The AI Platform War Got Practical

Mike's take

Hype has a shelf life. Workflows don't. Ignore the launch tweets. Keep the two or three things that quietly save you time.

Top AI stories worth your time

• OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households — TechCrunch AI
  ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
• Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets — The Verge AI
  Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees wh
• Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts — The Verge AI
  Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally se
• Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash — TechCrunch AI
  "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this featur

Jargon, decoded: Agent

An AI system that can take actions and use tools to complete multi-step tasks.

In plain English: An AI that doesn't just answer — it does things: searches, clicks, files, step by step.

Myth: AI actually thinks like a person.

It doesn't. It's math predicting the next likely word — no understanding, no intent. That's exactly why it can be so confidently wrong.

Try this today

Translate a message and keep the tone. Ask for the translation plus 'keep it warm and casual,' not robotic.

Try this prompt

Rewrite this email to sound like a real person my age wrote it — warm, direct, no corporate buzzwords: [paste].