Good morning {{first_name| Artificial intelligence lovers}}. The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is no longer an exclusive marriage… but it’s also not a complete breakup.
The terms of the new deal allow OpenAI to remain in the cloud (hello, Amazon), while Microsoft maintains the strange but lucrative role it previously played with benefits: less control, but still getting big money.
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OpenAI rewrites Microsoft deal, removing AGI requirement
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Beijing blocks $2 billion Meta deal
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Onboard AI teammates with ChatGPT Workspace Agents
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AlphaGo creator’s new $1.1 billion “super learner” lab
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4 new tools for AI, community workflows, and more
Openay and Microsoft
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Rundown: OpenAI and Microsoft Paraphrased Their partnership terms, ending Microsoft’s exclusivity over OAI’s IP, eliminating the AGI requirement, freeing OpenAI to ship products on any cloud while Microsoft keeps a share of the revenue through 2030.
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OAI can now leverage competing clouds e.g Amazon Bedrockwith Microsoft continuing to remain a major cloud partner with access to an Azure-first launch through 2032.
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The agreement settles what Microsoft stated Threat of lawsuit on the $50 billion Amazon-OpenAI deal that gave AWS exclusive rights to OAI’s Frontier platform.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called the announcement “very interesting,” and it comes after OpenAI CRO Denise Dresser note Speaking of its Bedrock platform.
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Microsoft will stop paying revenue share to OAI, with the two companies’ commitments now running on calendar dates rather than an AGI announcement.
Why it matters: It’s no secret that this relationship has deteriorated, and these changes remove the uniqueness of what Dresser said was OpenAI’s “limited” ability to meet companies’ needs where they are. The AI giant now resides in the cloud, while Microsoft secures a six-year revenue stream without a mysterious artificial general intelligence (AGI) clause hanging over it.
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A four-stage framework for evaluating artificial intelligence research
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How to create a golden set of queries that predict real-world performance
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Meta and Manus
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Rundown: China It was overturned Meta took a $2 billion acquisition of Manus and asked the companies to pull an AI startup deal, turning a Singapore-based company with Chinese roots into a warning shot for founders trying to move talent and technology beyond Beijing’s control.
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Meta announced the $2 billion deal in December, with Chinese officials opening an investigation in January into export control rules and foreign investment.
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission said it would block foreign investment in Manus, and directed Meta and the startup to back out of the deal.
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Meta said the two teams are already “deeply integrated” in its Singapore office, and that Manus’ website already reads “now part of Meta.”
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The order was issued weeks before Trump’s scheduled May meeting with Xi in Beijing, during which Manus executives were reportedly barred from leaving China during the investigation.
Why it matters: Beijing has just made AI talent a national security asset, applying to startups the same export control logic that the United States uses in chips. With the two matters already intertwined and Meta saying “the deal is in full compliance with applicable law,” it’s unclear how the breakup will work – or whether the tech giant will comply.
Artificial intelligence training
Rundown: In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up AI teammates that are actually helpful using the new Workspace Agents tool in ChatGPT (currently in search preview for Business, Enterprise, Education, and Educator plans).
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Go to chatgpt.com/agentsclick Create Agent, and choose a tool, database, or process for this agent to “own.”
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Prompt: “Create a managing agent [lead pipeline, Google Docs folder, Notion database, etc.]. It should perform three main tasks that can be run independently according to schedules to save time.”
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Follow the setup prompts to add integrations and specify what the agent should touch. Codex will scan your integrations to best set up the proxy.
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Back to Agents pageselect your new agent, and try out each of the main missions. You can click the “Schedule” button to run the agent every day.
Pro Tip: If you don’t have a ChatGPT business plan, don’t worry. You can still use this +claim method in other tools to create useful proxies.
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Hear what 10,000 scans per second looks like in reality
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Track individual speakers as conversations transition – without any manual tuning
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You can instantly adapt to any environment, from a crowded conference room to a crowded street
Insufferable intelligence
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Rundown: Former DeepMind researcher David Silver Fired Ineffable Intelligence, a lab in London that has raised $1.1 billion at a valuation of $5.1 billion to build artificial intelligence that learns from experience rather than training data, to “make first contact with superintelligence.”
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Silver has led the reinforcement learning team at DeepMind for a decade, building popular models Alpha GoAlphaZero, AlphaStar, and AlphaProof.
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Ineffable’s models go beyond pre-training and human data, allowing customers to learn from experience in simulations – creating what Silver calls a “super learner.”
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silver framed Human data as “a kind of fossil fuel” and his approach as “a renewable fuel, a model that can learn and learn and learn forever.”
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The $1.1 billion sum is Europe’s largest seed ever, with Unspeakable claiming its success would “represent a scientific achievement of a magnitude comparable to Darwin’s”.
Why it matters: Yann LeCun’s theory that MBAs are a dead end has got some strong companies going, with AMI Labs, Recursive Superintelligence, and now Ineffable ($1.1 billion) all sparking differences of view. Silver’s track record speaks for itself, and the more brilliant minds take different paths towards AGI, the better.
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🎥 Kling 3.0 – New 4K mode for creating cinematic-quality AI videos
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📽️ HappyHorse – Alibaba’s new SOTA video generation model
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The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI I set off Monday as jury selection begins for both sides commerce Harsh criticism On X Before opening statements.
Technology analyst Ming-Chi Kuo He said OpenAI is working on its own smartphone alongside MediaTek and Qualcomm, and will likely produce native AI agents in 2028.
Adobe open Access to the new Firefly AI Assistant is in public beta, allowing creators to claim multi-app Creative Cloud workflows while keeping output editable.
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Taylor Swift foot Three federally trademarked the way they look and sound, joining actor Matthew McConaughey in taking legal action to fight and prevent AI deepfakes.
In each newsletter we show how the reader is using AI to work smarter, save time or make life easier.
Today’s workflow comes from the reader Lydia F. North Liberty, Iowa:
“I used Codex to create a web-based application to help my teenage daughter study for her Iowa driver’s permit knowledge test. I downloaded the full test study guide from the Department of Transportation and two practice tests, then built a bank of 200 flashcards and a quiz feature that pulls 25 questions from a bank of 200 multiple-choice and true/false questions (with the more popular topics likely to appear more frequently).
I’ve shared the URL with other teen moms in my city. Now that studying for the driving test is so easy, our teens have no excuse!”
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