Briefing

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they w…

Call for tenders: Study on how online marketplace design influences user behaviour

Call for tenders: Study on how online marketplace design influences user behaviour Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/18/2026 - 11:13   Opening: 17 August 20…

Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video

We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate. The …

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open model built for high-volume agentic workloads, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. This post shows how to dep…

Claude Code v2.1.234

What Flock’s defenders are missing

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech…

Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

Give an autonomous agent a wallet and spending guardrails so it can pay for paywalled APIs, MCP servers, and web content. This post connects OpenClaw to Amazon …

President Trump Delivers Largest Prescription Drug Price Drop in Over 60 Years

President Donald J. Trump promised to slash prescription drug prices — and he has delivered. New data confirms prescription drug prices just recorded their larg…

ICYMI: “USS Lincoln: Performance For the Ages”

In a powerful op-ed, U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper shares a firsthand account from his visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln. Adm. Cooper describes…

Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens

Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.…

Governing AI with intention in the social impact sector

As AI adoption grows, mission-driven organizations must weigh how to adopt new capabilities without sacrificing the trust central to every donor relationship, c…

Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism

The new frontier of AI is developing capable autonomous researchers…

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs…

The Defender’s Window

AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.…

Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence

AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era—where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and c…

The Keyboard Is Dying on Schedule. The Text Box Is Next.

Fourteen months ago, I wrote that we were betting Wispr would kill the keyboard. The claim needed defending then; voice dictation had disappointed for decades. …

ChinAI #371: Quiet Goodbyes, Switching Platforms, and Confrontation: Reactions to China's AI Companion Regulations

Greetings from a world where……

New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.…

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practic…

Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel

Google Gemini and Pixel partner with five global football clubs to elevate the fan matchday experience through AI and Smartphone Technology.…

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models pose…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.21.1

ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automatio…

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an …

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.21.0

Claude Code v2.1.233

GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier

Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.…

You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media w…

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look lik…

Presidential Message on the Anniversary of Winning World War II

Today, our Nation celebrates the 81st anniversary of Imperial Japan’s unconditional surrender—the moment American might brought the Sec…