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Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer — Manus, an artif

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release — Model du

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It’s a big week for Meta. The company just kicked off its big Connect conference on Wednesday, and the new Muse AI agent appears to be an early hit. I’ve been using it — it is surprisingly good. CEO M

Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today introduced a Model Context Protocol server that lets people access the company’s consumer and market research from AI tools such as OpenAI Group PBC’s Ch

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week — Meta's new persona

Bloomberg: Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ — Meta Platforms Inc.'s new art

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse — OpenAI pioneered AI t

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Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use thos

Narrative intelligence company PeakMetrics Inc. today launched a monitoring service that measures how brands are portrayed across five prominent generative artificial intelligence platforms and identi

Sri Muppidi / New York Times: Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a 1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be at least 1.5T — The funding round

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Internal OpenAI docs detail contractors evaluating anonymized prompts and chats to improve the models; model training is turned on by default for consumer plans — Humans are re

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Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting — The first lin

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Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics” — T

Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the company is considering slowing cutting-edge AI development, and he hopes other AI companies will do the same — OpenAI is considering slowi

Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs, I've always thought it would be fun to make som

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OpenAI released GPT‑6 “Astra” — a model benchmarked for superior computer navigation, coding and complex math that can book DMV appointments and hunt apartments faster than an average user. The rollou

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Ch

@openai: In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment — How we think about the “wiki in

The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: We got more details on OpenAl's accidenta

Pictet rolled out Claude Code and Cowork to about 700 people; Anthropic reports selected prototype and compliance-task time savings.

Andreessen Horowitz: a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B — - Enterprises are putting AI tools to work across every part of their organizations. …

OpenClaw, the popular open-source personal agentic artificial intelligence framework, today announced the launch of version 2.0, the largest update in the agent’s history. Unlike a traditional chatbot

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~400M in its second startup fund, after it raised 175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft — The Cha

AI agents are helping developers, teams, and businesses do more: writing and executing code, conducting research, and running dynamic workflows across systems. But that ability is often bounded by whe

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots — E

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fl

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI's repeated exec reshuffles and departures have frustrated some staff as it prepares for an IPO; it disbanded its “preparedness” team in July — Executive exits and safe

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Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't g

Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about ta

Arriana McLymore / Reuters: Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data — As shoppers incr

Herb Scribner / Axios: OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more — OpenAI on Thursd

More details have emerged from Bloomberg about OpenAI Group PBC’s long-awaited hardware device, which was previously described as an artificial intelligence-enabled speaker that will be a “physical ma

Release: llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0 A key goal of the new content-addressable logs in LLM 0.32rc1 was being able to support OpenAI Chat Completion style requests where each incoming message ext

Object storage software company MiniIO Inc. says it has cracked the persistent memory problem for artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new offering called AIStor Memory. Whereas convent

As generative AI matures beyond its early experimentation phase, enterprises are converging on a shared architecture for grounding large language models in trustworthy data: the enterprise knowledge l

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The company is using the software to power its call center. According to O

LWiAI Podcast #249 (June 17 2026) reports that Anthropic halted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a U.S. government order over alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate on export controls and the fe

Today, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna from OpenAI are generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine b

One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude Max plans: We're ex