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AI

AI Summary

  • OpenAI has been actively expanding its partnerships across various industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, and media, to integrate its AI models into diverse business operations and product offerings.
  • The company continues to prioritize safety and responsible development, introducing new safety features, research into AI alignment, and policies to disrupt malicious uses of AI.
  • There's a significant focus on enhancing agentic capabilities and providing developers with more tools and infrastructure, such as the Responses API and AgentKit, to build more sophisticated AI agents.
  • OpenAI is pushing the boundaries with new model releases and capabilities, including advancements in reasoning, multimodal understanding, and specialized models like Codex and Sora, alongside plans for future iterations like GPT-5.4.
  • The company is committed to broad access and democratization of AI, evidenced by efforts like the OpenAI Academy, free offerings for specific user groups, and strategic collaborations to bring AI benefits to a wider audience.

OpenAI News


Google AI

  • What’s new with Google Cloud a day ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Google Cloud, Inside Google Cloud

    Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more.  ---------------------------------------- Tip: Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources. ---------------------------------------- MAR 9 - MAR 13 * Want to use Gemini to develop code and don't know where to start? This article includes a couple of examples of developing code with Gemini prompts; it identified changes that were needed to be made to get the code

  • What’s new with Google Cloud - 2025 3 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Google Cloud, Inside Google Cloud

    Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more.  ---------------------------------------- Tip: Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources. ---------------------------------------- DEC 22 - DEC 26 * To design production-ready AI agents, you must choose the right tools for memory, reasoning, and orchestration. To simplify this process, Choose your agentic AI architecture components provides an iterative framework to help you select products and tools that best match your

  • The Year in Google Cloud — 2025 3 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Inside Google Cloud, Google Cloud

    In the AI era, when one year can feel like 10, you’re forgiven for forgetting what happened last month, much less what happened all the way back in January. To jog your memory, we pulled the readership data for top product and company news of 2025. And because we publish a lot of great thought leadership and customer stories, we pulled that data too. Long story short: the most popular stories largely mapped to our biggest announcements. But not always — there were more than a few sleeper hits on this year’s list. Read on to relive this huge year,

  • Google Cloud Europe establishes new European Advisory Board 4 months ago by Tara Brady
    Inside Google Cloud, Customers

    Across the world, organizations are partnering with Google Cloud to tackle their toughest challenges, drive digital transformation, and unlock new levels of growth. In Europe, organizations face unique and complex regulatory challenges. To ensure we're delivering the best possible value and experience for our customers here, we have established a new European Advisory Board. This distinguished group of leaders from across various industries will act as a vital feedback channel, help customers navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and foster a strong, sustainable digital economy. Their counsel is key to ensuring Google Cloud products not only meet but exceed European requirements, driving

  • Cool stuff Google Cloud customers built, Oct. edition: Research agents, a World Series hit, agentic "teams" & more 4 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    AI & Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Databases, Inside Google Cloud, Partners, Customers

    AI and cloud technology are reshaping every corner of every industry around the world. Without our customers, there would be no Google Cloud, as they are the ones building the future on our platform. In this regular round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories.  For our latest edition, we look into new research agents from Deutsche Bank and The Max Planck Institute; helping devs strut their stuff with new databases for Rent the Runway; mortgage lender Mr. Cooper’s “team” of AI agents answering tough customer questions; an AI assistant for doctors


The Deep View

  • How Crusoe builds data centers around AI needs 10 hours ago by The Deep View

    Hello, friends. The current reality is that AI demand is rising faster than infrastructure can keep up. Crusoe is tackling the issue with modular data centers that can be deployed in less time and are better optimized for AI. Its Spark Factory and Edge Zones aim to deliver faster, localized AI compute, allowing Crusoe to support sovereign AI, edge optimization, and regional needs. Thanks to Crusoe for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. —Jason Hiner HOW CRUSOE BUILDS DATA CENTERS AROUND AI NEEDS AI is moving so fast that the infrastructure to support it can barely keep up.  Goldman Sachs predicts that

  • AI mishap deletes millions of Amazon orders a day ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Anthropic’s newest Claude feature points to one of AI’s most promising uses: helping people understand complex ideas by generating drawings, charts, and other visuals directly inside chat. Microsoft is pushing further into the medical field with Copilot Health, a siloed AI assistant that can connect wearables, health records, and lab results to match you with cited health advice, with strong privacy controls. Meanwhile, Amazon is learning the hard way that AI coding still needs adult supervision, after outages tied to AI-generated code reportedly cost millions in lost orders and triggered new guardrails. AI keeps getting more powerful, but

  • Perplexity launches desktop AI worker on Mac 2 days ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Nvidia is making one of the smartest moves in AI by open-sourcing not just a powerful new model, but the data, training recipes, and methodology behind it, a strategy that could strengthen the whole ecosystem while driving more demand for Nvidia chips. Anthropic, meanwhile, is sharpening Claude’s value for enterprises with deeper Excel and PowerPoint integrations that carry context across apps and fit nicely into power users' workflows. And Perplexity is pushing agents closer to the mainstream with a Mac mini-based worker that can use local files, coordinate apps, and challenge OpenClaw’s early lead in the race for

  • Nvidia bets on Murati’s frontier AI startup 3 days ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. World models continue to accelerate as the next frontier in AI. Yann LeCun’s new startup, AMI Labs, just raised a $1 billion seed round to build systems that understand and interact with the real world. And you heard that right, it's a $1B "seed" round. Let that sink in. Google is pushing Gemini deeper into everyday work with new AI features across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. And Nvidia is placing a strategic bet on Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, pairing a major investment with plans to deploy massive Vera Rubin systems. Nvidia loves a frontier lab because they

  • OpenAI, Google staff back Anthropic stance 4 days ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Apple’s new MacBook Pro M5 Max points to a potential reset in AI economics, making it possible to run larger models locally and reduce reliance on costly cloud inference. Microsoft is pushing deeper into agentic work with Copilot Cowork, but the early version looks less capable than more ambitious rival agents. And Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon is turning into a broader story, as employees from OpenAI and Google publicly back the company’s red lines. —Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. RIVAL AI WORKERS LINE UP BEHIND ANTHROPIC 2. MICROSOFT LAUNCHES COWORK AGENT, WITH LIMITS 3. MACBOOK PRO M5 MAX COULD CHANGE AI