Apple’s Vision Pro Hardware Chief Just Defected to OpenAI. Here’s Why That Matters
Paul Meade spent years making Vision Pro happen at Apple. He was the guy who turned Apple’s mixed reality headset from a joke into something people actually wear in public without looking completely ridiculous — which, given Apple’s design…
The Vision Pro Chief Is Going to OpenAI, and It Tells Us Something About Apple’s Wearable Bet
Paul Meade spent years at Apple overseeing both the Vision Pro headset line and the unreleased AI smart glasses project. When he told colleagues he was leaving for OpenAI, the industry reaction was closer to a shrug than a shock. That is actually the…
Ford Called Back 350 Engineers After AI QA Failed. The Lesson Is Useful for Every Automaker.
Ford is not the only automaker that has stumbled with AI. GM tried replacing full-time engineers with contractors a few years ago to cut costs, and ended up with quality problems and an internal culture crisis before reversing course. FCA (now…
Meta AI Glasses Now Look Normal — And Cost $299
The latest Ray-Ban Meta glasses look like actual glasses, cost $299, and represent the first generation of smart eyewear that normal people might actually buy.
Salesforce Slackbot Gets a Full AI Rebuild: Now an Agent That Works Where You Work
Salesforce Rolls Out a New Slackbot: This Time It Is an Actual AI Agent Salesforce has been building toward this for a while. The company has been layering AI capabilities into its product line for the past few years, starting with Einstein AI features…
Railway Raised 100M to Build the AI-Native Cloud That AWS Is Not
Railway closed 100 million in funding last month. The pitch: AWS was built for a different era, and AI workloads expose the mismatch everywhere you look. The hyperscalers cannot restructure their pricing and infrastructure without cannibalizing the…
ClickUp Brain² Runs AI on Your Entire Workspace — Not Just What You Paste In
ClickUp shipped Brain². The pitch is that it runs on the full context of your workspace — every document, task, comment, project you’ve ever touched. That sounds obvious once someone says it. Before that, everyone building AI in productivity tools…
OpenAI Is Quietly Building an Empire at Every Layer of the Stack
Three moves. No press conferences. No grand announcements. And yet, taken together, they paint a picture of a company that is systematically dismantling its own identity as a pure-play AI software company. In the past six months, OpenAI has hired a key…
The Real Reason Wall Street Loves Micron Right Now Has Nothing to Do With Memory
There is a moment in every hype cycle when investors stop asking whether a company is worth its current valuation and start asking whether it is worth the next one. Micron Technology just had that moment. Last week, the Boise, Idaho-based memory chip…
What Anthropic’s Cowork Actually Tells Us About the AI Agent Race
There is a version of this story that is just a product review. Anthropic has released Cowork, a desktop agent that lives inside your files, works on tasks in the background without you having to hover over it, and notifies you when it needs input or…
Big Tech Is Quietly Ditching Nvidia — and Building Its Own Future
OpenAI has Jalapeño. Google has TPUs. Amazon has Trainium and Inferentia. Microsoft has Maia. Meta has MTIA. Every major AI company is building its own silicon, and the list has grown long enough that it stopped being a rumor and started being a pattern.…
Claude Opus 4.8: I Spent a Week With It So You Don’t Have To
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28. I spent six days running it on a real Rust project. Here's what broke, what didn't, and the Qwen distillation question nobody's answering.