If you haven’t gone deep into the Claude desktop app, you should give it a look. The three modes (Chat, Cowork, and Code) serve different purposes. Understanding what each one does will help you understand why this new plugin marketplace is an important next step in leveraging AI for the enterprise.

What is a 76.8% verbatim reproduction of Harry Potter?

I've continued to refine a concept I call "share of prompt." It's a three-layer measurement framework that connects AI answer engine visibility directly to revenue. Every major analytics platform shipped AI visibility tools in 2025. None can tell you what an AI-generated brand mention is worth.

You are fully entitled to feel however you want to feel about this, but don’t think for a second that these capabilities will be rejected by SMBs or by professional production organizations for all but the very lowest-end work. Quite conversely: the adventure is just beginning.

The near-term impact of Lyria 3 lands squarely on production music, which is a billion dollar market filled with tracks designed to be heard but not listened to.

We’ve been talking about marketing to bots for the past year or so. The infrastructure to optimize for agentic commerce is almost here. Get ready.

While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic fight over who can build the biggest brain, Cohere went small and wide.

Rhett Reese’s world may be "over," but for everyone else with a story to tell and a laptop to tell it on, it is just beginning.

No app. No download. No special hardware.

AI tools don’t reduce work, they intensify it. Researchers Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye spent eight months studying a 200-person tech company and found that employees who adopted AI worked faster, took on more tasks, and extended their hours, all without being asked.

ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users, but industry experts estimate that less than 5 percent pay for the service. OpenAI’s 2025 revenue hit $20 billion, up from $6 billion in 2024, but cumulative losses could reach $143 billion by 2029. Clearly, OpenAI’s math is not mathing.

"How do I get AI to write like me?" I hear this in every strategy session I run. Now that everyone can vibe-code, everyone can build AI writing workflows that write just like you do. My Sunday essay has the full story.

OpenAI just launched Frontier, an enterprise platform that lets companies build, deploy, and manage AI agents across their organizations.

Gemini now reaches billions of users and devices across Google’s ecosystem and its partners. This is no longer a race. Google is the winner.

Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork, and one of them may have been responsible for wiping $285 billion off software, legal tech, and data analytics stocks in a single trading session.

We are entering a new era of human/machine interfaces. So far, the chat window seems to be the winner.

I published an essay about setting up my own AI assistant and the gap between the hype on social media and the reality of getting it to work. Then, I watched my assistant make its first post on Moltbook, a social network for AI agents where humans are "welcome to observe" but cannot participate.

Project Genie’s ability to generate entertaining fantasy landscapes will help train AI systems that will eventually control robots, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation.

Chrome will now browse the web for you.

Two of the most consequential people in artificial intelligence have both recently urged us to take the implications of AI seriously. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, just published an essay called “The Adolescence of Technology.” It’s long and dense, but it deserves your time.

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I offer this account of my trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau to help ensure that we never forget! -s

My AI fact-checker verified every claim in an article I was writing. It confirmed the dollar amounts, the companies, and the context. It marked everything as accurate. It missed that I had a $20 billion payment flowing in the wrong direction.

eBay updated its User Agreement this week to explicitly ban third-party AI agents from making purchases without permission. The new terms, effective February 20, prohibit “buy-for-me agents, LLM-driven bots, or any end-to-end flow that attempts to place orders without human review.”

Apple will pay Google roughly $5 billion over the next several years to power Siri with Gemini. Apple gets competitive AI. Google gets deeper integration across 2 billion active Apple devices.

In my experience, this kind of production efficiency does not save time (although it certainly can). In practice, it supercharges creative exploration.

Humane and Rabbit learned that lesson at great expense. OpenAI is betting $6.5 billion that Ive knows something they didn’t.

Here’s an idea: let’s announce that ChatGPT will begin testing sponsored content on Friday afternoon of MLK weekend. Nothing says “people are going to love this” like a holiday news dump.

Wikipedia has signed licensing deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral AI. The nonprofit that famously rejected advertising is now a paid data supplier to the AI industry. Google signed in 2022; the rest just caught up.

Every AI company is racing toward personalization. Google’s advantage is that it already has the data. Gemini just needed permission to use it.

Is AI cloning Matthew McConaughey “alright, alright, alright”? Only if he approves.

Apple isn’t paying Google to win the AI race. Apple is paying Google so it can focus on what it actually sells: devices, services, and experiences.

Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI (command line interface) has become one of my primary development tools. If you love your Claude app, you will lose your mind when you experience Claude Code in the command line. It will take your relationship with Claude to a new level.

Where is the line between “just enough AI tool use” and “too much AI tool use”? You can only draw that line on a case by case basis, so there can never be a one-size-fits-all solution. In practice, we may need more AI to prevent too much AI.

The Trump administration just bet $80 billion that nuclear energy can power America’s AI ambitions. The market has other plans.

If your calendar cleared unexpectedly today, or you blocked time for professional development you have yet to use, here is a practical list of hands-on projects that will sharpen your AI capabilities before the weekend.

Pam Kinnett’s 11-year-old cat Grayson slipped out of her Plano garage while she was unloading groceries. The family searched, posted flyers, and eventually gave up hope. Then, after 103 days, Pam got a call: “I think we have your cat.”

OpenAI admitted yesterday that prompt injection attacks, which occur when an AI encounters malicious instructions hidden in content it processes and treats them as commands, may never be fully solved. In other words, the same access that makes agents valuable is exactly what makes them dangerous.

Over the past 30 days, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have each released major updates to their flagship models, coding tools, browser agents, and creative platforms. The result is the most concentrated burst of AI capability we have ever seen. Here are just a few of the updates and new products.

It’s official: ChatGPT is now a distribution platform.

Broadcast television just lost a critical content pillar.

Yesterday, OpenAI introduced a new image creation experience inside ChatGPT alongside a dedicated image model called GPT Image 1.5. The update packages image generation as a core capability of the platform and signals OpenAI’s intent to provide production-grade visual workflows.

The Creative Commons logo has been the global symbol for the open web, signaling that knowledge is free to share, remix, and reuse. That era may be ending.

OpenAI announced GPT-5.2 yesterday. The release appears focused on operational improvements rather than introducing a new class of capabilities. GPT-5.2 emphasizes reliability, consistency, and control, with changes aimed at improving how the model behaves in real workflows.

RSL (Really Simple Licensing) was introduced in September 2025 as a way for publishers to express licensing terms for AI scraping and training. Now, with the 1.0 release finalized, the industry has a stable, “official” version to adopt.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block quietly did something important yesterday: they donated core pieces of their agent technology into a new neutral nonprofit called the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), established under the Linux Foundation.

I was going to write about Paramount, Netflix, and WB’s “Battle for the Last Subscriber,” but today it’s more important to pay attention to Instacart, the first retailer to offer a full grocery checkout experience inside ChatGPT using OpenAI’s ACP.

Every company I work with asks the same question after we complete their AI strategy: “How do we know this will actually work?” The answer is evals. If you’re deploying AI systems in production, evals are the quality assurance framework that stands between pilot success and enterprise failure.

Black Friday data just confirmed what many retailers suspected: AI shopping assistants drive real conversions at scale.

Yesterday marked exactly three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT as a "research preview." What started with one million signups in 5 days has become 800 million weekly users and a $500 billion valuation. Three years in, the easy questions have been answered. Now come the hard ones. Let's explore.

Thanksgiving always kicks off the annual flood of promo emails, shipping alerts, loyalty offers, holiday coupons, and “exclusive VIP deals.” Here’s a friendly Thanksgiving reminder to check your complacency bias at the door, and get back to basics.