FEBRUARY 24, 2026

• PromptCraft: Build an AI Tool to Solve a Problem at Your Job
• THE HEADLINES: ​Google Restricts AI Pro/Ultra Subscribers for Using OpenClaw; AI Boom Could Cause a Stock Market Crash and Recession, Citrini Warns; Uber CEO Says AI Will Kill More Than 9 Million Jobs at His Company
• Tool Spotlight: Tidy Is a No-Code Agent You 'Teach' to Do Your Online Work

QUICK TIP for TODAY: Build an AI Tool to Solve a Problem at Your Job

One of the things from my workplace that puts me on the struggle bus rather quickly is deciding which items are/aren't "newsworthy."

Sometimes it's obvious, but there are a lot of "borderlines," and we have about 300 incidents per day to sift through. My solution?

Give it to AI.

In three days, with zilch for coding experience, I used AI to help me build a tool that allows me to dump in a batch of incident reports and know in seconds which ones the press might care about.

Now, most of you aren't PIOs. So, why am I telling you this?

Because you all have unique problems you encounter every day that could be simplified through AI. By approaching those problems from the standpoint of an AI builder, you can learn a wealth of skills on-the-fly.

• How to prompt
• What the difference (and advantages/disadvantages) are between web interface AI and using an API key
• How to use an API key
• How these tools are built
• Troubleshooting
• Thinking through your problem step-by-step to learn where your creative energy should focus

So, this week, pick one small but impactful problem that you'd like to get rid of. Ask yourself why can't AI take this over for me?

(Spoiler alert: it can.)

Then, start working step by step, as granularly as possible, to hand it over.

Here's a screenshot of the tool I built with Claude Code last week:

HIGHLIGHTS: ​Google Restricts AI Pro/Ultra Subscribers for Using OpenClaw; AI Boom Could Cause a Stock Market Crash and Recession, Citrini Warns; Uber CEO Says AI Will Kill More Than 9 Million Jobs at His Company

1. ​Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs?​
2. ​There’s another AI-doom post doing the rounds. This time, the S&P 500 dives nearly 40%.​
3. ​Google is restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw​
4. ​AI Is Upending Marketing on Two Fronts​
5. ​How AI agents could destroy the economy​
6. ​The AI boom is helping Samsung and coming for Apple​
7. ​Uber CEO: I Have to Be Honest, AI Will Replace 9.4 Million Jobs at Uber!​
8. ​OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform​
9. ​How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA​
10. ​NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to the World’s Critical Infrastructure​
11. ​Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’​
12. ​The AI Boom Could Cause a Stock Market Crash and a Recession, Citrini Warns​
13. ​AI tools can design genomes. Will they upend how life evolves?​
14. ​AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says​
15. ​‘Ghost GDP,’ a white-collar recession, and the death of friction: Substack’s top finance writer warns of the 2028 AI crisis nobody sees coming​
16. ​Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use​
17. ​Top AI firm alleges Chinese labs used 24K fake accounts to siphon US tech​
18. ​AI agents that do your work while you sleep sound great. The reality is far messier—‘it’s like a toddler that needs to be overseen’​
19. ​IBM Shares Fall After Anthropic Launches AI Tool for COBOL Programming​
20. ​Last year, Accenture trained 550,000 workers in AI—now it’s warning senior staff to use it or don’t get promoted​
21. ​AI’s “centaur phase” consumes Silicon Valley​
22. ​If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?​
23. ​A.I. Literacy Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why.​
24. ​Jailbreaking the matrix: How researchers are bypassing AI guardrails to make them safer​
25. ​Nvidia re-enters PC market with AI-powered laptop chips​
26. ​Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI​
27. ​Nokia and KDDI demonstrate quantum-safe optical transport for secure AI and data center infrastructure​
28. ​Google commits to making AI training available to all 6 million U.S. educators​
29. ​The fundraising tactic AI startups are using to juice valuations​
30. ​After a deadly raid, an AI power struggle erupts at the Pentagon​
31. ​Should I use AI for my taxes? Experts say no​
32. ​The AI threat is far greater than job losses​
33. ​Anthropic Rolls Out Autonomous Vulnerability-Hunting AI Tool for Claude Code​
34. ​AI artist Refik Anadol uses massive datasets and AI to create immersive works shown around the world​
35. ​How decentralized AI is leveling the playing field​
36. ​It has some very fierce critics, but AI art is now big business in top auction houses and museums​
37. ​Dems eyeing 2028 tap the brakes on AI data centers​
38. ​Meet the teen tycoons powering AI start-ups — and making bank off them​
39. ​Trump’s AI push sparks MAGA revolt ahead of midterms​
40. ​Former IRS Commissioner: Here’s how we used AI to create immediate value when taxpayers scrutinized every dollar​
41. ​The Next Skills Gap: Preparing Workers for AI-Augmented Professions​
42. ​Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: regulating the use of AI​
43. ​Sam Altman Says Companies Are ‘AI-Washing’ Layoffs​
44. ​Employers to job seekers: Your AI résumé isn’t fooling anyone​
45. ​‘I have a chip on my shoulder.’ Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup Phia to succeed with ‘no ties to my privilege or my last name’​
46. ​India enters AI race with ChatGPT rival that can be used without internet​
47. ​You have 18 months to figure out your office job, $1 billion CEO says. But it’s not going away​
48. ​Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative​
49. ​AI Data Centers Turn to High-Temperature Superconductors​
50. ​Galaxy AI Expands Multi-Agent Ecosystem To Give Users More Choice and Flexibility​
51. ​Anthropic’s safety-first AI collides with the Pentagon as Claude expands into autonomous agents​
52. ​Apple’s upcoming AI smart glasses are starting to sound a lot more exciting​
53. ​New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma on What Makes a ‘Great Game,’ Having ‘No Tolerance for Bad AI’ and Replacing Phil Spencer​
54. ​Mark Cuban says AI won’t take your job anytime soon because it still acts like a hungover college intern—with a $100K price tag to show for it​
55. ​Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages​
56. ​AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk?​
57. ​Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI​
58. ​AI-Assisted Threat Actor Compromises 600+ FortiGate Devices in 55 Countries​
59. ​Jon Taffer says AI ‘doesn’t get sick’ as restaurants struggle to find workers​
60. ​Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive​
61. ​I’m a Founder Using $20-a-Month AI Tools Instead of Hiring Employees​
62. ​Americans are using AI for financial advice more than you think​
63. ​Viral AI videos raise questions about how we view reality​
64. ​U.S. plans Peace Corps-style “Tech Corps” to counter China’s AI exports​
65. ​Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users (MIT News)
66. ​OpenAI is developing AI devices, including a smart speaker, The Information reports (Reuters)
67. ​Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference (The Next Platform)
68. ​Mark Cuban on 2 types of AI users: you’re either using it to ‘learn everything’ or ‘so you don’t have to learn anything’ (Business Insider)
69. ​Journal giant Elsevier unveiled an AI tool that scans millions of paywalled papers. Is it worth it? (Science)
70. ​Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space? (WIRED)
71. ​Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index (Axios)
72. ​AMC Refuses to Screen AI Animation Fest Winner ‘Thanksgiving Day’ Due to Backlash (UPDATE) (Animation Magazine)
73. ​Data Land USA: PG&E says it won’t let AI data centers raise Central Valley power bills​
74. ​Chinese robot dog just one glitch at India’s AI summit​
75. ​Department of State Launches Edge AI Package for the Indo-Pacific​
76. ​From AI tools to Prince Andrew’s arrest: How newsrooms are digging into the Jeffrey Epstein files​
77. ​AI breakthrough could replace rare earth magnets in electric vehicles​
78. ​AI-generated headshot market is booming​
79. ​‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI​
80. ​How Brands Can Adapt When AI Agents Do the Shopping​
81. ​Treasury Releases Two New Resources to Guide AI Use in the Financial Sector​
82. ​AI home search could change how you buy a house​
83. ​How the anxiety over AI could fuel a new workers’ movement​
84. ​AI must foster ‘maternal instincts’ or we risk extinction, warns Geoffrey Hinton​
85. ​Nebraska Supreme Court questions attorney about AI use in court brief​
86. ​OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW​
87. ​Impact of AI Starting to Kick In on Economy Says Moody’s Zandi​
88. ​Deutsche Bank asked AI how it was planning to destroy jobs. And the robot answered​
89. ​Michael Pollan says AI may ‘think’ — but it will never be conscious​
90. ​Modi’s AI unity pose turns awkward for Altman and Amodei​
91. ​Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks​
92. ​Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss​

Tidy Is a No-Code Agent You 'Teach' to Do Your Online Work

Tidy is a personal agent you can “teach” to use websites and web apps the way you do, turning your repeated click-paths into reusable tools without writing code.

It stays connected through chat (including iMessage-style workflows) and runs in the cloud, which makes it feel more like an always-on assistant than a one-off automation.

It’s a strong fit for busy operators, founders, and anyone who wants to offload recurring online errands—while still staying in the loop when approvals or decisions are needed.

Learn More: Tidy​

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