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…Amazon’s smart new stuff, OpenAI’s social network, and much more. David Pierce Oct 5, 2025 David Pierce Oct 2, 2025 What are you into this week? I’m putting together…
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The DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fight
…right after the launch of ChatGPT. It makes an AI search engine powered by a combination of its own models and existing AI models from OpenAI and others. The original pitch was…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…For example, I’m perfectly fine with OpenAI calling Uber, but then I want in that web interface and within the ChatGPT app, the Uber pixels and the Uber brand so that…
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
The illustration for The New Yorker’s profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a…
Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable
…A second party countered to the Times that one could achieve the same results with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5. Semafor reported that it may have been due to a China-linked…
Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of, here
…Unlike Microsoft, Apple isn’t trying to prove it can go head-to-head with the likes of OpenAI or Anthropic unaided; its new Siri is fueled by Apple foundation models powered…
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
…AI companies scramble. OpenAI is perhaps the funniest, because it is attempting to position itself as a consumer product. Consider Sam Altman telling the world that he needed ChatGPT to tell him…
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
…But the reason I became an AI reporter is because I felt like there was no real regulation in the space, and this was even before ChatGPT. Journalism is a way to…
Speech and Moderation
…FTC Chairman Ferguson Advises Companies to Comply with the Take It Down Act [ Federal Trade Commission ] DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules Emma Roth…
Welcome to the personal software revolution
…Andrej Karpathy, an educator and researcher who was on OpenAI’s founding team, had called this new behavior “vibe coding.” Suddenly the vibes were off the charts. The rise of AI…