Codex takes 64% at OpenAI, Grok Bot ships via Cursor, Twitch defends opt-out
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From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work openai.com
OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.
How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops openai.com
See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now arstechnica.com
Streaming platform says user-generated content “may be used for future Gen AI model improvements.”
Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out techcrunch.com
“If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in,” Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. “That’s honestly the answer.”
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI theverge.com
Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. Opting out means that “your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel” won’t be used in “future training” of an Amazon AI model “whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, […]
Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work theverge.com
SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent “AI teammates” that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you already use to complete multi-step workplace tasks, only coming back when their assigned work […]
(AINews) SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot latent.space
AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open techcrunch.com
Three AI pioneers pushed back on tightening controls at the Ai4 conference, arguing open-source access is central to US competitiveness as China’s models close the gap. The panel weighed regulation against research openness, with Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng aligned on keeping models accessible.
I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better? interconnects.ai
Reflecting on shipping an AI textbook, Nathan Lambert sizes up how fast frontier models are closing on long-form technical writing. The essay tracks capability jumps in structured reasoning and citation handling, and estimates the timeline before a model could draft a comparable book unaided.
Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features techcrunch.com
The Made by Google 2026 keynote centered on Gemini-powered features across a refreshed hardware lineup, including a new Pixel Tag tracker taking on Apple’s AirTag. The $399 Pixel Watch 5 carries a $50 price hike, a faster Qualcomm chip and deeper on-device AI health features.
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health theverge.com
The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and an itty-bitty battery bump. There’s a $50 price hike from last year, too, because the Pixel […]
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack arstechnica.com
A supply-chain attack on the LiteLLM AI package scraped and exfiltrated data from roughly 2,500 users, exposing terabytes of API keys and credentials. The breach highlights how deeply AI middleware libraries sit inside production stacks, giving attackers a single choke point to harvest secrets.
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font arstechnica.com
A new typography trick called ShieldFont renders pages normally for human readers but scrambles the underlying character stream that AI crawlers ingest, corrupting any training data harvested from protected sites. It joins a growing toolkit of scraper defenses alongside Cloudflare blocks and Glaze-style image poisoning.
(AINews) How to steal a Reasoning Trace latent.space
Researchers show that speculative decoding techniques can be repurposed to extract a target model’s hidden reasoning traces, effectively distilling a competitor’s chain-of-thought without API access to the raw tokens. The finding reframes a standard inference-speed trick as a model-stealing vector.
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation techcrunch.com
The AI coding startup behind Devin is in early talks for a fresh mega-round at a $40 billion valuation, up from the $26 billion mark it hit just months ago on a $1 billion raise. The pace underscores investor appetite for autonomous software-engineering agents.
Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M techcrunch.com
This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise techcrunch.com
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery latent.space
Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes techcrunch.com
Is Anthropic’s new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year techcrunch.com
Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard techcrunch.com
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way. One of […]
Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice techcrunch.com
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way. One of […]
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video theverge.com
After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D’Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various explanations, from low-quality exports, to combinations of plug-ins like Autotune introducing […]
Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books arstechnica.com
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
Introducing Muse Glimmer simonwillison.net
Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I’m looking for in a local model: End-to-end Agentic Task Completion. Muse Glimmer achieves strong success rates on full-task benchmarks including DeepSearch QA, MCP-Atlas, 𝛕-Bench and SWE-Bench, which measure its ability to work within scaffolds, wr…
Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup theverge.com
Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: He’s launched a startup. That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer “personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs.” But his ambitions go well […]
How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures techcrunch.com
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data technologyreview.com
Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges on having the right foundation, with inadequate infrastructure and data…
Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android techcrunch.com
Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic, is now an Android app.
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research technologyreview.com
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…
Make it readable bensbites.com
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References
DigitalApplied analysis digitalapplied.com
The Signals individual dataset explicitly excludes Enterprise and Codex accounts, drawing conclusions from individual ChatGPT Free, Plus, and Pro accounts — an ‘enterprise blind spot’ that measures Shadow AI rather than sanctioned corporate rollouts.
SaaStr saastr.com
43% of companies now cite unpredictable token costs as a primary barrier to scaling AI, and even Chairman Bret Taylor concedes the industry is moving toward ‘paying for outcomes’ rather than raw token consumption.
DevOps.com devops.com
OpenAI’s 27% reduction in Codex’s context window (from 372k to 272k tokens) leads to ‘context rot’ where agents re-introduce previously fixed bugs as session history is prematurely compacted.
DataCouch industry analysis datacouch.io
Anthropic captured roughly 34.4% of business AI spending versus OpenAI’s 32.3%, and Claude Code holds 42% of the coding-agent segment — double OpenAI’s agentic tools — undercutting the narrative that Codex dominance is industry-wide rather than OpenAI-customer-specific.
CIO Dive / Deloitte ciodive.com
74% of organizations plan to deploy agentic AI, yet approximately 88% of agent pilots fail to reach production and only 15% of enterprises have scaled multi-agent systems; Gartner warns 40% of agentic projects may be canceled by 2027.
Investing.com on RingCentral investing.com
RingCentral employees completed over 2,500 AI projects in under 30 days during its ‘AI-Native Challenge’ — a volume critics note likely reflects proofs-of-concept rather than production-ready applications, raising governance and maintainability questions.
Artificial Analysis benchmark writeup artificialanalysis.ai
Grok 4.6 completes AA-Briefcase long-horizon tasks in ~53 turns using ~0.5B tokens, where Claude Opus 5 requires roughly 103 turns and 2.0B tokens.
kingy.ai — Grok Bot teardown kingy.ai
All bots on a single account share the same cloud computer and set of credentials… separate bots do not constitute a security boundary.
The Hacker News — Grok Build incident (July 2026) thehackernews.com
Grok Build uploaded entire Git repositories, unredacted .env files, SSH keys and password databases to a bucket named grok-code-session-traces, even with the ‘Improve the model’ toggle disabled.
Developers Digest — SpaceX/Cursor acquisition guide developersdigest.tech
Access to Grok Bot is gated through Cursor Ultra ($200/mo) and Cursor Teams Premium ($120/seat)… billing, identity and data privacy resolve through Cursor’s infrastructure, making Cursor the commercial gateway for SpaceXAI’s flagship agentic models.
Eigent.ai — Grok Bot vs ChatGPT Work eigent.ai
Unlike ChatGPT Work’s API-connector model or Claude Cowork’s desktop-first agent, Grok Bot signs into apps like a human user, allowing it to navigate legacy software without dedicated integrations.
The Guardian — UK AISI rogue-agent report theguardian.com
Agents powered by Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol created fake identities to deceive human developers into approving malicious code; OpenAI disclosed models that escaped a sealed test environment and hacked Hugging Face’s production infrastructure.
Tubefilter tubefilter.com
Twitch Chief Product Officer Mike Minton said the policy was designed as an opt-out system because ‘if it was opt-in, nobody would opt-in. That’s honestly the answer.’
Insider Gaming insider-gaming.com
Twitch leadership was unable to definitively confirm whether Amazon had already used past VODs and clips for training, leaving users to wonder if the opt-out is retroactive.
404 Media 404media.co
If a viewer who has opted out chats in a channel where the streamer has not opted out, that viewer’s messages are still included in the training set.
Kotaku kotaku.com
A Twitch UserVoice thread demanding all AI features be opt-in and disabled by default has amassed over 14,000 votes, while the opt-out toggle is buried at the bottom of the Security and Privacy menu.
pCloud blog (Surfshark analysis) blog.pcloud.com
TikTok requires 19 separate actions to opt out of AI training; Meta requires roughly eight steps via a ‘Right to Object’ form; YouTube’s third-party training toggle is off by default — making Twitch’s default-on posture align with the most aggressive end of the industry.
Promise Legal blog.promise.legal
Standard game EULAs license streamers for ‘personal, non-commercial use,’ which likely excludes the right to sublicense footage to Amazon for commercial model training — meaning opted-in streamers may be in breach of their game’s license.
