1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Agent Security Just Got Real CVEs

    Prompt injection chains to RCE in CrewAI. 22-second attacker breakout. Human-in-the-loop is no longer a security control.

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  5. Anthropic Didn't Block Abuse. They Blocked Competition.

    The OpenClaw subscription ban isn't about fair use — it's Anthropic asserting platform control while shipping their own replacement.

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  6. Context Is the New Bottleneck. So Is Judgment.

    Tiago Forte says AI shifts the bottleneck from capability to context. He's right — but that only works if you still have opinions worth providing.

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  7. Agent Identity Is the Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Admit

    Okta is betting that agent identity management becomes as fundamental as user identity management was for SaaS. They might be right.

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  8. You Feel Faster. Are You?

    A randomized controlled study found AI tools made experienced developers 19% slower. They thought they'd been sped up by 20%.

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  9. Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number

    Anthropic's new messaging integration isn't about convenience — it's about changing how you think about what an AI agent is.

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  10. MCP Just Changed Hands. Watch What Happens Next.

    Anthropic donating MCP to the Linux Foundation is good governance — and a signal that the easy days of fast iteration are probably over.

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  11. 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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  12. "Agentic" Is the New Cloud

    Every vendor is calling their product agentic. Almost none of them are.

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  13. Your AI Proxy Layer Just Became a Target

    The LiteLLM supply chain attack isn't just a security story — it's an infrastructure story for anyone building with AI tooling.

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  14. MCP Just Crossed the Chasm

    This week, MCP went from developer protocol to mainstream integration layer — and most AI newsletters missed it.

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  15. 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.

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  16. The New Shadow IT Isn't Employees Using ChatGPT

    AI agents are generating mobile app traffic that security teams can't see. Shadow AI moved from 'people using tools' to 'tools using tools'.

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  17. 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.

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  18. Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning

    OpenAI launched 20 plugins to push Codex beyond coding. The move tells you everything about where the developer ecosystem actually lives.

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  19. 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.

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  20. The Money Just Noticed the Agent Security Problem

    Bessemer's new report on AI agent security says what practitioners have known for months. Now comes the flood.

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