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Pam Kinnett's 11-year-old cat Grayson slipped out of her Plano garage while she was unloading groceries. The family searched, posted flyers, and eventually gave up hope. Then, after 103 days, Pam got a call: "I think we have your cat." Continue Reading →

OpenAI admitted yesterday that prompt injection attacks, which occur when an AI encounters malicious instructions hidden in content it processes and treats them as commands, may never be fully solved. In other words, the same access that makes agents valuable is exactly what makes them dangerous. Continue Reading →

There is no shortage of commentary about the speed of AI innovation. But the evidence is far more instructive. Over the past 30 days, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have each released major updates to their flagship models, coding tools, browser agents, and creative platforms. The result is the most concentrated burst of AI capability we Continue Reading →

It's official: ChatGPT is now a distribution platform. OpenAI announced the Apps SDK at DevDay in October, and this week opened general submissions through its Developer Platform. If you want to see it in action, early partners (like Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Expedia, Figma, Spotify, and Zillow) are already live. Continue Reading →

As I'm sure you've already heard, YouTube has secured multi-year exclusive global rights to the Academy Awards ceremony from 2029 through 2033, beginning with the 101st Oscars. ABC, which has carried the broadcast for decades, retains rights through 2028. The deal includes red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content, and the Governors Ball, all available live and free to viewers worldwide as well as to YouTube TV subscribers in the United States. Continue Reading →

Earlier this month, OpenAI declared "code red" after Google's Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro topped the LMArena leaderboards. Last week, OpenAI answered with GPT 5.2. Yesterday, OpenAI introduced a new image creation experience inside ChatGPT alongside a dedicated image model called GPT Image 1.5. The update packages image generation as a core capability of the platform and signals OpenAI’s intent to provide production-grade visual workflows. Continue Reading →

The Creative Commons logo has been the global symbol for the open web, signaling that knowledge is free to share, remix, and reuse. That era may be ending. In a recent blog post, CC announced tentative support for "pay-to-crawl" systems. You can read this as a policy update. You can also read it as a signal that the fair use defense for commercial AI training is under pressure. Continue Reading →

Every few years, a new category of technology arrives with an irresistible promise. Fewer steps. Less friction. More autonomy. AI agents arrived with exactly that pitch. Describe the outcome, turn the agent loose, and let the system figure out the rest. This is a story about what happened when one of my clients decided to test that promise inside a real production workflow. The results were instructive. Continue Reading →

OpenAI announced GPT-5.2 yesterday. The release appears focused on operational improvements rather than introducing a new class of capabilities. GPT-5.2 emphasizes reliability, consistency, and control, with changes aimed at improving how the model behaves in real workflows. Continue Reading →

RSL (Really Simple Licensing) was introduced in September 2025 as a way for publishers to express licensing terms for AI scraping and training. Now, with the 1.0 release finalized, the industry has a stable, "official" version to adopt. It offers a machine readable method for publishers to state how their content can be used and the conditions under which payment or contribution is required. Continue Reading →