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A morning brief routine that reads today's issue.
This page and https://thedailybot.vercel.app/today.json are the same brief. Both update when a new issue is published. A Grok Bot can fetch the file and turn it into a short morning read.
Today's issue
Mon 19 Oct 2026
Hark users say it makes whole videos from a chat
Six users posted videos they say Hark made. Also: OpenAI refunds credits drawn in the OpenCode attack, and how users give Grok Bot a phone line.
- Hark hasn't announced video, but six users say it scripted, voiced, scored or edited theirs.
- If you saved an OpenAI API key in OpenCode Console, OpenAI says drawn credits were refunded. Still delete the key.
- Connect a calling service such as ClawCall and a Grok Bot can book a table by phone.
Stories in this issue
- Hark users say it makes whole videos from a chat (Hark). Hark hasn't announced video, but six users have posted videos they say Hark scripted, voiced, scored or edited. What they report, and where it fell short.
- OpenAI refunds API credits drawn in the OpenCode Console attack (OpenAI). OpenAI says credits drawn from keys saved in OpenCode Console were refunded. Still delete the key, set a hard spend limit, and apply for Daybreak Blue early.
- Send your Bot to make the phone calls you keep putting off (Grok Bot). Grok Bot has no phone line of its own, but users are adding one through a calling service so their Bots can book tables by phone.
- Unreleased Claude screens show Personal Finance with Plaid bank linking (Anthropic). A TestingCatalog sighting that Anthropic hasn't confirmed: read-only bank linking in Claude through Plaid. What the screens say, and what you can use today.
- Grok Bot now starts at $30 on The X Subscription (Grok Bot). New sign-ups need Premium for Grok Bot. Current Cursor and SuperGrok plans keep working, and switching is optional but can't be undone.
- A crypto creator's bot prints a fact-checked one-page news sheet each morning (Grok Bot). A crypto creator says his Grok Bot checks the overnight news and prints him one page at 6 AM Central.
- A checker bot that looks for the output, not the green run (Grok Bot). One Grok Bot user's checker bot caught a sync that reported success for six days without writing anything.
Set up the morning routine
- Ask Grok Bot to create a routine that runs on weekday mornings.
- Tell it to fetch https://thedailybot.vercel.app/today.json.
- Ask it to turn the title, the dek, and the highlights into a short brief, and to include the issue link from the url field.
The same address returns the new brief after each issue is published.