Feb. 5, 2026: OpenAI testing ads on ChatGPT; Anthropic Bets Ad-Free A.I. Will Win; Is Moltbook Actually Fake?; AI is less Terminator, more ‘hot mess’… David Isenberg brings us these, plus many more, of this week’s AI News Briefs.
Feb. 3, 2026: AI News Briefs: Today, David Isenberg covers the latest AI panic – Moltbook! Also “ICE’s Use of AI Will Lead to Big Mistakes. Maybe That’s the Point,” “Trump team lets AI-written safety regulations fly,” “The biggest AI myths people still believe — and what’s actually true,” and much more.
Jan. 27, 2026: David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs: “Musk’s bet on space-based AI,” “Will AI wearables be another Apple superpower?” “the Emerging AI Surveillance State,” “AI is reshaping police detective work,” “AI frenzy was palpable at WEF,” and much more.
Jan. 21, 2026: David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs: “10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents,” good news for consumers with “‘No Reasons to Own’: Software Stocks Sink on Fear of New AI Too,” dark humor — oh, wait, this is real: “Trump team issues bonkers threat against UK over Elon Musk’s creepy AI,” and much more.
Jan. 20, 2026: David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs: “Nvidia EDEN eyes thousands of incurable diseases,” “AI May Be ‘Coming For Our Jobs,’ But It Really Sucks At Doing Them,” “Pentagon Is Embracing Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot,” “Can AI Fall in Love?” and much more.
Jan. 13, 2026: David Isenberg brings us “AI chatbots in kids’ toys,” “Utah becomes first state to allow AI to approve prescription refills,” “Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Your AI Chats,” “DeepSeek V4 Will Beat Claude and ChatGPT at Coding,” and much more…
Jan. 1, 2026: “A.I. Degrees Boom as Students Prepare,” “AI brings wealth building to non-millionaires,” “Towns and Cities Fight Off Data Centers,” “How Deepfakes Could Lead to Doomsday,” and many more.
Dec. 29, 2025: David Isenberg‘s “From “Google to win 2026 AI race” through “The Coming AI Upheaval Risks ‘Collar-Flipping’ the Middle Class” and many more.”
Dec.20, 2025: David Isenberg‘s This is the week that was in AI, from “Need to cut out a person …from an otherwise perfect group selfie? …AI chatbots are now able to do that…” to “To the “Latest A.I. Drug Discovery Unicorn.”
Dec. 13, 2025: David Isenberg’s This is the week that was in AI, from “Here’s how to protect yourself” against AI-enabled browsers, to “Coming in 2026….The porn-brained version of ChatGPT.”
Dec. 6, 2025: David Isenberg’sThis is the week that was in AI News, from “What if OpenAI is worth more dead than alive?” to “Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure.
Nov. 29, 2025: From MIT study finds AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of U.S. workers through Singapore Firm’s AI Teddy Bear Back on Sale After Shock Sex Talk, David Isenberg highlights 24 examples of what news media were saying about AI this week.
Nov. 8, 2025: This is the week that was in AI: News briefs of “The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here,” the “New York College Trying to ‘AI-Proof’ Its Students,” and much more.
Nov. 1, 2025: David Isenberg’s This is the week that was in AI: Stories from sixteen sources probe whether AI is becoming a boon or leading to doom.
Oct. 19-24, 2025: This is the week that was in AI: News briefs from twenty sources, gathered by our anonymous sleuth.
Oct. 12-17, 2025: Our team gleaned eighteen news briefs from sixteen sources, from “Everyone’s worrying about chips, the circular economy and the AI boom” to “Spot a Sora fake, while you still can.”
Oct. 5 – 11, 2025. Our team gleaned twenty-seven briefs from sixteen sources, ranging from “We admit to being confused” through “Make America Deepfaked Again.”
Sept. 29 — Oct. 4, 2025. From “AI-designed toxins slip through safety checks” through “Sam Altman’s $1 trillion AI gamble.”
Sept. 21-27, 2025: news from “Struggling to Deploy AI Weapons” through “if OpenAI can’t pay Oracle, Oracle can’t pay NVIDIA, NVIDIA’s stock crashes, and suddenly 25% of the S&P 500 is in freefall.”
Sept, 17-20: From a skeptic’s take on “If Anyone Makes it, Everyone Dies” to “Let’s Hope Albania’s AI ‘Minister’ Won’t Steal Porn,” here’s another heckuva batch of briefs.
Sept. 11-16, 2025. From “If Anyone Makes it, Everyone Dies” to “Playing the Field with my AI Boyfriends,” one heckuva week’s worth of briefs!
Sept. 8-11, 2025: From “The Job Market Is Hell” through “AIs that Can’t Count the Rs in Strawberry.”
Sept. 7, 2025: This was the weekend that was for AI Doomers vs Boosters
News Briefs, Sept. 2-5, 2025: AI Doomers vs Boosters, in one dozen briefs.
Sept. 1-2, 2025: News from the bleeding edge of science and technology. Today, More GenAI Risks and Opportunities.
Aug. 30-31, and Sept. 1, 2025: How to Prevent AI From Causing an Economic Catastrophe … and five more briefs
