This week: Understanding ChatGPT Work
August 31, 2026
Simon Willison
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since.
Not every AI story is for everyone. This one felt like it belonged in front of people trying to learn.
DeepLearning.AI (YouTube)
"Spec-driven development and local AI are a natural pair." — read it for the practical angle, not the hype.
Hugging Face Blog
Worth 3 minutes: "The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language". Sometimes the most useful things aren't the loudest headlines.
HN — Tools to try
Every useful AI tool started as something someone wasn't sure they needed. Worth a look.
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Google’s Mueller Shares Their Experience With Markdown For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google's John Mueller shares what happened when he checked whether AI crawlers were actually asking his sites for markdown. The post Google’s Mueller Shares Their Experience With Markdown For AI SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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