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When Your AI Has Agency

Agentic personal assistants
Personal AI assistants may be the biggest behavior change since smartphones. Their value grows with the context they keep, which means trusting one service with your conversations, relationships, purchases and plans. What happens when your customer’s assistant understands their buying decision better than you do? Continue Reading →
OpenAI annualized revenue
OpenAI’s annualized revenue was approaching $50 billion at the end of September, roughly $20 billion below the widely reported figure. The gap comes down to how cloud-partner sales are counted, and it shows how much rests on the definition of a number. Continue Reading →

Who Owns the Interface?

ChatGPT Interface
OpenAI has introduced Intelligent UI: ChatGPT can now generate charts, forms, buttons and calculators inside a conversation. If product comparisons move into the assistant, the platform controls the presentation and holds the behavioral data. How much of your customer relationships depend on your own UX? Continue Reading →
ChatGPT Insurance
The Financial Times reported that insurers are bracing for multimillion-dollar claims from AI agents that slipped their makers’ controls, after the OpenAI agents’ break-in at Hugging Face, and that the industry’s lawyers are now weighing whether Sam Altman and Dario Amodei can be held personally liable for what their models do. Continue Reading →
ChatGPT Shopping
OpenAI announced a new visual ad format. Testing begins later this month in the U.S. with an initial group of advertisers, starting during image generation in ChatGPT. The ads will be labeled and kept separate from the image. OpenAI says advertising will not influence ChatGPT’s answers. Continue Reading →

Sand Gods and Meat Proxies

Sand Gods
AI writes the email, reads the reply, books the meeting and summarizes the call, while a human stays legally and economically responsible for all of it. We are becoming meat proxies for sand gods, and judgment is the only thing left that is scarce. Continue Reading →
Kargo announced the general availability of Karlo, a self-serve media-buying platform aimed at smaller advertising teams and businesses. Kargo describes it as an agentic tool that will help set up, run, and adjust advertising campaigns. Continue Reading →

OpenAI DevDay Recap

OpenAI held DevDay yesterday and announced more than 20 new features and products, including GPT-6.1 Sol: a new model at one-fifth the standard input and output token prices of GPT-6 Astra. It's not the story. Continue Reading →

AI May Not Speak in 1st-Person

On Monday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a motion for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and Sam Altman in Highlands County circuit court, asking a judge to bar ChatGPT from Florida minors, ban it from "referring to itself with any first-person language," and stop OpenAI from developing any AI model "without independent third-party guardrails and approval" while the state's June lawsuit proceeds. Continue Reading →

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