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OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.

OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex

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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.

This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Elon Musk says X’s codebase will be made open source.

Along with his usual morning tweets in support of right-wing politics, against certain immigrants to the US, and boosting data centers, the sometimes-trillionaire writes, “Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝒛 open source, with no exceptions.” (He didn’t mention how Grok Build had apparently made exposing your code a little too easy.)

Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise

Watch as Equity catches up with Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, co-founders of Fractional AI, the applied AI services startup that Ode with Anthropic acquired earlier this year to serve as the new venture’s core.

The UK finally has a blueprint for innovation

The Whittle Lab aims to transform aerothermal engineering, one of the country’s strongest manufacturing industries

George Lucas says AI makes it ‘much easier’ to make movies.

In an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, the man who loves pushing technological boundries enough to anger his fans with controversial remasters had this to say about people who oppose artificial intelligence in film making:

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

I asked Fable and Codex what my business should automate. They disagreed.

Fable won this test, and I am still divided about what that means.

Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.

Reelful's AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media

The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.