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What mattered in AI this week, and what to do about it.

Every week I pick the few developments that matter, explain why, and give you one thing worth trying. For people who use AI at work and care where it is going.

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By Rufus Pollock, founder of Datopian, co-founder of Life Itself, and founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation. About

In each issue

  • What matteredThree to five developments, with my take on why they matter.
  • One thing to tryA tool, workflow or prompt I actually use.
  • The bigger pictureWork, power, policy and safety: what AI is changing.
  • From the logSmaller finds from the week, one line each.

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9 Oct 2026Maths is being industrialised, and it's making mathematicians dizzyunderstand 6 Oct 2026Always-on personal AI agents: a guideunderstand 18 Sep 2026Jev makes the case for AI inside ordinary softwareunderstand 10 Sep 2026This is definitely getting towards superintelligenceunderstand 26 Aug 2026How do I run multiple threads in Claude at the same time?use 20 Aug 2026Is Claude getting worse (at least compared to Codex)?use 15 Aug 2026How I track Claude Code and Codex usage in real timeuse

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Why this exists

You can't make sense of AI without using it, and you can't use it well without making sense of it. I've been thinking about AI since 2016, and seriously since ChatGPT. In autumn 2025 I decided I had to get properly on top of it, so I started collecting, testing and writing things down in public. This site is that open notebook. The weekly email is the edit. More about this

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