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“If a machine makes a painting that no one ever sees, it might be well-crafted or match some objective form of beauty, but it’s not art.
Art changes the creator and the viewer. Art requires participation. Art is a verb.
Decoration is important. Beauty matters. But decoration and beauty are insufficient to create art. Music, images, tastes and words become art when a transformation happens.
“What is the change you seek to make?” The answer to that question can inform our work.
No change, no art.”
What a year of testing & thinking about AI academic search taught me
Aaron Tay
This is a thoughtful and important read.
OpenAI kills the chatbot
OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’
Via The AI Report
“OpenAI kills the chatbot
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| OpenAI is planning to roll out a revamped version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks, transforming it into a “super app” with integrated coding tools and AI agents. The overhaul represents the company’s biggest product shift since ChatGPT’s original launch, as OpenAI positions itself to compete with Anthropic for business customers ahead of a planned IPO. |
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- The company is working toward a personal agent capable of helping users across everything in their life, personally and at work.
- OpenAI is moving away from standalone products like Sora to focus ChatGPT as a gateway for paid features. “Chat is dead,” executives say.
- The super app bundles coding, agentic workflows, and tools into one interface to convert users and get closer to profitability before going public.
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| Instead of separate tools requiring multiple subscriptions, ChatGPT could become the single interface for AI-powered work. Companies evaluating AI vendors should watch how this rollout affects pricing, feature bundling, and whether OpenAI can deliver on its agent ambitions.” |
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Via Superhuman:
“OpenAI is working on ChatGPT’s biggest overhaul since launch: OpenAI is
reportedly converting ChatGPT into a “superapp” that will wrap Codex, AI agents, image generation, and third-party tools into one platform — expected to land in the coming weeks. The AI leader also shipped three updates:
Lockdown Mode to protect against prompt-injection attacks, an upgraded
memory system, and the ability to send emails directly in-chat (see how it works in The AI Academy below).
