NYTIMES (Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu) - Alibaba’s A.I. Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker
The Chinese company’s models have won over developers worldwide, but they are open source — so they can be used and modified freely.
AF (Deb Henley) - Space Force integrates with Air Force in AI sprint to ensure mission dominance
For the first time, Guardians joined Airmen to work side-by-side with software developers during the Multi-Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, a two-week experiment evaluating how AI tools can effectively integrate to solve complex problems in contested environments.
NYTIMES (Jordyn Holman) - How Grindr’s C.E.O. Adopted A.I.: ‘I Just Imposed It’
George Arison, the gay dating app’s chief executive, is aiming for all code to be eventually written by artificial intelligence, making the company “leaner.”
AXIOS (Megan Morrone) - Exclusive: Codex agents are inching into the mainstream
AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work. Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home and that might soon be a reality. The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside organizations and individual users. Then they measured usage of Codex versus ChatGPT, by tokens. - 99.8% of OpenAI employees' output tokens were produced with Codex, compared to 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals. - OpenAI's…
AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work. Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home and that might soon be a reality. The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside organizations and individual users. Then they measured usage of Codex versus ChatGPT, by tokens. - 99.8% of OpenAI employees' output tokens were produced with Codex, compared to 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals. - OpenAI's…Open
ABCNEWS - Apple expected to unveil new AI features at last developers conference
Apple is expected to unveil new artificial intelligence features at its annual developers conference beginning Monday, which will be the last one featuring CEO Tim Cook before he turns his post over to John Ternus in September
AXIOS (Ashley Gold) - Anthropic warns AI could soon help build its own successors
AI development is moving so rapidly that soon it will be able to advance itself without human involvement, per a new blog post from Anthropic. Why it matters: "Recursive self-improvement," a process in which AI systems build, test and improve themselves, is a phenomenon which may come sooner than expected, Anthropic says its research shows. Driving the news: Anthropic warns that AI is no longer just changing how people work, it's also beginning to change how AI itself gets built. - New data from the company suggests that frontier models have accelerated coding, debugging and research. - That is likely to create a feedback loop in which AI systems create even more sophisticated successors. What they're saying: "We've always found that…
AI development is moving so rapidly that soon it will be able to advance itself without human involvement, per a new blog post from Anthropic. Why it matters: "Recursive self-improvement," a process in which AI systems build, test and improve themselves, is a phenomenon which may come sooner than expected, Anthropic says its research shows. Driving the news: Anthropic warns that AI is no longer just changing how people work, it's also beginning to change how AI itself gets built. - New data from the company suggests that frontier models have accelerated coding, debugging and research. - That is likely to create a feedback loop in which AI systems create even more sophisticated successors. What they're saying: "We've always found that…Open
NYTIMES (Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith) - The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut.
NYTIMES (Clive Thompson) - Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Amazon strikes $50B OpenAI deal
A deal with OpenAI could put Amazon first to market with a new type of AI service for developers — but the two companies will have to tread carefully to avoid running afoul of OpenAI's deal with Microsoft . Why it matters: If successful, Amazon Web Services could land in the more enviable position at the leading edge of generative AI rather than being forced to compete mainly by delivering models more cheaply than rival clouds. Driving the news: Amazon and OpenAI on Friday announced a multi-pronged deal that calls for Amazon to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI, with Amazon getting access to a variety of OpenAI services. - The most notable piece: Amazon would be first to offer a new kind of computing they are calling "stateful runtime…
A deal with OpenAI could put Amazon first to market with a new type of AI service for developers — but the two companies will have to tread carefully to avoid running afoul of OpenAI's deal with Microsoft . Why it matters: If successful, Amazon Web Services could land in the more enviable position at the leading edge of generative AI rather than being forced to compete mainly by delivering models more cheaply than rival clouds. Driving the news: Amazon and OpenAI on Friday announced a multi-pronged deal that calls for Amazon to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI, with Amazon getting access to a variety of OpenAI services. - The most notable piece: Amazon would be first to offer a new kind of computing they are calling "stateful runtime…Open
NYTIMES (Paul Ford) - The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.