Paywall, but I get the general idea.

Doctor Google wasn't particularly good. But Doctor ChatGPT 5 is pretty good. Doctor Openweight is going to be really good in 5 years.

Mostly I think of that as a positive story - we do not have a surplus of primary care physicians and likely never will. Dermatologists on the other hand...

Buyers continue to retreat from the housing market
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/buyers-continue-to-retreat-from-the-housing-market-081926.html

^{I represent that remark}

AI's shadow medical system| STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/ai-doctor-outperforms-chatgpt-oura-quest-ro-hims-medical-system/

Here's something to make you smile

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/SXZM77OqoIw?ra=m

And the backstory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=znNnFQYAM_w&ra=m

^{Looks like Debbie may have guessed right on this one --buckled under the heat.}
Lewes derailment: images show track defect before incident on hottest day
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/19/lewes-derailment-network-rail-gtr-images-track-defect-before-incident

My SIL is a recently retired realtor. In her last years, it was hard for a buyer to find a realtor. There were so many buyers and so few sellers the whole game was finding sellers.

When she retired, she looked for a realtor to take over some sellers and nobody would touch it.

Exclusive | OpenAI's Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared With Anthropic - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-second-quarter-sales-show-tepid-growth-compared-with-anthropic-5cb42998?mod=rss_Technology

Handshake AI Will Pay up to $30K for Work Documents You Own - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/handshake-ai-pay-30k-work-documents-compliance-ownership-2026-8

AI optimism fades as young adults worry about jobs
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/young-adults-ai-job-loss

That is cool, but in addition it led me to look up that header image and where it came from.

This is an amazing piece of art/historical reconstruction (including his guess at how that Warwolf trebuchet looked). The video is worth a watch

https://bobmarshall.co.uk/stirlingcastle/

> Fired One
"workers hired by Claude to work in the San Francisco store are real people with genuine employment contracts."

This is the "reverse centaur" pattern that Cory Doctorow rails about. AI was supposed to free us from drudgery by being the powerful draft animal attached to our human head, but instead humans in this case are the draft animals attached to the AI head.

That is scarier, but it's also just a little bit funny...