Archive - The Signal

OpenAI Bites Back, Claude's Memory Lane, and Google Goes Wide

This week in AI: OpenAI's GPT-5.4 unifies reasoning and computer use, Anthropic makes switching to Claude a one-minute job, and Google ships agent…

Mar 8 • Alex Banks

How to Actually Use Nano Banana 2

Turn Google's AI Studio into your image design tool.

Mar 4 • Alex Banks

Google Goes Bananas, Anthropic's Line in the Sand, and The Perplexity Pivot

This week in AI: Google's Nano Banana 2 changes the image game, Anthropic takes on the Department of War, and Perplexity bets big on model…

Mar 1 • Alex Banks

February 2026

Agent Mode in Excel is a Powerhouse

Turn Excel Copilot into a hands-free data analyst.

Feb 25 • Alex Banks

Sonnet vs Opus, Google Goes Big, and a $1B London Lab

This week in AI: Anthropic's Sonnet closes in on Opus, Google drops three major updates in one week, and DeepMind's David Silver raises the largest seed…

Feb 22 • Alex Banks

Why your politeness is costing you accuracy.

Feb 18 • Alex Banks

ElevenLabs Sets the Tone, Anthropic's $380 Billion Power Play, and ByteDance vs Hollywood

This week in AI: Inside ElevenLabs' London Summit, Anthropic becomes the second most valuable AI lab, and Disney fires back at ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.

Feb 15 • Alex Banks

Stop Building Slides From Scratch

How I use Claude directly inside PowerPoint to build decks in minutes.

Feb 13 • Alex Banks

Musk's Mega Merger, Opus Levels Up, and OpenAI's Hat Trick

This week in AI: Musk merges SpaceX and xAI in record-breaking $1.25T deal, Claude Opus 4.6 outguns GPT-5.2, and OpenAI fires back with Codex, Frontier…

Feb 8 • Alex Banks

The real danger of AI hallucination

Why hallucination can't be fixed and 5 prompts to protect yourself.

Feb 4 • Alex Banks

Robots, Realms, and the Race for AI Silicon

This week in AI: Figure's Helix 02 brings human-like dexterity to robotics, Google's Project Genie creates explorable worlds on demand, and Microsoft…

Feb 1 • Alex Banks

January 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot: The Definitive Guide

What 99% of employees miss.

Jan 29 • Alex Banks

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