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Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year expansion while announcing roughly $10 billion in new funds.

Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.

Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.

Titan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date.

Glade Brook, Coatue, and T. Rowe Price were among the investors that led the share sale.

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Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its 'hardest year' yet.

More than 118 million users watch microdramas every month as the serialized format has taken off in India. EloElo's Story TV is one of the top apps for microdramas, with over 33 million active users, according to analysts.

Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.

The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.

Cybersecurity-focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.

Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.

An in-space construction first could be an enabler for the space data centers of the future.

Cybersecurity experts have long warned of the persistent and patient threat from North Korea's long-running hacks. The world's largest crypto exchange was still caught off-guard.

The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.

Bluetooth HDT's rollout will benefit a wide range of wireless devices and how they communicate.

This was the Cybertruck of elections.

Nowhere was the rebuke stronger than the now-blue Ohio.

Apple Music will launch 'Selfie Sing' with iOS 27.3.

The magic of the original is fully intact while looking and playing better than ever.

Binance has revealed more details about the cyber attack that resulted in the loss of $6.34 billion in digital assets.

Valve is updating its game release rules to try to unclog a backlog of approvals due to a recent flood of new game titles, many created with AI.

Apple's newest iPad mini is a significant upgrade over its predecessor, with hardware updates that extend far beyond the fancy new OLED display.

Most smartphone apps need permissions to function properly, but some may have more access than they should. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to check.

The front USB ports of your computer are useful, but they often can't compete with the rear ports.

"At least two" other companies have also pitched themselves as the studio's possible new owners.

Nothing sister brand CMF made a lot of clever choices to keep the Phone 2 Pro cheap.

The NVIDIA modding platform lets you remaster classic games with modern graphics, and now DLSS 5 is included.

Those with small ears may require some extra finessing when adjusting their Apple AirPods to get the perfect fit, and there are a few ways you can ensure that.

The app stores will stay open for both devices after support ends next year.

Also, can I just say this LED indicator light is way too small and unnoticeable? This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here . "How does that make you feel?" I get asked this a lot in therapy. Plenty of life events, big and small, have triggered this question. Three weeks ago, it was the fact that I had to ask my therapist for her consent because I was wearing the Amazon

ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot. The update, which is rolling out alongside OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model, allows you to adjust the GIF's animation speed, edit individual frames, and share it with others. Before this change, ChatGPT couldn't natively generate GIFs in a single step. An example shared by the company shows how ChatGPT can generate a GIF in response to the prompt, "can you make a gif of a cat dancing?" while also providing you with the option to change the playback speed and view it frame by

God of War Laufey 's release date is being delayed to May 20th, 2027, developer Santa Monica Studio announced today . It was set to launch on PlayStation 5 on February 16th . Here is Santa Monica Studio's full message about the delay: Since the reveal of God of War Laufey in June, we've been deeply grateful to see so much excitement for Faye's journey through the Everywhen. We don't take for granted the trust placed in the studio to make an extraordinary experience worthy of the passion and dedication of our fans. With this in mind, we've made the

Nintendo is about to lose a major memory supplier for its Switch cartridges. The supplier, Macronix, announced during a recent quarterly earnings call that it would be gradually phasing out ROM production and is instead focusing on NOR flash memory for data centers, Taipei Times reports. Macronix's ROM revenue fell 39 percent compared with last year in Q3 2026, but its revenue from NOR memory rose 158 percent, and its revenue from NAND memory surged 768 percent year over year. According to Taipei Times , Macronix chairman and CEO Miin Wu said during its Q3 2026 earnings call that "demand

Anker announced a new indoor security camera that's designed to watch your yard, driveway, or front porch through a window, instead of monitoring what's inside your home. The new Anker Eufy Window Camera E10 takes a similar approach to the Wyze Window Cam that launched nearly a year ago . It installs right against a window using an including mounting sticker to reduce glare and reflections, but the camera doesn't require any weatherproofing since it's not enduring the elements outdoors. The Eufy Window Camera E10 is available now for $79.99 through Anker's online store and Amazon , making it more

Upgrade to the smartest Android smartphones. Google’s latest Pixel 11 phones are all on sale at their lowest prices to date, well ahead of Black Friday.

Mark Lanier led the first social media addiction case to go to trial, winning a verdict against Meta and Google in March. It’s just the beginning.

As flagship smartphones balloon in size, the Enough Phone offers a 5.3-inch handset. Choose between stock Android or an anti-distraction operating system.

From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms.

The company’s cofounder recently convinced the Trump administration to support an initiative to gather DNA samples from endangered species.

Elon Musk almost single-handedly funded the Republican midterms push. But of every traceable dollar Musk put into races that have been decided, more than 99 cents went to a race he lost.

For months, election deniers claimed without evidence that the vote would be rigged. Now they appear to be accepting crushing defeats.

Spending hundreds of millions of dollars means nothing to Elon Musk, director Alex Gibney says.

The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption.

While some of Donald Trump’s closest allies have remained silent, much of MAGA is blaming him for historic losses.

If you already have a compatible e-reader, the $35 Kindle Click could be all the upgrade you need.

I tested over a hundred options—my top picks from Apple, Bose, and Beats stood out from the rest.

Riders and lawmakers often don’t know the difference, and retailers sometimes muddy the waters on purpose. Here’s how to buy the micromobility vehicle you actually want.

Since early 2026, the law has required electric bike owners to get licenses—and in some cases, insurance—to ride. It has left many stranded and confused.

A new study found evidence of natural selection in the dogs of Chernobyl, but it’s still unclear what drove these genetic differences and what evolutionary advantages they may provide.

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With massive upsets in deep red states and stunning wins in Texas, Democrats have redrawn the political map—and decisively taken the House and Senate.

Laptop prices keep going up, but this discount on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x is one of the best deals I’ve seen in months.

T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon are offering incentives of up to $1,200 off the iPhone Duo, but you will need to commit to a 36-month plan, which can be expensive.

Influencers, watchdogs, and MAGA pundits are convinced that election fraud is everywhere today, despite a lack of apparent evidence.

Suspected North Korean attackers duped an engineer with a fake job interview and a malicious download to gain a foothold in the crypto firm’s system and steal billions, according to Binance.

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From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.

The inventive instrument maker collapsed into insolvency, leaving buyers empty-handed and users scrambling to keep their musical gear alive.

The iPad Mini’s impressive new features make it a better tablet than ever—only to be betrayed by its higher price.

NBC’s go-to data guru also isn’t quite sure what a subreddit is.

Apple finally made ANC standard across the AirPods lineup. But should you still spring for the AirPods Pro 3?

“I did a Latino community event [and said] we have to actually fucking vote to tell these motherfuckers to fuck off,” Nevada secretary of state Cisco Aguilar tells WIRED.

Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.

The 3,200-pound satellite is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere later this week with a wide reentry zone covering parts of Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and South America.

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The 4.1-billion-year-old meteorite is a “Rosetta Stone for Mars,” preserving clues about how the Martian environment has changed since the solar system formed.

On Reddit and Discord, people addicted to opioids say SR-17018 can remove withdrawal symptoms. Despite its potential, the DEA has placed it in the same category as heroin.

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Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.

How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.

OpenAI’s Grid Protectors Program will work with utilities to help future compute campuses support grid reliability and protect consumer electricity costs.

OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.

OpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.

Introducing LifeVal, a benchmark measuring how well AI helps people complete everyday tasks, from finding childcare to managing finances and government paperwork.

OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll to advise on responsible AI for national security modernization, cyber resilience, and collaboration with U.S. allies.

Qodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request.

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.

OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.

OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.

Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI. Lawyers review grouped documents, summaries, and reports before advising clients.

Credit Saison’s ChatGPT Enterprise pilot delivered 954% ROI. See how leaders and employees helped turn the results into companywide adoption.

Evernote used ChatGPT Ads to introduce its note-taking app to people working with AI. The team tracked how often free trials led to paid subscriptions.

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex.

How AI might enter the org chart—beneath, beside, and between us.

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.

GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.

With OpenAI Daybreak, Check Point speeds up the research behind new security protections, enabling its analysts to turn vulnerability intelligence into customer defenses faster.

How Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework.

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OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.

CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. Its security agent helps developers review findings and proposed fixes.

Explore OpenAI Signals data on 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how people use ChatGPT for work and how usage changes over time.

Fanatics uses OpenAI to help fans complete their game-day outfits with Shop the Look. Testing across roughly 30,000 MLB products showed 10% higher engagement.

See how OpenAI engineers use Codex Ultrafast to investigate incidents in minutes. Explore faster security analysis, code refactoring, and daily workflows.

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.

Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients.

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.

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Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.

AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.

From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.

See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.

Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.

Learn how OpenAI built ChatGPT’s LLM-powered ad stack to understand conversational intent, keep ads separate from answers, and deliver relevant ads at scale.

OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.

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

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;

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 explore Uber ’s revamped network with modern edge; smarter, AI-infused site search at Target ; a wicked fast blockchain built by Keeta Network ; HCA Healthcare empowers its nurses with a new AI-powered information portal; Deutche Telecom enhances its data

A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s biggest competitors. Despite regulatory scrutiny, it’s clear that Microsoft intends to keep its restrictive licensing policies in place for most cloud customers. In fact, it’s getting worse. As part of a recent earnings call, Microsoft disclosed that its efforts to force software customers to use Azure are “not anywhere close to the finish line,” and represented one of three pillars “driving [its] growth.” As

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 explore Box’s AI agents extracting insights with cross-platform agent integration; Schroders uses multiple connected agents to build a complex investment research system; Hypros ’ IoT device can monitor patient distress in hospitals without individual monitoring; a Formula E exhibition of

There’s a buzz of excitement here at Tobacco Dock as we welcome our customers and partners to the Google Cloud Summit London. Together, we’re exploring the essential role Google Cloud is playing in driving AI innovation and adoption across the UK. Today is about shining a spotlight on our customers and partners, focusing on the real-world stories of how they are accelerating innovation, realising value, and reshaping entire industries with the powerful combination of AI agents and robust cloud infrastructure. The opportunity ahead is immense. AI is poised to inject more than £400 billion into the UK economy by 2030

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 monthly round-up, we dive into some of the exciting projects redefining businesses, shaping industries, and creating new categories. For our inaugural edition, we explore Lowe’s new Visual Scout product recommendation engine powered by Vertex AI Vector Search; a responsive “Driver Agent” platform created by Formula E to bring more equity to the track; Ester AI, a conversational tool from wealth.com that can help financial

Week of Dec 16 - Dec 20 Windows Server 2025 is now available on Google Compute Engine. We are excited to announce the general availability of Windows Server 2025 on Google Compute Engine. You can now run Windows Server 2025 Data Center, and Windows Server 2025 Data Center Core editions as well as Windows SQL Server 2022 on Windows Server 2025 with pay-as-you-go licenses. Customers that don’t already have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement can use the Google Compute Engine’s provided image to take advantage of Google Cloud’s relationships with Microsoft for pay-as-you-go licenses that scale with your workload and offers

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that 2024 was a busy year for Google Cloud. From AI to Zero Trust, and everything in between, here’s a chronological recap of our top blogs of 2024, according to readership. You’ll probably see some favorites on this list, and discover a few that you missed the first time around. January We started the new year strong, removing data transfer fees for anyone moving data off of our platform. Translation: Anyone doing cool things on Google Cloud (like using generative AI to analyze their microservices deployment) is doing it because

Over the past year, the pace of innovation across industries and around the world has been extraordinary. At Google, we're inspired by the public sector’s ingenuity and speed in adopting our AI and security innovations to achieve remarkable outcomes together. Since Google Cloud Next , we've launched more powerful versions of Gemini , rolled out Gemini Flash and Imagen 3 . And we're proud to showcase inspiring examples from the public sector, highlighting how organizations are leveraging generative AI to drive transformative change. From state agencies streamlining citizen services to healthcare providers improving patient outcomes and defense organizations enhancing mission

Editors note, November 28th, 2025: “We filed our antitrust complaint with the European Commission (EC) to give voice to our customers and partners about the issue of anticompetitive cloud licensing practices. Today, we are withdrawing it in light of the recent announcement that the EC will assess problematic practices affecting the cloud sector under a separate process. We stand behind the arguments outlined in the blog below, and we continue to work with policymakers, customers, and regulators across the EU, the UK, and elsewhere to advocate for choice and openness in the cloud market." - Giorgia Abeltino, Head of Government

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 . Week of Dec 10 - Dec 15 Announcing Launch of Cross Cloud Materialized Views : To help customers on their cross-cloud analytics journey, today we are thrilled to announce the public preview of BigQuery Omni cross-cloud materialized views (aka cross-cloud MVs).

To our customers: At Google Cloud, we put your interests first. This means that when you choose to work with us, we become partners on a journey of shared innovation, shared support, and shared fate. We are committed to helping you evolve as technology advances, drawing on our depth of experience to ensure you can use the latest and best technology, while keeping you safe and protected. When it comes to the rapidly developing world of generative AI, this is imperative. Earlier this year, we embedded Duet AI — an always-on AI collaborator — across our products, from Google Workspace

Editor’s note : Jack Ngare is a Technical Director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO based in Nairobi, Kenya. A native of Kenya, he worked in telecommunications abroad for 12 years before returning home to work for a large African financial institution and a U.S. technology company. He joined Google Cloud last year with a mission to digitize and modernize Cloud’s global top customers, while simultaneously growing Africa's entrepreneurial technology culture. What is the opportunity you see before you? Working at Google Cloud, I’m able to bring people some of the world's best software and hardware engineering. I also

Editor’s note : Alicia Abella is the Managing Director for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. The work involves bringing complex, advanced technology to businesses across diverse markets and cultures — from startups in Brazil to North America's largest telecommunications companies. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba, she has a PhD, 29 patents, and extensive experience running teams and working with customers. Did you always see yourself bringing new inventions into the world? No, not at all. I grew up in Queens, New York — the only child of Cuban immigrants. My parents worked hard and saved money so I

Additional reporting and editing by Caitlin Wolper Phillips The first time I ever wrote a song, it was complete and utter garbage. I'll spare your ears (and my dignity) from having to hear the track yourselves, but the song was essentially a rip-off of Zach Bryan's "Something in the Orange," featuring clunky, depressing lyrics and vocal and guitar melodies so basic that, had I published it, it probably would have gotten me laughed off the internet. But the moment I finished writing it was one of the proudest of my life. I still remember sitting across from my friend who

Welcome back. One of AI’s thorniest problems right now is token costs, and GitHub unveiled a smart fix. Its new Copilot Fusion sends tasks to cheaper models first and only moves up to more powerful ones when needed, matching top-tier coding agents while using half the tokens. Meanwhile, as AI agents spread across the enterprise, security teams are racing to keep up. So I sat down with CrowdStrike’s Christian Rodriguez to unpack how defenders can respond at machine speed. And Google is trying to change its reputation for moving too slowly, with its new high-end model Gemini Carbon edging past

Welcome back. As AI begins to manifest in the physical world, the key to the public accepting robots might be to make them look less human. Meanwhile, the iPhone Duo has a number of quirks, but its biggest advantage might be in AI agents. And Cohere's escaped Alibaba agent highlights just how unpredictable agentic systems can be. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Cohere finds an agent control problem in Qwen 2. The iPhone Duo’s best argument is AI agents 3. Why home robots may need to look less human GOVERNANCE The real lesson in Cohere's Alibaba agent scare

Welcome back. I’ve spent the past week testing Brilliant Labs’ new Halo glasses and they make a strong case that privacy and openness can sell AI wearables. Still, Halo is a much different product than the glasses from Meta and Google. OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra model takes on Anthropic's mid-range Sonnet to balance cost, power, and speed, with some fairly impressive results. And the big news, of course, is Anthropic making it official that it's going public on the Nasdaq, likely in the next month. The real story is that Anthropic's focus on the enterprise is producing eye-popping revenue growth,

Welcome back. The best place to start with AI might be the tasks your teams dread the most. In my podcast conversation with Todd Earwood, we explore why the employees closest to the work often spot the AI opportunities that leaders miss. OpenAI is chasing an efficiency goal with its new Jev rival that can make everyday software tasks faster and cheaper. Meanwhile, Gartner's 2027 outlook offers a reality check on organizations turning AI's potential into useful work, with measurable returns and clear accountability for the results. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. What Gartner predicts for the future

Hello, friends. The question we get from readers more than any other right now is whether we're in an AI bubble. Everyone has a take, and most of them come from people who have never funded, built or studied the boom. So for this special weekend edition, we tried a different way of answering it- we asked Delphi to find the people who have actually been in the room, and put the question to their Digital Minds. That's the topic of this edition, presented in partnership with Delphi. Let us know what you think! — Jason Hiner We asked Delphi

Welcome back. Outside evaluators uncovered gaps in OpenAI’s agent monitoring, underscoring why safety needs independent scrutiny. Meanwhile, 1Password is giving agents a way to sign in with users’ approval without exposing their passwords. And Gartner’s latest surveys show AI spending rising while many companies continue to struggle with demonstrating financial returns. That's a disconnect that can't last forever. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why AI adoption isn't translating into ROI 2. Independent audits catch what OpenAI missed 3. Agent security is becoming a product layer RESEARCH Gartner exposes AI's growing value gap Lots of companies are still racing

AI can make a Taylor Swift song. Or a Fleetwood Mac song. Or a Frank Sinatra song. Now, musicians and listeners alike are starting to think outside of AI's black box. More than ever, music is veering into the unexpected, whether it be leaning into sour notes, playing non-traditional melodies against odd time signatures, or creating entirely new genres like Celtic EDM . These new sounds serve as evidence of humanity: Something so strange, interesting, or thoughtful could have only come from the mind of a living, breathing human. It's a sign that AI's ability to create polished music isn't

Welcome back. As users turn to ChatGPT for increasingly personal matters, OpenAI released a feature that lets users keep certain chats private. Meanwhile, Anthropic has come to the table with its own always-on agent for personal and professional work. And researchers used AI to spot a critical open source code vulnerability that could impact millions of websites. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why AI labs must share the burden of cyber defense 2. Anthropic bets on agents that fade into work 3. ChatGPT now lets users conceal select chats GOVERNANCE PHP’s flaws show the stakes of AI’s cyber

Welcome back. New research finds that AI's use in scientific contexts may be accelerating discovery. Meanwhile, Amazon researchers created an internal tracing system that improves its AI coding agent, Kiro, from its own runs. And Databricks new memory layer for agents could solve one of the most critical problems agents face: A better understanding of a user's history. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Agents need better memory more than better models 2. Amazon tests a safer path to self-improving AI 3. Can AI free up scientists to think bigger? ENTERPRISE Why persistent memory could transform AI agents What

Welcome back. China's MiniMax is pushing open models closer to frontier performance at a fraction of the cost, raising the stakes for US labs. Meanwhile, Anthropic is making a massive commitment to philanthropy, but there's a strategic reason AI companies need public goodwill as they race to build infrastructure and expand their influence. And Inception's Mercury 3 is the most intriguing development of all. Its diffusion architecture challenges the industry's prevailing approach to scaling AI, delivering dramatically faster responses while using expensive GPUs a lot more efficiently. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Why Inception's Mercury 3 upends AI

Welcome back. AI is changing not just how we work, but how companies organize themselves. In the latest episode of The Deep View Conversations podcast, Rokt COO Bill Barton explains why generalists are growing in value and shares six timeless attributes for succeeding in the AI era. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to take a different approach to building frontier AI models, prioritizing efficiency and cost over brute-force scaling. And a new Wharton report reveals why companies focused on using AI to grow their businesses are seeing far better returns than those simply cutting costs. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1.

Hello, friends. As AI disrupts the traditional career ladder and democratizes a great number of skills, the most important qualities in an employee have little to do with technical prowess. That’s the topic of this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Rokt . Let us know what you think! — Nat Rubio-Licht AI is turning specialists into generalists Though AI is undoubtedly changing the roles of engineers, it may be poised to shift the DNA of the workforce entirely. Bill Barton, chief operating officer at ecommerce tech firm Rokt , has seen the company transform as a result of

Welcome back. As enterprises seek to reel in AI spending, Meta and Nvidia released open models that home in on efficiency and on-premise usage. Meanwhile, Amazon's new AI wearables push could offer seamless integration that gives it an edge over competitors. And Anthropic has unveiled its plan to let third-party evaluators inspect its models as frontier AI safety concerns continue. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Anthropic’s safety audits face a trust test 2. Meta, Nvidia give US open models a boost 3. Amazon’s edge in AI wearables is its ecosystem GOVERNANCE Anthropic’s audit push tests AI transparency As

The music industry is facing its own Turing test. While practically every field is reckoning with how to navigate AI's impending transformation, the music industry sits at a unique crossroads: When a creation that we once believed to be distinctly human can be automated, what happens to the artist? The question about where AI fits into the music industry has evolved from debate into a cacophony. While the loudest voices are aggressively for it or against it, the reality of how musicians are using AI and the tech's risks are far more nuanced, according to a variety of experts we