Companies, products, and big moves
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OpenAI's first consumer device is a hockey-puck-sized, screenless speaker designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio — a bet that the smart speaker category failed for lack of intelligence, not lack of screens. Bloomberg reports OpenAI's first hardware product is a doughnut-shaped, screenless
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The day's big story is hardware: Anthropic confirmed it will design its own chips, AMD acquired a startup that etches models into silicon, and OpenAI's Jony Ive device finally took shape. Plus: Suno moves on watermarks. Anthropic confirmed it is building an in-house "custom
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Google's top AI brain walks out to automate research itself, Washington's safety-review rules pick winners, and Meta and Mistral both ship new model-tool pairs — a day where the frontier moved on three fronts at once. Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and 30th