Jonathan Salmon
The AI Signal

Archive

Every edition of the daily briefing — five stories from a short list of sources I actually read, each with my take. 1 edition(s) and counting.

2026-09-16
MIT Technology Review

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

My take: When vendors start selling fear alongside their products, ask who profits from the alarm. Leaders should price AI risk like any other enterprise risk — with evidence, not vibes.

OpenAI

How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust

My take: Trust is the product feature here, not the model. If your people won’t trust an AI with their calendar, capability doesn’t matter — adoption is a trust problem first.

Simon Willison’s blog

The contagion of fear

My take: Cantrill’s point is a leadership one: experts hold the public’s trust implicitly, so alarmist claims carry a burden of proof. Inside a company it’s the same — leaders who cry wolf on AI risk or AI magic lose the room.

Simon Willison’s blog

We are all product engineers now

My take: The scarce skill was never typing code — it’s knowing what’s worth building and defining it precisely. If your org still rewards output over judgment, AI made your engineers cheaper without making your products better.

OpenAI

Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems

My take: End-to-end means the AI owns the whole workflow, not one step. The trust bar for that is a completely different bar — it’s an operations and governance problem, not a demo.

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