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Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.

Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.

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Jensen Huang’s resignation raises questions about Nvidia’s commitment to open source AI, including its Hugging Face acquisition, open-weight models, and advocacy against restrictions, as the company navigates a leadership transition.

Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition.

The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.

SoftBank lost over $3 billion preordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here's what the loss means to power markets.

Rather than giving consumers yet another photo-editing tool, Phota Labs aims to use advances in AI to automate the editing process so it’s easier for anyone to turn everyday moments into better photos.

Huang, who was ousted as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, agreed to testify Wednesday after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.

Nvidia's ousted CEO Jensen Huang's downfall isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire sex scandal. He was using his influence to push the AI industry in some very specific ways.

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump says only one man can take Jensen Huang's place as head of Nvidia: Tim Cook.

Whoop is launching a social network that lets members share their sleep, recovery, and workout data, but the bigger bet is on becoming more of a personal health brand, with CEO Will Ahmed hinting at acquisitions to come.

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.

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The Apple TV 4K remains the best premium streaming box you can buy, but the higher price makes it harder to recommend.

You'll soon no longer be able to use Google and Apple log-ins to access Nintendo.

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The airline believes AI poses security risks and may violate DOT and FAA rules.

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The Chinese company wants to compete with Meta's Muse.

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Nvidia announced this morning that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO following reports of two affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with a direct report. The situation surrounding Huang has unfolded quickly, with The New York Times only reporting on Friday that Huang and the suspected spy were "close" before other dominoes started to fall, leading to a swift fall from grace for one of the biggest names in technology. (Hours after Huang's resignation was announced, Reuters reported that he also had an "intimate relationship" with another Nvidia employee.) Prominent voices in technology have come out

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The first 25 original Xbox on PC games. | Image: Microsoft For the 25th anniversary of Xbox , Microsoft is beginning to make good on its paid "next-gen game preservation" promise. Starting today, you can play 25 different original Xbox games on your Windows PC, as long as you have (or are willing to pay) for digital copies. In July, Microsoft originally launched the idea with just four Xbox games , so 25 is progress, and Microsoft says all these games are now playable with keyboard and mouse. Plus, Microsoft says it's adding achievements to original Xbox games for the

The SS Jeremiah O’Brien, a WWII ship/peptide party location. | Photo: Haus Fund 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. We'll be taking a break next week and will be back on November 25th. Opt in for Optimizer here . The SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a World War II Liberty ship. The hulking vessel was built in 56 days. It made 11 trips to Normandy, France, to supply the Allied powers in the fight against German

“I woke up and checked the agents' reports. 'DAMN!' They had found lots of villages and other regular shapes that looked like structures or houses,“ Pietro Miotti wrote on his blog. | Image: Pietro Miotti Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. There was just one problem: The site had already been discovered and was published in an academic journal last year. The incident, which sparked criticism among archeologists online, underscores a growing tension in science as amateurs wielding increasingly powerful AI

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A recent WIRED investigation explored the complicated definition of “power” for women in the industry. Jensen Huang’s answers now appear to show his blind spots.

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Humanity has thrived thanks to a stable cryosphere, but burning fossil fuels has increased the risk of “accelerating and partly irreversible” harm to the planet’s cold places.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” the team unpacks the Nvidia CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy and what that means for the AI industry.

After initial talks stalled, workers at Google DeepMind are trying to bypass company management in their bid to unionize.

Since the scandal involving an alleged Chinese spy began, Nvidia has lost an eye-watering sum from its market value.

After its latest device struggled to perform, brain-computer interface startup Synchon halted clinical trials. The company says it will upgrade the implant’s hardware and is at work on a new device.

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Nvidia’s longtime chief financial officer helped transform the company into an AI powerhouse. Now she’s taking the reins following Jensen Huang’s resignation on Thursday.

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Apple’s FaceID has long provided robust authentication. But for its smart home device, HomeView, the company is betting on new “person recognition” technology that has yet to be challenged in the wild.

Nvidia’s cofounder and chief executive resigned on Thursday after the company opened an investigation into his affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset.

The sustainable phone maker is teaming up with its first US carrier to sell wireless plans alongside its fully repairable smartphone.

A new report finds that a digital community obsessed with Columbine and similar attacks is promoting apparel modeled after clothing worn by the perpetrators.

The Palantir CEO touted his “progressive” worldview in a recent interview. Let’s see how that lines up with his comments during the company’s earnings call two weeks ago.

The union representing flight attendants for the defunct airline struck a deal with Google to scrub sensitive employee records from a $10 million data sale.

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House Democrats are already planning to make their impeachment case against the defense secretary as airtight—and appealing to Republicans—as possible.

An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler.

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Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection.

“It has left a sour taste in my mouth,” says a Heated Rivalry fanfic author who found her work uploaded to AO3 mirror sites without her consent.

China’s use of sexpionage is a well-established intelligence tactic with recent, high-profile examples. So how did the world’s most powerful AI executive fall for it?

Winning streaks can be turned off and influencers will be forced to reveal when they’re being paid under the new Digital Fairness Act aimed at tackling “dark patterns” on platforms and services.

Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.

More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.

JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.

OpenAI Academy is bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to caregivers in five U.S. cities, helping them build practical AI skills for everyday life.

Manage your business information, get insights about how your business shows up, and turn interest into action in ChatGPT.

New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning.

Discover how Singapore Airlines uses OpenAI models and API to enhance customer support, travel discovery, and employee productivity, doubling CSAT for its Kris chatbot.

New research from OpenAI and Upwork finds shifting demand for freelance work, new skill combinations, and larger budgets and more hours for AI-related projects.

Cogent combines OpenAI models with enterprise context to help automatically remediate vulnerabilities with agents.

ChatGPT Enterprise is now available through AWS Marketplace, helping organizations simplify procurement through existing AWS purchasing and billing relationships.

Learn how OpenAI’s Control Room tracks model workloads across our research infrastructure and can rapidly stop them when safety or security concerns arise.

CodeRabbit uses OpenAI models to govern and trust AI-generated code and Codex to ship 20 times more software with the same engineering team.

Kuken Industries uses the OpenAI API to search 70 years of cooling tower drawings. Engineers can find the drawing for a repair in 4.5 minutes, down from nearly an hour.

OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.

OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.

Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.

Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.

Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.

Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.

OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.

Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.

Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.

OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.

Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.

OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.

Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

DevRev uses GPT-6.1 Sol to power Computer and Operator, balancing reasoning, speed, and cost for enterprise service.

Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.

Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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. OpenAI has released two models that target very different audiences: One helping consumers make viral GIFs, and another arming cyber defenders with stronger capabilities. Meanwhile, a Deloitte report adds to the piling evidence that enterprises are still not seeing the returns they want from their AI investments. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. GPT-6 Cyber faces an accelerating AI arms race 2. AI's real ROI requires reinventing work 3. OpenAI's image strategy hinges on virality GOVERNANCE Can GPT-6 Cyber solve OpenAI's safety problem? Amid mounting concern over AI's impact on cybersecurity following OpenAI's breach of HuggingFace, the

Welcome back. Anthropic unveiled a system for "provable inference," bringing zero-trust security principles to its models. Meanwhile, OpenAI reveals how it's using Codex to supercharge its much-anticipated hardware bet. And the US midterm election results underscore how data centers have become the next political battleground. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. AI’s compute ambitions face a political test 2. OpenAI's hardware ambitions get a new engine 3. Anthropic wants AI to prove its identity POLICY Can AI outbuild its political backlash? Data centers' bad reputation has come for the ballot box. AI infrastructure has emerged as one of the

Welcome back. Data from Menlo Ventures reports an explosion in enterprise AI spending compared to last year, but many are still navigating the ROI question. Meanwhile, coding agents are quickly taking over some of the most common tasks in software engineering, making human judgement more valuable than ever. And ChatGPT may represent the biggest rival to Google's monopoly on search. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. ChatGPT is becoming Google's biggest threat 2. Surge of coding agents reveal humans' changing role 3. Can enterprise spending sustain the AI boom? CONSUMER OpenAI challenges Google on its home turf Not long

Welcome back. OpenAI has a plan to ease the strain on the power grids as it pushes forward with its infrastructure buildout. Meanwhile, Hume has unveiled an audio-native decision mode, bringing the power introduced by Jev to voice interactions. And Anthropic's nearly $900 billion in spending commitments underscore the daunting question of frontier AI's path to profitability. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Anthropic’s spending spree tests AI economics 2. Hume AI launches the Jev of voice AI 3. OpenAI’s power plan targets a PR crisis MARKETS Anthropic’s spending exposes AI’s profit problem The cost to develop and serve

Welcome back. Though coding agents have transformed the work of software developers, Github's Kyle Daigle discusses ways to make these agents more efficient and affordable. Meanwhile, Google celebrates a major milestone with Project Suncatcher, its orbital data center research initiative. And OpenAI's ad team gives us a look behind the curtain at how it's built LLMs into its ad stack. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI’s ad bet depends on user trust 2. Google’s orbital AI bet raises bigger questions 3. GitHub’s case against defaulting to frontier AI CONSUMER ChatGPT could rewrite the rules of digital ads Large

Hello, friends. Thanks for tuning into this special edition, presented in partnership with Coder . Someone on your finance team wants an AI agent to build their monthly report. It can write the code, but it also needs access to company files. What should it be allowed to read, change, or send elsewhere? That's a lot for them to work out when they just wanted to stop building the same spreadsheet every month. And if they don't work it out, who does? — Jason Hiner Read Coder's AI Operating Layer whitepaper You shouldn't need to be a developer to use

Welcome back. The PHP vulnerabilities uncovered last week had been dismissed as unexploitable for years, until AI changed the math. AI putting an end to security-by-obscurity puts smaller, less-resourced organizations most at risk. Meanwhile, Amazon unveiled a new lineup of Echo devices and an upgraded AI-powered Alexa, but its real edge may be the habits it has built in millions of homes since 2014. Finally, Mistral released the open weights of its trillion-parameter Large 4 model, pitching enterprises frontier performance without lock-in and taking aim at China’s open-model lead. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Mistral tests China’s open-model

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