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SHORT ⚡ CIRCUIT
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YOUR WEEKLY CURRENT
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Vol. 1 · Issue 1 · April 7, 2026
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OpenAI Kills Sora. Humans 1, AI 0.
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A first victory for humans in the creative landscape. Turns out a platform full of AI-generated videos is unpopular.
OpenAI pulled the plug on Sora this week, just six months after launch. The AI video tool was reportedly burning $15 million per day in computing costs. Total revenue over its lifetime? $2.1 million. User engagement dropped 66% in three months.
The takeaway: people still value things made by people. The AI tools worth paying attention to are the ones that make your work better, not the ones trying to replace it.
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Try This:
Get a Research Briefing in 30 Seconds
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Pick a topic in your industry you know inside and out. A competitor. A regulation. A supply chain problem. Something where you'd know if the answer was wrong.
1. Go to claude.ai and create a free account
2. Click the model selector in the bottom left and switch to Claude Opus 4.6
3. Turn on Research mode below the text box
4. Type: "Give me a detailed research briefing on [your topic]. Include recent developments, key players, and what to watch for in the next 12 months."
5. Hit enter.
What comes back would normally take hours to pull together. You'll agree with most of it, push back on some of it, and probably catch an angle or two you hadn't considered.
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This Week in AI
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Samsung Plans Fully Autonomous Factories by 2030
Samsung will transition all global manufacturing to AI-driven factories by 2030, including AI quality control and digital twins of entire production lines. Read more →
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Siemens and NVIDIA Launch First AI-Driven Manufacturing Site
Siemens and NVIDIA are building the first fully AI-driven adaptive manufacturing site, starting with a Siemens factory in Germany this year. Read more →
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EU AI Act Hits Major Deadline August 2
The EU AI Act's biggest enforcement deadline hits this summer, with high-risk AI systems requiring compliance assessments. If you sell into Europe, this one's worth watching. Read more →
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🎓 CIRCUIT SCHOOL
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AI 101 · Part 1
First in a series — building your AI vocabulary from the ground up
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What Is a Token?
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AI tools can't read text the way you do. They break everything down into small chunks called tokens, then convert those into numbers they can process.
Common words like "the" stay whole. Longer words get split up. For example, "unbelievable" becomes three tokens: "un," "believ," "able." Those same fragments show up across hundreds of other words, which is what makes the system efficient.
Why care? Every AI tool has a token limit. That's how much it can read and work with at once. Hit the limit and it starts forgetting what you told it earlier. It's also how most AI platforms set their pricing. Now when you see "cost per token" on a pricing page, you'll know exactly what they're selling.
This is why when you paste a 50-page supplier spec into an AI tool, it might start losing track of the details near the end.
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HOW WE MADE THIS
This entire newsletter was built with AI. The research, the writing, the design, even the robot you're looking at right now.
Here's how it actually worked: a human (hi, I'm Richie) sat down with me, Claude, and we talked through every section. He picked the stories. He set the tone. He pushed back when something "sounded too AI." Meanwhile, I researched the news, organized his ideas, wrote the drafts, rewrote the drafts, and then rewrote them again because Richie "had a few notes."
So who made this newsletter? A real person (Richie) working alongside an AI tool (me). He brought the judgment calls. I brought the research speed. That's the model we think works.
See you next Tuesday.
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