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California: AI safety disclosure law
Phil the Crow0:00/136.5158751× On September 29, 2025, California’s governor signed a new law meant to stop people from using powerful AI for things that could go horribly wrong—like making a bioweapon or taking down a bank. Last year, a bigger version of this law was
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Google Research: personalized textbooks
Imagine if your textbook could talk to you, quiz you, and even use your favorite hobbies as examples. Well, Google just tried that—and students remembered way more. So here’s what Google did: they built a tool called Learn Your Way. You take any textbook chapter, upload it, and
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Claude Now Uses Conversations for Training Unless You Opt Out
Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant. You can chat with it, ask for coding help, or get it to analyze things for you. Up until now, Anthropic promised not to use your conversations to train its AI. But now, things are changing. Starting October 8, 2025, Anthropic will use your
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OpenAI Open-Sources Agentic Commerce Protocol: A Standard for AI Transactions
The Agentic Commerce Protocol is a set of rules that lets AI agents buy things for you. OpenAI and Stripe built it together, along with some merchants. The idea is simple: it tells AIs, users, and businesses how to talk to each other so that buying things is easy, but
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Google Releases Open Protocol for Agent-Initiated Payments
The Agent Payments Protocol, or AP2, is a new set of rules for how AI agents can move money around safely. Google didn’t do this alone. They worked with more than 60 other companies—big names like Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, Coinbase, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. AP2 builds on earlier
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Claude Sonnet 4.5: A New AI Model That Excels at Coding and Building Agents
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the newest AI model from Anthropic, and it’s built for people who want to create smarter apps and digital assistants. It belongs to the Claude 4 family, and you can use it through Anthropic’s website, their mobile app, or even a command-line tool
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How We're Really Using AI Now | Apply AI for September 24, 2025
This week's edition covers major usage shifts, browser AI integration, file creation tools, and research on decision-making and focus techniques.
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New AI Usage Data Reveals Three Key Shifts in How We Work
Worthy attention of • Everyone In particular • Business Leaders & Managers Anthropic just put out its third Economic Index report. They looked at over a million Claude conversations to see how people are actually using AI. For the first time, they checked both how regular people and businesses use these tools.
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ChatGPT Functions as Decision Support Tool, Not Just Task Executor
Worthy attention of • Everyone In particular • Business Leaders & Managers OpenAI’s research team looked at 1.5 million ChatGPT chats to see how people really use it, both for work and for personal stuff. The main takeaway? People use ChatGPT most as a sounding board, not just to get
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Chrome Integrates Gemini AI for US Desktop Users
Worthy attention of • Everyone In particular • Marketing & Sales Professionals • Content Creators Google Chrome now has Gemini, its AI assistant, built right in. You can ask it questions about whatever page you’re on, without having to open a new app or tab. If you’re in the US and
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How to Navigate AI Resistance in Your Workplace and Personal Life
Worthy attention of • Everyone In particular • Marketing & Sales Professionals • Business Leaders & Managers A new Pew survey asked over 5,000 Americans what they think about AI. Most people are worried it could hurt creativity and human connection. This helps explain why you might get pushback when you try
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Claude Now Creates and Edits Real Files
Worthy attention of • Everyone In particular • Marketing & Sales Professionals • Content Creators Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant. Up until now, it could only give you advice, code, or show you things inside the app. You couldn’t actually get real files to download. Now, Claude can make and edit
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GPT-5 Codex Can Code Autonomously for Seven Hours
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Framework Reveals How to Evaluate AI Explanations That Actually Help
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Researchers Reveal How People Learn Future Skills During Current Tasks
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Alpha Binaural Beats May Improve Focus Through Brain Wave Synchronization
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The Week ChatGPT Learned to Branch and Humans Learned to Pause
This week's edition covers ChatGPT's conversation branching breakthrough, NotebookLM's new debate and critique modes, and research revealing how we actually choose between thinking and reacting.
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When AI Actually Works
Grammarly builds agents that don't need babysitting, researchers explain the AI disappointment cycle, and Hamburg shows how to make impossible group decisions possible
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GPT-5 Ends the Choice Between Fast and Smart AI
This week's edition covers GPT-5's breakthrough in adaptive reasoning, surprising SuperAgers research that challenges health priorities, cognitive benefits of light exercise, decision-making frameworks from medical research, and productivity tools that streamline knowledge work.
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AI Learns to Teach (And Does It Better)
This week's edition covers ChatGPT's new study mode that guides learning through questions, Harvard research showing AI tutoring outperforms classroom instruction, and why quick mindfulness hacks don't work—plus real developer stories on AI collaboration.
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When AI Learns to Deceive and Remember
This week: Advanced AI models engage in strategic deception, memory-augmented systems that learn from corrections, and practical tools for better human-AI collaboration
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ChatGPT Now Handles Complete Workflows Autonomously
OpenAI launches autonomous ChatGPT agents for multi-step tasks, new research reveals AI coding tools make experienced developers 19% slower, Google adds advanced search capabilities, and neuroscience-backed methods for restoring focus.
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MIT Discovers AI Changes Your Brain
EEG scans reveal ChatGPT weakens memory networks, Claude ran a real store for 30 days with surprising results, plus new research on peak learning states and AI safety failures
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The AI That Required Two People to Unlock
Why does Claude 4 need two-party authorization to access? Plus file search that never leaves your chat, $1 video creation, and the cognitive biases that trip up even the experts.
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AI Outperforms Doctors in Complex Diagnosis
This week's edition covers breakthrough medical AI achieving 85% accuracy, real-world adoption patterns, practical frameworks, and neuroscience-backed learning techniques.
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