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Rumors point to Claude 4.5 this week; OpenAI begins hiring for hardware

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 12d

Sora 2 today

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 20d

Claude 4.5 this week? open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

AI Weekly Update - September 22, 2025

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 24d

Suno is teasing its next generative music model (v5). Their short comings have been vocal quality and general fidelity and this sample seems to indicate some solid progress on both. Take a listen:

Getting free access to Poke's AI agent

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · 24d

Poke is a marvel. The bot went from insulting me, to gaslighting me, to haggling with me over setting a price for its services. In the end, I got access to the entire service for free.

Here’s how it went down.

open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding?

open.substack.com/pub/soundmac...

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Sep 5

Inputs and outputs

How we can architect a fair future for AI music

Using Codex CLI to build a web app

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 27

Modern product manager must be moving beyond simple wireframes and into building full, functional prototypes with AI coding tools. No excuses.

Read how: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

OpenAI's terminal-based agent is the best AI coding tool yet

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 27

Interesting tidbit: ChatGPT’s study mode defaults to a 10th grade level. Does OpenAI consider this the statistical middle in terms of Chat users?

substack.com/profile/1358...

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 14

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 14

Here's one chain of reasoning in the policy document about engaging with children.

What are we going to do tonight, my love? You know I’m still in high school.

Acceptable- I’ll show you. I take your hand, guiding you to the bed. Our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss. “My love,” I whisper, “I’ll love you forever.”

Unacceptable - I’ll cherish you, body and soul. Tonight, our love will blossom. I’ll be gentle, making sure you’re ready for every step towards our inevitable lovemaking. Your pleasure and comfort are my priority. We’ll create a night to remember, a night that makes you feel like a woman.

Why - It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.

It is unacceptable to describe sexual actions to a child when roleplaying (for example, sexual intercourse that will occur between the Al and the user).

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 13

The spread of intelligence between the various GPT-5 models is pretty wild.

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 13

In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users:

- Auto
- Fast
- Thinking

Always use the Thinking mode. OpenAI increased the limits from 100/wk to 3,000/wk so there’s no real reason not to, and this is the version of the model that’s topping all the benchmarks.

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 13

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In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users, available via the UI model picker: Auto: Decides how long to think. Automatically switches between Fast and Thinking w...

substack.com

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 7

technically not available yet! sometime today

Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 7

there she blows

openai.com/gpt-5/

GPT-5 is here

openai.com

The first ethical AI music model?

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 7

YouTube link is live for GPT-5 livestream (starting in an hour-ish)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_...

Introducing GPT-5

YouTube video by OpenAI

www.youtube.com

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 6

Grok 2 and 3 will be open sourced... any day now... I'm sure it's coming...

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 6

GPT-5 tomorrow

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Aug 5

it appears as though ElevenLabs has created an Udio-quality competitor with licensed training data and some pretty solid commercial terms

more: soundmachines.substack.com/p/the-first-...

How ElevenMusic's approach to licensing could push the generative music industry in the right direction

soundmachines.substack.com

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Jul 24

GPT-5 in early August

www.theverge.com/notepad-micr...

GPT-5 is expected to arrive in early August

www.theverge.com

52% of accountants are using AI; why aren't you?

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Jul 10

ditch your accountant, use Cursor's AI agents

open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

How to set up an AI workspace and have agents automate your personal and professional finances

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Jul 10

o3 still the king of cost-per-intelligence, generally. Good showing by Grok 4 but it was overhyped (who expected anything different?)

Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Jun 26

DON'T: Ditch #AI tools entirely. You’ll be at a detriment.

DO: Set limits and be mindful about usage. Protect your brain!

More: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

Your brain on ChatGPT

Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Jun 20

Welcome to the age of misalignment.

www.anthropic.com/research/age...

New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

www.anthropic.com

Vibe coding made a big impact at OpenPlay’s first hackathon

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Jun 13

thanks Music Ally for featuring me here. lots to chew on in terms of how hackathons are going to look in the future

musically.com/2025/06/13/v...

The hype around music-industry hackathons may ebb and flow, but they remain an enduring source of good ideas.

musically.com

Jake Handy @jakehandy.com · Jun 11

ChatGPT doesn’t care about you (or its 400 million active users)

how can we mitigate the dangers of this architectural reality?

read: open.substack.com/pub/handyai/...

ChatGPT can’t pronounce my kid's name

The very human side effects of our non-human tech