AI Trust Crisis & the AIjacking Threat

"ChatGPT Atlas: Because your browser history wasn't awkward enough without AI taking notes"

Hello Builders!

OpenAI is teaching ChatGPT to remember your entire browsing history (what could go wrong?), and someone's giving away paid courses to 2000 lucky developers who act fast.

I sifted through 40 things today and found the gems: ChatGPT's new Atlas memory feature that actually sounds useful, the wild HVAC vs chips data center economics, and a rare chance to grab some free premium courses.

Let's dive in.

ICYMI, OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Atlas last week, and it's basically giving ChatGPT a working memory of your browser life. It remembers your searches, tabs, and past questions to give you better answers. Plus you can boss it around to open, close, or pull up tabs on command.

I'm already imagining the privacy discourse heating up. "Hey ChatGPT, remember that embarrassing Stack Overflow question I asked at 2am?" Yeah, maybe some things shouldn't have perfect recall.

The real test will be whether it actually makes answers more accurate or just creates a new layer of "AI confidently wrong, but with more context."

awesome-skills - A curated directory of skills for AI agents. Finally, someone's organizing the chaos of what agents can actually do.

Vibe coding in Google AI Studio - Google officially embracing "vibe coding" as a term. We've reached peak AI marketing nonsense.

Google Gemini's latest drops - Veo 3.1 video creation, Canvas slide generation, and Google TV recommendations. The usual Google kitchen sink approach.

MiniMax open-sources M2 model - 8% of Claude Sonnet's price, 2x faster, code-native. Free API access while it lasts—grab it before the VC money runs out.

Facing The Threat of AIjacking - AI agents are getting hijacked and your traditional security stack is useless against it. Time to rethink your defenses.

Top 7 Python Package Managers - Because pip is fine until it isn't. A practical guide to package managers that won't make you want to throw your laptop.

Free courses for first 2000 people - Social media marketing, WordPress, SEO, and more. Classic growth hack but hey, free courses are free courses.

Vibecoding million-dollar apps - Pat Walls teams up to share the full playbook. "Vibecode" is what we're calling "build stuff fast" now, apparently.

AI Session Memory: How Far Before Privacy Breaks? - AI that remembers everything you've ever said to it. Cool feature or dystopian nightmare? Spoiler: it's both.

The Model Context Protocol Registry - MCP is getting a registry for server discovery. Standardization in the wild west of AI tooling is quietly important.

AI tools as entertainment, not just productivity - Justine Moore nails it: people use AI creative tools like hobbies. Not everything needs an ROI spreadsheet, folks.

Perplexity as a research assistant - Workflow handles 70% of research and business analysis. Thread includes copy-paste prompts if you're into that sort of thing.

Collaborative digital garden built with v0 - Anyone can add flowers to this internet garden. Wholesome corner of the web, surprisingly not overrun by trolls yet.

I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for - The backlash is real. Every app now has an AI button nobody wants. 219 HN commenters nodding in agreement.

AI escape velocity is here - Hot take: AI is now self-propagating with no limits. Bold claim, but the acceleration is undeniable at this point.

Vibe coded my own chess website this year while unemployed - Developer built an entire chess site while job hunting, switching from Cursor to Kilo Code when rate limits hit. Sometimes the best projects happen between gigs.

Sora app's hyperreal AI videos ignite online trust crisis as downloads surge - Hyperreal AI videos are so good people can't tell what's real anymore. Welcome to the trust apocalypse, folks.

OpenAI's 70% consumer revenue explains the browser - Despite massive API usage, consumers drive most revenue. Browser launch makes way more sense when you see the numbers.

One more thing... I've been tracking this for months, and I'm calling it now: the next wave of breakout products won't come from AI features bolted onto existing tools. They'll come from solving the boring problems AI creates—like managing 47 different API keys or figuring out which model actually understood your prompt. The unsexy stuff always wins.

So what are you building right now? Not the polished pitch version—I mean the messy v0.1 that you're almost embarrassed to show people.

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you're procrastinating on launching because you want to add "just one more feature," I dare you to ship today with a big "BETA" label slapped on it. Nobody expects perfection from a beta, and you'll learn more in 48 hours than in 2 months of solo building. Trust me on this one.