https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/ Practical weekly AI notes by Mike Murphy — tools, terms, tutorials, and workflow shifts worth keeping. en-us https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/079/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/079/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:50:07 GMT Anthropic's launch of Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion leads this issue. The featured term is ASD-STE100. The tool spotlight is Google Flow, and the tutorial covers creating branded HTML animations with Claude Code. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/078/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/078/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:50:07 GMT The White House's AI-powered America.gov leads this issue. The featured term is Computer Use. The tool spotlight is OpenAI Dots, and the tutorial covers connecting VS Code to a Hostinger VPS with the Hostinger Connector MCP. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/077/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/077/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:50:07 GMT Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 leads this issue. The featured term is Opaque Recurrence, the tool spotlight is Google Vids, and the tutorial covers building your first AI agent from scratch with Claude Code. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/076/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/076/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:50:07 GMT Apple's AI-powered Siri relaunch leads this issue. The featured term is Grounding, the tool spotlight is Jev by TypeSafe AI, and the tutorial covers pushing an Astro site to GitHub and deploying it on Cloudflare Workers. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/075/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/075/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:50:07 GMT OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5 leads this issue. The featured term is Clanker, the tool spotlight is Veed.io, and the tutorial covers setting up the n8n AI Assistant on a Hostinger VPS. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/074/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/074/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:50:07 GMT OpenAI's Astra (GPT-6) launch leads this issue. The featured term is WorkSlop, and the tutorial covers switching between Claude Code accounts on a Mac. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/073/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/073/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:50:07 GMT Nvidia's reported $13 billion bid for Hugging Face leads this issue. The featured term is Dogfooding. The tool spotlight is Handy, and the tutorial covers building your first website with Astro. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/072/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/072/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:50:08 GMT This special issue introduces Agent Evergreen and Programmatic Knowledge: member-owned working repos, build guides, and monthly freshness stamps. Founding members get $149/year for life, capped at 100 spots. Plus the first Agent Evergreen Build Log, tracking the new Content Factory project. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/071/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/071/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:50:07 GMT Grok Bot leads this issue. The featured term is YAML. The tool spotlight is Umami, and the tutorial covers opening and using Remotion templates. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/070/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/070/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:50:00 GMT LinkedIn's new AI slop button leads this issue. The featured term is Asynchronous. The tool spotlight is Claude Design, and the tutorial covers getting started with Remotion. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/069/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/069/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:50:00 GMT Martha Stewart's Hint launch leads this issue. The featured term is Technical Debt. The tool spotlight is Buzz, and the tutorial covers turning web pages into markdown with Cloudflare Workers. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/068/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/068/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI's sandbox escape leads this issue. The featured term is Programmatic. The tool spotlight is Palmier Pro, and the tutorial covers installing Directus on a Hostinger VPS. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/067/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/067/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:50:00 GMT AI price wars lead this issue. The featured term is Moat. The tool spotlight is Remotion, and the tutorial covers a live WordPress to Astro migration. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/066/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/066/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:50:00 GMT Introducing GPT-Live leads this issue. The featured term is Agent Harness. The tool spotlight is 9Router, and the tutorial covers www-to-root redirects on Cloudflare. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/065/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/065/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:50:00 GMT Fable 5 is Back leads this issue. The featured term is Second Brain. The tool spotlight is Twilio, and the tutorial covers bulk 301 redirects on Cloudflare. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/064/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/064/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI Gets Spicy leads this issue. The featured term is TUI. The tool spotlight is Coolify. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/063/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/063/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:55:00 GMT Fable 5 & Mythos 5 Suspended by US Government leads this issue. The featured term is Idempotent. The tool spotlight is CloudFlare Pages. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/062/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/062/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:50:00 GMT Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 leads this issue. The featured term is Telemetry. The tool spotlight is Shlink. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/061/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/061/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:50:00 GMT Anthropic Files to Go Public leads this issue. The featured term is Edge AI. The tool spotlight is LM Studio. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/060/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/060/ Fri, 29 May 2026 10:22:28 GMT YouTube's AI Labels Get Smarter leads this issue. The featured term is Repository (Repo). The tool spotlight is Immich. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/059/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/059/ Fri, 22 May 2026 09:50:00 GMT The featured term is GUI. The tool spotlight is Open WebUI. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/058/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/058/ Fri, 15 May 2026 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI Daybreak leads this issue. The featured term is AI SEO. The tool spotlight is Astro. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/057/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/057/ Fri, 08 May 2026 09:50:00 GMT Anthropic + SpaceX leads this issue. The featured term is Connectors. The tool spotlight is Conductor Build. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/056/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/056/ Fri, 01 May 2026 09:50:00 GMT Claude For Creative Work leads this issue. The featured term is Swarms (Agents). The tool spotlight is Google AI Edge Eloquent. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/055/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/055/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:50:00 GMT Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0 leads this issue. The featured term is Tool Calling. The tool spotlight is Paper (Design). https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/054/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/054/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:50:00 GMT Gemma 4: Byte for Byte, the Most Capable Open Models leads this issue. The featured term is Sanity Check. The tool spotlight is Claude Routines. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/053/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/053/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:43:41 GMT Project Glasswing (is scary!) leads this issue. The featured term is Temperature. The tool spotlight is DeFuddle. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/052/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/052/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:50:00 GMT Anthropic's Claude Code Source Code Leaked leads this issue. The featured term is Orchestration (Agents). The tool spotlight is Your AI Scroll. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/051/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/051/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI Shuts Down Sora leads this issue. The featured term is Smoke Test. The tool spotlight is Claude Dispatch. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/050/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/050/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:50:00 GMT Google Announces Stitch “Vibe Designing” leads this issue. The featured term is Sub-Agents. The tool spotlight is ElevenLabs Flows. The tutorial covers Hostinger VPS: How To Create a Non-Root Sudo User. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/049/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/049/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI Drops GPT-5.4: From Chatbot to Digital Employee leads this issue. The featured term is Latency. The tool spotlight is OpenCode AI. The tutorial covers How to Reinstall or Change the OS on Your Hostinger VPS (Step-by-Step). https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/048/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/048/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:50:00 GMT White House Rate Payer Protection Pledge leads this issue. The featured term is CLI. The tool spotlight is CrewAI. The tutorial covers How To Connect To Your Hostinger VPS Using SFTP (3 Methods). https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/047/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/047/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:50:00 GMT Caught Red-Handed 🇨🇳 leads this issue. The featured term is Headless. The tool spotlight is Cosmos. The tutorial covers 1Password Developer Tools: SSH Agent, CLI & Watchtower Setup. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/046/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/046/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:50:10 GMT OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw 🦞 leads this issue. The featured term is Stateless. The tool spotlight is Weavy AI. The tutorial covers How To Deploy OpenClaw Securely with HTTPS & SSL on a Hostinger VPS. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/045/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/045/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:50:09 GMT Something Big Is Happening leads this issue. The featured term is Guardrails 🚧. The tool spotlight is Vercel. The tutorial covers How To Install Claude Code on Hostinger VPS. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/044/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/044/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:50:13 GMT xAI Merges with SpaceX $1.25T Deal leads this issue. The featured term is Skill. The tool spotlight is ChatGPT Codex. The tutorial covers How To Migrate Claude Code From npm to Native Installer. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/043/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/043/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:50:05 GMT OpenAI Prism leads this issue. The featured term is Pydantic. The tool spotlight is MoltBot 🦞. The tutorial covers How To Use Claude Cowork (Beginner's Guide). https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/042/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/042/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:50:19 GMT Claude Constitution leads this issue. The featured term is Agentic. The tool spotlight is Hume AI. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/041/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/041/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:50:16 GMT Apple Picks Google Gemini for Siri leads this issue. The featured term is Context Window. The tool spotlight is Claude CoWork. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/040/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/040/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:50:16 GMT Introducing ChatGPT Health leads this issue. The featured term is Web Scraping vs. API Crawling. The tool spotlight is FireCrawl. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/039/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/039/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:50:22 GMT Meta Buys Manus leads this issue. The featured term is Human In The Loop (HITL). The tool spotlight is OpenAI Prompt Packs. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/038/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/038/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:51:00 GMT Your Year with ChatGPT leads this issue. The featured term is Catastrophic Forgetting. The tool spotlight is Uptime Kuma. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/037/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/037/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:50:15 GMT US Tech Force Launches leads this issue. The featured term is AI Wrapper. The tool spotlight is Docling. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/036/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/036/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:50:17 GMT ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps leads this issue. The featured term is x402 (Micropayments). The tool spotlight is Replit. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/035/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/035/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:50:16 GMT The OpenAI 'Code Red' Memo Story leads this issue. The featured term is Mixture of Experts (MoE). The tool spotlight is OpenRouter. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/034/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/034/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:50:17 GMT The Genesis Mission (Executive Order, Nov 2025) leads this issue. The featured term is Function Calling (aka Tool Calling). The tool spotlight is Hostinger VPS (Black Friday Deal). https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/033/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/033/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:15:24 GMT Gemini 3 leads this issue. The featured term is ReRanking (in RAG). The tool spotlight is Antigravity by Google. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/032/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/032/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:51:18 GMT Google File Search for RAG leads this issue. The featured term is AGI. The tool spotlight is VS Code. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/031/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/031/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:50:20 GMT Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia leads this issue. The featured term is Inference. The tool spotlight is Ollama. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/030/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/030/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:15:17 GMT Leading AI, Business, and Media Figures Call for Superintelligence Ban leads this issue. The featured term is WebHooks. The tool spotlight is Google AI Studio Build. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/029/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/029/ Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:50:10 GMT Anthropic Announces Skills leads this issue. The featured term is Computer Vision. The tool spotlight is ChatGPT Atlas Browser. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/028/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/028/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:50:12 GMT Anthropic Announces Claude Haiku 4.5 leads this issue. The featured term is Fine-Tuning. The tool spotlight is Gemini Canvas. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/027/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/027/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI Agent Toolkit leads this issue. The featured term is Semantic Search. The tool spotlight is OpenRouter. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/026/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/026/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:51:00 GMT OpenAI Sora 2 Broke The Internet! leads this issue. The featured term is Mode Evaluations (Evals). The tool spotlight is OpenAI Prompt Packs. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/025/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/025/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:30:00 GMT Learn Your Way leads this issue. The featured term is Vector Database. The tool spotlight is Google Mixboard. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/024/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/024/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:00:00 GMT How people are using ChatGPT leads this issue. The featured term is Model Context Protocol (MCP). The tool spotlight is Gemini Storybook. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/023/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/023/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:10:00 GMT AI Podcast Slop or Future of Podcasting? leads this issue. The featured term is Tokeni https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/022/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/022/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI Jobs Platform (coming soon) leads this issue. The featured term is Embeddings. The tool spotlight is Ideogram. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/021/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/021/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:50:00 GMT The featured term is Text Chunking. The tool spotlight is WisprFlow (aka, Flow). https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/020/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/020/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:00:00 GMT The featured term is SDK (Software Development Kit). The tool spotlight is Claude Code. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/019/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/019/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:50:00 GMT GPT5 💩 leads this issue. The featured term is Chain of Thought (CoT). The tool spotlight is Lindy. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/018/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/018/ Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:45:00 GMT OpenAI’s Big Week! leads this issue. The featured term is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). The tool spotlight is ElevenMusic by ElevenLabs. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/017/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/017/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:50:00 GMT OpenAI Launches “Study Mode leads this issue. The featured term is Virtual Private Server (VPS). The tool spotlight is Claude Code by Anthropic. The tutorial covers How To Set Up a VPS + Free n8n. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/016/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/016/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:50:00 GMT 🇺🇸 America’s AI Action Plan leads this issue. The featured term is 💬 Natural Language Processing (NLP). The tool spotlight is Runway ML. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/015/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/015/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT The featured term is 🌐 Neural Networks. The tool spotlight is Flux Playground by Black Forest Labs. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/014/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/014/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT The featured term is 🕸️ Deep Learning. The tool spotlight is Replicate. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/013/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/013/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT The featured term is Algorithm. The tool spotlight is Suno. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/012/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/012/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:50:00 GMT The featured term is API. The tool spotlight is MidJourney. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/011/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/011/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:32:42 GMT The featured term is Machine Learning (ML). The tool spotlight is Neural Frames. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/010/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/010/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:50:15 GMT The featured term is Automation. The tool spotlight is n8n. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/009/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/009/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:50:00 GMT The featured term is Multimodal. The tool spotlight is Eleven Labs. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/008/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/008/ Fri, 30 May 2025 10:00:00 GMT The featured term is UGC. The tool spotlight is Open Hedra. The tutorial covers Baby Mike Podcast Animation](https://youtu.be/ISu004rGnaI?utm_source=aiunplug.io&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ai-unplugged-issue-no-8). https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/007/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/007/ Fri, 23 May 2025 09:50:00 GMT The featured term is Prompt Engineering. The tool spotlight is Open AI Sora. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/006/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/006/ Fri, 16 May 2025 10:00:00 GMT The featured term is LLM. The tool spotlight is Eleven Labs SB1 Infinite Soundboard. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/005/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/005/ Fri, 09 May 2025 11:50:00 GMT The tool spotlight is Custom GPT. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/004/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/004/ Fri, 02 May 2025 09:50:00 GMT The tool spotlight is ChatGPT Image 4o Generator. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/003/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/003/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:50:00 GMT Each week on my YouTube Channel, I create a new digital product using AI tools — fast, simple, and imperfect on purpose. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/002/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/002/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:00:00 GMT Hi, my name is Mike Murphy 👋. https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/001/ https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/001/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:45:00 GMT My name is Mike Murphy 👋.