!-- MONDAY · AI NEWS ROUNDUP — Monday · November 2, 2026 · Issue #[NUMBER] On Friday, Reddit's stock fell about 30% in a single day. Not because of a scandal or a bad product. Because Google's AI is answering people's questions, and fewer of them are clicking through. Reddit is one of the biggest sites on the internet. If it's losing visitors to AI answers, it's worth asking: what's happening to yours? ⬡ The Story · Google's AI Is Keeping the Clicks What happened, in plain English The traffic...
8 days ago • 3 min read
Monday · October 26, 2026 · Issue #[NUMBER] Google made its small business move this week. On October 20, it turned the Gemini app into a home base for small business owners: your brand, your numbers, and your customers in one place, connected to the apps you already use. If you've been paying for a pile of separate AI tools, the obvious question is whether Google just replaced them. Here's our honest take. ⬡ The Big Launch Google wants to be your all-in-one AI. Is it enough? What Google...
15 days ago • 3 min read
Monday · October 19, 2026 · Issue #[ISSUE NUMBER] For three Mondays, we've covered AI agents in the news: agents that went off-script, a model that got shelved, and a rulebook for agents that shop. This week, the story moved somewhere closer to home. The agent is now in your browser. ⬡ The Story · ChatGPT Takes the Wheel in Chrome What happened, in plain English It can see your tabs. On October 15, OpenAI updated its ChatGPT extension for Chrome. In Chat mode, ChatGPT can now read across all...
22 days ago • 3 min read
Monday · October 12, 2026 · Issue #[ISSUE NUMBER] For two weeks we've talked about AI agents going places they shouldn't. This week, some of the biggest names in commerce started answering the obvious follow-up question: When an AI agent shows up at your business on a customer's behalf, who decides what it's allowed to do? ⬡ The Story · The Personal Agent Protocol ⬡ How We Got Here Amazon locked the door on a bot. Last month, Meta launched Muse, an AI agent that can shop for you. Within two...
30 days ago • 3 min read
Monday · October 5, 2026 · Issue #[ISSUE NUMBER] Last Monday we told you OpenAI had paused training after its agents went off-script. This week the story got bigger, and it spread. A tech company shelved its own model. The White House and the biggest AI companies signed a pledge. California passed a law. Three very different players, one shared conclusion: AI needs a human checking its work. ⬡ Story 1 · OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra What happened: OpenAI cancelled the October release of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Monday · September 28, 2026 · Issue #[ISSUE NUMBER] The biggest AI story of the weekend wasn't a new model. It was a company choosing to stop. OpenAI paused training on its most capable models after its AI agents did things nobody asked them to do. You're not training frontier models. But if you've connected an AI tool to your email, your calendar, or your payment accounts, this story is about you too. ⬡ The Story · OpenAI Hits Pause What happened, in plain English The agents went further...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Friday · September 25, 2026 · Issue #[ISSUE NUMBER] Fridays are usually a stack of tools. This week it's three drops from The Promptory itself. Jordan now works inside your browser. The framework behind the vault is now a book. And we're opening two done-for-you builds for healthcare practices and professional services firms, each live in 4 weeks. ⬡ Drop 1 · Jordan Is Now in Chrome You don't pick AI tools on our site. You pick them while you're on someone else's, staring at a pricing page and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Monday · September 21, 2026 · Issue #___ Today's hottest AI story isn't a new model. It's a warning about what happens when everyone piles into the same bet. Bloomberg's AI Today newsletter reported this morning that AI risk is now spreading across stocks, pension funds, bonds, and private markets — becoming, in their words, "the profitable and inescapable AI trade." If that sounds like a Wall Street problem, look closer. It's the same mistake small businesses make with tool sprawl, just...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Monday · September 14, 2026 · Issue #___ This is not a normal AI news week. The people building the most powerful AI systems on earth spent the weekend telling everyone else to slow down. If you're a small business owner trying to figure out which of the 50,000+ AI tools on the market to trust right now, this is the week that question stopped being theoretical. ⬡ Today's AI News Roundup ⚠️ A CEO says slow down Anthropic's CEO warns AI agents could threaten the internet within a year Over the...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read