A year after the DeepSeek shock following R1's release, US tech companies still lead in AI chips, model quality, and sales, with no change in investment trends
About the author: Chris Miller is the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology.LinkedIn:Chris MillerLinkedIn:Chris Miller:One year has passed since the Chinese AI lab Dee...
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026
Netflix announced this week that it had reached … Axios : Netflix to buy Warner Bros. for nearly $83 billion Alex Pigman / Taipei Times : Warner Bros acquisition by Netflix sparks backlash Victory Emm...
First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks
a web browser with ChatGPT built in, not bolted on. The browser is the agent now. Tabs are prompts. The search bar is dead. Welcome to the post-URL era. P.S the browser wrote this on its own Arlan / @...
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions”
OpenAI responded, but is it enough? Mary Cunningham / CBS News : OpenAI blocks Sora 2 users from using MLK Jr.'s likeness after “disrespectful depictions” Katrina Morgan / WUSA : OpenAI takes away abi...
Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API
Google released a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model today, specially designed … Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Google's AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini ...
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents
New tools for building, deploying, and optimizing agents. NDTV Profit : What Is AI Agent Builder And How Does It Work? OpenAI Launches New Set Of Tools For Developers Aman Gupta / Livemint : OpenAI ag...
Meta rolls out a Horizon TV hub for Quest headsets, with apps including Disney+ and ESPN, and partners with Universal and Blumhouse to let users watch 3D movies
here's what we know Rasmus Larsen / FlatpanelsHD : Meta Quest: Disney+ coming soon, Dolby Atmos & new streaming hub Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta Horizon TV is an entertainment hub for VR headsets C...
A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020
www.theguardian.com/news/ng- inte... Mastodon: Julian Oliver / @JulianOliver@mastodon.social : Interesting piece on Song-Chun Zhu, an influential ‘AI’ scientist who left the US after nearly 30yrs for ...
Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 npm packages with 2.6B+ total weekly downloads, after compromising a maintainer's account via phishing
Popular npm packages debug and chalk were recently compromised, exposing developers and organizations to potential malware risk. … Charlie Eriksen : Hello. It feels like the first Monday of the fall ...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...