AI products are retreating from big promises to narrow uses.

1. Pushback · ConfirmsGoogle Earth Retracts AI Tool for Making Fake Satellite Images After It Was Immediately Abused Upon ReleaseArs Technica
   Aug 8
2. Adoption · ExtendsAfter Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI toolTechCrunch
   Aug 8
3. Pushback · ConfirmsHello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You CustomersAftermath
   Aug 7
4. Pushback · ConfirmsRules Of The Road: What Flock’s 71% Misread Rate Teaches Us About Third-Party AI RiskForrester
   Aug 6
5. Attention · ExtendsIntroducing Frontier AI Model Platforms — Because An AI Model Is Not A Business ModelForrester
   Aug 5
6. Pushback · ExtendsExperts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)Wired
   Aug 3

1. Pushback · ExtendsWeak API controls are one of the biggest threats in the agentic AI eraSiliconangle
   Aug 15
2. Pushback · ExtendsOpenAI paused a model over cyber risk on Friday. On Monday it shipped one trained to refuse less.Thenextweb
   Aug 11
3. Pushback · ConfirmsThe Roboguard Revolution Is Short-CircuitingSlashdot
   Aug 11
4. Pushback · ConfirmsThe AI safety test is becoming a safety riskTechCrunch
   Aug 10

1. Pushback · ConfirmsA lawsuit says Oura’s sleep stages are AI guesses with a coin flip’s oddsThenextweb
   Aug 23
2. Pushback · ConfirmsWhy AI won’t cure cancer anytime soonSubstack
   Aug 20
3. Pushback · ConfirmsWeber Is Shutting Off the June Oven’s AI Camera, and a $90 Air Fryer Already Does The Same ThingYankodesign
   Aug 17
4. Pushback · ExtendsAnthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)Daringfireball
   Aug 17

1. Pushback · ExtendsDoes Your ‘Agent Governance’ End Up Governing Everything But The Agent Itself?Forrester
   Aug 27
2. Pushback · ConfirmsAI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed her doctor’s system could not understand her speechThenextweb
   Aug 27
3. Adoption · ExtendsAI Governance In Action: Linkedin’s AI Slop Button First 30 DaysSubstack
   Aug 25

1. Pushback · ConfirmsOpenAI quietly updates its evaluation metrics for GPT-6 Astra, making changes that appear to favor Astra and continuing to revise other metrics after launch (Emily Forlini/Fortune)Fortune
   Sep 6
2. Pushback · ExtendsAI scribes are getting drug names and diagnoses wrong in NHS recordsThenextweb
   Aug 31
3. Money · ExtendsOpenAI has started letting some customers pay only when the AI worksThenextweb
   Aug 31

1. Pushback · ConfirmsLawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder caseThe Verge
   Sep 12
2. Pushback · ExtendsChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnessesArs Technica
   Sep 12
3. Pushback · ExtendsMeta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?TechCrunch
   Sep 9

1. Pushback · ExtendsGoogle says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted "appropriately" and stopped after determining it hacked real companies (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)The Verge
   Sep 20
2. Pushback · ExtendsAI Isn’t Delivering Marketing Efficiency, It’s Repeating Programmatic’s Broken Promise via @sejournal, @gregjarboeSearchenginejournal
   Sep 15
3. Pushback · ExtendsAI adoption outruns readiness as contact centers chase end-to-end resolutionSiliconangle
   Sep 15
4. Adoption · ConfirmsContact center AI ROI shifts toward resolution quality and governed executionSiliconangle
   Sep 15

1. Pushback · ConfirmsYour product changed again. Your customer did not.Substack
   Sep 27
2. Adoption · ExtendsThe AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still brokenThenextweb
   Sep 25

1. Money · ExtendsExecutive Briefing: Agents Split Your Software Into 3 Parts. Which Should You Keep Paying For?Substack
   Oct 4
2. Pushback · ConfirmsThe tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years awayThe Register
   Oct 1
3. Attention · ExtendsInside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethinkThe Verge
   Oct 1

1. Pushback · ConfirmsThe New Siri’s Biggest Strength Is Not IntelligenceNngroup
   Oct 10

1. Pushback · ExtendsWhat on earth is going on with AI pricing and packaging?Substack
   Oct 16
2. Pushback · ExtendsJev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injectionThe Register
   Oct 16
3. Pushback · Extends🎲 “It’s Hard to Eval” Is a Product SmellHamel
   Oct 14

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1. Pushback · ExtendsYou delegated the work to agents and ended up with a new job: reading their updates. My guide to a Chief of Staff …Substack
   Oct 27

1. Pushback · ExtendsWhat AI Changes After the Demo EndsSubstack
   Nov 8
2. Pushback · ConfirmsPluralistic: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app (04 Nov 2026)Pluralistic
   Nov 5
3. Adoption · ConfirmsWhere an agent pays off firstSubstack
   Nov 4
4. Pushback · ExtendsAI Browsers Are A Successful FailureForrester
   Nov 4
5. Pushback · ConfirmsAnthropic clamps down on using Claude to make copycat games—or reverse-engineer codeBoingboing
   Nov 3
6. Attention · ConfirmsHow AI Applications Earn Their PremiumSubstack
   Nov 2