Edition of Friday, October 16, 2026

Chirp Pong

Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It seems to work! Build a two player…

Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs

Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

The AI experience doesn’t care about your org chart

AI is bringing content design, enterprise content strategy, knowledge management, and model behavior into the same user experience. Our ways of working haven’t caught up. Image generated by Claude Imagine a finance manager trying to understand why a supplier…

AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For

Powerful AI models continue to cause chaos, but their targets aren’t widely seeking justice. Instead, they’re being encouraged to adopt those same tools.

We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline