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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.

July 6, 2026

Why Every Public Affairs Practitioner Should Switch To This AI Model Today

One of the most consequential AI releases of the year happened last Tuesday, and almost no one wrote about it. Instead, the commentary spent the week celebrating Fable's return from government-imposed exile and speculating about when GPT-5.6 gets out of its holding pen. In today's short read, we explain why a mid-tier model you've barely heard about should now be doing most of your work.

June 29, 2026

The White House Has Come For ChatGPT

Over two weeks ago, The White House shut down Anthropic's latest AI models. Then last week, it came for OpenAI. The new ChatGPT model, GPT-5.6, will only be available to customers that the Administration directly approves. In today's short read, we explain the de facto AI licensing regime that now exists, how markets are responding, and an explosive new requirement that every AI user in the U.S. could be subject to any day.

June 22, 2026

America Benched Its Best AI. Beijing Is Running Up The Score.

On June 12, the U.S. government pulled the plug on the most powerful AI America had ever shipped. The stated goal was to keep frontier capability out of foreign hands. Instead, the shutdown stampeded customers toward the one part of the market the ban can't touch — most of it Chinese. In today's short read, we explain why the shutdown's biggest winner is Beijing, and how public affairs teams should adapt.

June 15, 2026

The Fable Shutdown And What It Means For Public Affairs

On Tuesday, Anthropic released the most powerful AI model it's ever put in public hands. By Friday evening, the U.S. government had switched it off — worldwide, for every customer, including Anthropic's own employees. By the time you read this, Fable may be back on, or the dispute may have spiraled to implicate your other AI tools.

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