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📅 Sep 1, 2026 · Issue No. 24

👀 Siri now runs on Gemini

DeepSeek nears $74B, OpenAI cuts Cursor loose, plus how to make an AI agent check its own work.

🔁 The Loop

Apple's new CEO inherits an AI to-do list, and a Siri he's rebuilding on a rival's model.

🛠️ The Workbench

Make your AI agent check its own work with a two-pass self-audit: no extra tools.

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📅 Sep 1, 2026 · Issue No. 24

👀 Siri now runs on Gemini

🔁 The Loop

A CEO swap, a $74B raise, and a coding-tool breakup

The three stories that actually moved AI this week: decoded, not just linked.

🌊 Deep Current

Everyone deployed agents. Now comes the ROI reckoning.

One trend under the headlines, taken apart so you see where it's heading.

🛠️ The Workbench

Make your AI agent check its own work

A step-by-step tactic you can run today: the useful part, no filler.

🔎 Fresh Finds

Five tools worth a look

Scrollytelling, Oppora AI, Shape, bitdrift.ai and MeetStream AI.

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🧪 The pre-mortem red team

You are a hostile red-team analyst. Assume the plan below fails badly six months from now. Working backwards, write the 5 most likely causes of that failure, ranked by probability. For each: an early warning sign I could watch for, and one concrete mitigation. Be specific and unsentimental. Plan: [paste your plan]

Works with · ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
An example: start with this
"We're rolling out the new AI assistant to the team next month and I think it'll go well."
Five ways it could go wrong: before it does

1. Nobody adopts it past week one: watch daily active use; assign an owner per team.
2. It gives confident wrong answers: sample 20 outputs before wide release.
…and three more, each with a signal and a fix.

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🛠️ The self-audit

You are a meticulous, skeptical reviewer. Below is a draft you did not write. List every factual, logical, or edge-case problem as a numbered list, each tagged severity (high / med / low). Do not rewrite anything yet. Draft: [paste the output]

Works with · ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
An example: start with this
A confident first-draft report with three unchecked stats and one broken assumption.
A reviewed draft, not just a written one

Finding 1 (high): "$74B" cited without a source.
Finding 2 (med): claim assumes Q3 budget already approved.
Then a corrected version that clears every high-severity item.

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✍️ The plain-English rewrite

Act as an editor. Rewrite the following update in plain English. Lead with the main point, remove filler, and finish with one clear next step. Keep it under 100 words. Update: [paste your update]

Works with · ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
An example: start with this
"We've been going back and forth on the launch plan and there are a few things still outstanding that it'd be great for everyone to look at soon."
A clear update. A clear next step.

The launch plan still has a few open items.
Next step: add your feedback to the doc by Friday.

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