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Michael Willson

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ChatGPT Edu
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ChatGPT Edu

Universities spent the last couple of years doing the academic equivalent of panicking quietly: students were using AI anyway, faculty were split between banning it and embracing it, and administrators were stuck trying to enforce integrity policies with tools that were never designed for…

Claude’s New Constitution
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Claude’s New Constitution

Humanity has decided to build machines that can think, speak, reason, and possibly one day argue better than we do. Naturally, the next step is to write them a constitution. In January 2026, Anthropic published Claude’s New Constitution, a detailed document meant to guide how its AI model, Claude,…

Interactive Claude Apps
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Interactive Claude Apps

For a while, AI assistants have been impressive in the same way a motivational poster is impressive: lots of confident words, not much actual work getting done. Interactive Claude Apps are Anthropic’s attempt to fix that by turning Claude from a text-only helper into a place where real tools run…

Cloudflare’s Moltworker
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Cloudflare’s Moltworker

People keep asking for personal AI agents that can handle emails, schedule meetings, manage daily workflows, and generally reduce the number of tasks humans insist on doing manually. At the same time, most people do not want the burden of running servers, maintaining hardware, or exposing sensitive…

SME AI Accelerator
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SME AI Accelerator

Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of most economies, which is a polite way of saying they do most of the work and get most of the headaches. One of those headaches is adopting AI without turning the business into a chaotic science project. In late January 2026, OpenAI announced a…

OpenAI’s In-house Data Agent
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OpenAI’s In-house Data Agent

OpenAI’s in-house data agent is not a chatbot doing party tricks with SQL. It’s an internal system built to solve a very boring, very real problem: how do thousands of employees get reliable answers from hundreds of petabytes of data without breaking things or trusting hallucinations. If you want…

Google Search Makes the Gemini 3 Default AI Model
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Google Search Makes the Gemini 3 Default AI Model

This is now live. Google Search has made Gemini 3 the default AI model behind AI Overviews worldwide, and it quietly changes how people search, click, and continue asking questions. If you are trying to understand where search is heading, this update matters more than it sounds. Before we go…

Crypto at Davos
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Crypto at Davos 2026

Crypto at Davos 2026 felt different because the conversation was not “should crypto exist.” It was “how do we plug tokenization and stablecoins into real finance without breaking markets, rules, or trust.” Davos 2026 (World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters) ran 19 January 2026 to 23…

Polaris Coin
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Polaris Coin

Polaris Coin is getting attention because it is not just another token. It is part of a stablecoin operating system built on Ethereum that tries to solve a problem most stablecoins still struggle with: how to generate yield without relying on U.S. Treasurys, banks, or centralized custodians.…

Tether Launches USA₮
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Tether Launches USA₮

Tether launches USA₮ and this is not just another version of USDT. USA₮ is a separate stablecoin, built specifically for the United States, under U.S. federal rules, and designed to work inside the country’s evolving stablecoin framework. If you have ever wondered why Tether needed a U.S.-only…

Kimi K2.5
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Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI’s open-source, multimodal, agent-focused model that’s built for real tasks like coding, document work, and tool-using agents, not just chatting. If you want the fastest way to understand where models are going next, this is it: bigger context, stronger “do the work” modes,…

OpenAI Prism
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OpenAI Prism

OpenAI Prism is a new way to write research papers without jumping between tools. It is a free, cloud-based, LaTeX-native workspace where GPT-5.2 lives directly inside your document, not in a separate chat box. If you are learning modern research and writing workflows through an AI Certification,…