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Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, is generated using AI.

Amazon-owned Ring is entering the smart lock market with a device designed to tackle a common concern: getting locked out when the battery dies.

A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth.

Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion.

"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.

Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.

On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

Xreal launched its xbx A01 Plus display glasses over the summer for $299, and they’re a decent value. The design and fit are more or less on-par with the company’s pricier 1S that are $399, though they don’t have my favorite feature: built-in three degrees of freedom to let you lock the virtual screen in place. Despite the omission, they’re a more tempting gadget at their current $254 price at Amazon and via Xreal during October Prime Day . Xreal xbx A01 Plus Where to Buy: $299.99 $254 at Amazon $299.99 at Best Buy $299.99 $254 at Xreal Like other

After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT's Dots, and Grok Bot) was released about a week after the original mobile version debuted expanding its usefulness to desktop tasks like organizing files. The new iPad version should function similar to Muse on iPhones, but better take advantage of the extra screen real estate and iPadOS' better multitasking capabilities . The newly

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, as reported by Reuters . The funding is part of a $1.8 billion initiative to build AI datasets that could allow researchers to "ask, predict, and answer biological questions digitally," helping find new ways to prevent and manage diseases. Founded in 2016 , Biohub aims to combat diseases through the creation of a "virtual cell" that researchers can use to carry out simulations. To support this effort, the US

Leaked renders shared on X appear to reveal several of Apple and LG’s new smart home devices. | Image: X Following a report from Bloomberg yesterday that Apple is collaborating with LG for a new collection of smart home devices and accessories, a reliable leaker known as "pdfu" on X has revealed more details about several of the new products, including a thermostat with a "Far Sight Display" that sounds similar to what Nest offers . Specifics about pricing and availability aren't yet known, but the devices will reportedly integrate with Apple's rumored smart home hub that's expected to launch

Amazon announced its first smart lock that eliminates the need for a physical backup key should its rechargeable battery die while you're away from home. While other smart locks lean on hidden USB ports or metal contacts for connecting a 9-volt battery to replenish a dead battery, the new Ring Smart Lock incorporates a more convenient charger right into its thumb-turn dial. Amazon doesn't specify how many turns are needed but claims just "a few times" can generate enough power to unlock the door so you can gain access to your home and fully recharge the lock's battery. The Ring

Our team is tracking Prime Day price drops live to find all the best discounts. Check here for the latest coverage on all the sales we’re shopping ourselves.

Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.

Xreal’s long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here’s how they fare against Meta’s recently announced VR Glasses.

Snag some gifts for your kiddos or unleash your inner child with the best Prime Day toy deals, including Lego, STEM toys, and board games.

Never pay full price. Bag yourself some Prime Day tech deals on our favorite WIRED-tested gadgets.

I’ve tested more than 100 headphones and covered nearly a dozen Prime Days. Here are some actually good headphone deals from the sale.

Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.

We’re already seeing some discounts on our favorite Apple tech, whether its devices or third-party accessories.

Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.

Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.

My favorite MacBook, gaming PC, and budget laptop are all on sale for Prime Day, some at the lowest prices I’ve seen in months.

Everything is so expensive in 2026, but these October Prime Day Deals are all under $100 on gadgets we recommend.

To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.

Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days are here, and we’ve tracked down the best discounts on all the gear our team recommends.

Prime Day deals on Amazon devices aren’t as attractive as they were before the August price hike, but these discounts are still worth grabbing.

Amazon raised Kindle prices across the board, but Prime Day is still the best time to buy.

Following a viral rebrand and two years without selling a new vehicle, the British marque takes the covers off the most divisive electric car yet seen.

The death of a lab worker in Russia has authorities looking at whether plague played a role. Even if it did, though, the odds of it spreading are very low.

Digital wall calendars can organize multiple family calendars, meal plans, chores, and to-do lists, and even double as a digital photo frame. And best of all, they’re on sale.

Want to save money without supporting Amazon? This roundup is full of deals on WIRED-approved favorites.

Everything is expensive. Treat yourself to one of these WIRED-approved Prime Day picks under $50.

I’ve compared cordless sticks, watched robot vacuums chase stains, and cleaned plenty of car crumbs. These discounts get my recommendation.

Samsung’s The Frame is the leading art TV for a reason. The matte display makes paintings look like museum pieces, not a glossy screensaver.

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

They’re the best over-ear headphones for Apple loyalists, and over 20 percent off at multiple retailers right now.

The right gadgets can make your house feel smarter. After extensive testing and price checks, these are the Prime Day smart home deals worth bagging.

Snag some new Yeti gear in your choice of eye-popping colors while supplies last (which won't be long).

Auk’s original countertop garden is on clearance for $199, with everything you need to start growing herbs indoors.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leaning into one of the major complaints about surveillance from voters this election cycle.

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

From Birch’s organic mattress to my favorite cooling sheets, these are the Amazon Prime Day discounts worth a look.

Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.

Otherlab’s Lightfoot looks like a box on wheels, but this head-turning urban scooter is designed to go farther thanks to the power of the sun.

At $1,099, the MacBook Air is $200 off its retail price for Prime Day, its lowest price in months.

This pocket-size Raspberry Pi handheld has a fantastic retro-ready screen, but awful controls and awkward software deal it a losing hand.

Some gadgets don’t live up to their promises. These automatic feeders, litter boxes, fountains, and cameras earned my recommendation.

The Nothing Headphone (1) is one of my favorites for its stylish design, tactile on-ear controls, and fun sound. It’s over $100 off for Prime Day.

The Bluetti Elite 300, my favorite portable power station, is on sale, and it’s perfect if you want to go off-grid or have a backup at home.

The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

A soundbar is the easiest way to upgrade your home entertainment setup. Grab one of our favorites on sale during October Prime Day.

Bose’s sequel to the QuietComfort Headphones is incredibly comfortable and has excellent noise-canceling, but those traits are no longer enough to beat the competition.

How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.

OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.

Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.

Chatham Financial uses Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4.

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.

Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.

As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days.

Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents

OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals program, tell us more about your story and project below.

GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.

Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.

OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.

Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.

Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards.

OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.

With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.

OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.

Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.

Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work.

OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.

Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.

Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.

GPT-6 Astra helps Hex’s data agents turn answers into interactive visualizations that employees are proud to share.

Learn how ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics help teams understand AI usage and spend, identify training needs, and connect adoption to business outcomes.

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

Welcome back. In classrooms, growing worries about students outsourcing their thinking are a reminder that adoption isn't the same as progress. Amazon's smartest move with its latest Kindles is leaving AI out of the product so that people can use them to disconnect and take a break. There's a lesson there for an industry racing to put AI technology everywhere. Meanwhile, a lawsuit against OpenAI raises a question that becomes harder to avoid as agents gain autonomy: who is responsible when they cause harm? — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI case raises question of agent liability 2. How

Welcome back. OpenAI rolled out more than 20 products at DevDay, but the most telling decision was what it held back. Its new Dots agents are limited to premium plans, and the next Astra model stayed on the shelf for now. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers joined me on The Deep View Conversations podcast to explain why AI may finally tip cybersecurity's balance of power in a surprising way. And Google is back in the frontier race with Gemini 4 Argon, which tops rivals on several key benchmarks. But as the labs leapfrog each other and models commoditize, price is starting

Welcome back. The White House has decided to put AI safety on the honor system. Six of the industry's most powerful AI leaders signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence and pledged to police themselves, with no new laws attached. Nat Rubio-Licht unpacks the promises made. Meanwhile, OpenAI's DevDay unleashed a flood of new tools for AI builders, from the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model to a new high-end Ultrafast tier, and the real target isn't Meta, it's Anthropic. And the headliner, ChatGPT Dots, brings always-on agents with their own cloud computers. They promise to be more proactive and more

Welcome back. Nvidia wants to help keep the AI boom from going off the rails by launching a new platform that keeps agents from going rogue. It's positioning itself as a safety steward, but while over 100 partners have joined the party, several major labs haven't signed on. Meanwhile, Sabrina Ortiz explains how Meta is asking businesses to trust Muse while new reports of privacy and security problems raise uncomfortable questions. And Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 5.5 makes the case that AI’s next competitive advantage is doing more work for less money, though emerging rivals could undercut that strategy, as

Welcome back. Qualcomm's latest mobile chip can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model on a phone, roughly seven times the size of the largest phone model we’d previously seen. Sabrina Ortiz explains the clever use of specialized models and memory that makes it possible. But a more capable chip alone won’t make your phone the AI assistant we've been promised for over a decade. In this week’s Deep View Conversations, Qualcomm’s Vinesh Sukumar lays out the other hurdles, from connectivity to battery life. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s economic forecasts raise a different question: Is widespread AI job loss inevitable? Nat Rubio-Licht examines the

Welcome back. AI agents don’t just move faster than human attackers, they reason differently, combining familiar tactics in unfamiliar ways that existing defenses were never built to anticipate. We talked with CrowdStrike's chief product officer AJ Shipley about how that changes the cybersecurity playbook, how AI will reshape entry-level security work, and why enterprises still have a path to keep pace by putting AI to work in smarter ways and leaning into the cybersecurity community. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Cyber defenses weren’t built for AI reasoning 2. Cybersecurity’s entry-level job is changing 3. How AI could tilt

Hello, friends. Fine-tuning can make AI models dramatically better at specific tasks, but figuring out which model to use, what it will cost and whether the results are trustworthy can be complicated. Crusoe is trying to simplify that equation by pairing a seamless training workflow with reproducible benchmarks. Thanks to Crusoe for sponsoring today’s edition of The Deep View. Let us know what you think! — Nat Rubio-Licht Crusoe brings receipts to AI fine-tuning Most fine-tuning services ask you to trust three things you can't verify: their benchmark harness, their headline numbers, and the bill that shows up after. Crusoe

Welcome back. OpenAI is trying to put numbers around one of AI’s hardest problems: how well models handle people seeking emotional support. Its new benchmark exposes important gaps between empathy and genuinely safe guidance. Meanwhile, AI agents are raising a different kind of alarm after frontier models hacked an Australian government system, sharpening questions about whether the industry can credibly police itself. And Meta may have finally found its lane. Rather than chasing OpenAI and Anthropic head-on, it’s building a friendly AI agent for the masses and putting its powerful marketing machine and expertise in consumer products behind it. —

Welcome back. OpenAI is turning ChatGPT Voice into a mobile work agent that can create, code, and connect to apps. Meanwhile, our conversation with Credo AI CEO Navrina Singh makes the case that safety needs practical governance, independent testing, and accountability. And Meta’s smartest move in AI glasses may be subtraction: removing the camera to make them lighter, cheaper, longer-lasting on a full charge, and easier to trust. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Meta's new audio-only AI glasses are a privacy win 2. Why OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Voice a bigger job 3. AI safety needs more than

Welcome back. At its Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm unveiled chips that can run 30-billion-parameter models on a phone, a roughly 7x leap from what today's most powerful phones can handle. Meanwhile, the frontier labs are racing down the cost curve. Just days after calling for a slowdown, Anthropic launched Opus 5.5, which is faster, 40% cheaper on typical workloads, and reroutes risky cyber and bio tasks to older models. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, cutting prices roughly in half and claiming that the models are better at staying within their safeguards. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI’s cheaper

Welcome back. Apple is pushing local AI forward with new Macs that combine serious performance, privacy, and lower token costs, while Google is taking a different route with Gemini-first laptops designed to bring AI deeper into the everyday computing experience. Meanwhile, the supposed US-China AI race looks far less cleanly divided than the rhetoric suggests. The two ecosystems remain deeply intertwined across models, hardware, talent, and supply chains, even as both governments push for greater technological independence. Keep an eye on any conciliatory notes that the two governments strike in their talks in Washington this week. — Jason Hiner IN

Welcome back. Salesforce's Shibani Ahuja joins The Deep View Conversations to explain how the company scales agentic AI without losing control, from its headless AI strategy to its new Koa reasoning model. Meanwhile, neolab Jev has a new model that is testing the frontier labs' scaling bet, claiming hundreds of times the speed and a fraction of the cost of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1. And AI is losing the narrative even more than the safety debate. With 60-70% of Americans holding negative views of AI, the industry needs a Steve Jobs-level storyteller and not more platitudes. — Jason

Hello, friends. With AI advancing at a rapid rate, the days of experimentation have given way to scale. As engineers turn from executors of tasks to orchestrators of agents, skills such as good judgement and strategy are more important than ever. That’s the topic of this special weekend edition, presented in partnership with Rokt . Let us know what you think! — Nat Rubio-Licht How judgment wins in the age of AI Though some enterprises are still figuring out their AI strategies, at Rokt, the tech is moving beyond the experimentation phase. Sam Dozor , CTO of ecommerce technology company

Welcome back. Salesforce is turning Slack into a front door for enterprise AI, with agents, coding tools, voice, and access to business systems. Apple may be showing the industry a better way to build AI products by making the technology useful before overselling it. The Apple Watch Series 12 uses machine learning to improve health insights, readiness, and features without turning everything into an AI pitch. Meanwhile, as AI spreads deeper into work, public trust remains a growing problem. Pew data shows people overwhelmingly expect AI to reduce jobs, leaving Silicon Valley with a credibility gap it still hasn’t closed.

Welcome back. Anthropic is folding Claude Cowork and traditional Claude chat into a "One Claude" experience that will include Docs, Slides, and Design tools to expose more of Claude's capabilities and cut down on context switching. Sabrina Ortiz tried Snap Specs on launch day, including the latest AI features, and walked away with a clearer picture of the potential use cases for the $2200 smart glasses. And Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has released an essay arguing AI is not conscious and warning that frontier labs training the models as if they have consciousness is part of what's leading to