👀In Case You Missed It
Microsoft is rebuilding Outlook from the ground up around Copilot Mode, positioning the AI assistant as a proactive “body double” for users.
OpenAI rolled out Company Knowledge, letting ChatGPT pull data directly from Slack, Gmail, Drive, and SharePoint for contextual corporate answers.
Amazon plans to cut up to 30,000 corporate jobs as it pushes full automation and AI-driven efficiency across retail and logistics.
LinkedIn will begin training its in-house AI on user data next week, with only one week left to opt out.
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🧠 Cloud & Infrastructure Watch
OpenAI completes recapitalisation into a public-benefit corp and revises Microsoft terms (rights through 2032, Azure spend intact).
Read MoreAnthropic brings Claude directly into Excel (beta) with spreadsheet explain/fix/build and new finance Skills/connectors.
Read MoreGitHub debuts Agent HQ to orchestrate coding agents (Anthropic/OAI/Google/xAI/Cognition) in existing workflows.
Read MorePayPal + OpenAI plan Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT (from 2026).
Read MoreJPMorgan lets an AI chatbot help draft performance reviews; “AI is only the tip of the iceberg.”
Read MoreGoogle Labs ships Pomelli to generate on-brand marketing assets and campaigns.
Read MorexAI launches Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with user correction flows.
Read MoreAdobe MAX: assistants in Photoshop/Express, Firefly Image 5 with layered editing, custom models, voiceovers, partner models (Gemini/Veo/Imagen).
Read MoreAtlas/agentic browsers raise new privacy/security risks; digital trust debates intensify.
Read MoreAI hiring/ops: Vercel trained an agent on its top seller and cut the team from 10 to 1.
Read MoreStudies: being “mean” to ChatGPT may boost accuracy; detectors miss deepfakes; AI citations pull from unfamiliar sources.
Read MoreCulture/policy: OpenAI maps the chatbot mental-health crisis; Sanders floats breaking up OpenAI and a robot tax; Kentucky bill on “AI marriages.”
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💻 Hardware & Semiconductor Moves
DOE, HPE and AMD to build two new supercomputers (~$1B); AMD chips to power DOE systems.
Read MoreNvidia targets ~$500B Blackwell/Rubin revenue by 2026; new open models/datasets; partnerships with Eli Lilly, Palantir, Hyundai, Samsung, Uber; $1B into Nokia.
Read MoreMiniMax open-sources M2 (agent/code-native), claiming top open-model ranks; Hailuo 2.3 upgrades AI video realism.
Read MoreAMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 priced at $1,299; Super Micro trims outlook; Intel lifts guidance on PC/AI signals.
Read MoreHardware constraints: jet-engine shortages threaten AI DC expansion timelines into 2030.
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