Yesterday, Reddit announced that it will retire RSS feeds on November 13 and phase out legacy public Data API access, with remaining access scheduled to close in March 2027. Continue Reading →
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OpenAI held DevDay yesterday and announced more than 20 new features and products, including GPT-6.1 Sol: a new model at one-fifth the standard input and output token prices of GPT-6 Astra. It's not the story. Continue Reading →
On Monday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a motion for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and Sam Altman in Highlands County circuit court, asking a judge to bar ChatGPT from Florida minors, ban it from "referring to itself with any first-person language," and stop OpenAI from developing any AI model "without independent third-party guardrails and approval" while the state's June lawsuit proceeds. Continue Reading →
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay this month titled "We Must Pace the Frontier." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman replied, "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier." Elon Musk added, "Dario is right." Even though nothing is stopping, the three men who are most likely to get us to AGI (artificial general intelligence) and beyond say they want governments to slow them down. Continue Reading →
Meta Connect 2026 produced the usual parade of hardware: Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses starting at $449, camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio frames starting at $349, $1,299 Meta VR Glasses tethered to a pocketable computing puck, and a pocket-sized Muse Charm that looks like a Tamagotchi. I'll let the interweb review the hardware for you; I'm going to concentrate on Muse, Meta's personal agent. Continue Reading →
YouTube used its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday to announce a set of AI tools that turn YouTube Studio into a packaging department. Continue Reading →
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, and OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna roughly an hour later. Continue Reading →
OpenAI announced that it is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to be hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Continue Reading →
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon. As of Sunday night, Muse users who try see a popup that says, "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." Continue Reading →
Something strange happened this week. For the first time since Apple started making iPhones, they launched a flagship phone and, not only did I not order one, I didn’t even think about it. I watched the keynote on September 9. Yawned… thought about the iPhone Duo for about 10 seconds. But giving up camera capabilities for more screen real estate was a non-starter. And, after hearing about the marginally incremental feature improvements, I hardly even considered replacing my iPhone 17 Pro Max with an 18. I’m not surprised by my lack of interest. I’m surprised that Apple could not pique it. Let’s explore. Continue Reading →