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Amazon Web Services just announced the Agentic Shopping Assistant (ASA): a packaged version of the technology behind Amazon's own shopping assistant, now offered to other retailers. The service lets competitors launch their own AI shopping assistants in about 60 days using Amazon's architecture, starter code, and AWS engineers. Continue Reading →

Researchers at X41 D-Sec disclosed "BadHost," a critical vulnerability in Starlette, the open-source Python framework embedded into roughly 325 million new software builds every week. If your enterprise has stood up an AI agent in the last 18 months, some part of the stack runs on Starlette. Continue Reading →

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a website this week asking Americans to report data center concerns in their communities. She's positioning herself as the voice against AI infrastructure expansion across the United States. Continue Reading →

The President was supposed to sign an executive order creating a voluntary federal review process for frontier AI systems. Then, hours before the ceremony, he pulled the plug. Continue Reading →

AdventHealth announced an 80% reduction in time spent on administrative tasks across its hospital system using OpenAI's ChatGPT for Healthcare. The system operates in nine states and serves millions of patients. Continue Reading →

Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O this week, a 24/7 agentic assistant built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity harness. It integrates natively with Gmail, Google Docs, and the rest of Workspace. Spark is currently in testing, with a beta rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. next week. Continue Reading →

Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic. He'll work on the pre-training team under team lead Nick Joseph, where he will start a new initiative focused on using Claude to accelerate Claude's own pre-training research. In his announcement, he said "the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative" and that he was getting "back to R&D." Continue Reading →

LinkedIn announced that it will demote posts showing what VP of Product Laura Lorenzetti called the hallmarks of AI-generated drivel. Engagement bait, recycled thought leadership, and my personal favorite: contrastive construction. Continue Reading →

In the late 1950s, an Air Force pilot named John Boyd had a standing bet. From any disadvantaged starting position in a one-on-one dogfight, he would beat his student in forty seconds or pay forty dollars. "40-Second Boyd," as he came to be known, never paid. He spent the next fifteen years figuring out what he was doing that the students weren't. The answer was the OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. The pilot who cycles faster wins, even when their individual decisions are less elegant. Continue Reading →

OpenAI put Codex on your phone yesterday. The mobile app (iOS and Android) now connects to your running desktop Codex session through a secure relay layer. You can review diffs, approve commits, and monitor agent progress from anywhere. No SSH, no VPN, no laptop required. During the preview period, it's available on every plan, including Free. Continue Reading →