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The AI Five
Five prompts every weekday — simple to run, big enough to change how you work. Then what actually happened in AI, each item paired with the checklist, table or setup that turns it into something you can use.
The AI Five
Five prompts and the news you can act on — every weekday
One short email. Five prompts, ordered easy to expert, that you can paste and run. Then what actually happened in AI, each item paired with the checklist, table or setup that turns it into something you can use.
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What is in every issue?
Two sections. The AI Five is always exactly five prompts, ordered easy to expert, each one written from scratch and runnable in the tool it was written for. Actionable News flexes with the day — three items on a quiet one, more when it is busy — and every item ships with an artifact: a checklist, a data table, a migration map, a setup guide. If we cannot attach something you can use, we do not run the story.
Every issue
7 issues, newest first. Free to read in full, no signup required.
Your spreadsheet formulas have four weeks left
Microsoft is killing Excel's =COPILOT() function on September 14, Stripe is reportedly buying OpenRouter for $7B, and the OpenAI Agents SDK just changed a dependency pin that will break your upgrade. Plus five prompts, easy to expert.
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Three deadlines land before Tuesday
Microsoft starts retiring Copilot features on August 18, Google shuts down Imagen 4 on August 17, and DeepSeek's prices rise on August 16. Plus five prompts, easy to expert.
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Your AI just got write access
ChatGPT can now edit the real file in your Google Drive, and Claude Code stops asking permission by default from today. Two tools quietly moved from advising to doing. Plus five prompts, easy to expert.
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Everything is watching, forking, or gated
ChatGPT will log your whole working day if you let it, Claude Code starts forking subagents by default, and Amazon puts a Copilot competitor inside Word for free. Plus five prompts, easy to expert.
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Legal is adopting AI faster than engineering
OpenAI's own enterprise data shows legal grew 108× against engineering's 5×, Grok 4.6 ships with a pricing cliff nobody flagged, and a major outlet confirms a price rise that was cancelled two days earlier. Plus five prompts, easy to expert.
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Your local sessions aren't local any more
Anthropic quietly made Claude Code transcripts from your own machine retrievable by your employer, Gemini passed a billion monthly users with 63% of them talking rather than typing, and NVIDIA dropped a second open 30B model in as many days. Plus five prompts, easy to expert.
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The price rise that quietly didn't happen
Anthropic cancelled a 50% Claude price increase without announcing it, Meta returned to genuinely open weights, and 60 subagents moved a century-old maths bound. Plus five prompts, easy to expert.
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Where the pieces live
Every prompt in an issue has its own page with the full text and a copy box. Every news item has its own page with the artifact and the primary source. Nothing is trapped in an email.