AI

OpenAI used DevDay to reposition ChatGPT as a place where work gets done. The company shipped tools that let teams run apps, automate workflows, and hand real tasks to agents inside one interface. This will compress time to value, reduce integration overhead, and put a single pane of glass in front of your data, your apps, and your people. Here's a quick overview. Continue Reading →

The controversy over Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated "actor," has exposed something deeper than union postures and moral panic. It forces us to reexamine what acting is, what AI does, and why the usual arguments miss the point entirely. While reading this I'm going to ask you to keep an open mind. I know this will not be a popular interpretation of this issue, but musicians lived this experience during the transition from acoustic to electronic musical instruments, the advent of the digital synthesizer and again at the advent of sampling keyboards. Evolution is an amoral process. We must adapt. Let's explore. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has completed a secondary share sale that values the company at $500 billion, vaulting it past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s most valuable private startup. Continue Reading →

Anthropic positions Sonnet 4.5 as its best model for coding, complex agents, and “computer use,” with gains in reasoning and math. Pricing stays at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. It’s live in the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI. Continue Reading →

OpenAI just released Sora 2, a new video and audio generation model that feels like the jump from GPT-1 to GPT-3.5, but for moving images. Continue Reading →

As you know, OpenAI doesn't make any money – the vast majority of their 700 million weekly active users do not pay for the service – so it was just a matter of time before they figured out how to put up a tollbooth in every commerce-oriented prompt result. Continue Reading →

The transition from SEO to AEO is underway. The idea is simple. Instead of optimizing for a list of links, you optimize for answer engines such as Google Gemini, AI Overviews, Chrome’s AI Mode, and ChatGPT Search which decide which pages to cite, which brands to mention, and which products to present when responding to user questions in natural language. Continue Reading →

OpenAI just introduced ChatGPT Pulse, a new daily feed for Pro users that feels like a step beyond Q&A. Instead of waiting for you to type, Pulse proactively curates updates based on your chats, memory, and optional app connections (like Gmail and Google Calendar). Each morning, you get a personalized set of visual cards with suggestions, follow-ups, or reminders, designed to help you move projects forward. Continue Reading →

Those of us wishing Copilot didn't suck just got a gift from our friends in Redmond. Starting today, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 models will be available to Copilot users in the Researcher tool and through Copilot Studio. Microsoft says this gives customers flexibility to “mix which models are used for specific tasks.” Continue Reading →

A new study published in Harvard Business Review by Stanford University and BetterUp Labs introduces a term that should worry every executive: "workslop." Continue Reading →