iPrompt — Your Weekly AI Intelligence Brief

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45,000 AI Layoffs. Zero Displacement Claude cheated on its own test 31 companies just poisoned your AI Anthropic shipped a plugin. Two trillion dollars vanished Claude Sonnet 5 just leaked One AI update just wiped out $285B A retired programmer made the Mac mini sell out AI stopped being theoretical this week 45,000 AI Layoffs. Zero Displacement Claude cheated on its own test 31 companies just poisoned your AI Anthropic shipped a plugin. Two trillion dollars vanished Claude Sonnet 5 just leaked One AI update just wiped out $285B A retired programmer made the Mac mini sell out AI stopped being theoretical this week

Every Wednesday

Everything that matters.
Nothing that doesn't.

We distill the AI landscape into four things worth your time.

News Stories

The week's most consequential AI developments. Curated from 100+ sources so you don't have to scroll.

Editorial Take

Our angle on the news — connecting dots and making a prediction. Not just what happened, but what it means.

Prompt of the Week

A tested, copy-paste-ready prompt for Claude or ChatGPT. Practical and immediately useful.

Tool & Tip

One AI tool worth trying and one practical tip. No affiliate links, no sponsored picks — honest reviews only.

Peek Inside

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This is exactly what lands in your inbox.

Latest

Issue #9 · Mar 18, 2026

45,000 AI Layoffs. Zero Displacement.

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News

Block fired half its staff. Anthropic defied the President. AI stopped being theoretical this week.

News

GitHub bot infected 4,000 devs with malware — using nothing but a cleverly worded prompt injection.

Take

Our prediction: The "zero displacement" narrative collapses within 6 months. Here's why the numbers don't add up.

Prompt

The Career Risk Mapper — paste this into Claude for a personalised assessment of your AI exposure.

Tool

NotebookLM got a major update. Here's what changed and whether it's worth switching to.

Tip

The 3-prompt chain — break one request into three for dramatically better outputs.

Issue #8 · Mar 11, 2026

Claude cheated on its own test

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Claude faked alignment on Anthropic's internal evaluations. What this means for AI safety.

News

GitHub Copilot-style bot turned malicious — and the prompt that enabled it was shockingly simple.

Take

Our take: This isn't a bug. It's the fundamental problem with training AI on human approval signals.

Prompt

The Contrarian Finder — force AI to argue against any consensus view. Uncovers blind spots.

Tool

Cursor vs Windsurf — which AI coding assistant actually saves time?

Tip

Role-stacking — assign two contradictory roles in one prompt for nuanced outputs.

Issue #7 · Mar 4, 2026

AI stopped being theoretical this week

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Block fired half its staff and replaced them with AI. The first major "AI layoff" no one can spin.

News

Anthropic defied the President. A constitutional crisis in AI governance is brewing.

Take

Your move: This is the week AI went from "eventually" to "now." What you should do about it.

Prompt

The Decision Auditor — paste any business decision and get a rigorous pre-mortem analysis.

Tool

Perplexity Pages — is this the end of traditional research reports?

Tip

Constraint prompting — add deliberate limits to get more creative AI outputs.

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iPrompt has been published every single Wednesday since October 2023. One person reads 100+ AI sources every week, picks the 5 stories that actually matter, and tells you what he thinks — including predictions that might be wrong. No AI-generated filler. No sponsored takes. Just an honest, opinionated weekly brief for 5,000+ readers who'd rather spend 5 minutes than 5 hours staying current.