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Weekly#637

  • OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
  • Klarna CEO: We’re Giving AI More Customer Service Work, Not Less.”…“Our agent, that we launched about a year ago, is still dealing with about 1.3 million errands per month,” Siemiatkowski told me, “which is the equivalent of what previously was done by about 800 people on a monthly basis…”
  • Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models
  • An AI start-up behind a chatbot that replicates an investment banker has raised $50mn
  • According to the last poll by Ofcom, four out of five 13-17 year olds in the UK are using generative AI
  • FBI: US officials targeted in voice deepfake attacks since April
  • Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026
  • Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model
  • “…If you have an agent that really knows you, because it has kept this memory of conversations, it makes the whole service more sticky, so that once you’ve signed on to using [one product] you will never go to another one,” said Pattie Maes, a professor at MIT’s media lab and specialist in human interaction with AI…”
  • Apple’s new CarPlay Ultra is ready, but only in Aston Martins for now
  • “…Your Tesla has better AI than any US aircraft.Your Roomba has better autonomy than most of the Pentagon’s weapons systems. And your Snapchat filters,they rely on better computer vision than our most advanced military sensors…”
  • AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
  • Netflix ad tier now has 94 million monthly active users

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