If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
… OpenClaw let people chat with their agents via everyday apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, and as long as a laptop was open the agents could run around the clock. …
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OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own
… OpenAI’s new workspace agents can be shared within organizations, “so teams can build an agent once, use it together in ChatGPT or Slack, and improve it over time.” The company says that the agents are designed to “gather context from the right systems, follow team processes, ask for approval when … …
Now that OpenAI’s Microsoft exclusivity is over, it has a new deal with Amazon and AWS.
… Ben Thompson interviewed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman and said it seems clear that “OpenAI’s focus is going to be on AWS,” particularly with an eye toward the new Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents setup. …
OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code
… It can work in the background, meaning it won’t interfere with your own work in other apps, and multiple agents can work in parallel. …
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
… Reasoning models, which increasingly power AI agents, are notoriously expensive on the inference side as well, said Georgia Tech’s Riedl. …
SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion
… A report by The Information this week said Sergey Brin has directed Google’s “strike team” to help its agentic AI tools catch up, while Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” at OpenAI last year before shutting down Sora to focus on the ChatGPT superapp and its own Codex tool. …
Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
… Win the agent platform layer The market has moved from prompts to agents. …
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
… It’s like, okay, Slack is going to have a bunch of agents that can go talk to Canva’s database of images. Canva will have a bunch of agents that can go talk to Slack’s database of conversations, something else is going to happen over here. …
Cybersecurity
… Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool WIRED Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent Emma Roth Mar 31 Emma Roth Mar 31 A hacker hijacked a popular coding tool to deliver malware. …
Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
… I wouldn’t be surprised to see OpenAI’s models also appear on Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform service in the future. …