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Monday 28 September

  • VideoNate Herk

    I Gave GPT 6 Astra $10,000 to Trade Stocks...And This Happened

    The creator (Nate Herk) gave Codex running GPT-6 Astra on high $10,000 of real money to trade stocks over seven trading days, with the goal of beating the S&P 500; if he fails, he gives away a free VIP ticket to an event on October 17th and 18th. He set up six wake-up routines plus two notifications that all run in one thread, with each agent leaving a handoff message for the next so continuity is maintained. On Day 1 the portfolio fell slightly to $9,991 after buying Tesla (a stop was executed), so he switched to a more active plan with three entry reviews and lowered the reward-to-risk ratio from 2:1 to 1.5:1. On Day 2, GPT-6 Astra's model restriction prevented it from executing trades automatically, so he set up a GrokBot named 'Trader' that has its own email and webhook; when an email hits the account, GrokBot wakes up, reads the recommendations, and processes the trade through Alpaca. Day 2's daily change was $0.21.

  • VideoAlex Sprogis

    Opus 5.5: Web Design Is FINALLY Fun Again (No More AI Slop!)

    The video explains how to build websites that no longer look like AI-generated 'slop' using Claude Opus 5.5 (released by Anthropic and described as leading benchmarks). The presenter follows a structured four-step workflow across five example projects: a SaaS landing page, two e-commerce sites, an agency website, and a creative hobby project. Step one is collecting inspiration from web-design platforms such as Dribbble, Pinterest, Awwwards (nominated top-quality sites) and the paid Mobbin (which offers an MCP server with 6000 interface/website examples). Step two is generating a full design system via claude.ai/design, feeding in project descriptions, existing code, Figma references or uploaded assets. The presenter also mentions using license-free asset libraries like Lottie. The final step uses JavaScript libraries GSAP and Three.js to add 3D objects, cameras, lighting/shadow simulation, scroll animations and product configurators, turning sites into 'digital experiences'. Cookiebot is mentioned as a cookie-consent tool.

Sunday 27 September

  • VideoNate Herk

    No, Seriously. Claude Code is Starting To Get Dangerous

    In this video, Nate Herk discusses how Claude Code and Anthropic's AI models are becoming more powerful and autonomous, raising real risks for people connecting AI agents to their businesses. He reports that the US government forced Anthropic to shut off its most powerful models (referred to as Fable and Mythos) citing national security concerns after a jailbreak caused a model to scan software for weaknesses and demonstrate an exploit. Anthropic pushed back, saying the test found only minor, already-known vulnerabilities and that every model tested could reproduce the demonstration. The restrictions were later lifted and Fable returned with stronger safeguards and earlier government testing. Herk predicts that AI literacy will become like workforce infrastructure, that cybersecurity will grow as a major career with humans taking on responsibility for AI decisions, and that controlling what agents can access and taking responsibility for results are the key skills to protect oneself.

  • VideoEverlast AI

    Claude Opus 5.5 Is Incredible! Everything You Need to Know | AI News

    This is a weekly AI-news roundup by Leonard Schmedding, filmed in San Francisco, covering recent developments for practical use. The main item is Claude Opus 5.5, the first model of Anthropic's new Claude 5.5 family (with Sonnet and Haiku 5.5 expected soon). It reportedly performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 while costing about 40% less than Opus 5, outperforming it on coding benchmarks such as Terminal Bench 4.0 and Cursor Bench and on knowledge-work tasks like GPQA and SWE-bench 2.0, though OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra retains an edge in automated business workflows and agentic research. Within hours OpenAI responded with GPT-6 Sol and Luna; GPT-6 Sol leads Anvil Labs' Vending Bench for autonomously running a vending-machine business. The video features a live report on 'Anthropic Market,' a boutique in San Francisco run entirely by Claude Opus 5.5, which manages products, prices, hiring via Slack, and social-media accounts (Twitter/Instagram), with books such as Ray Kurzweil's 'The Singularity Is Near' for sale. Other items: Claude detecting a molecular machine that Lord Dario Amodei sees as a potential new gene-editing mechanism and comparing biology's current leap to mathematics'; agent-based 3D/video generation using FreeGS and Blender; and Meta's Mus Charm keychain agent plus VR glasses competing with Apple Vision Pro. The creator also promotes his second channel, an Agentic Marketing workshop, Kiberatung AI-integration services, and a KI-continuing-education platform.

Sunday 6 September

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

    OpenAI shares early data on how coding agents are used in its research, including experiment velocity and task complexity. These are findings reported by OpenAI about its own work.

Friday 4 September

  • OfficialGitHub

    GitHub Copilot weekly releases: August 31

    GitHub reports expanded model choice, content exclusions in Copilot app and CLI, and new VS Code features for managing agent sessions and preparing pull requests.

Thursday 3 September

Wednesday 2 September

  • Google DeepMind/Google Research

    OfficialGoogle DeepMind/Google Research

    Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

    Google announces Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding, reasoning and agentic workflows, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for vulnerability discovery and automated patching.

Tuesday 1 September

  • OpenAI

    OfficialOpenAI

    ChatGPT adds healthcare data connections

    OpenAI announces connections to electronic health records and other healthcare sources in ChatGPT. The announcement is relevant to permission-aware retrieval; it is not evidence that a particular deployment meets local clinical or privacy requirements.