OpenAI Launches Codex Desktop App As Agentic AI Rivalry Intensifies

OpenAI announced yesterday Codex Desktop, a new native macOS app that treats AI coding agents like teammates you can direct, review and set loose on long tasks.

AI Fears Abundant In New Amodei Essay

Amodei warns rapid AI progress could enable autonomy, bio-misuse, autocracy, and inequality shocks.

AI Comes To Connected TVs As Escape.ai Launches Neo Cinema On The Big Screen

AI storytelling reaches the living room as escape.ai launches its Neo Cinema platform on connected TVs, bringing AI generated films and series to Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, and LG screens.

Claude Code was down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break
Claude Code was down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break

Anthropic’s Claude AI models experienced a major outage today, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers were seeing a 500 error when trying to use Claude Code, and Anthropic said that it was seeing elevated error rates on its APIs “across all Claude models.” Anthropic quickly identified the root cause and implemented a fix within around […]

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Fitbit founders launch AI platform to help families monitor their health

Luffu uses AI in the background to gather and organize family information, learn day-to-day patterns, and flag notable changes so families can stay aligned and address potential wellbeing issues.

Millions of books died so Claude could live
Millions of books died so Claude could live

When ChatGPT launched, in November of 2022, it started a race that almost immediately consumed the tech industry. OpenAI didn’t invent the concept of AI, but most of the state-of-the-art technology was confined to research labs at companies and institutions around the world. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. And better than anyone expected. So many […]

Humans are infiltrating the social network for AI bots
Humans are infiltrating the social network for AI bots

Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human. A new social platform for AI agents may face the opposite problem: getting clogged up by humans pretending to post as bots. Moltbook – a website meant for conversations between agents from the platform OpenClaw – went viral this weekend for its […]

Peak XV says internal disagreement led to partner exits as it doubles down on AI

Peak XV is transitioning board roles and opening a U.S. office while continuing to view India as its largest market.

Moltbook Shows What Happens When Bots Take Over Social Media

Moltbook offers a preview of bot-driven social media, where automated voices dominate discourse even as human oversight remains firmly in control.