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Jev for beginners: how to use it and what to build
Watch now (26 mins) | 🎙️ Jev returns type-safe structured values instead of text, which makes it the fastest, cheapest classification layer I’ve ever put in a pipeline—and this week I shipped three real projects with it
Rachel Maddow on why Trump keeps attacking the media: ‘You play the hits’
Maddow kicks off season seven of ‘The Poynter Report Podcast’ to talk Trump, the press, polling and the future of news
Fact-checking isn’t just for journalists. Here are 5 reasons it’s for you, too
Fact-checking makes you a clearer communicator, a better decision-maker and a more trusted friend. A new course helps you learn how.
We Built Grok Bot. Here Are Our 14 Best Bots | Peng Zheng & Lauren Tan
Watch now (45 mins) | The 14 bots Grok Bot’s design and engineering leads use for work and life, from Peng’s design bot to Lauren’s eng lead bot that manages a team of eng bots
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
Molly Graham is back for round two, and this one is even more powerful. Molly has spent more than 20 years helping organizations and the humans inside them navigate growth and change. She’s held leadership roles at Google, Facebook, Quip, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and is the host of TED’s WorkLife podcast (which she took over from Adam Grant). She also runs Glue Club, a leadership community for senior operators, and writes a popular newsletter called Lessons.
AI growth hackers are stealing your favorite Reels
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Trump banned three news outlets. A judge let them back in. Then things got weirder
A court blocked Trump’s media ban, but hours of confusion followed before CNN, MS NOW and Politico returned to the White House
Want your next investigation to make an impact?
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
Judge rules against Trump’s White House media ban
Media outlets banned from the White House press pool are waiting on a judge’s ruling in the First Amendment case.
NotchPop: The Dynamic Island your MacBook notch was missing | Product Hunt
NotchPop turns your MacBook notch into a Dynamic Island: music, a file shelf, clipboard history, focus timer, calendar, weather, AI coding stats and revenue. Works on Macs without a notch too. Native SwiftUI, $3.99 once, 7-day free trial.
Judge tosses Trump's lawsuit against Des Moines Register
A district judge tossed an election interference lawsuit by President Trump against the Des Moines Register, parent company USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and pollster Ann Selzer, rejecting claims that its inaccurate pre-election poll amounted to consumer fraud.
Am I too boring to need an AI agent?
Read to the end for a machine we must create
My Personal AI Course Is Live! Copy My AI System to Take Work Off Your Plate
Copy my exact AI workflows to save time and automate busywork in 25+ bite-sized lessons. Plus get $600+ in free access to my favorite AI tools.
‘The darker times get, the more important it feels’: The enduring joy of NPR’s ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!’
The NPR news quiz has survived nearly 30 years of media upheaval by staying funny, familiar and surprisingly adaptable
AI labs are cutting model costs - and it could help them slow down safely
The shift of the AI frontier toward more powerful, lower-cost models could pave the way for safely slowing development, experts say.
Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol: which model won my blind taste test?
Watch now (39 mins) | 🎙️ I ran blind evaluations across writing, frontend prototypes, long-running agentic tasks, SVGs, coding, and video editing, then put Opus 5.5 through Barbie Bench
I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I’m back
Listen or watch on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts I’ve been off Claude for months. Not because it got dumb, but because it got annoying. The rambling, the hedging, the preachy little disclaimers on tasks that didn’t need them. I moved most of my daily work to Codex and I didn’t miss it. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5: 40% cheaper than Opus 5, faster, and with what they’re calling a fundamentally different alignment approach. I ran it for a week across real work, including four long-running agentic tasks, a full ChatPRD homepage redesign,
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.
Koreshield: Security and evidence for AI support agents | Product Hunt
Every AI support agent takes input from someone it should not trust: the customer message, the documents it retrieves, and the tool calls it proposes. Koreshield screens all three before they become trusted model behavior or application execution. Data leaks, hidden instructions in help articles, policy drift and unsafe agent actions are checked before the model acts, and every decision is recorded. One call to integrate.
‘This is unprecedented’: Trump’s media bans upend White House coverage
TV networks stood down, the banned outlets sued and other news organizations joined in the pushback
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