AI Unplugged · by Mike Murphy · sent September 18, 2026 · Issue 076
Siri Grows Up
Apple just gave Siri the overhaul everyone's been waiting for, bringing more capable, more personal assistant features across all of its apps.
🌲 Agent Evergreen Build Log: Traveling
Traveling all week in Franklin, TN, so no build updates this time around. Evergreen’s still moving. Back at it next week with real progress to share.
- Waitlist Signups: 3
- Read the full manifesto: mikemurphy.ai/articles/agent-evergreen-manifesto
- The Founding waitlist: mikemurphy.ai/evergreen
🗞️ AI News of The Week: Apple Relaunches Siri With Real AI
Apple just gave Siri the overhaul everyone’s been waiting for, bringing more capable, more personal assistant features across all of its apps.
Why this matters:
- Apple’s finally bringing a serious AI assistant
- Personal by design
- Unlike standalone AI apps, Siri AI ships pre-installed on every iPhone
🧠 AI Term of The Week: Grounding
Definition: Linking an AI’s answers to real, verifiable source documents to make sure it tells the truth.
Explain Like I’m 5: It’s like making a student show their work and cite the textbook page instead of just guessing at the answer.
Why it matters now:
- Hallucinations are still the biggest trust problem in AI, and grounding is the main fix
- More tools now cite their sources by default, not as an afterthought
- For creators and businesses, grounded AI means fewer embarrassing made-up facts in client-facing content
💬 Quote of the Week
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
🧰 AI Tool of The Week: Jev by TypeSafe AI
Jev is TypeSafe AI’s first “System One Model,” built to make fast, reliable decisions inside software and automated workflows instead of just chatting with a human.
Why it’s interesting:
- It’s a different shape of AI model, built for machines calling machines instead of humans typing prompts
- Points to where a lot of AI infrastructure is heading
- Useful for builders who want AI judgment inside a pipeline without the overhead of a full chatbot
Real-world example: A workflow tool could call Jev to decide whether an incoming support ticket needs a human, instead of routing every ticket through a full LLM conversation.
🛠 AI Tutorial Of The Week: How To Push an Astro Site to GitHub & Deploy on Cloudflare Workers
Description: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to push an Astro site from your local computer to GitHub and deploy it automatically to Cloudflare Workers.
🤖 What You’ll Learn
- Wrangler: installing the Cloudflare CLI
- wrangler.jsonc: configuring your Cloudflare Worker
- GitHub: pushing a local Astro project to a new repo
- Cloudflare Workers & Pages: importing your GitHub repo and setting build settings
- CI/CD: auto-deploying on every GitHub push
- Custom domains: connecting your domain to Cloudflare
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