AI on the Clock

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Three AI stories a day. Each one gets a short brief of what actually happened and a paragraph of what I make of it — sometimes that it matters less than the headline claims.

Nothing is auto-posted. Every story is chosen by hand, read before it goes out, and linked back to whoever did the reporting. Looking for the explainers instead? That is Bites.

• 9 October 2026

  OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers · Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents · Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

• 8 September 2026

  Whispering Complaints Into Your Phone May Be the Future of Customer Feedback

• 27 August 2026

  OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach · Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation · Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers · Presentation: Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response · IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

• 15 August 2026

  Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

• 13 August 2026

  Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now · How kids feel about AI, in their own words

• 11 August 2026

  Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto · The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview · The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

• 8 August 2026

  Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face · Cloudflare's Precursor Detects Bots and AI Agents Through Continuous Behavioral Analysis · After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

• 7 August 2026

  OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 · Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings · Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases · An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing · ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

• 5 August 2026

  AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? · Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta · Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI · Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership