i get the vibe here, but... we do mostly need the capital for build AI that can do science, and for sure we are focused on AGI with almost all of our research effort. it is also nice to show people cool new tech/products along the way, make them smile, and hopefully make some money given all that compute need. when we launched chatgpt there was a lot of "who needs this and where is AGI". reality is nuanced when it comes to optimal trajectories for a company.

The whole point of building Tavus has been simple: talking to a machine should feel as natural as talking to a friend or coworker. It’s hard to describe all the tiny nuances that make a conversation feel human. The little expressions. Moving around in your chair. Knowing when to speak and when to listen. The dance of it all. Griffin is by far the closest anyone has come to a model that can capture those nuances. The first time I saw it being used, I had no idea I was watching our model rather than just a normal video call. I’m so incredibly proud of this team and what they’ve built.

New Anthropic research: Natural Language Autoencoders. Models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. The numbers—called activations—encode Claude’s thoughts, but not in a language we can read. Here, we train Claude to translate its activations into human-readable text.

JUST IN - Iran says it will attack major U.S. tech companies across the Middle East, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Oracle, Tesla, HP, Intel and IBM — The Hill

New in M365 Copilot: Council. You can run multiple models on the same prompt at the same time, so you can see where they align and diverge, and understand what each adds.

when you step into the office and your founding AI engineer is on his 3rd all nighter this team never stops shipping

Sam Altman has a pretty simple succession plan for OpenAI: Hand off the company to an AI model. If the goal is for artificial intelligence to become so advanced that it can run companies, he asks, then why not his own? “I would never stand in the way of that,” he says. “I should be the most willing to do that.” Read more from our conversation with Sam Altman: forbes.com/sites/richardniev… (Photo: Cody Pickens for Forbes) #Forbes250

Twitter is dying and threads is replacing it.

The deal has been finalized: Apple will integrate Gemini into iOS. "After careful evaluation, we determined that Google's technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we're excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users," Apple wrote.

California’s wealth tax is indeed ridiculous. Take Ilya Sutskever as an example. He has $20B+ worth of OpenAI equity now. Let’s say he owns 1/3 of SSI, worth $10B+. He has to give California 5% x (20+10) = $1.5B. And he cannot pay with OpenAI/SSI equity. He has to pay in cash! SSI has (only) raised $3B. This is how California drives founders away.

AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future. To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey. And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.

Weekend win: The proof I submitted for Erdos Problem #397 was accepted by Terence Tao. The proof was generated by GPT 5.2 Pro and formalized with Harmonic. Many open problems are sitting there, waiting for someone to prompt ChatGPT to solve them:

Amazon, $AMZN, AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is "one of the dumbest ideas," and bad for business: "At some point, the whole thing explodes on itself."

This guy took to the internet to tell the world he wanted to deport Indians from the United States because others may attack them. First of all, why would I want to keep those who would violently attack others in my country? There's no logic to this but hatred.

Your Year with ChatGPT! Now rolling out to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia who have reference saved memory and reference chat history turned on. Just make sure your app is updated.

BREAKING - San Francisco hit by huge electricity outage, affecting 130,000 residents: power provider Aerial view of San Francisco blackout (📸 Tyler Brown) READ: bit.ly/49oeqnu

The power outage in San Francisco has caused Waymo’s self-driving cars to come to a halt, leading to traffic disruptions across the city.

We estimate that, on our tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50%-time horizon of around 4 hrs 49 mins (95% confidence interval of 1 hr 49 mins to 20 hrs 25 mins). While we're still working through evaluations for other recent models, this is our highest published time horizon to date.