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(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

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’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

📈 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,

📈 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

🎓 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.

🏛️ 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’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

🤫 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”

🎬 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