- Ben Thompson: An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About DevDay and the AI Buildout (Oct 8, 2025)
Altman envisions OpenAI as a unifying AI service integrated across various platforms, emphasizing the importance of infrastructure, strategic partnerships, and user feedback in achieving this vision. - Maginative: Google’s New AI Can Navigate Websites Like a Human (Oct 7, 2025)
Google unveiled Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, an AI model that can interact with graphical user interfaces like a human, enabling automation of tasks within web and mobile apps. - WSJ: OpenAI Lets Users Buy Stuff Directly Through ChatGPT (Sep 29, 2025)
The company also unveiled the Agentic Commerce Protocol, an open-source standard aimed at enabling more merchants to integrate their products into ChatGPT for seamless in-chat shopping experiences. - Simon Willison: Dane Stuckey (OpenAI CISO) on prompt injection risks for ChatGPT Atlas (Oct 22, 2025)
OpenAI’s CISO addressed concerns about prompt injection attacks in the new ChatGPT Atlas browser, acknowledging it as an unsolved security problem. My take: use AI browsers cautiously. - WSJ: AI Wants to Tell You Which Beauty Products to Buy. Should You Let It? (Oct 17, 2025)
I’m no expert in beauty products, but it certainly seems in a company’s interest to sell you more products. Buyer beware. - WSJ: AI Is Juicing the Economy. Is It Making American Workers More Productive? (Oct 13, 2025)
The answer (right now) is no. Productivity gains are expected but not yet seen. - Alex Tabarrok: AI and the FDA (Sep 24, 2025)
AI is expected to significantly speed up the drug development process, potentially leading to a surge in new computationally validated drugs. - NY Times: OpenAI Completes Deal That Values It at $500 Billion (Oct 2, 2025)
Now the world’s most valuable private company, exceeding SpaceX.