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...
7 days 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tuesday · September 8, 2026 · Issue #0XX Enterprises are now learning the lesson SMBs learn every year: usage isn't a strategy. You don't need a nine-figure budget crisis to learn this the hard way. Define the metric first. Pick the tool that's built to hit it. That's the whole model — for a five-person firm or a company the size of Uber. ⬡ Exhibit A Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Not from one bad decision — from an internal push to get engineers using AI as much...
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Monday · August 31, 2026 Here's what happened in AI this week — and why the gap between "using AI" and "AI actually working" just got a lot more visible. Frontier labs are raising billions. Agent deployment is tripling. And 76% of small businesses now say they use AI. Read those three sentences again — because the fourth one is the one that matters: only 14% have actually integrated it into how they run the business. ⬡ This Week's AI News Roundup 🎙️ Voice AI goes native OpenAI launches...
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Monday · August 24, 2026 · Issue #[FILL IN] Yesterday, Anthropic expanded Claude's integration with Google Workspace — direct access to Gmail and Drive, plus more mobile reach for its Cowork tool. Small headline. Bigger pattern underneath it. The AI tools winning right now aren't asking you to go somewhere new. They're showing up inside the inbox, the calendar, and the drive you already have open. Today's tool is a good example of a company that figured that out early. ⬡ The Shift Worth...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Monday · August 17, 2026 · Issue #[FILL IN] Today, Google is shutting off its Imagen 4 API. If any tool in your stack — a logo generator, a content workflow, an internal app — was quietly built on top of it, it doesn't fail gracefully. It just breaks. Hard error, no warning banner, starting today. This isn't really a story about image generation. It's a story about what happens when your business quietly depends on someone else's roadmap. ⬡ The Angst — This Week's Fear "We built our whole...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read