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DeepMind Enters The Fusion Race Google’s DeepMind teamed up with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to build Torax, an AI plasma-control system for the SPARC fusion reactor. Torax uses reinforcement learning to stabilize plasma hotter than 100 million °C, making millions of micro-adjustments per second to keep the reaction steady

Google Upgrades Veo As The AI Video Race Shifts From Hype To Control Google rolled out Veo 3.1, positioning it as a filmmaker’s tool rather than a viral post generator. The update adds new creative controls - multi-image prompts (up to three for character consistency), start/end frame

Altman’s ‘Soft-Landing’ AGI Doctrine In an on-record conversation summarized by AI Secret, Sam Altman argues AGI won’t “explode” - it will quietly absorb into life via a personal AI subscription riding on massive, long-horizon compute. He frames Sora as an early world-model window: simulation quality and scientific output

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/month (with

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 discovery happening

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 company

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