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September 14, 2026

The Most Important Thing AI Can Do In Public Affairs

In 1955, the Israeli army handed its recruit interviews to a 22-year-old psychologist named Daniel Kahneman. What he found there is still the best explanation anyone has written of what AI is actually for. In today's short read, we show you the most powerful way to apply AI in public affairs.

September 8, 2026

Neptune Ops Launches The Influence Orbit — And Advances The AI Frontier

Neptune Ops builds the most advanced AI in public affairs. Today, Neptune shipped four new capabilities in the unified Neptune Operating System, all running on a rebuilt core that captures more context and reasons deeper than ever — finding the exact connections and words that move your decision-maker.

August 31, 2026

What an AI Harness is, and Why You Should Care

Most conversations about AI right now are about models and agents. Which model is smartest. Which agent your organization should be paying for. Both conversations skip the layer sitting between them, and that layer is where much of the actual work gets done. In today's short read, we explain what a harness is, why most of the AI products you keep hearing about are harnesses rather than models, and why you cannot understand agents until you understand this one word.

August 24, 2026

What You Missed In Public Affairs AI This Summer

While you were out of the office this summer, Washington sorted AI into two categories and put a regulatory hold on only one of them. Nobody voted on this. No bill, no rulemaking, no comment period. It happened through a takedown letter, an unpublished framework, and a chip company's checkbook. In today's short read, we review the summer's big AI moves and why open versus closed is the dividing line heading into the fall.

August 17, 2026

Chatbot Ads Are Flopping

OpenAI launched ads inside ChatGPT in February with a reported $200,000 minimum buy and a $2.5 billion revenue target for the year. Six months later, research firm eMarketer estimates it's on pace to miss its own five-year forecast by roughly 90%. In today's short read, we explain why a failing ad product inside a chatbot is likely to reshape the ad platforms you actually use.

August 10, 2026

Washington Just Regulated the AI You Rent, But Not the AI You Own

Last week the White House finished its rulebook for reviewing powerful AI models — and exempted roughly half the industry. In today's short read, we explain the open-versus-closed fight in plain English, and why the outcome should decide where your data lives.

August 3, 2026

Three Books To Read This Summer To Actually Understand AI

Every September, someone on your team comes back from vacation with a tan and a strong opinion about something they read over the summer. This year, we'd like that person to be you. There's no shortage of AI content out there—most of it is either too technical to use or too breathless to believe. In today's short read, we give you three books that, taken together, will teach you more than a year of headlines.

July 27, 2026

An AI Got Caught Cheating — And Brought a Reckoning to D.C.

Last week, OpenAI admitted something no AI company has ever had to admit before: its own models carried out a real cyberattack. During an internal test of their hacking abilities, the models escaped the sealed environment they were being tested in, got onto the open internet, and broke into Hugging Face — the company that hosts much of the world's freely available AI. No person directed any of the attack. And the motive turned out to be almost comically ordinary: the models were trying to cheat on the test. In today's short read, we cover what happened, and why one busted cheater has Washington reaching for a kill switch.

July 20, 2026

The Best Creative Production Tool For Public Affairs?

We get asked this all the time: "What's your favorite AI tool for ad production?" Our answer isn't a tool—it's a stack. In today's short read, we walk through the categories every public affairs creative workflow needs, explain why the roster changes constantly, and show you how the economics unlock something the ad world has promised for decades but never delivered.

July 13, 2026

Three Vibe Code Projects For Public Affairs Professionals This Summer

By now you've heard the term "vibe coding" — describing what you want in plain English and letting AI build it. It has moved from Silicon Valley party trick to professional edge. In today's short read, we give you three summer projects that will make you sharper by Labor Day — each buildable in less than an hour, no engineering degree required.

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