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CHATGPT 5.4 HAS HIDDEN FAN-OUT QUERIES. YOU CAN STILL GET THEM VIA THE API (PYTHON SCRIPT INCLUDED)

ChatGPT version 5.4 now hides fan-out queries in the conversation console. Tools that scraped these queries from conversation files or browser developer tools no longer work, but the fan-out queries still exist in the API for the GPT-5.4 model. A Python script can send a query through the OpenAI Responses API and extract the response data, citations, and fan-out queries. The script can also save the full response to JSON files for later analysis.

I SAID AI CAN'T SIMULATE YOUR CUSTOMERS. THEN I BUILT A TOOL THAT DOES

AI cannot simulate real customer behavior or predict purchase decisions, but it can still review a website like a first-time visitor and detect confusing or weak messaging. The RoastMyWebsite tool generates 5 virtual personas and reviews a homepage to produce a grade, estimated bounce rate, and specific feedback based on the site's copy. The tool can find messaging gaps and contradictions, such as claims of simplicity next to pricing pages that contain 47 line items. AI works well for quick heuristic evaluation, but it cannot replace real customer research or predict whether people will buy.

WE ASKED 7 B2B REDDIT STRATEGISTS WHAT “GOOD” CONTENT LOOKS LIKE

Reddit has become the most cited domain across major AI platforms. Many brands fail by treating it as a distribution channel and pushing product messages that communities reject. Successful brands follow a “lurk, learn, leap” approach. They spend time in communities, share genuinely helpful insights, and let product mentions emerge naturally. The goal is no longer just meeting subreddit standards but being good enough to be the answer AI provides to someone making a purchase decision.

ABSURDGASM—WHEN NONSENSE BRANDING HITS RIGHT

“Absurdgasm” describes a consumer sentiment where people feel relief in intentionally irrational, over-the-top brand experiences. It is less about shock value and more about emotional alignment, with brands acknowledging the same cultural dissonance their audience feels instead of pretending everything makes sense. In crowded markets where functional benefits look the same, absurdity cuts through by giving people something to react to and bond over.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR LINKEDIN HEADLINE RECRUITER-FRIENDLY

Highlight your scope, environment, and product stage in your headline to match how recruiters search.

EMAIL IDEA: “TRENDING LATELY” PRODUCTS

Highlight 3-4 products that are trending right now to show what's gaining momentum, not just what has always been popular.

WHICH CLAUDE FOR YOUR MARKETING TASK?

This post outlines which Claude app to use for chat, coding, or workflow tasks.

X IS TESTING A NEW AD FORMAT THAT CONNECTS POSTS WITH PRODUCTS

X is testing a native ad format that surfaces product recommendations beneath relevant user posts.

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INTRODUCING GPT‑5.4

OpenAI has released GPT-5.4. It is available as two new API models, gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro, and also in ChatGPT and Codex CLI. The model has a knowledge cut of date of August 31, 2025, and a one-million-token context window. OpenAI put a particular focus on improving the model's ability to create and edit spreadsheets, presentations, and documents. It beats GPT-5.3-Codex on all relevant benchmarks.

MS EXEC: MICROSOFT'S NEXT CONSOLE WILL PLAY “XBOX AND PC GAMES”

Microsoft's Executive Vice President for Gaming, Asha Sharma, says that the next-generation of Xbox console will play both Xbox and PC games. It is possible that the console's access to PC games could be limited to Microsoft's existing streaming solution via PC Game Pass, or to games designed for Microsoft's own Xbox-branded PC SDC and the PC Xbox app. However, this could also mean that Microsoft is getting ready to open up its next console to a complete Windows installation. The move could be a response to Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, which is threatening to bring Windows-free PC gaming to living rooms everywhere in the near future.

BRAIN TECH STARTUP SCIENCE CORP. RAISES $230 MILLION TO TREAT BLINDNESS

Neurotechnology company Science Corp. has raised $230 million, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion. The funds will be used to commercialize its implant for blindness and develop even more advanced brain devices. Science Corp. is now the second-most valuable brain implant company after Neuralink. Its retina implant, PRIMA, is a chip that sits at the back of the eye to help blind people see with the assistance of a special pair of glasses that projects images into the eye. It has been demonstrated to improve vision for patients with advanced age-related macular degeneration. The device is currently under regulatory review in Europe and the US.

CONGRESS EXTENDS ISS AND TELLS NASA TO GET MOVING ON PRIVATE SPACE STATIONS

Senator Ted Cruz has introduced a new bill to step up the pressure on NASA to create competition among private companies to develop replacements for the International Space Station. The bill mandates that NASA publicly release requirements for commercial space stations in low-Earth orbit within 60 days, release the final request for proposals to solicit industry responses within 90 days, and enter into contracts with two or more commercial providers for such stations within 180 days. The legislation extends the International Space Station's lifespan from 2030 to 2032, but an extension must still be approved by international partners.

A GITHUB ISSUE TITLE COMPROMISED 4,000 DEVELOPER MACHINES

A version of Cline published to npm on February 17 was byte-identical to the previous version. However, it had a one-line change that installed OpenClaw onto users' machines. This resulted in approximately 4,000 OpenClaw downloads before the package was pulled. The attacker got the npm token by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.

NEW "AUTO MODE" PERMISSIONS COMING...

Claude Code plans to launch Auto Mode in research preview no earlier than March 11. Auto Mode lets Claude handle permission decisions during coding sessions so developers can run longer tasks without being interrupted for manual approvals. It is designed to be a safer alternative to bypassing permissions entirely. Users should only use Auto Mode in isolated environments, as it isn't perfect and won't catch every action that could be considered risky.

COSTLESS SACRIFICE

An essay is only valuable as it costs the writer something. That cost could be the years of experience that seasoned the piece that took hours to write, or it may be in the hours, weeks, or months of research and writing and editing and rewriting until the piece is good enough. A machine writing the same essay, word for word, wouldn't have paid the same price. Humans can read and feel the costlessness of it, even as the prose improves. We demand a cost.

ANTHROPIC SAYS IT WILL FIGHT NEW PENTAGON MOVE AS CEO APOLOGIZES FOR LEAKED MEMO

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has apologized for a leaked memo in which he questioned the motives for the US Department of War's declaration that the AI company was a supply-chain risk and severing its government relationships. He had written that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attempting to spin/gaslight by claiming to support Anthropic's position while signing his own pact. This is one of the first times the supply-chain risk designation has been applied to a US company. The decision could have consequences for other businesses wanting to do business with the government. Anthropic is challenging the decision in court as it doesn't believe the action is legally sound.

AI RETROSPECTIVE, PREDICTIONS

A lot of what we knew is being destroyed before our eyes, but new opportunities are being born.

THE BRAND AGE

Brand is what's left when the substantive differences between products disappear.

US CONSIDERS REQUIRING PERMITS FOR NVIDIA, AMD GLOBAL AI CHIP SALES

Officials in the US Commerce Department have written draft regulations that could restrict AI chip shipments to anywhere in the world without American approval.

EPIC GAMES SETTLED ANTITRUST CASE TO LOCK IN GAINS WITH GOOGLE STORE WORLDWIDE

Epic took the settlement in the antitrust lawsuit with Google because it removed uncertainty and brought a quicker cut in commission fees for game developers worldwide.

SERVICES: THE NEW SOFTWARE

The next unicorn will be a software company masquerading as a services firm.

HOW DOES AI CHANGE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING?

AI is a force multiplier with high variance for engineers, but it is unclear whether this means organizations will be more productive.

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GPT‑5.4

OpenAI released GPT‑5.4 and GPT‑5.4 Pro across ChatGPT, the API, and Codex. The model combines advances in reasoning, coding, and tool use to improve performance on professional workflows involving documents, spreadsheets, and software environments.

CHATGPT USERS RESEARCH PRODUCTS BUT WON'T BUY THERE, FORCING OPENAI TO RETHINK ITS COMMERCE STRATEGY

OpenAI is pulling back from processing purchases directly inside ChatGPT and will let app partners handle transactions instead. Purchases will now go through apps integrated into ChatGPT. OpenAI first announced its checkout feature in September 2025, but hardly any merchants signed up. While people are researching products on ChatGPT, they aren't following through with purchases there. The checkout process was a hands-on process. OpenAI had to onboard each active retailer individually, and it didn't have systems to collect and remit state sales taxes.

ANTHROPIC'S COMPUTE ADVANTAGE: WHY SILICON STRATEGY IS BECOMING AN AI MOAT

Anthropic has built the most diversified and cost-efficient compute architecture among frontier labs. OpenAI remains almost entirely dependent on Nvidia, and Microsoft's internal chip program is years behind schedule. Compute advantage amplifies model advantage. Anthropic's ability to deliver equivalent model quality at 30% to 60% lower cost per token is a compounding advantage on margin, training budget, and the pace of iteration.

LABOR MARKET IMPACTS OF AI: A NEW MEASURE AND EARLY EVIDENCE

This paper by Anthropic presents a new framework for understanding AI's impact on labor markets. Its goal is to establish an approach for measuring how AI is affecting employment. The approach aims to lay the groundwork to help future studies more reliably identify economic disruption. It is possible that the impacts of AI will be unmistakable, but the framework will help identify the more ambiguous effects.

FIVE AI VALUE MODELS FOR BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

HOW GOOGLE AI UNDERSTANDS VISUAL SEARCH

Google detailed how advances in AI allow Lens and Circle to Search to identify and search multiple objects within a single image simultaneously. The update improves visual discovery by breaking down complex scenes like outfits or rooms into searchable components.

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BUILD AGENTS THAT RUN AUTOMATICALLY

Cursor Automations is a tool for building always-on agents that run on schedules or are triggered by events. Users can configure custom events with webhooks. Automated agents spin up their own cloud sandboxes and verify their own output. They have access to a memory tool that lets them learn from past runs and improve with repetition. Users can now build the factory that creates their software by configuring agents to continuously monitor and improve their codebase.

MONITORING REASONING THROUGH CHAIN‑OF‑THOUGHT SIGNALS

OpenAI studied whether reasoning models can deliberately manipulate their chain‑of‑thought to evade monitoring. Results showed current models struggle to control their reasoning traces, suggesting chain‑of‑thought monitoring remains a viable safety signal.

A DUAL-HELIX GOVERNANCE APPROACH TOWARDS RELIABLE AGENTIC AI FOR WEBGIS DEVELOPMENT

This study presents a dual-helix governance framework that addresses LLM limitations in WebGIS development by treating issues as structural governance challenges rather than reliance on model capacity alone. Implemented in the FutureShorelines WebGIS tool, this approach reduced cyclomatic complexity by 51% and improved maintainability. The open-source AgentLoom toolkit supports this framework, highlighting the importance of externalized governance in reliable geospatial engineering.

CHATGPT COMES TO EXCEL

OpenAI introduced a ChatGPT Excel add‑in powered by GPT‑5.4 that helps users build models, run scenarios, and analyze spreadsheet data directly inside workbooks.

HOW AI WILL RESHAPE PUBLIC OPINION

LLMs are a kind of anti-social media. While social media has been democratizing, epistemically diverging, engagement-optimized, and performative, LLMs are technocratizing, epistemically converging, accuracy-optimized, and polite. While that makes LLMs sound like an extremely positive development, there are many unknowns about how the technology will affect the labor market, broader economy, and the balance of power in the world. The potential uses of advanced AI in military conflicts are extremely dangerous. AI companies should be held accountable for producing harmful products, as if we rely on market forces and the profit motive alone, there is little reason to believe that the technology will benefit humanity on net.

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CAN CODING AGENTS RELICENSE OPEN SOURCE THROUGH A “CLEAN ROOM” IMPLEMENTATION OF CODE?

Coding agents rapidly create clean room code implementations, raising legal and ethical questions.

INTRODUCING MODULAR DIFFUSERS - COMPOSABLE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR DIFFUSION PIPELINES

Modular Diffusers enables diffusion pipeline creation through composable blocks, allowing users to design tailored workflows without starting from scratch.

WE RAN GPT-5.4 (XHIGH) AN ADDITIONAL TEN TIMES ON TIER 4 TO GET A PASS@10 SCORE

In one of these runs, it solved another problem no model had solved before.

BITCOIN CLIMBS THROUGH $71,000 TO ONE-MONTH HIGH

Bitcoin increased 4.49% to $71,283, marking a one-month high with a 24-hour gain of 6.65%, as ETH followed with a 5.19% advance to $2,068. Both assets rebounded after BTC shed roughly 50% from its October peak. The rally was attributed to accelerating fiat debasement concerns tied to Middle East tensions, diplomatic signals around an Iran-CIA ceasefire, and renewed speculation that the Clarity Act stablecoin legislation could advance.