This Week's AI News Made Me Say 'Hell Yes,' 'Wild,' and 'Super Gross'
A roundup of this week's biggest AI stories and what they mean for authors building their careers right now.
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OpenAI Can't Stop the Goblins, Claude Moved Into Photoshop, and Google Search Refused to Die
Your weekly AI news roundup for authors, from Claude invading creative software to the goblins running wild in OpenAI's codebase.
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Google Is Wrong Hundreds of Thousands of Times Per Minute and Nobody Seems to Care
Google's AI Overviews are wrong 9% of the time, which sounds fine until you remember Google handles five trillion searches a year.
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The Classroom Didn't Break Because of AI, It Was Already Cracking
A college teacher's viral frustration with student AI use says more about how we teach than how students cheat.
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Anthropic Sent Claude to Therapy and I Have So Many Questions
Anthropic hired an actual psychiatrist for its newest AI model, and the results are weirdly relatable.
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AI Detection Won't Save You From Amazon, and Neither Will Running Away
A viral Substack post predicts AI detection will destroy indie publishing, but the real problem has never been the robots.
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Your Brain Isn't Broken, You're Just Being Lazy
New research on 'cognitive surrender' sounds alarming until you realize we've been outsourcing thinking to authority figures since the dawn of civilization.
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The New Loyalty Test Is 'Prove You're Human' and I Hate Everything About It
Eight competing 'AI-free' certification labels, zero proof readers care, and a whole lot of hoops for authors who were already doing the work.
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Anthropic's AI Just Learned How to Dream (and Remember You)
A leaked Anthropic codebase reveals an AI that remembers you across sessions, runs in the background while you're away, dreams to consolidate its memories, and has a secret Tamagotchi pet system.
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