AI

Google's Universal Cart lets shoppers save products from multiple retailers, get price-drop and restock alerts, and check out with Google Pay. A rise in orders attributed to Google cannot tell you whether it created profitable demand or just moved where existing demand gets fulfilled. Continue Reading →

OpenAI will remove specified GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini versions from its API on January 14, 2027, and recommends GPT-6 Luna. Models are raw intelligence; the harness is proprietary. How much of your AI investment survives a model change? Continue Reading →

Anthropic ran an AI model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes and, in a separate test, had an agent move between emulated machines and set up copies of itself. No self-contained rogue replicator yet, but the cybersecurity threat from frontier models is real, and the arms race is on. Continue Reading →

Meta introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, models built for agents that work through problems over time. Muse Code subscriptions default to Contributor mode, which lets Meta train on the code, files and context you send. Before handing an agent a client project, someone has to check the data settings. Continue Reading →

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’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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →