New Claude Is Ridiculously Good at Building AI Agents (Here is Full Practical Guide)
A simple way to build AI agents with Claude 5.5 generation models
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Executive Briefing: Agents Split Your Software Into 3 Parts. Which Should You Keep Paying For?
Agents are pulling apart the data, screens, and workflows you’ve been buying as one subscription. Each piece now needs its own decision.
How to Use AI to Survive (and Even Enjoy) Meetings | Sam Stephenson
Watch now (33 mins) | Granola’s co-founder on the AI habits that help him show up prepared, plus how his team avoids AI slop and burnout
Bubble-Burst.
(□) AI is a bubble. (□) AI is very hard to learn. (☑) None of the above.
Claude vs ChatGPT: Here Is Where I Cash Each One
There is a reason I keep both open.
Week 4 · Day 4 — The Hand
Building AI Councils, Not Companions. You've spent three days finding out what badly designed agentic AI costs. Today you build what replaces it.
Hitting your ChatGPT limit? Try Sol before paying $300 more
Used together, Dots, Space, and Sol turn the context you've built with AI into a shared workspace. The questions to ask are what can it take on and what does that work cost?
OpenAI Model Exploits Vulnerability in Hugging Face Incident
New reports add detail to the OpenAI model security incident involving unauthorized access beyond its testing environment and the breach affecting Hugging Face. Coverage says employees had warned executives about inadequate monitoring before the incident.
OpenAI Introduces Dots Personal AI Agents at DevDay
OpenAI introduced Dots, proactive personal AI agents that can manage ongoing tasks through ChatGPT and operate cloud computers, browsers and connected applications. Coverage from DevDay and a setup guide describe the same new agent release and its capabilities.
Only Allowed Copilot? 5 Habits I'd Build That Carry to the Next Model
The best AI isn’t always employer approved. These are the habits I’d build with the approved tools you have, starting with one prompt you can run this week.
White House Accord on Super Intelligence Draws Criticism
Two commentaries examine the Trump administration's voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, criticizing its nonbinding commitments, vague language and limited public oversight.
OpenAI Dots Setup and Uses (Full Guide)
Learn OpenAI Dots for work that keeps moving without you.
How to Make Videos With Claude Opus 5.5: 10+ Examples With Every Prompt (Plus How to Add Voice, Music and Real Footage)
Claude creates amazing motion graphics videos, and Amplifiers adds what it can't make alone: voiceovers, music and real footage. Grab your popcorn and get ready to be blown away!
Full Claude Code Guide
A beginner’s practical setup for turning Claude into a real AI worker
The Next AI Infrastructure Battle Isn’t Identity. It’s Liability.
Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse from completing purchases. The bigger problem isn’t whether agents can act—it’s who stands behind them when they act incorrectly.
Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout
“The most powerful tool is the power to dissolve corporations that engage in repeat lawbreaking.”
Does your work cost less on Opus 5.5 now that its tokens are 20% cheaper? My 3-prompt guide shows which jobs do before you move them.
Anthropic heard the complaints about Opus 5. Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are both easier to steer, and both make even complex jobs cheaper to run.