Tooling
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- Agents & Tooling
Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
"The best notepad for you and your agents." Hubble designs the note format around a second reader from the start.
- Agents & Tooling
Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
Anthropic made its Economic Index queryable in plain language inside Claude. The anxious question about your own field is now a research task.
- Agents & Tooling
SoN 2.25: Stop guessing and use AI to pull the data
Stop guessing and pull the actual data =================================================== I help out a small, volunteer-run cat rescue. They do good work, and they post on…
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Digging into Banco Santander's AI Tooling
Two years ago, around thirty million Santander customers had their records put up for sale on a hacking forum: names, card numbers, and more. The cause was a contractor’s cloud…
- Agents & Tooling
Open Knowledge Format
This week Google Cloud released the Open Knowledge Format. It’s plain markdown files with a short labelled header — a few fields like type, tags and a link (they call it YAML…
- Agents & Tooling
SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
Ooh, Shiny New Tech Acronym... You might have seen this acronym doing the rounds: AEO. Answer Engine Optimisation — or GEO, Generative Engine Optimisation, if you prefer. The…
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WWDC26 Keynote Thoughts
Lately I’ve been reaching for Gemini more than I expected to. Not for everything — but enough to notice it’s getting better at the non-coding bits of work that I do. So when Apple…
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SoN 2.22: How do you choose "the best" AI tool?
How do you choose "the best" AI tool? A friend asked me this week to explain how to use “all the different AI tools” — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, the lot. She wanted, in her words,…
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SoN 2.20: Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition)
Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition) Dear Reader, Are you using AI like a vending machine? Last weekend John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame) published a short piece called…
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SoN 2.16: Ask your AI what it can already do (Free Edition)
You don't need more AI tools (Free Edition) Ask your AI what it can already do Last Friday, Maya and I spent an hour delivering a post-lunch workshop with about thirty-five people…
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SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)
Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition) Hey there, Are your tools deciding how you think? Your CRM shows you a flat list. Your project tracker shows you a board.…
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Microsoft's Copilot Now Uses Two Models to Fact-Check One
Microsoft's Wave 3 Copilot routes answers through a second AI model to verify accuracy. That's useful — and a quiet admission about single-model trust.
- Security & Risk
Perplexity Pulled a Perk and Hoped Nobody Would Notice
Perplexity Pro quietly removed $5 monthly API credits from its $20 plan. No announcement, no changelog.
- Security & Risk
Apple Just Validated Your Multi-AI Approach
Apple is opening Siri to rival AI assistants in iOS 27 — a bet that the routing layer matters more than the model.
- Agents & Tooling
Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
The Perplexity CTO says MCP eats 40-50% of your context window. Practitioners already knew this.
- Security & Risk
Google's Free AI Comes With a Price
Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature just expanded to all free U.S. users — connecting AI to Gmail, Photos, and Chrome browsing history.
- Security & Risk
Perplexity Wants Your Blood Pressure Data
Perplexity Health can now access your Apple Health records. The utility is real — so is the trust question.
- Agents & Tooling
Copilot Has 3.3% Adoption and 116% ROI. Both Numbers Are Real.
Forrester's reality check on Microsoft Copilot reveals the adoption paradox: the tool demonstrably works, and almost nobody is using it.
- Agents & Tooling
Google's VP Said It Out Loud: LLM Wrappers Face Extinction
When a platform vendor publicly warns that wrapper products will be absorbed, the timeline for differentiation just got shorter.
- Agents & Tooling
Cloudflare Collapsed 2,500 API Endpoints Into 2 MCP Tools. Token Economics Matter.
Cloudflare's Code Mode demonstrates that MCP server design isn't about exposing more tools—it's about exposing fewer, smarter ones.
