They are looking to make a device that’s «simple and playful,» The Verge reports, and it is rumored to be screen-free and about the size of a smartphone, they say.
Continue reading “Jony Ive and Altman detail new device as something «to take a bite of»”
For simple shopping questions and when you already kind of know what you want, normal ChatGPT is excellent at finding it.
But when you are unsure and want more depth, the new ChatGPT shopping assistant clicks in with more granular depth from qthe uestions you may have, and presents you with rich visuals and comparisons.
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It scores 80.9% in SWE-bench Verified, the preferred benchmark for coding lately. Gemini 3 has 76.2% in this bench, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max registers at 77.9%.
Continue reading “Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, with top scores in most benchmarks”
This comes as almost every other Big Tech company is increasing data center spending and Google has set aside $93 billion in «capital expenditures» this year to do the same.
This will be followed by a «significant increase» in 2026, but likely not matching OpenAI’s enormous $1.4 trillion data center spending.
They are aiming to «spend a lot,» and hit «the next 1000x in 4-5 years,» Vahdat is reported to have said.
That’s one thousand times more «capability, compute and storage networking» that he aims to add for «essentially the same cost, power and energy spend.»
Read more: The scoop at CNBC, writeups at Ars Technica and Gizmodo.
— GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max is faster, more intelligent, and more token-efficient at every stage of the development cycle–and a new step towards becoming a reliable coding partner, says OpenAI in their launch post.
It has been observed by the AI lab to work independently on tasks for more than 24 hours, iterating on its implementations and delivering a «successful result.»
Codex-Max is also the first OpenAI model trained in a Windows environment, and will achieve better performance than the previous GPT-5.1-Codex using 30% fewer tokens — meaning it’s cheaper and more efficient.
Read more: The launch post, VentureBeat. Discussion on r/Singularity.
— We’re increasingly going to be customers of each other. We will use Anthropic models, they will use our infrastructure and we’ll go to market together, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, according to Reuters.
The agreement means Anthropic will optimize their software stack to better run on Nvidia’s hardware, while Nvidia will «optimize for Anthropic workloads.»
Continue reading “Anthropic partners with Nvidia, Microsoft in $30 billion Azure deal”
— Like the generations before it, Gemini 3 is once again advancing the state of the art, says CEO Sundar Pichai on their launch page, and adds: — In this new chapter, we’ll continue to push the frontiers of intelligence, agents, and personalization to make AI truly helpful for everyone.
Debuting in preview across all of Google’s services, including AI Mode on their front page, the new model is «another big step on the path toward AGI,» Google says.
Continue reading “Google launches Gemini 3, blows out benchmarks and is less sycophantic”
— Our 4.1 model is exceptionally capable in creative, emotional, and collaborative interactions, xAI writes on their launch page, and adds:
— It is more perceptive to nuanced intent, compelling to speak with, and coherent in personality, while fully retaining the razor-sharp intelligence and reliability of its predecessors.
This is pursuant to the launch of GPT-5.1 last week; labs are working a lot more on personality for their bots, and want their chatbots to be good at actually chatting.
In addition, the new bot boasts of far lower hallucinations, dropping from 12% for Grok 4 to 4.22% for 4.1, and should also be a lot faster.
The Verge notes that the bot seems to carry on the laissez-faire rules of its predecessors, opening up to NSFW use cases, although it hasn’t gone full mecha-Hitler yet.
Read more: xAI’s launch page, note on The Verge.
Although he hasn’t actually managed anything since 2021, he has invested heavily into the new startup, making it one of the best funded startups in the space, and netting it more cash than many raise over their lifetimes.
The company will focus on AI engineering for computer manufacturing, cars and spacecraft, the NYT says.
Joining Bezos in running the startup will be Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist also known for his work with Sergey Brin at Google’s X, their unit for experiments, and for running the health-tech company Verily, founded out of the unit.
The new company reportedly already has 100 employees, with many coming from established AI labs at Meta, DeepMind and OpenAI, the paper writes.
Read more: New York Times, Reuters, The Verge, Ars Technica
— This investment will create thousands of jobs, provide skills training to college students and electrical apprentices, and accelerate energy affordability initiatives throughout Texas, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said, according to Reuters.
The investments will be made through 2027, but Google says nothing of when they will come online.
They will also bring new funding for the power grid to support 6 gigawatts of «new energy generation and capacity» and will support some 1,700 new electrical apprenticeships with Google support.
This makes Texas the second largest data center state in the USA, after Virginia, notes the Texas Tribune.
— They say that everything is bigger in Texas — and that certainly applies to the golden opportunity with AI, Pichai said.
Read more: Google’s blog, writeups on Reuters, Texas Tribune.
Small-but-happy win:
If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!
— Sam Altman (@sama) November 14, 2025
The em-dash (double-sized dash: —) was a notorious haunt and irritation for power users of ChatGPT, and even explicit instructions to not use it would often result in a reply using em-dashes.
It was also a good hint that the text might be produced by the AI chatbot.
So, while not an earth-shattering development, this little, cosmetic change will surely be welcomed by many.
Read more: Ars Technica and TechCrunch both wax poetic, sarcastically about the «new feature.» See also discussion on r/ChatGPT and r/Singularity.
Now that data is being combined with AI Mode, giving you granular detail in natural language conversations to find just the right product.
People have been wondering about how to crack monetizable shopping features for a long time, and Google has been teasing ads in AI products for a while. This might be a first step.
A better way to shop?
The new feature will give you «rich visuals and the details you need,» and you can dig into the results or bring up products side by side for comparison.
Continue reading “Google brings its vast shopping data to AI Mode, complete with checkout”
The old SIMA was good at following instructions, but the second version now has access to Gemini models and can explore 3D worlds on its own, with zero advance training.
That’s great for video games, where it can think and perform complex reasoning around its goals.
Learning from concepts
It can also learn across games, taking cues from «mining» in one game and transferring it to «harvesting» in another, meaning it can iterate and get better over time.
Continue reading “Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2 — a self-improving 3D navigator agent”
You can now ask the app to remove sunglasses in photos or fix a smile, but it can also respond to names you have tagged in your pictures, such as «make Engel smile.»
«Help me edit»
You can use the «Help me edit»-button in the editor and simply describe the style you want your pics to be in, from a Renaissance portrait to a picture from a children’s story book.
OpenAI are uncharacteristically not posting any benchmarks on their launch page, simply describing both models as «more capable and useful,» and «more intelligent.»
Both models are also supposed to be «warmer and more emphatic.»
People want friendly bots
— We heard clearly from users that great AI should not only be smart, but also enjoyable to talk to, OpenAI writes.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches GPT-5.1 in Instant and Thinking modes”