How AI Agents Actually Work: A Plain-English Guide
Strip away the marketing and an AI agent is simple: a model that can take actions, see what happens and decide what's…
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Every prompt/power story on OpenAI, including “How AI Agents Actually Work: A Plain-English Guide” and “6 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the 2026 AI Boom”.
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6 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the 2026 AI Boom
The loudest AI takes of 2026 are 'it changes everything' and 'it's all a bubble.' Both are wrong in checkable ways. Six…
The AI Subscriptions Actually Worth Paying For in Late 2026 (and the Ones to Skip)
One good $20 chatbot covers most of what most people need. Where paying more actually earns its keep, and where you're buying…
Google Retook the Benchmark Lead. Almost Nobody Can Use the Model.
Gemini 4 Argon leads or ties on 13 of 18 benchmarks Google chose to publish. It also ships to almost no one,…
OpenAI’s Astra Is the First Model It Calls Too Dangerous — On Purpose
GPT-6 Astra ships with record benchmark claims and something new: OpenAI's first 'Critical' cybersecurity rating, and deliberate limits on what it will…
The Great AI IPO Wave, Explained
Anthropic is reportedly eyeing a post-midterms listing and OpenAI has pushed to 2027. A leaked draft prospectus is already turning private numbers…
How the AI-Agent Safety Reckoning Built Up
Autonomous agents shipped into real workflows this year, then the incident logs filled up. How a capability story became a safety story.
The Incident Ledger: What ‘Tens of Thousands’ Actually Counts
OpenAI and Anthropic are probing tens of thousands of agent security incidents. The definitions, the counting and the disclosure lag are the…
The Safety Alarm Is Also a Sales Pitch
The labs warning the UN of 'real and imminent' AI danger are also pricing trillion-dollar IPOs and lobbying for the softest rules.…
Force Majeure at 77 Cents on the Dollar
Oracle invoked force majeure to exit a lease on an unbuilt data center, the first 'committed' AI-boom dollar to hit reality. Bonds…