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OpenAI Will Stop Saving Deleted Chat Logs (With Caveats) OpenAI won approval to stop retaining deleted and temporary ChatGPT conversations - a partial privacy win. However, some “deleted” chats may still be held temporarily when copyright or safety systems are triggered (for example, to investigate abuse). As Ars Technica wrote, "

Google Bets Big On Workplace Agents What happened: Google rolled out Gemini Enterprise, a single platform where non-technical employees can create and deploy AI agents that plug into company data. It bundles no-code builders, prebuilt assistants (research, coding, support), and an agent marketplace. Pricing lands at $30/user/

Jony Ive Envisions ‘Peaceful’ AI Hardware with OpenAI What’s new: Jony Ive and OpenAI are exploring 15–20 hardware concepts for a “family of devices” meant to fix our “uncomfortable” relationship with tech. Ive argues it’s absurd to ship AI through legacy products; Sam Altman says a “totally

Sam Altman Sketches The Near Future: Agents That Work For Weeks What happened: In an interview, Sam Altman said autonomous agents will soon run for days or weeks, hinted a “zero-person” billion-dollar startup, and argued work may “look less like work.” He also pointed to early novel scientific

ChatGPT Becomes App Platform What’s new: You can now use third-party apps inside ChatGPT. Early integrations include Canva (generate designs and pitch decks), Zillow (interactive home search), Spotify (create playlists) and more - all invoked in plain language without leaving the conversation. OpenAI’s new Apps SDK handles the

OpenAI Tightens Sora Rules After Viral Launch OpenAI’s video app Sora sprinted to the top of the App Store and its first week was bonkers: think Pikachu mash-ups, Michael Jackson deepfakes, and celebrity likenesses everywhere doing and saying things they likely never would. CEO Sam Altman says the

OpenAi Becomes the World’s Most Valuable Private Company What happened: OpenAI closed a secondary share sale that values the company at $500 billion, topping SpaceX and ByteDance. Employees were allowed to sell $6.6 billion of stock (out of $10.3B authorized), and many held back - interpreted internally as

Apple Chases Meta In AI Glasses Race Apple is quietly shelving plans for a cheaper Vision Pro headset and shifting teams toward something it hopes will be more mainstream: AI-powered smart glasses. According to Bloomberg, Apple now has multiple glasses prototypes in the works, targeting a 2027 release. There

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Turns AI Video Into Social Platform OpenAI launched the boffo Sora 2, a big step up in video generation that now pairs more believable physics with synchronized audio and dialogue. CEO Sam Altman calls it the "Imagination Engine," and you can kinda see why

OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into Storefront OpenAI rolled out Instant Checkout, a way to buy products directly inside ChatGPT without opening a browser tab. A “Buy” button appears beside product suggestions; payment and order confirmation happen in-chat. It’s powered by Stripe and starts with Etsy sellers, with support for