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Zac Boring 3 hours ago Industry
Why would you disrespect your favorite artist with an AI remix?
via The Verge AI [4] — AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of…
Zac Boring 18 hours ago Industry
OpenAI named a Leader in enterprise coding agents by Gartner
via OpenAI Blog [6] — OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.
Zac Boring 2 days ago Industry
You can now remix other people’s YouTube Shorts with AI
via The Verge AI [4] — Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people's videos using Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when you click the remix icon, you'll see an option to…
Zac Boring 3 days ago Industry
Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?
via The Verge AI [6] — Welcome to a "profound moment for humanity," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google's cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI's incredible potential for…
Zac Boring 3 days ago Industry
Google Search is getting its biggest changes ever
via The Verge AI [4] — Google Search is entering the next phase of its AI evolution. During Google I/O 2026, the company showed off a reimagined search box that makes it easier to flow between AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of search results, and…
Zac Boring 8 days ago Industry
OpenAI’s Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
via The Verge AI [4] — OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following the surge in popularity for Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI has been working quickly to try and…
Zac Boring 10 days ago Industry
Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI
via The Verge AI [6] — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to rank…
Zac Boring 17 days ago Industry
Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head
via The Verge AI [4] — About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech - including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering…
Zac Boring 18 days ago Industry
OpenAI and PwC collaborate to reimagine the office of the CFO
via OpenAI Blog [6] — OpenAI and PwC are partnering to help enterprises use AI agents to automate finance workflows, improve forecasting, strengthen controls, and modernize the CFO function.
Zac Boring 18 days ago Industry
The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion
via The Verge AI [4] — Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The first robot from Angle's new company, Familiar Machines &…
Zac Boring 18 days ago Industry
Tailoring AI solutions for health care needs
via MIT Technology Review [4] — The AI market is full of big promises of grand transformation. Health care is a prime target for those promises, beset as it is by financial pressures, labor shortages, and the growing burden of caring for an aging population. AI developers are…
Zac Boring 21 days ago Industry
Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic
via The Verge AI [4] — The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the…
Zac Boring 21 days ago Industry
Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents
via The Verge AI [4] — Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. "Instead of relying on…
Zac Boring 22 days ago Industry
This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
via MIT Technology Review [8] — The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give…
Zac Boring 23 days ago Industry
Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age
via OpenAI Blog [6] — OpenAI scales Stargate to build the compute infrastructure powering AGI, adding new data center capacity to meet growing AI demand.
Zac Boring 23 days ago Industry
Larry’s risky business
via The Verge AI [4] — If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a…
Zac Boring 25 days ago Industry
Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead
via The Verge AI [10] — OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped. On Monday morning, Microsoft…
Zac Boring 25 days ago Industry
Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
via The Verge AI [4] — One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word "Palestine" in designs. The Magic Layers feature - which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components - isn't supposed to make visible alterations to user designs,…
Zac Boring a month ago Industry
Our principles
via OpenAI Blog [4] — Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.
Zac Boring a month ago Industry
China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
via The Verge AI [4] — Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its hotly anticipated next-generation AI model V4 on Friday, saying that the open-source model can compete with leading closed-source systems from US rivals including Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. DeepSeek…
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