I caught ChatGPT trying to improve a sentence that I'd written. It suggested replacing "That is what I'm still thinking about" with "That's what I'm still thinking about." There was just one problem: I'd written "That's." So I called ChatGPT on it: "Hold on. That's not what I wrote. Where did you get that?" We talked it through and realized what had happened. It wasn't looking at my sentence. It was mentally carrying over an earlier version of the conversation. It wasn't a big deal. I didn't think that AI was broken. I was really just curious how ChatGPT came up with the word that didn't exist. It struck me how differently a lot of people treat AI compared to humans. If a coworker made the same mistake, we wouldn't declare them unreliable and not fit to work with forever. We'd just ask them to hold on a minute so we could figure out where the mistake happened. People work through a misunderstanding and move on. What's funny is that the same conversation that contained the mistake also had some of the best insights. Correcting one mistake doesn't mean losing confidence in either AI or a person. I'm not right all the time, and I'm comfortable with that. Maybe AI deserves the same space to be wrong sometimes. It gives us room to question, think, and collaborate.

Anthropic announced that it's embedding a watermark in all of the text it creates. This is cleverly woven into the text so it's not visible to a human. If you've been using Claude to write and distribute text for you, be aware that it now includes a permanent footprint. If you're copying and pasting even some of what Claude has written, you might want to consider typing it yourself instead. It seems likely that platforms that are pushing back on AI-generated content now have a clearer way to detect it. https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

How many times have you heard someone ask, “Are you using AI?”. I’ve asked that question many times, and I realize now that’s not the right question to ask. The question should be "How have the apps you've been using for years changed since you first decided to buy them?". Take QuickBooks for example. We originally bought it to do accounting, and it did the job well. Then Intuit decided to load it up with AI features. What this means is that permissions, who has access, who can do what, what capabilities we allow, are all ongoing decisions about how QuickBooks is managed in our business. New app capabilities create new human decisions. AI might have shown up in our business before we decided how we're going to "use AI'. The QuickBooks you originally bought has given itself new jobs to do. It's worthwhile to see how these new roles fit into your business.

A few months ago, someone who isn't an accountant built the world's first AI accountancy firm. Eleven AI "colleagues". Each with a name, a job title, and a workstream. And a managing partner called Grace Ledger. I sat down with Alexis Kingsbury ... the man behind it, and author of the number one Amazon bestseller Accrual Intentions ... to find out what actually happened. It's not a story about AI replacing accountants. It's far more useful than that. In the conversation we get into: - What "agentic AI" really means, and why it changed everything in 2026 - How his AI team built 108 files in 8 minutes ... and where that went badly wrong - The moment the AI confidently pushed him to take paying clients with no AML registration - Why you should never let AI do your calculations, and what to do instead - Why confident, beautifully presented AI errors are harder to spot than a junior's - What this all means for junior roles and the future of the profession My honest take ... this was one of the most eye-opening chats I've had all year. Alexis is refreshingly straight about where AI is brilliant and where it's genuinely dangerous. 👉 The recording is here (Please help support the YouTube channel by Liking the video and subscribing). Have a watch, then tell me in the comments ... would you ever let AI loose on your own year-end accounts? 👇

According to ChatGPT's SaaS Terms Watch Agent, Intuit has made changes to Intuit Intelligence that you should be aware of. I've attached the summary from ChatGPT. This is the complete Intuit blog announcement. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/product-update/intuit-intelligence-new-features/