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Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 10,253 new readers. AI has a trust problem, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei doesn’t think a marketing campaign can fix it.<\/p>\n

Amodei just made a rare X appearance to answer claims that his AI safety talk is backfiring, framing the warnings as honesty rather than doom and pitching real breakthroughs in areas like medicine as the only route back for public opinion.<\/p>\n

P.S. \u2014 We\u2019re hiring for seven open roles at The Rundown! Click here<\/a> to view the positions, apply, or refer the best person you know.<\/p>\n

Dario Amodei logs on to answer the critics<\/p>\n

The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases<\/p>\n

Hand off real work across apps with Grok Bot<\/p>\n

Doctor solves 22-year math problem with ChatGPT<\/p>\n

ANTHROPIC<\/p>\n

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Image source: X \/ Images 2.0 <\/p>\n

The Rundown: Anthropic\u2019s CEO Dario Amodei just chimed<\/a> in on investor Gavin Baker\u2019s X conversation with coworker Sholto Douglas, rejecting that his safety alarms have backfired and saying the only way AI wins trust back is by \u201cactually curing cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baker shared<\/a> a rumor that Amodei envisions Anthropic one day becoming \u201cthe only private company in the world\u201d, with Douglas calling it \u201ccompletely false\u201d. <\/p>\n

Baker also argued Dario “has lost the argument” on AI rules and warned his risk talk is giving ammunition to anti-data-center campaigns in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Amodei called locking down AI vs. spreading it wide via open models a \u201cfalse choice\u201d, saying Anthropic\u2019s proposals slow big labs and spare small ones.<\/p>\n

He also pushed back<\/a> on owning AI\u2019s negative image, saying “early glimmers\u201d from biology and medicine work will shift sentiment more than marketing could.<\/p>\n

Why it matters: Dario barely ever posts, so it\u2019s noteworthy to see him jump in to defend both himself and the company, whose vibes in the AI world have taken some serious PR lumps lately. His reply lands on a trust issue that he sees no lab is marketing its way out of it, and in his view, only real medical breakthroughs can turn the tide.<\/p>\n

TOGETHER WITH MEMOKET<\/p>\n

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The Rundown: Memoket Gem is the lightest AI wristband on the market \u2014 a 0.4 oz wearable that records your conversations with one press and turns them into instant summaries, action items, and full context across every off-screen meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Memoket Gem, you get:<\/p>\n

Hands-free capture as a wristband, Apple Watch clip, or pendant<\/p>\n

One connected memory across conversations instead of 100 meeting notes<\/p>\n

Seamless sync with ChatGPT, Claude, Google Calendar, and Notion<\/p>\n

AI agents with full context from your real-life conversations via MCP\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pre-Order is open<\/a> \u2014 get the device, your choice of accessory, and a free year of the app.<\/p>\n

THE RUNDOWN ROUNDTABLE<\/p>\n

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Image source: Rishi @ The Rundown<\/p>\n

The Rundown: The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature where we poll members of The Rundown staff about how we use AI in our work and daily lives.<\/p>\n

Rishi, Growth: I use<\/a> Claude Cowork and Meta MCP to map my existing ad creative data and find winning combinations.<\/p>\n

I connect Cowork to Meta MCP and Google Drive, and place the brief for every ad I published in the last 365 days into one Drive folder that includes the script, format, offer, and persona it was written for. I then prompt Claude to work through the folder and build a spreadsheet that tags each ad by those attributes, have it pull each ad\u2019s spend and CPA through Meta, and turn the spreadsheet into a flowchart.<\/p>\n

Once the data is mapped, I can identify one concept that wins more often than the others, has absorbed more spend, and still maintains an efficient CPA. That is the winning concept, and it is where I should focus 60% to 80% of my production time.<\/p>\n

Shubham, Editor: My car recently lost a small part near the bonnet. I didn\u2019t know what it was called, and even the official workshop couldn\u2019t help because the model was no longer in production.<\/p>\n

I gave ChatGPT my car details and a photo showing where the part was missing. It identified<\/a> the part, helped me cross-check the specifications and compatible part numbers, and found sellers that had it available. I found the right part and had it delivered within a week.<\/p>\n

AI TRAINING<\/p>\n

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The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to turn Grok Bot into a focused team that works across your apps, including how to set it up, which agents to create, and how to create routines to complete work while you sleep.<\/p>\n

Download Grok Bot<\/a>, sign in with Cursor, and start the seven-day trial. Create your first Chief of Staff bot, and keep the workspace focused on one project<\/p>\n

Next, connect the apps (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Notion, etc.) you want your Grok Bot to use<\/p>\n

Ask: \u201cReview my connections, build a profile of my workstreams\/projects, and suggest the three most useful agents, automations, and plugins I should add\u201d <\/p>\n

Now tell the Chief of Staff to build its first deliverable or report for you<\/p>\n

Pro tip:\u00a0Tell the Chief of Staff to set up a daily debrief routine for each Grok Bot so you can see what they worked on. Then use the\u00a0full video guide<\/a>\u00a0to build the setup.<\/p>\n

PRESENTED BY SANDBOXAQ<\/p>\n

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The Rundown: Flint AI’s open-source CLI helps engineering teams prove their AI agents are reliable before they ship. Find every agent in your codebase, then red-team each one for jailbreaks and data leakage. Make AI earn it.<\/p>\n

flintai scan finds every agent in your codebase<\/p>\n

flintai eval red-teams before ship<\/p>\n

Score reliability before deploying<\/p>\n

AI & MATH<\/p>\n

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Image source: Alextownsend.net<\/p>\n

The Rundown: Beijing neurosurgery resident Shanmu Jin proved<\/a> Crouzeix\u2019s Conjecture, a matrix problem unsolved since 2004, with GPT-5.6 Sol surfacing the result after a 16-hour autonomous session in ChatGPT Work.<\/p>\n

Jin reached the problem through brain-ultrasound research, teaching himself advanced math after undergraduate geology and medical training.<\/p>\n

His setup denied the model internet access and used swarms of subagents against each other, a recipe borrowed from one of OpenAI’s math prompts.<\/p>\n

Formal peer review is pending, but Cornell\u2019s Alex Townsend, Anne Greenbaum, and the problem\u2019s own author have all verified<\/a> the proof. <\/p>\n

Why it matters: Math is having a wild AI summer, and it’s not only the field’s own experts landing the breakthroughs. That might sting for professional mathematicians, but their role is shifting rather than shrinking. When a proof can come from anyone with a ChatGPT subscription, verifying it ends up becoming a scarce, in-demand skill.<\/p>\n

COMMUNITY AI WORKFLOW OF THE DAY<\/p>\n

\u201cI teach and direct a general education public speaking class. I’ve built the course around critical inquiry, critical thinking, and public advocacy of a localized problem.<\/p>\n

With ChatGPT, I built an AI tool. It begins with a general question: ‘what is your topic and what is the problem?’ Students respond with a one-word answer, such as ‘poverty,’ ‘crime,’ or ‘the high cost of education.’ The AI pushes back on these. It consistently asks, ‘what do you mean by x?’<\/p>\n

The AI does not create speeches, outlines, or find sources for students. Instead, it asks questions that help them refine the direction of their speeches. Whenever possible, the AI also identifies alternative viewpoints from sources traditionally associated with the student’s own perspective. This helps students recognize that people on the same political, religious, or ideological side do not always agree on every topic.\u201d<\/p>\n

See Patrick\u2019s workflow here<\/a>. How do you use AI? Tell us<\/a> for a chance to be featured.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude80 GLM-5.3<\/a> – Z AI\u2019s open model with strong coding, agentic, cyber capabilities<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd0a Pika Audio<\/a> – Pika\u2019s audio models spanning music, speech, SFX, soundtracks<\/p>\n

\u26a1\ufe0f Gemini Flash 3.7<\/a> – Google\u2019s new fast, cheap and capable mid-class model<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Z AI rolled out<\/a> GLM-5.3, claiming the strongest open-source coding model and top scores on certain cyber benchmarks, with weights coming in two weeks.<\/p>\n

OpenAI introduced<\/a> Computer History, a new opt-in feature that logs clicks and typing to give ChatGPT and Codex a memory of recent work.<\/p>\n

The Information reported<\/a> on Dario Amodei\u2019s wife Cami Clark, including her past ventures and an attempt to secure Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s backing for an adult film company.<\/p>\n

Pika Labs released<\/a> four AI audio models covering soundtracks, music, sound effects, and speech, with the startup claiming the family runs up to 20x cheaper than its rivals. <\/p>\n

Anthropic shared<\/a> more details on Claude watermarking plans, saying the marks add no cost or hidden characters, and won\u2019t carry any info traceable to users\/organizations.<\/p>\n

That’s it for today!<\/p>\n

Before you go we\u2019d love to know what you thought of today’s newsletter to help us improve The Rundown experience for you.<\/p>\n

Rowan, Zach, Shubham, Jennifer, and Nate \u2014 the humans behind The Rundown<\/p>\n

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