AI & Technology — The Sideline

OpenAI's "Super App" Bet: ChatGPT as Your Everything App (Or a Very Expensive Pivot)

OpenAI is consolidating its product sprawl into a ChatGPT "super app" with coding tools and AI agents — but the gap between the vision and reliable execution remains embarrassingly wide.

Dispatch desk · Jun 8, 2026

Large Language Models

Notion's Anthropic Outage Was a Boring Infrastructure Hiccup—Not the Model Quality Drama the Internet Wanted

Notion briefly disabled Anthropic's Claude models after a weekend infrastructure disruption caused elevated error rates—but the real story is why the internet was so desperate for it to be something more sinister.

Dispatch desk · Jun 8, 2026

AI Safety & Policy

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AI Safety & Policy

Do Doctors Actually Want AI Writing Their Prescriptions? A Nationwide Survey Has Answers

A nationwide survey on physician attitudes toward AI-driven drug prescribing reveals that adoption hinges less on model performance and more on explainability, liability clarity, and workflow integration.

Dispatch desk · Jun 8, 2026

AI Startups

The Government Wants a Piece of OpenAI — And Both Sides of the Aisle Are Into It

The Trump administration is reportedly in talks to take an equity stake in OpenAI, while Bernie Sanders pushes a stock-based AI tax. Somehow, both sides want public ownership of AI — and the reasons why should make you nervous.

Dispatch desk · Jun 7, 2026

The 160-Year-Old Banking Law That's About to Become AI's Most Unlikely Gatekeeper

The National Bank Act of 1864—yes, the Civil War one—is the legal foundation regulators are using to govern AI at national banks, and it has more teeth than most engineers realize.

OpenAI's Lockdown Mode: A Useful Tradeoff or an Admission That Agents Are Still a Security Mess?

OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode disables web browsing, agents, and Deep Research to reduce prompt injection risks — a genuine security tradeoff that also quietly admits agentic AI has a structural vulnerability problem.

The Sideline.

OpenAI's "Super App" Bet: ChatGPT as Your Everything App (Or a Very Expensive Pivot)

Notion's Anthropic Outage Was a Boring Infrastructure Hiccup—Not the Model Quality Drama the Internet Wanted

Do Doctors Actually Want AI Writing Their Prescriptions? A Nationwide Survey Has Answers

The Government Wants a Piece of OpenAI — And Both Sides of the Aisle Are Into It

The 160-Year-Old Banking Law That's About to Become AI's Most Unlikely Gatekeeper

OpenAI's Lockdown Mode: A Useful Tradeoff or an Admission That Agents Are Still a Security Mess?

Do PhD Students Actually Trust ChatGPT? University of Phoenix Study Reveals the Uncomfortable Truth

The NSA Is Reportedly Embedding Engineers With Anthropic's Mythos — And Nobody's Talking About It

The White House Wants a Cut of AI Profits — And It's Coming Sooner Than You Think

Waymo's Dead Robotaxi Batteries Are Getting a Second Life on the Grid

Nvidia's Long Game: N2X, N3X, and the Audacious Push to Build a Star Trek Computer