Archive: September 2026

U.S.-based OpenAI posted a teaser video on the company’s official developer X account, “OpenAI Developers,” on June 29 (local time), for what appears to be a new product related to its AI coding assistance tool, “Codex.” The video displays the message, “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade,” along with the date “July 15.” An announcement of some kind appears to be planned for that day. Semi-transparent keys arranged in a grid (Source: OpenA

Now it’s expanding on those efforts with more technology to prepare for a world where AI agents become mainstream, said Walmart president and CEO John Furner, speaking at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. The technology will support agentic shopping from both Walmart and the company’s discount warehouse, Sam’s Club. It starts with Walmart’s Agent Gateway, the company’s new MCP server, which is designed to help approved agents conne

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Introduced in Gemini and Google Search earlier this year, connected apps let users securely link and interact with popular third-party services, then use them to take specific actions. For instance, you could connect to Canva to design a flyer, or to YouTube Music to build a playlist. We’ve seen varying takes on the idea by other consumer-facing AI services like ChatGPT and Meta’s Muse. The premise is that such integrations could ultimately shift consumer

Synced reports Sam Altman is gone. Now, on X, only one “Ram Altman” remains. Just now, OpenAI CEO Altman changed his name from Sam Altman to Ram Altman. The handle is still @sama; only the S in the name has been swapped for the R in RAM. The trigger for all this was a provocative comment Altman made a few days earlier— The memory in your personal computer is only working 5% of the time. That’s pretty bad. In just six days, the remark snowballed into a coll

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider—so we’ll be working hard together to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities i