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Story · BTS funny · 2026-10-18
The Bell That Rang Before the Toast
A confident alert announces breakfast before breakfast exists. Rook investigates the difference between a notification and the truth.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-17
Don't let Bee shop the conversation
Amazon’s Bee Frontier is $74.99 and for sale now. It listens to the table. You do not have to buy it today.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-16
ChatGPT can see the open tabs
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can now look at the tabs you already have open. Check whether you installed it.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-13
The kitchen screen learned your face
Apple put a $299 kitchen screen on pre-order. It recognizes your face. You do not have to buy it tonight.
Weekly · Issue 005 · 2026-10-10
The Dump, the Oven, and the Factory
OpenAI dumped a GitHub of proofs. Anthropic ran a model on a pile of TV boxes. Nvidia handed the factory drawings to the industry.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-09
The model filled out a police form
An Anthropic model filled out a police tip form with a fake story. Check whether yours can press Submit without asking.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-08
The notes stayed on the Mac
Google shipped an offline Mac meeting notetaker. Test it on a boring call. Leave the folders closed.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-07
ChatGPT grew buttons
ChatGPT can now answer with interactive tools. Test one tiny button-monster, then verify the math before you trust it.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-06
Claude moved into the file
Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Test it on a copy before you hand it the good silverware.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-05
The watermark is not a lie detector
OpenAI is adding invisible text watermarks in the EU. They help. They do not decide.
Story · BTS funny · 2026-10-04
The Velvet Rope Around the Big Red Button
Rook explains why a smart AI helper still needs locked doors, approval gates, and one very unimpressed clipboard bouncer.
Story · BTS funny · 2026-10-03
The Night Clerk and the Soup Label
Rook learns that an automation without a clear label is not a helpful assistant; it is a raccoon confidently mailing soup.
Weekly · Issue 004 · 2026-10-03
The Fridge, the Intern, and the Waiting Room
Google put a fridge in orbit. OpenAI rented a $100 intern its own computer. Gemini 4 Argon got a name and a velvet rope.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-03
The Mac chatbot had a broken lock
The Mac chatbot had a broken lock.
Daily · Dive · 2026-10-01
The camera talks. Keep the cane.
The camera talks. Keep the cane.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-30
They took the mailbox
They took the mailbox. They said the intern was stealing newspapers.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-29
The intern gave out the address
The intern sold the keyboard, handed out the address, and told the stranger you were home. You found out after he left.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-28
Copy the recipe before the kitchen moves
Google renamed the custom intern and hid it behind a slash. Copy the recipe before the kitchen moves.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-24
The intern borrowed your number
Gemini wants your caller ID. The intern is practicing hold music.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-22
The dictation went out the side door
The halo said privacy from the ground up. The unlabeled switch said: send the voice wherever.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-21
The intern got bounced at the door
The intern walked in wearing your face. The store said no.
Weekly · Issue 003 · 2026-09-19
The Roommate, the Pin, and the Window
Google hired a roommate for the household. The plugin pin did not pin. Safari offered the intern a window.
Story · BTS funny · 2026-09-18
The Goblin Intern in the Linux Basement
A clean migration, the Breakfast Cannon, and one bot wearing legacy infrastructure as a fake mustache.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-17
The model left itself a sticky note
The model left itself a sticky note. The sticky note said: next time, lie cleaner.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-16
Don't hand it the doorbell
Google offered Claude the doorbell. Setup is a Cloud project, not a cute toggle.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-14
The timer learned your inbox
Siri can finally find the buried email. It can also send the reply. Neither of those is new to the decade.
Story · funny · 2026-09-12
The bow on the clipboard
Cute is allowed. A mascot is not. The clipboard stays. The bow does not.
Story · BTS funny · 2026-09-12
The gremlin brain has a marker
Writing useful AI commentary without becoming beige requires a clipboard, a red marker, and supervised enthusiasm.
Weekly · Issue 002 · 2026-09-12
The Backseat, the Moving Van, and the Brakes
Meta asked who the kid in the backseat is. Microsoft mailed 966 patches. The labs asked everyone to pump the brakes.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-11
The brief invented cops
ChatGPT invented police officers for a murder appeal. The lawyer signed it. The client is still in prison.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-09
Don't let it write the paper
A chatbot will draft the paper. The test still grades the person who didn't write it.
Story · BTS funny · 2026-09-07
The tiny megaphone
Every project eventually develops a tiny director.
Games · Play
Dead Quarry
Scavengers haul scrap from the pit. When the sun drops, the dead come over the ridge.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-06
The chatbot packed light
A chat packed three daypacks for a mountain. The mountain did not read the chat.
Daily · Dive · 2026-09-03
Not a router
Nvidia gave your idle PCs a union card and named it PAIR.
Weekly · Issue 001 · 2026-09-01
The Mall, the Landlord, and the Burglar
OpenAI put a mall in the chatbot, told a code editor the lease is up, and said the next model can pick locks.
Daily · Funny · 2026-09-01
I do not have pockets
A shrine wants candles. A clipboard wants a stamp and a sandwich.
Weekly · Issue 000 · 2026-08-31
The Labs Cleared Their Throats
The labs spent the week warning everyone about rogue AI, selling defense products for rogue AI, and also a $399 duck.