AI Weekly Update - December 15, 2025

What the companies’ choices signal for the future of music

Google puts scaling laws to the test with its new milestone release

Weekly updates in AI and cutting edge technology.

OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and if you thought AI-generated images were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet

AI Weekly Update - September 22, 2025

Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding?

How we can architect a fair future for AI music

OpenAI's terminal-based agent is the best AI coding tool yet

In response to user complaints last week, ChatGPT now has three modes for users, available via the UI model picker: Auto: Decides how long to think. Automatically switches between Fast and Thinking w...

Our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.

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How ElevenMusic's approach to licensing could push the generative music industry in the right direction

GPT-5 is expected to arrive in early August

How to set up an AI workspace and have agents automate your personal and professional finances

Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent

New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

The hype around music-industry hackathons may ebb and flow, but they remain an enduring source of good ideas.

The very human side effects of our non-human tech

Everything AI announced at Apple's annual keynote

Using Codex and other coding agents for non-coding work

A brand new editing interface. Enhanced audio uploads. Stem separation. Total creative control—for artists who want more.

Perplexity's agent is here, Apple skips AI for this year's WWDC

Gemini Diffusion pivots from the standard language model architecture with surprising results

Google launches SOTA video generation, Anthropic launches the Claude 4 suite, OpenAI formally hires Jony Ive

How AI agents will kill the internet

Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The...

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Remember last year’s big AI gadgets?

What my win means for the future of product prototyping (and hackathons-at-large)

OpenAI, Cursor, Windsurf, and others fight for AI coding supremacy

The new Codex graduates coding bots from autocomplete to autocommit

The Copyright Office backs licensing, Trump fires its chief, and America’s AI copyright future hangs in the balance

The Pope calls AI "humanity's core challenge", Gemini 2.5 Pro improves its coding abilities (again)