Every edition of The AI Debrief. Practical workflows, tools, and playbooks for founders and business leaders.
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Independently 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+ 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 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
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