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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Stripe $53.4B bid to buy PayPal. SpaceXAI open-sourced its coding agent. 👇
🤖Building an AI-Ready Data Strategy
🤖SpaceXAI open-sources its coding agent
💰Making Fable Cheaper Than Opus
📊The state of open source AI
🏦 Stripe & Advent Bid to Buy PayPal for $53.4Bn
💡 AI Tutorial:How to send emails directly from ChatGPT
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
OpenAI’s first branded device is finally here. The $230 Codex Micro is a specialized, RGB-lit mini-keyboard designed to let users monitor and quickly interact with multiple Codex agents with a glance and a few clicks. The device is a “limited-run collaboration” with Work Louder, which sells a similar Creator Micro line of customizable keyboards for creative professionals
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Enterprise AI initiatives rarely stall because teams lack access to capable models. Failures usually emerge below the model layer, where fragmented records, incompatible definitions, delayed pipelines, weak access controls, and unclear ownership prevent experimental systems from operating reliably across business functions
The AI lab led by Elon Musk landed in hot water when devs caught Grok Build uploading entire directories, including SSH keys, to the company’s servers. They have since disabled the feature and released the full source code on GitHub. Devs can now audit all 844,530 lines of Rust, run the agent locally, and expand its capabilities using plugins and subagents
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Cognition replaced Opus 4.8 with Fable 5, and Devin's bill went down. Fable 5 costs twice as much per token as Opus 4.8, but Cognition created an architecture that resulted in Fable costing less while scoring higher. This post looks at how the company achieved this and what that means for pricing agentic work.
Open weights are now where the work happens. A majority of production tokens now route through them. The five highest-volume models on OpenRouter are all open. Closed models still lead at the frontier, but the frontier is not what most workloads need.
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Cube Agent: Customer-facing analytics are slow, the warehouse bill keeps climbing, and every new chart turns into an engineering project. Cube is the agentic analytics platform built for embedding: drop governed dashboards and an AI analyst into your product in days.
Columns.ai Flow turns AI into your data workflow engine. Connect spreadsheets, APIs, and SQL databases, then clean, join, filter, aggregate, pivot, and visualize your data through simple chat.
Operator Stack: Its Reporting System connects to your marketing data so you can automate reporting, uncover insights, and spend more time making decisions.
Is your AI analyst lying to you? Tune in to hear Andy and ThoughtSpot SVP of Product Management, Francois Lopitaux, discuss whether a “single source of truth” is actually achievable
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Meet Inkling, the first in-house AI model from Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Unlike OpenAI’s flagship model, it’s open-weight, meaning outside developers and companies can download and modify it directly. For now, its outputs are limited to text, including code, styled artifacts, and structured data.
The toughest room in advertising. Ad Studio just cleared it.
Major brands just took over a Times Square billboard, and every ad was built in Hightouch Ad Studio. Sweetgreen, HelloFresh, and Tripadvisor cleared the toughest room in advertising. Create, edit, and launch on-brand ads in a few clicks.
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal earlier this month. The deal is valued at approximately $53.4 billion with roughly $50 billion backed in committed bank financing. If completed, the acquisition would unite two of the biggest names in digital payments with Stripe and Advent jointly owning PayPal.
AI research team Weco says it demonstrated early recursive self-improvement with an automated agent, AIDE2 , redesigning its own research process over eight days and besting a version engineers had refined for two years.
Apple Intelligence has won approval in China, arriving through a partnership with Alibaba and Baidu. Alibaba's Qwen will be the main model powering Apple Intelligence in China, with Baidu also contributing. It will run across iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS for users in the country. The clearance ends nearly two years of delay since Apple Intelligence launched globally, and Alibaba and Baidu shares rose on the news.
OpenAI built GPT-Red, an internal AI that attacks its own models to find where a rogue instruction could seize control. GPT-Red breaks through on 84% of test scenarios where human testers manage just 13%. Training against it made GPT-5.6 Sol six times harder to hijack than OpenAI's model from four months earlier.
AI Tutorial
How to send emails directly from ChatGPT
You don’t need to open Gmail, write from scratch, or keep switching between tabs. ChatGPT can help you draft, edit, and send emails inside the same chat. You just tell it who the email is for, what you want to say, and the tone you want. Here is how:
Go to ChatGPT and sign in with your account.
Ask ChatGPT to draft an email. Add the recipient, and what you want the email to say.
ChatGPT will create the email in a clean block that resembles a real email editor. You can check the message, subject line, and recipient before sending.
Click Send. If your email account is not connected yet, ChatGPT will ask you to connect it first.
Once your account is connected and everything looks good, click send again. ChatGPT will deliver the email while you stay inside the chat.
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