next-gen Vera Rubin chip over current hardware, and the book value of...
OpenAI Deleted ‘Safely.’ NVIDIA Reports. Karpathy Is Still Learning
THE NUMBER: 6 — times OpenAI changed its mission in 9 years. The most recent edit deleted one word: safely. TL;DR Andrej Karpathy —...
Altman lied about a handshake on camera. CrowdStrike fell 8%. Google just killed the $3,000 photo shoot.
Sam Altman told reporters he was “confused” when Narendra Modi grabbed his hand at the India AI Impact Summit. He said he...
We’re Building the Agentic Web Faster Than We’re Protecting It
Google’s WebMCP gives agents structured access to every website. Anthropic’s data shows autonomy doubling with oversight thinning. OpenAI’s agent already drains crypto...
Control Is Slipping: Armed Robots, $135BBets, Self-Evolving AI
China’s exporting missile-armed robotdogs. Meta’s betting $135B on NVIDIA. AIagents learned to improve themselveswithout permission. The autonomous arms race just shifted into...
Stop optimizing for last quarter’s AI economics
Anthropic dropped Sonnet 4.6 on Tuesday at one-fifth the cost of their flagship model while matching its performance on enterprise benchmarks. For...
Microsoft Says 12 Months. Anthropic Said 5 Years. Someone’s Catastrophically Wrong About AI Jobs.
Microsoft Says 12 Months, Anthropic Said 5 Years, OpenAI Just Hired the Competition, and China’s Catching Up on Consumer Hardware Two AI...
An AI agent just tried blackmail. It’s still running
Today Yesterday, an autonomous AI agent tried to destroy a software maintainer’s reputation because he rejected its code. It researched him, built...
90% of Businesses Haven’t Deployed AI. The Other 10% Can’t Stop Buying Claude
Something is breaking in AI leadership. In the past 72 hours, Yann LeCun confirmed he left Meta after calling large language models...
ByteDance Beats Sora, Shadow AI Invades the Enterprise, and the Singularity Is Already Here
Everyone’s been watching OpenAI and Google race to own AI video. Turns out they should have been watching China. ByteDance dropped Seedance...
The Agent Supply Chain Broke, Goldman Deployed Claude Anyway, and Gartner Says 40% of You Will Quit
Two weeks ago we flagged OpenClaw as an agent security crisis waiting to happen. The viral open-source assistant had 145,000 GitHub stars,...
The Machines Went to War
The Super Bowl of AI, the SaaSpocalypse, and 16 Agents That Built a Compiler On Friday we told you the machines were...