Replit makes OpenAI its default while Claude stays available. Google, Meta and OpenAI expand AI’s reach as websites and auditors test its limits.
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Replit makes OpenAI its default while Claude stays available. Google, Meta and OpenAI expand AI’s reach as websites and auditors test its limits.
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won't play nice? In recent weeks,
Why it matters: Useful for teams deciding how to make agents reliable outside a demo.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where,
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
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Why it matters: Worth tracking for teams watching where software, infrastructure and AI are converging.
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.