AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call “extensibility.”
Productivity is being lost, because too many teams are drowning in AI slop, and endless “almost useful” drafts that look impressive but don’t move the work forward.
OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.
The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.
AI adoption needs both top-down leadership and bottom-up experimentation to move fast without losing focus.
Have AI agents like Moltbot fundamentally changed whether we need a computer for work? What does this mean for business?
AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.
Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.
As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that made creators matter – the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked – is now accessible to anyone with the right tools.” […]
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