Word on the street: someone at GitHub hit “publish” instead of “save.” The result: a brief peek into OpenAI’s next release. Continue Reading →
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The wait is over for OpenAI’s open‑weight models. For the first time since GPT‑2, OpenAI is giving developers access to the raw model weights. No API, no cloud dependency, no rate limits, and no vendor lock-in. You download them. You run them. You own the infrastructure. After five years of locking things behind an endpoint, OpenAI has released gpt‑oss‑120b and gpt‑oss‑20b under an Apache 2.0 license. Continue Reading →
ElevenLabs has launched Eleven Music, their new AI music generation service, and they say they've done it with a new strategy: don't get sued. While competitors Suno and Udio are in litigation with major labels for allegedly training on copyrighted material, ElevenLabs secured licensing deals with Merlin Network (a digital rights agency for independent labels) and Kobalt Music Group before launching. That's revolutionary thinking in AI circles. Continue Reading →
The words we use to control generative AI have become competitive assets. In a recent cookbook entry, OpenAI detailed “meta‑prompting,” a method that uses a more powerful model to write or refine a prompt for another model. Equally important are “pre‑prompts,” system-level instructions that set the model’s identity, tone, and behavior before any user input is received. These may sound like technical nuances, but together, they will shape how enterprises deploy, govern, and scale AI across the organization. Let's explore. Continue Reading →
A TechCrunch investigation revealed something that should make everyone pause before clicking "share" on their next ChatGPT conversation. When users create public links to their ChatGPT conversations, Google and other search engines are indexing them, making private conversations discoverable through simple domain filtering searches. Continue Reading →
Yesterday, I was one of the 183 million people who watched AI-generated rabbits bouncing on a backyard trampoline on TikTok. The video, presented as Ring camera footage, was adorable. It was also fake. Continue Reading →
According to internal memos reported by Wired and Business Insider, Meta is testing a new interview format that invites select candidates to solve programming challenges with AI tools, exactly as they would on the job. Meta engineers are running mock interviews to evaluate how this changes both candidate performance and interviewer assessment. The logic is bulletproof: if your developers use AI tools every single day at work, why are you pretending these tools don't exist during hiring? Continue Reading →
My inbox exploded this week with Reddit screenshots claiming that OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicked through Cloudflare's "I am not a robot" verification while narrating the process: "This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot and proceed with the action." Continue Reading →
This week, Google quietly rolled out a new experimental feature called Web Guide. It lives in the Search Labs section and, for now, only affects results in the “Web” tab. However, if this moves into the main search experience, it will impact how people find content. Continue Reading →
The Trump Administration has released its 25-page "America's AI Action Plan," and everyone should read it. This document presents a significant policy shift. Continue Reading →