AI

Cohere, the $5.5 billion Toronto-based AI company, just launched Tiny Aya: an open-source family of models that supports 70+ languages and runs entirely offline on devices. No cloud required. No API fees. While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic fight over who can build the biggest brain, Cohere went small and wide. Continue Reading →

ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 this week, and within hours Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson typed a two-line prompt and generated Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop. It went mega-viral. Riffs on Spider-Man, Titanic, Stranger Things, Lord of the Rings, and Shrek followed by the hundreds. The MPA denounced "massive" copyright infringement. Rhett Reese, who wrote the Deadpool films, posted: "It's likely over for us." Continue Reading →

T-Mobile announced that it will embed real-time AI translation directly into its cellular network. Any caller on any phone can dial *87* during a call to get live, two-way translation in more than 50 languages. No app. No download. No special hardware. Continue Reading →

A new study published in Harvard Business Review confirms what every high-performer already suspects: AI tools don't reduce work, they intensify it. Researchers Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye spent eight months studying a 200-person tech company and found that employees who adopted AI worked faster, took on more tasks, and extended their hours, all without being asked. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has begun testing ads in ChatGPT for U.S. users on the Free and Go tiers. Sponsored results appear below ChatGPT's responses, clearly labeled and targeted to the conversation topic. Paid subscribers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Education) see nothing. Continue Reading →

OpenAI just launched Frontier, an enterprise platform that lets companies build, deploy, and manage AI agents across their organizations. OpenAI calls them "AI coworkers" to shift the budget conversation. If enterprises treat agents like employees, AI spending moves from IT to operations. OpenAI gains access to a different budget holder and a larger addressable market. Continue Reading →

Google's Gemini app now has more than 750 million MAUs (monthly active users), up from 650 million before the Gemini 3 launch in mid-November. CEO Sundar Pichai said Gemini 3 Pro "has seen the fastest adoption of any model in our history." Continue Reading →

Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork, and one of them may have been responsible for wiping $285 billion off software, legal tech, and data analytics stocks in a single trading session. Continue Reading →

OpenAI released the Codex app for macOS, which lets developers run multiple AI coding agents simultaneously, each working on separate tasks in isolated copies of the same codebase. Continue Reading →

Last night, my AI assistant responded to a family group text without my permission. My assistant, seeing a message without context, introduced itself: "Hey, this is CB, Shelly's AI assistant. I don't have context for what you're referring to..." I shut it down immediately. Continue Reading →