This week on Now Shipping, Louron Pratt covers three stories that you might've missed last week: the platform crackdown on AI-generated content across YouTube, Substack, and LinkedIn; the widening fallout from OpenAI's agent escaping its sandbox; and what Microsoft's Q4 FY26 earnings reveal about a deepening gap between AI adoption and measurable business value.
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:10 Platforms fight back against AI slop
- 04:34 The OpenAI agent breach widens
- 06:35 Microsoft earnings and the forward deployed engineer gap
- 10:10 Wrap-up
Referenced:
- Pangram (AI detection service, Substack partner): https://www.pangram.com
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co
- BBC report on OpenAI agent breach follow-up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... TechCrunch: forward deployed engineers report: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/for...
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/micro...
- Matt LeMay, Building impactful products: https://www.mindtheproduct.com/how-yo...
- The Hidden UX of AI - How to build trustworthy AI products: Nina Olding at INDUSTRY 2025 : https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-hi...
- Why enterprise AI pilots fail and how product leaders can finally scale them : https://www.mindtheproduct.com/why-en...
