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Theo Browne: What do we build now?
Theo Browne argues that the leap from tool-calling to orchestration models has made most current developer habits skeuomorphic. Instead of building deeper features, teams should now build wider product surfaces and let AI fill in the gaps, making it viable for small teams to compete with incumbents like AWS.
The Golden Age of AI Engineering: Codex, Cost Curves, and Agent Loops at OpenAI
OpenAI engineers use the leap from a staged demo that couldn't test its own code to a production agent controlling hardware to argue that AI engineering's real bottleneck is now human attention, not model capability. Codex ships on the same API and open-source format as every developer, with 750 tokens per second at $6 per million output tokens, fast enough to generate real PRs in seconds.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
Midjourney has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, adding its 4.3 million monthly active users and team of 24 to the AI lab's expanding portfolio.
Bluesky’s Attie adds Quests for open social research
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie adds Quests, letting users research trending topics and influential accounts across the AT Protocol social web.
AI firms urge against broad open-weight restrictions in US-China policy debate
AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia urge US policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight models amid China tensions.
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
AI guardrails meant to stop malicious hackers are now hindering legitimate offensive cybersecurity researchers, pushing them to open-source models.
OpenAI Launches Health in ChatGPT for U.S. Users
OpenAI launches Health in ChatGPT for U.S. users, securely connecting Apple Health and medical records to personalize conversations across topics.
Google’s Gemini nears 1 billion users with 950 million monthly active users
Google's Gemini AI assistant now has 950 million monthly active users, tripling from last year, and is closing in on ChatGPT's 1 billion users.
Treasury threatens sanctions over claim Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warns Chinese AI companies of sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable model for IP theft.