January 2026

Universe of AI

AI News: AI Girls Are Fooling Everyone… And Ads Just Hit ChatGPT!

This video covers recent AI developments including sophisticated AI-generated content that's fooling even AI experts, and major ChatGPT updates. The line between real and synthetic content has...

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Simon Willison's Weblog

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

OpenAI announced plans to introduce advertising to ChatGPT's free and new Go tiers in the coming weeks, while launching a new $8/month Go tier today. The company promises ads won't influence...

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Daniel Miessler Blog

The Last Algorithm | Daniel Miessler

Daniel Miessler proposes that 2026 could see AI breakthrough outcomes not from new models but from continuous algorithm loops - specifically a "Last Algorithm" that functions as a universal problem...

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Simon Willison's Weblog

Open Responses

Open Responses is launching as a vendor-neutral JSON API specification for communicating with hosted LLMs, based on OpenAI's Responses API. This standardizes how different AI tools can talk to each...

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Universe of AI

NotebookLM Just Got a Major Upgrade: Data Tables!

Google has rolled out data tables in NotebookLM for all users, allowing them to transform unstructured information from PDFs, docs, and research papers into organized tables. The key innovation is...

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