/
Navigation
C
Chronicles
Browse all articles
C
E
Explore
Semantic exploration
E
R
Research
Entity momentum
R
N
Nexus
Correlations & relationships
N
~
Story Arc
Topic evolution
S
Drift Map
Semantic trajectory animation
D
P
Posts
Analysis & commentary
P
Browse
@
Entities
Companies, people, products, technologies
Domains
Browse by publication source
Handles
Browse by social media handle
Detection
?
Concept Search
Semantic similarity search
!
High Impact Stories
Top coverage by position
+
Sentiment Analysis
Positive/negative coverage
*
Anomaly Detection
Unusual coverage patterns
Analysis
vs
Rivalry Report
Compare two entities head-to-head
/\
Semantic Pivots
Narrative discontinuities
!!
Crisis Response
Event recovery patterns
Connected
Nav: C E R N
Search: /
Command: ⌘K
Embeddings: large
VOICE ARCHIVE

Ben Tossell

@bentossell
40 posts
2026-02-18
2026 is the year of the personal agent. this is the closest I've seen to making that accessible to everyone. i had the absolute pleasure to spend a few hours with @dps + @hbarra talking agents, operating-systems and why should engineers have all the fun [image]
2026-02-18 View on X
flurries of latent creativity

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps

Dreamer is the name of the platform and company I started with Hugo, Nicholas and others a little over a year ago.

2025-11-21
good way for getting regular users to get friends and fam also using chatgpt i reckon this will do pretty big numbers
2025-11-21 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions

ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on Thursday.

2025-08-14
i'd think worsely about any co who thought perplexity buying them was the answer also 20bn for what? web search is a commodity [image]
2025-08-14 View on X
The Information

Sources: Perplexity spoke to The Browser Co. and Brave about acquiring them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also spoke to The Browser Co. about an acquisition

Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google's Chrome …

2025-07-10
i remember when people said it was just decent for prototyping...
2025-07-10 View on X
Forbes

Sources: LangChain, which helps developers use off-the-shelf AI models to create new apps, raised $100M led by IVP at a $1.1B valuation

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes :

2025-04-20
nvm o3 did this without any mcps needed
2025-04-20 View on X
Every

A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough”

Our take on what's powerful, what's practical, and what's still TBD … If you've been following AI news this week …

2024-12-14
Just reading these emails is enough for Xmas Also Agi in less than 10 years (2028) 👀 [image]
2024-12-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Letter: Meta urges California's AG to stop OpenAI's for-profit transition, says Musk is “qualified” to “represent the interests of Californians in this matter”

Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit Mark Zuckerberg's company …

2024-11-01
Google grounding with google search ChatGPT search You'll search where you're working, as you're working
2024-11-01 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

and I'm shocked by the results Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent : OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a search engine Hayden Field / CNBC : OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing wit...

2024-07-27
new grok default setting... [image]
2024-07-27 View on X
Windows Central

X activates a setting, on by default, that gives it permission to train Grok on user's posts; the setting can be turned off on the web but not in the mobile app

X's new experience is automatically set to opt-in and uses your data to train its Grok AI model.

2024-05-15
So google will have the best search & ai experience and the widest reach Obviously
2024-05-15 View on X
Search Engine Land

Google plans to roll out AI Overviews in Search to all US users by next week, and to more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by the end of 2024

AI Overviews is rolling out to all US based searchers in Google Search, making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions …

So google will have the best search & ai experience and the widest reach Obviously
2024-05-15 View on X
Platformer

The arrival of AI search bodes ill for everyone who relies on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded

With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background

2024-05-14
searching real-time with my new boo 4o [image]
2024-05-14 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks

There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o  —  We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, visi...

4o vs perplexity [image]
2024-05-14 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks

There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o  —  We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, visi...

4o vs perplexity [image]
2024-05-14 View on X
Axios

OpenAI rolls out GPT-4o's text and image capabilities to ChatGPT Plus and Team users, with the voice version coming soon; the mysterious gpt2-chatbot was GPT-4o

Ina Fried / Axios :

2024-04-25
Turns out we're all just building @stripe wrappers
2024-04-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Stripe says some of its products will be available to companies that are using other payments providers, and unveils new embedded finance features and AI tools

2023-11-23
Agreement in principle Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. Interesting to see Adam still on. People dunking on him may have over reacted
2023-11-23 View on X
The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

Agreement in principle Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. Interesting to see Adam still on. People dunking on him may have over reacted
2023-11-23 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

2023-11-22
Agreement in principle Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. Interesting to see Adam still on. People dunking on him may have over reacted
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-11-18
“No upside in OpenAI” was right. damn
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

2023-10-09
Anthropic's new research extracts a large number of interpretable features from a one-layer transformer. What does that mean? The neural networks in large language models show superposition. That means each neuron in the network represents more than one unique feature....
2023-10-09 View on X
Anthropic

A research paper details how decomposing groups of neural network neurons into “interpretable features” may improve safety by enabling the monitoring of LLMs

Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules.  With each step of training …

2023-10-08
Anthropic's new research extracts a large number of interpretable features from a one-layer transformer. What does that mean? The neural networks in large language models show superposition. That means each neuron in the network represents more than one unique feature....
2023-10-08 View on X
Anthropic

A research paper details how decomposing groups of neurons in a neural network into interpretable “features” may improve safety by enabling monitoring of LLMs

Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules.  With each step of training …