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★ Must ReadJony Ives first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker

The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is "essentially a smart speaker without a display" that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The device, expected to launch in 2027 for a price over $300, reportedly "will have a unique look, complete with moving parts," including some that will move on their own to show when the device is responding or interacting with the user, along with lights, a camera system, and other sensors. Gurman's sources also say the "battery-powered" device is designed to be "easy to carry around the home wit … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Gary Marcus — Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out

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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
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[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back

A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate

Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users

An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.

[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork

Latent Space — [AINews] Qwen 3. 8 Max(2. 4T) and 27B, new open weights models...

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We're Launching the Towards AI Mentorship

Group sessions, direct team feedback, and project and career support from more than 15 AI engineers.

ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B Review: 2x Fewer Tokens, Same Accuracy?

A faster, more stable Qwen3.

★ Must Read[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???

Latent Space — [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demi...

essentially a smart speaker without a display
Stevie Bonifield, The Verge AI
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Casey Newton, Platformer