AI Superapps
OpenAI is becoming a superapp. Does Amazon really want to try its hand at a smartphone again? Google is making further steps to obviate classic Google Search in that innovator’s dilemma way. And in the Longreads, why has AI gotten worse at writing.
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OpenAI is becoming a superapp. Does Amazon really want to try its hand at a smartphone again? Google is making further steps to obviate classic Google Search in that innovator’s dilemma way. And in the Longreads, why has AI gotten worse at writing.
- OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop ‘Superapp’ to Refocus, Simplify User Experience (WSJ)
- White House releases AI policy blueprint for Congress (Politico)
- Exclusive: Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop (Reuters)
- Super Micro shares tank 25% after employees charged with smuggling Nvidia chips to China (CNBC)
- Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (The Verge)
- Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion for AI Manufacturing Fund (WSJ)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer (The Verge)
- The Human Skill That Eludes AI (The Atlantic)
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