Short posts
How interesting that OpenAI did not have to train a new video model to start generating Disney characters … :| https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/
Caught up on some blogs post-Thanksgiving and gotta recommend these two gems:
“You should write an agent” I endeavored to do this myself one week, and then somehow just 30 minutes later it was done) -> https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/
“Parsing PDFs with Antigravity” Another win for using AI to do journalism tasks in a reproducible way aka by writing code you can check and rerun ->
Parsing PDFs with Antigravity – Matt Waite’s Collection of Miscellany
Made a chart showing how OpenAI’s lead has evaporated, according to the Artificial Analysis intelligence index
Full story -> 🎁 https://wapo.st/3Xy8Xnz
Interesting study -> New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV. https://wapo.st/49RSstP
So many nuggets in here, like “Mental health experts told his team, for example, that sleep deprivation was often linked to mania. Previously, models had been “naïve” about this, he said, and might congratulate someone who said they never needed to sleep.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt-users-risks.html?smid=url-share
On the one hand, ChatGPT is super popular. On the other hand, AI companies need to make SO MUCH revenue.
Bubble or no bubble? More data here -> 🎁 https://wapo.st/3KfxpXE
Google’s releasing an AI-powered code editor called Antigravity. Like a combination of Claude Code and an agentic web browser, but altogether in one GUI.
They’re really leaning into the idea that coders are gonna become AI managers. Rather than managing all your coding agents manually, there’s an inbox with ongoing tasks.
Unfortunately I ran out of credits halfway through my first task :(
Another glimpse into what people really use ChatGPT for, and it’s … really something
Set up a git scraper for LMArena leaderboards. This csv has all the text ranks since May 2025, and will be updated as rankings change.
lmarena-leaderboard-history/history.csv at main · kevinschaul/lmarena-leaderboard-history
Hell of a story right here
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show