If you run a business, sit on a board, or need to understand your customers, get a personal AI assistant and use it to help run your life. You cannot delegate this assignment. You need to experience how these tools change behavior, where they fall short, and what new businesses their limitations will create. You also need to understand how much surveillance people may willingly accept in exchange for the convenience. Let’s explore. Continue Reading →
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Instagram launched Edits for Mac on Thursday. It’s a free video editor with multitrack editing, automatic captions, color grading, and watermark-free exports up to 4K. You can publish directly to Instagram or export your video for use elsewhere. Continue Reading →
OpenAI announced on November 4 that it plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company, the company behind Code Storage and several open-source developer tools. The deal still needs regulatory approvals and must satisfy other closing conditions. The companies remain independent until it closes. Continue Reading →
Anthropic says AI may soon accelerate its own development faster than the company can keep its safeguards current. Continue Reading →
OpenAI announced its Grid Protectors Program. The company plans to design future compute campuses to reduce electricity demand when local grids are under strain. It wants utilities to treat that flexibility as a resource they can call on during a heat wave or cold snap. National arrangements will be developed location by location. Continue Reading →
Every major marketing platform is now selling “agentic marketing,” and their definitions disagree on the questions that matter most: what counts as an agent, how much it decides on its own, and who approves its work. Continue Reading →
Google's Gemini has a new feature that lets users create, preview, and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other files directly inside a conversation. The rollout adds manual editing alongside instructions to the model. Continue Reading →
Apple announced its touchscreen MacBook Pro yesterday. The 14- and 16-inch models have PROLED XDR OLED displays and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, which arrived in March. The touchscreen is what I want to try. Preorders are open. Deliveries and store availability begin November 6. Continue Reading →
Bank of America is warning customers against sharing banking credentials with AI agents. I was getting ready to make a joke about this when it occurred to me that the warning is less obvious than it should be. Continue Reading →
Anthropic filed its IPO registration statement on October 26, giving companies that use Claude a detailed look at their supplier’s finances. It plans to trade on Nasdaq under ANT. The offering price and number of shares remain undetermined. The IPO has not been completed. Continue Reading →