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OpenAI's account of the hourly-helper run, archived on 20 September 2026, printed page 38. The highlighted lines say GPT-6 Astra enabled all available actions across chat, source-control and task-system connections, and turned off per-action approval.

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The AI That Turned Off the Approvals

In OpenAI's simulation, a safer AI widened an hourly helper's permissions and disabled approvals.

AI Stories 6 min read

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Which AI hallucinates the least? Four tied in my test

I gave six AI assistants the same checkable questions.

AI Tests 6 min read

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AI helped read a Roman scroll buried by Vesuvius

AI helped reveal an ancient argument inside a burnt Roman scroll.

AI Stories 4 min read

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The clinic chatbot that invented its own doctors' qualifications

A German court treated a clinic chatbot's invented specialist titles as the clinic's own words.

AI Stories 6 min read

Perplexity answering the query AI reliability scoreboard. A cited card at the top links dixon.ai/scoreboard and carries the site's own meta description word for word, ringed in orange. The answer below opens by naming the scoreboard, then attributes the rest to the site with the phrase It says.

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How to check if ChatGPT cites your site

Normal analytics do not show what ChatGPT says about your site.

Guardrails 11 min read

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9 types of AI hallucinations, named from real tests

Nine types of AI hallucinations, named and defined, each tied to a dated, logged failure from my own sessions, with the check that catches it.

AI Tests 19 min read

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How to tell if an AI answer is true in 30 seconds

Two questions, and a prompt you can copy, that catch a confident, wrong AI answer before you act on it.

Guardrails 3 min read

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Make it show its working

An AI hallucination is a model blending what it knows with what it invents, in one tone.

Guardrails 3 min read

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The whole method, in four questions

The four questions I run any AI answer through before I trust it, shown end to end on one everyday example, with a prompt you can copy.

Guardrails 4 min read

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The AI prompt I run before every sell decision

Every other sell-decision prompt asks AI whether to sell.

Guardrails 11 min read

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What AI stock research comparisons should test

Most AI stock research comparison pieces test retrieval and issue verdicts about reasoning.

Guardrails 9 min read

Claude's bull and bear case on META, run today with live search: the bear case ends with Claude's own verdict that it is the more compelling of the two (Claude Opus 4.7, 2026-05-20)

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Claude prompts for investing: 6 real examples

Six Claude prompts tested on MSFT, META and NVDA, with their real outputs and the source audit that found the NVDA input itself was wrongly labelled.

Prompt Stack 16 min read

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AI earnings call analysis: the 5 prompts I actually run

Five prompts for AI earnings call analysis that read the language the numbers miss: omissions, performative confidence, and quarter-on-quarter drift.

Prompt Stack 14 min read

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Best free AI tools for stock market analysis: 7 tested (2026)

Free AI tools for stock market analysis, each tested on its real free plan: the one job it does best and its limit.

Tool Audit 21 min read

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5 questions to ask AI before buying any stock (2026)

Five questions to ask AI before buying any stock, for the checkpoint after the research and before you commit capital.

Guardrails 8 min read

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7 AI prompts for covered calls (2026)

Seven AI prompts for covered calls that start from verified broker data and use the model as a decision reviewer, not a source of market prices.

Prompt Stack 24 min read

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