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OpenAI launched "workspace agents" in ChatGPT yesterday. Powered by Codex, these persistent, autonomous agents run in the cloud, integrate with ChatGPT and Slack, and handle complex workflows across tools and teams. OpenAI describes them as "an evolution of GPTs," with existing Custom GPTs eventually convertible into full workspace agents. Continue Reading →

OpenAI is adding CPC (cost-per-click) to ChatGPT ads this week. Advertisers can now bid $3 to $5 per click, which puts ChatGPT somewhere between Meta (cheap clicks, browsing intent) and Google Search (expensive clicks, purchase intent). Where it actually lands will depend on proving something OpenAI has not yet proven: does a ChatGPT click drive an outcome? Continue Reading →

Tim Cook announced yesterday that he will step down as Apple CEO on September 1. John Ternus, head of hardware engineering (and an Apple lifer since 2001), will take over. Cook will stay on as executive chairman with responsibility for global policymaker engagement. Continue Reading →

Evals are the single most important (and most misunderstood) component of any AI deployment, and they deserve a deeper look. Continue Reading →

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on Wednesday with impressive numbers: 10.9 percentage points higher on SWE-bench Pro (the gold-standard coding test), 3x more production tasks resolved on Rakuten’s benchmark, 98.5% on visual acuity up from 54.5%, and state-of-the-art scores on finance evaluations. For devs, this is a genuine step forward. For consumers, the story is a bit different. Continue Reading →

Adobe just launched Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, and Illustrator using natural language commands. Instead of switching between applications and navigating menus, you can tell the assistant to resize images for social media, color-grade footage to match brand guidelines, or generate logo variations. It coordinates the work across whatever Adobe tools the task requires. Continue Reading →

Google just launched Skills in Chrome, which converts your AI prompts into reusable one-click tools. Instead of retyping "make this recipe vegan" across multiple food sites, you save it as a Skill and run it instantly on any page. You can also share these custom workflows or grab pre-built ones from Google's Skills library. Continue Reading →

Microsoft is exploring ways to integrate OpenClaw-style autonomous features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to The Information. Omar Shahine, a corporate VP at Microsoft, confirmed the company is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context.” OpenClaw (356k GitHub stars) gained massive popularity earlier this year despite raising serious security concerns. Continue Reading →

As we start to deploy enterprise-grade AI platforms at scale, leadership teams are coming face to face with two formidable challenges. The first is Technical Debt, Ward Cunningham's enduring metaphor for describing outdated technical infrastructure. The second is Cultural Debt, the sum of every unresolved habit, unexamined process, and unspoken assumption your organization carries forward because, well, this is the (your company name goes here) way. Continue Reading →

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents in public beta at eight cents per agent runtime hour plus model usage fees. Developers get sandboxed containers, authentication, checkpointing, error recovery, session persistence, and end-to-end execution tracing: every piece of infrastructure that separates a demo from a production deployment, available as a set of composable APIs. Continue Reading →