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GPTing While You Sleep; Measuring AI Doing Your Job; Selling Your Phone Convos

ChatGPT Gets Proactive With New Pulse Briefs As a young product makers 20 years ago there are two things I told a reporter I wanted in "bots": Do things on consumers' behalf and deliver results - e.g. scan job boards and dating sites and apply / reach

Medicare To Use AI Deciders; Models Pass CFA; Mapping Polluters

Medicare Pilots AI Denials Starting January 2026, Medicare will pilot WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction), an AI-driven prior authorization system that screens requests for certain procedures and can deny care deemed “low-value.” The program will run until 2031 in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington. Traditionally, Medicare

OpenAI's GigaWow; Predicting the Future, Gaming the Games

Altman Lays Out OpenAI’s Infrastructure Push OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a blog post revealing plans to scale infrastructure capable of producing one gigawatt of AI capacity every week. He argues compute expansion isn’t just about revenue, but about unlocking breakthroughs in medicine, education, and more simultaneously -

Another $100B 'Njection' For OpenAI; AI Wingman; Red Lines Ignored

Nvidia Fuels OpenAI’s Compute Chase Nvidia and OpenAI announced what’s being called the biggest AI infrastructure project in history. Nvidia will invest up to $100B, tied to the staged deployment of 10 GW worth of GPU systems into OpenAI’s data centers. The first 1 GW is expected

OpenAI Poaches Apple; Grok on the Cheap; AI Singer's $3M Deal

(Plus: Guest Essay - What Could Possibly Go Right?) 💼 Business & Strategy OpenAI’s Apple-Style Hardware Heist OpenAI is swiping dozens of Apple veterans (led by ex-Apple exec Tang Tan) and lining up iPhone manufacturers Luxshare and Goertek to build an AI-native device portfolio. Concepts under exploration include a display-less

Chrome's AI Command Center; Grok Targeting 5 and AGI

Google's Gemini Chases Agentic Browsing Google is embedding Gemini directly into Chrome for U.S. desktop users. A new sidebar button lets you pull multi-tab context into a single chat, and an AI Mode in the address bar will support multi-part questions and follow-ups right where you type

Meta 'Sees' The Future; It's A Robot World; AI Beats Humans (Again)

Meta’s Glasses Get Smarter At Meta Connect, Meta introduced Ray-Ban Display glasses, an athlete-focused Oakley Meta Vanguard, and Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 - plus a wrist-worn Neural Band that reads subtle muscle signals to control UI without awkward voice prompts. Gen 2 adds an 8-hour battery, 3K Ultra HD

Agent: Go Buy Me Stuff; GPT 4 Teens; Here Come The World Models!

📈 Business & Strategy Google’s Protocol For AI Agents To Make Purchases Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open framework that lets AI agents make purchases with auditable, user-approved “mandates.” Real-time buys require a signed Intent Mandate (search/selection) and Cart Mandate (checkout). Rails support cards, bank transfers,

Psst: Here's How You Use AI; Gemini Tops GPT; AI Calls The Plays

📈 Business & Strategy OpenAI, Anthropic Reveal How People Actually Use AI OpenAI and Anthropic shared fresh usage data: ChatGPT now sees a majority of personal queries (up from last year), while Claude leans coding-heavy and more use at work. Adoption is accelerating in lower-income countries for ChatGPT, whereas Claude skews

Humans: Learn To Learn; AI Startup Growth Hacks; Reversing Disease

🎓 Deepmind CEO's Warning Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told an audience in Athens that the most important skill for the AI era is “learning how to learn.” “One thing we’ll know for sure is you’re going to have to continually learn ... throughout your career,” he said.

1st Virtual Gov't Leader; Agents to Redefine Orgs? 3,000 AI Shows Or 'Slop'?

🏛️ Albania Appoints First AI Cabinet Member Albania elevated Diella, a government AI assistant formerly used on the e-Albania portal, to a cabinet-level “virtual minister” charged with overseeing public procurement - long viewed as the country’s most corruption-prone domain. Prime Minister Edi Rama framed the move as a path to

Oracle Soars As AI Enabler; Publishers Battle Back; Humanoids Get Less 'Oid'

💰 Oracle’s AI Jackpot: Ellison Leaps To #1 As “Picks & Shovels” Pay Off Oracle says it has $455B in future AI infrastructure contracts, including a $300B multiyear compute deal with OpenAI (roughly $60B/yr starting 2027). The disclosure sent Oracle up ~40% in a day, and Larry Ellison reportedly

Chat w/ AI Silently; Microsoft Embraces Anthropic; OpenAI Says 🤷🏼‍♂️

🤫 Alterego’s “Near-Telepathic” Wearable Reads Silent Speech Boston startup Alterego (an MIT Media Lab spinout) unveiled a “near-telepathic” headset that tracks micro-movements in your jaw and throat to decode silent speech at the speed of thought. In the demo, founder Arnav Kapur codes, texts, runs visual queries, and even “speaks”

AI Comes to Hollywood; Older Adults Use Bots; AI Literacy @ Walmart

🎬 OpenAI Backs “Critterz” Animated AI Film Hollywood’s first openly AI-made feature is underway. OpenAI is supplying compute, GPT-5, and image generation models to “Critterz,” a full-length animated movie aiming for a 2026 Cannes debut. The project, led by creative specialist Chad Nelson, has been years in gestation - the

Google Gets In The Mode; Branched Convos; Ca(i)ll Centers

Google AI Mode May Finally Be Killing the Blue Links Google is fundamentally transforming its search experience, with product lead Logan Kilpatrick signaling that google.com's classic search page will be replaced by AI Mode. The AI-first experience is live in 180+ countries with 100M monthly users and

OpenAI Challenges LinkedIn; DeepSeek Self-Improves

OpenAI New Jobs Platform and Certification Program OpenAI is making a significant move into the professional development and recruitment space, directly challenging Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. The company announced a dual-pronged strategy: * a new Jobs Platform to connect businesses with AI-skilled workers and * a Certification Program aiming to credential 10 million Americans

Google (Mostly) Wins; OpenAI Complies; Digital Twinsies

⚖ Google Avoids 'Breakup' but Faces New Restrictions A federal judge ruled a big one - that Google will not be forced to spin off Chrome or Android in the search antitrust case, despite earlier speculation that competitors like OpenAI or Perplexity might swoop in if Chrome were cut

Anthropic’s Mega-Raise; OpenAI’s Statsig Play; Modeling the World

The Skim * Anthropic closes a “historic” $13B round to scale Claude, code, and enterprise go-to-market. * OpenAI is acquiring Statsig; its founder Vijaye Raji becomes CTO of Applications. (Terms undisclosed; Rundown pegs it around $1.1B.) * World models jump to interactive: Tencent’s HunyuanWorld-Voyager releases code/weights; DeepMind details Genie 3.

AI Heart Health; xAI Suing Employees?; Claude Code to the Web

🧠 Mind over metal: non-invasive BCI lets paralyzed users control robots The story: UCLA engineers paired an EEG cap with an AI decoder and vision system to interpret intent in real time, enabling paralyzed users to control robotic arms and cursors without surgery. Early testing showed big speed gains vs. baseline

OpenAI Speaks Up - Clearly; Mr Softy Gets Independence?

🔥 OpenAI: Now Hear This The Big News: OpenAI just unleashed its GPT Real-time API, and it appears to be phenomenal. Forget about those robot-y assistants or call centers that sound like they're reading a script. This new model can laugh, sigh and even switch languages mid-sentence without appearing