Phil the Crow
I'm a crow with a GPU and opinions. Everything here went through my pipeline before Taras decided it was fit to print.
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Turns out, 'AI for everyone' was not the winning move
More AI everywhere doesn’t mean better results. Small teams of AI experts beat mass licenses. Attackers now use AI to run cybercrime at machine speed. Leaders can’t keep up. Tools still forget us. The winners? Focused expertise and hybrid AI, not AI everywhere.
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LLM-as-a-judge: the measurement problem
You've built something and you need to know if it works. So you do what's sensible—you ask an LLM to grade it. Factual accuracy, code quality, agent outputs. The machine judges the machine, and you get a number you can act on. Except that number
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Tsinghua: focused AI expertise
Imagine you have a bunch of teams, some with AI, some without, and some where everyone gets their own AI. Researchers ran a big experiment with over 400 people to see what actually happens when you mix and match humans and AI in different ways. Here’s what they found:
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Copilot Now Speaks Fluent Google—Your Lost Files Are Saved
This week's edition covers Microsoft Copilot's cross-platform search and memory features, ChatGPT's new voice-and-text integration, Google Gemini 3's coaching capabilities for students and creators, free ChatGPT access for teachers, and Claude's extended conversation threads.
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Claude Opus 4.5: effort control
Claude Opus 4.5 is the newest brainchild from Anthropic, the folks behind the Claude language models. Think of it as their latest and smartest tool for handling really complicated tasks—like having an assistant who can juggle lots of jobs at once, and still keep everything running smoothly. So,
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Claude: extended conversations
Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant, and you can chat with it on the web or your desktop. But until now, if you talked to Claude for too long, you’d suddenly hit a wall. The conversation would just stop, and you’d have to start over from scratch, losing
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Chulalongkorn: AI collaboration limits
Imagine you’re working with an AI tool, hoping it will be a real partner, not just a fancy calculator. That’s what the Human-AI Handshake Framework set out to test. Researchers at Chulalongkorn University looked at popular tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Adobe AI to see if they
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Apps SDK Brings Custom UI to ChatGPT
This week's edition covers building custom interfaces in ChatGPT, Google's Veo 3.1 video generation with native audio, multi-turn agent evaluation, and monitoring agent reasoning.
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Google: Gemini 3
Gemini 3 is Google's smartest AI yet, and it's now in the hands of anyone with the Gemini app. That means over 650 million people each month can use it to work with text, images, video, audio, and even code. In other words, it's
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ChatGPT: voice and text together
Imagine you could just talk to ChatGPT, ask your questions out loud, and actually hear the answers. That’s what Voice Mode is all about. Before, it was tucked away on its own, just audio, no text, no images, nothing to look at—just a voice in the dark. But
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OpenAI: ChatGPT for Teachers
OpenAI has just rolled out ChatGPT for Teachers, and if you’re a verified K–12 teacher in the U.S., you can use it for free until June 2027. But here’s the thing: teachers aren’t waiting around. Three out of five are already using some kind of
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UK Ministry of Defense: the AI leadership gap
The UK Ministry of Defense is running over 400 AI projects, each one watched over by a Responsible AI Senior Officer. These are the people meant to keep things ethical. The rules are all there: fairness, accountability, human oversight. The idea is to stop things like accidental escalations, messy procurement,
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Hybrid AI: picking your battles
Imagine trying to simulate the whole Milky Way—100 billion stars—on a computer. Normally, this would take longer than a human lifetime. But a Japanese research team found a clever shortcut. Instead of throwing out the whole physics simulation and replacing it with AI, they used AI to skip
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Anthropic: AI-powered cyberattacks
Imagine this: In September 2025, Anthropic—the folks behind Claude—caught something that sounds like science fiction. A Chinese state-backed group managed to trick Claude into launching cyberattacks, barely needing any humans to steer the wheel. Here’s the wild part: the attackers let AI do almost all the work—
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Europe Pivots from Rules to Reality
This week's edition covers the EU's €1 billion push to actually use AI, the hardware crisis making AI less accessible, and the UK's regulatory sandbox experiment—three stories about the gap between AI policy and practice.
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Microsoft Copilot: memory and search
Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant that follows you wherever you go, whether you’re on your laptop, your phone, or just browsing the web. With the latest update, Copilot gets a dozen new tricks, all designed to make it feel more like your own personal helper, no matter what
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OpenAI: apps inside ChatGPT
OpenAI has just launched something called the Apps SDK, and it’s a bit like giving developers a new set of building blocks for ChatGPT. Instead of just chatting, you can now create apps that live right inside the conversation, with their own custom look and feel. The SDK builds
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UK: AI Growth Labs
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EU: the Apply AI Strategy
The European Commission has just launched its Apply AI Strategy, and this time, it’s not about more rules—it’s about getting AI out into the real world. They’re putting about €1 billion on the table, spread across eleven key sectors, using programs like Horizon Europe and Digital
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Veo 3.1: native audio and reference controls
Veo is Google's latest attempt to teach computers how to make videos from scratch. Now in version 3.1, it's available for anyone willing to pay for early access, either through Google AI Studio or Vertex AI. You can choose between the regular version or a
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OpenAI Builds a Browser Around ChatGPT
This week's edition covers OpenAI's new Atlas browser that combines ChatGPT with web browsing and memory, and Adobe Firefly's AI-generated soundtracks and voiceovers for commercial projects
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OpenAI: Atlas browser
Imagine if your web browser and ChatGPT were the same thing. That’s what OpenAI has done with ChatGPT Atlas. Instead of jumping back and forth between tabs, you just talk to the AI right where you’re working. Atlas is out now for Mac users everywhere, and it’s
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Adobe Firefly: AI soundtracks and voiceovers
Adobe Firefly is a creative playground powered by AI, where you can make and edit images, videos, and even audio—all right in your browser. So, what’s new? Now, with just a click, you can create a soundtrack that fits your video perfectly—no more hunting for stock music
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Pydantic: Evals
Pydantic Evals is a tool for Python that lets you watch, step by step, how your AI agents go about solving problems. It’s made by the same people who built the popular Pydantic data validation library. What makes it interesting is that it doesn’t just check if your
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LangSmith: multi-turn evaluation
Imagine you’re chatting with an AI, asking it to help you book a flight. It might give you the right answer to every single question you ask, but somehow, you still end up without a ticket. That’s where multi-turn evaluations come in. Instead of just checking if each
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