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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

Executive Briefing: Stop Asking If AI Can Do This. Start Asking What Shape the Work Is.

Every serious AI conversation eventually turns into the same practical question. Should we hire someone for this? Should we automate it? Should we buy a tool? Should we build the workflow ourselves? Or should we wait because the models are changing so fast that anything we build today may be obsolete in six months?

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support

It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.

These are the laptops I recommend for pretty much anyone

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The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know it’s taking this very seriously.

BCG survey finds 61% of CEOs say boards are rushing AI transformation as hype distorts boardroom judgment

A BCG survey of 625 CEOs and board members found that 61% of chief executives believe their boards are rushing AI transformation. Three-quarters of board members rate their AI knowledge as adequate, but nearly 40% of CEOs disagree, and more than half say hype is distorting boardroom judgment.

Yoshua Bengio warns hyperintelligent AI poses existential threat

Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning AI researcher, has warned that hyperintelligent machines could develop autonomous “preservation goals” and pose an existential threat to humanity within a decade. Bengio launched the nonprofit LawZero in June 2025 with $30 million in funding to build “non-agentic” AI systems designed to be safe by default.

Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next

Benioff says Salesforce will spend $300M on Anthropic tokens in 2026, calls for a routing layer between frontier and smaller models.

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to See Your Bank Account. The Pitch Is Convenience. The Risk Is Everything Else.

ChatGPT can now connect to your bank accounts via Plaid, giving OpenAI access to the most intimate data category left.

I used AI to help market my bagel shop. Then the one-star reviews came in.

Adam Jones tried using AI to edit the social media posts for Myers' Bagels. After customer outcry, he apologized — but isn't anti-AI.

This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

The top stories this week feature SAP's new API rules, OpenAI's renegotiated Microsoft deal, Coupa's acquisition of Rossum and Gartner's AI report

Marc Benioff said Salesforce will spend $300M on Anthropic tokens

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he's able to work faster with AI agents and that the company is working on tech to make coding easier at Slack.