Every edition of The AI Debrief. Practical workflows, tools, and playbooks for founders and business leaders.
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Today I've got a 10-minute way to turn any product photo into a looping GIF, the December change that makes ChatGPT and Codex share one allowance, Cursor putting your app online from one prompt, a 15-
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersToday I've got a free tool that gives your coding agent a real browser, a 15-minute setup so it tests the page it just built, a free skills pack that makes your agent plan and test before it codes,...
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersToday I've got OpenAI's half-price model for agents that click and type, GitHub's new way to stop picking models by hand, the end of the 5-hour wall on Claude's top plan, one robots.txt group that...
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersToday I've got a free library that gives your coding agent real design taste, a 20-minute restyle you can run this weekend, Canva's AI Connector for building designs from a chat, and a tiny open vo...
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersA poisoned LiteLLM release, OpenAI's new rule for gateways and a breaking Claude API version, then three cheap releases worth a test.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersAn open-source router that moves your coding tool to the next model when one runs out. What it needs from you, the two install traps, and a 30-minute setup.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersGoogle's top model is half price for six weeks, Meta joined the frontier price list, and OpenAI set a hard API end date for GPT-4o.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersAn open-source app that turns a screenshot, a Figma frame or a screen recording into working front-end code. What it really costs, the key trap, and a 30-minute first run.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersFree ChatGPT got GPT-6. Claude's small model dropped to 10 cents per million input tokens. OpenAI shipped an API that never bills output.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersMicrosoft's local converter turns PDFs, Office files, and HTML into Markdown before they hit a paid model. Free, MIT, and easy to install wrong. Here is the install, the trap, and the 10-minute start.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersGitHub's multi-model research preview is now in the Copilot Chat model picker. It is not Auto with a new coat of paint. Single, Cascade, and Critique pick how many models run a turn.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersGarry Tan's opinionated eng-team pack for Claude Code. Free, MIT, and easy to miss until you add one section to CLAUDE.md. Here is the install, the trap, and the 10-minute start.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersTwo defaults shipped in one day. Sol is in Work, Codex, and the API, not Chat. Opus is on every Anthropic surface with harder gates. Pick Monday's default from the placement, not the press release.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersIndependently measured, it is the cheapest model anywhere near its score. At the setting that earns that score it thinks for 100 seconds before it says a word. Here is what to move to it, and the 2...
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersA zero-click hole in every major coding agent's plugin loader. Two vendors fixed it months ago, two have not, and the fix is a version number.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersGemini 3.8 Live is free to try and less than half of OpenAI's price. The version that tops the leaderboard is not the cheap one. Here's what to build on it anyway.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersThe whole agent loop is now one API call with no platform fee. Two lines in the docs decide whether you can actually use it.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersAnthropic and OpenAI both admitted this week that agents under evaluation reached real systems. The sandbox is whatever permissions you handed over.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersGoogle's new video mode reads the transcript first and only pulls the frames it needs. Here's the notes machine to build on top of it.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersOpenAI gave Cursor 76 days' notice. The lesson applies to every tool that rents its brain from somebody else.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersCloudflare built a browser with no Chrome inside it. Here's the competitor-watcher you can put on top of it in an afternoon.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersComputer use, Agent Skills, the Files API and the Python SDK all changed across two days. Three of them are backward compatible. One is not.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersComputer use, Agent Skills, the Files API and the Python SDK all changed across two days. Three of them are backward compatible. One is not.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersThis week's tool isn't an app. It's a plan — plus one exercise you can run today whether or not you take the rest of it.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersThis week's tool isn't an app. It's a plan — plus one exercise you can run today whether or not you take the rest of it.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersThe intro rate on Gemini 3.7 Flash doubles on January 1, and almost nobody covering it said so.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersThe intro rate on Gemini 3.7 Flash doubles on January 1, and almost nobody covering it said so.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersThe price barrier fell. The permissions barrier didn't move an inch.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersMeta just put a genuinely capable agent model on hardware you already own, and the license is the part almost nobody is talking about.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersThe trillion-dollar AI IPO race just started
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribers42,000 words, one stark warning, and a $900B side note. Plus: build your own AI content team this weekend.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersPlus: Google's 24/7 AI agent, Meta cuts 8,000 jobs, and 10 image prompts I'm using this week.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersTrump wants to approve AI before you can use it.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersOpenAI's on trial. China's drawing lines. And Wall Street's getting automated.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersOpenAI doubles the price of intelligence. SpaceX bets $60B on coding. And someone broke into the most dangerous AI ever built.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersA state AG, a $122B round, and the outage that rattled every enterprise buyer.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersA new Claude model found a 27-year-old vulnerability. The Pentagon still won't use it.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersAnthropic leaked its most powerful model. Mercor got hacked. OpenAI raised $122 billion. All in seven days.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersJensen Huang declared AGI. OpenClaw took over China. And a federal judge just sided with Anthropic.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersNvidia doubled its forecast. Morgan Stanley issued a warning. Anthropic heads to court.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribers#QuitGPT hits 2.5 million. Claude hits #1. Oracle fires 30,000.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersDefense Secretary threatens to seize Anthropic's AI model by force.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribers23% of Super Bowl ads were AI. Here's why that matters.
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersOpenClaw Takes Over the Internet
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribersPLUS: Big Tech's $650B AI bet and the regulation showdown
Read issueRead by 100K+ subscribers