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Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
For better or worse, Amazon Alexa and Google Home’s smart voice assistants have been imbued with new generative AI powers. The promise is you can use natural language with your smart speaker to adjust your thermostat, lock the doors, and find out what your pets have been up to. The reality is smart home voice assistants are going through an identity crisis. I invited Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel onto his own podcast to compare notes on life with Alexa Plus versus Gemini for Home. Watch | Listen | Get ad-free [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-QtI-Cxxw&t=352s]
With the Apple Messages plugin, ChatGPT on Mac can “Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies,” OpenAI says. Here’s a video showing how it works. [Media: https://twitter.com/ChatGPT/status/2090499359641329950]
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.
Throughout the past few months of changes at OpenAI, one person has quietly amassed more power and authority: Greg Brockman, its president and cofounder.
The Verge’s Robert Hart on why new AI discoveries have left the math world ‘shell-shocked.’
The Generate Music, Speech, and Sound effects tools are generally available in Adobe Firefly following their beta launches last year. Adobe is also trying to attract more users for its Firefly AI Assistant, so now it has a “free experience with daily generations,” instead of limiting the feature to Firefly subscribers. [Link: Adobe Firefly expands its creative AI studio: generate music, speech, and sound effects in one place | https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2026/08/20/adobe-firefly-expands-its-creative-ai-studio-generate-music-speech-and-sound-effects-in-one-place | Adobe Blog]
The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.
Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations.
Binance's Agent OS works with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Humanoid robot makers are earning much of their revenue selling bots to government-backed training centers, which then sell training data back to the industry, the FT reports. It’s AI circularity all over again, stoking fresh humanoid bubble fears as Unitree soars in its stock market debut despite the US foreign robot ban. [Link: Who is really buying China’s humanoid robots? | https://www.ft.com/content/26735a23-315f-47ef-8cf2-6c6ea9713998?syn-25a6b1a6=1 | Financial Times]
North Korean operatives use stolen identities, AI and laptop farms to write résumés, help answer interview questions and land U.S. jobs.
The acquisition will combine Stripe’s payments platform with OpenRouter, which connects developers to a range of AI models while aggregating the costs of using each one. Stripe hasn’t disclosed the terms of the deal, but The New York Times reports that it’s purchasing the startup for $7.5 billion. [Link: Stripe Buys A.I. Start-Up OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/stripe-openrouter-ai.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share | The New York Times]
The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.
Just in time for back-to-school season, Google is launching a bunch of new Gemini features just for students.
The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.
AI safety still depends largely on the industry policing itself.
