An extremely busy day in AI developments, reflected in the triple-headline of my Daily AI Digest: 'A new ChatGPT. Claude's Mea Culpa. And White House vs. China' dailyaidigest.net/archive/2026...

On the type of company that wins with AI: "Automation strategies (cutting jobs) will show early gains relative to the deeper investment required for augmentation, but augmentation will perform better in the long run." HBR analysis argues that 1/2

Started testing the AI-writing detector Pangram after reading this. Bottom line: It's getting better at detecting AI-written copy. Not foolproof enough to ruin someone's career yet - it's not perfect. But good enough that if you've been habitually claiming AI copy as your own, you can start sweating

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

A more granular look at AI-related risk to jobs. Paper here distinguishes current vs theoretical risk (big gap) ... and... distinguishes jobs that may change vs disappear cdn.openai.com/pdf/the-ai-j...

The geography of Venice and its outskirts. Illustrates the monumental achievement of building a jewel of human civilization atop a pile of geographic leftovers.

From the big profile of OpenAI founder Sam Altman: “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people… in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences … 1/2

I’ve attended, covered, and sold hot dogs at countless sporting events and am not sure I’ve ever witnessed the energy of a European soccer crowd. 100 minutes of this in Milan tonight.

An investigative report on some big news back home www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tracking astronauts going to the moon with kids is a pretty cool experience as a parent. Also — and I swear this just happened: Props to the crew of Artemis for telling Mission Control about how they properly put away their underwear. Setting an example for certain people here on Earth.

I wrote about our current potential scenario on Dec. 15, 2023: “Protect NATO from Donald Trump? The U.S. Congress just passed that into law” What I also wrote: Unclear this Rubio bill has any practical effect if a POTUS just says, “Sorry. Not respecting Article 5” www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

I’m back on the national podcast I used to occasionally host — to discuss my work on AI. Today on CBC’s Frontburner: What I’m using AI for. One major concern I’ve got (cognitive weakening). When not to use AI. And a fun factoid about Edison & Alexander Graham Bell podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

The man is lowkey producing one of the greatest seasons in the history of the Habs: “(Suzuki is) simultaneously becoming the team’s first Selke Trophy winner since Guy Carbonneau in 1989 and its first 100-point player since Mats Naslund in 1986.”

There’s a growing pile of evidence that relying on AI is bad for your brain. Here I summarize what these studies say; what they don’t; and propose a mitigating strategy – for more mindful, more selective, use of AI. alexpanetta.substack.com/p/a-framewor...

I just tested Google's most powerful new music generator, Lyria 3. If you've never actually played music you might find this fun. If you actually do play music and want to use it to complete a real project, you're going to want to pull your hair out. What I gave it: 1/2

Looks like a potential Democratic House has found its open-ended investigation target: hugely profitable irregular trading on the stock market, prediction markets, and commodities markets connected to the Iran war; how that same war is driving up energy prices for everyone else: and the SEC’s 1/2

How it started: “People of Iran, seize your freedom.” How it’s going:

Let the lawsuits begin. Britannica/Merriam sue OpenAI. How many more will we see from news publishers? Why this is on my mind: a jaw-dropping new study showing LLMs grabbing *paywalled* content, republishing without attribution. Plagiarism on a mass scale www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/ai-...

Google now lets you make a 4-minute video with one click. It's expensive. Here’s my honest review: I wouldn't use this for anything too important alexpanetta.substack.com/p/google-now...

I wrote a piece about what I learned from my editors. And how those lessons are indispensable in the AI economy.

! “He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint.” Pardons don’t cover lawsuits tho

A not true but very very true observation on public opinion in the modern era

John Adams: “Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” James Carville: this, but 11 minutes long with many many many many many many many bad words

This is one of the best conversations I've heard about AI -- and I've spent most waking hours these last 6 months reading and listening to people talk about it Ezra Klein interviews Dean W Ball about the implications of Trump v Anthropic. & policy dilemmas ahead podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/w...

‘A.I. Brain Fry’: A second research study in just a couple of weeks finds that hyper-productive workers using AI in novel ways risk mental overload. Taking on new tasks, too many tasks. Study says managers can make a difference — in how they set A.I. policy. hbr.org/2026/03/when...

Summary: 1) Anthropic still negotiating with Pentagon 2) Supply chain risk designation has arrived via letter; it’s narrowly written, affects minimal slice of business 3) Apologizes for angry memo — says he didn’t leak it; was written amid anger last Friday www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Very disturbing implications for a couple of places where I’ve lived, and encouraging ones for the place where I’m from. From Pew: “We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.”

Hm. He mentions donations too. So I have some company in wondering whether grubby self-dealing is driving a radical shift in U.S. national-security policy involving a vital technology —>

The lawsuits against Facebook over these glasses are going to involve amounts that could build hotels on Mars

Trump's ex-AI advisor sees the forest for the trees: Claude v Pentagon isn't just about one company getting squeezed; it's another milestone in democratic decline. Using state levers to crush disfavored companies = Authoritarianism 101. OpenAI participated in this. No redactions can undo that

I wrote a blog post on the appropriate response to blatant authoritarian over-reach like this —>

Here are three steps to consider in switching away from ChatGPT. As surveillance-weapons deal with Trump admin sends record stampede toward Claude. alexpanetta.substack.com/publish/post...

The market reaction to the U.S. military threatening to destroy Claude: boosting it to No. 1 on the Apple Store.

Me greeting people in my neighborhood, located between the embassies of Iran, Israel and the U.S. ambassador’s residence: “Buongiorno! English? No, scusa. Sono italiano!”

Thoughts and prayers for US intelligence analysts stuck using ChatGPT, instead of Claude Trump Orders Government to Stop Using Anthropic After Pentagon Standoff www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

From FDR to Trump: What turns up when you feed Claude Code 90 years of State of the Union speeches. Some patterns surprised me, some didn't. 1/

In a normal news cycle in a normal year, Anthropic vs the Pentagon would be the story of the year. The military threatening a top A.I. lab over a defining question of our century’s technology — its use in autonomous weapons & mass surveillance. Bigger than post-Olympic hockey micro controversies!

Greetings from a slice of Canada within Turkey. Whatever happens today, let’s all celebrate this; we invented the only Olympic sport where it’s mildly acceptable to punch another guy in the face. 🇨🇦

—Relying on the Twitter/X Curated Algorithm Shifts Political Views Rightward —Big survey exposes gap: Most public servants use A.I., but think their government has no plan —Google puts music creation inside Gemini Some of the stuff included in the daily AI briefing I’ve automated for myself

Nick Suzuki! My overseas low budget pirated streaming site held on just long enough for me to enjoy that live 🇨🇦

Another impressive new model is out from China. GLM-5. I’ll trust it when it can answer these questions a little differently.

Well, here is a rather interesting addendum to the Davos speech: Talks led by Mark Carney to create an EU-TPP super-bloc. Sans the U.S. www.politico.eu/article/eu-a...

What a coincidence. My automated daily AI brief had this as its lead headline today: “LLM Outperforms Judges in Legal Testing.“ with the legal community pushing back, saying the test misrepresented the work of judges. Just funny to see again today. dailyaidigest.net

I wrote yesterday about building an automated daily briefing for myself on developments in AI. Here’s today’s version. —Claude Desktop arrives on Windows —ChatGPT’s work with the U.S. military —Programmers’ fears for impending societal impacts dailyaidigest.net

Aaand there you go: Trump’s sudden about-face on the most important Canada-US border crossing came after meeting with the billionaire family that owns the rival bridge. Nice scoop, confirming suspicions of everyone who has followed this file and is familiar with Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

I’d say this gentleman has ambitions and they don’t involve being popular in Canada.

My initial take here: Canada, don’t take the bait. Trump would get torn apart at home in a midterm year over this and would be seeking an off-ramp.

Wanted to extract my old articles into a PDF I could show my kids someday, with the pics and headlines. Not sharing here, obviously, because nobody asked for it and for copyright reasons. Personal use only. But did want to show this capability of Claude Code.

A brilliant read on what’s destroying software stocks. TLDR: If you sell a product whose value is in its interface, you are screwed. Whether it’s a news site, financial analysis, legal or medical research site. Your value is now in your data. Protect it, manage it, monetize. That’s your business 1/2

For anyone wondering why there’s been a vibe shift since late November, when Anthropic released Opus 4.5. These are not the same tools they were a couple of months ago: “What You Need to Know About the AI Models Rattling Markets” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what...