Industry-wide change as it happens: shifting habits, emerging abilities, social impact and the shape of the market.
TechCrunch argues that OpenAI's Dev Day announcements, including the Dots agent, new models, in-app ChatGPT suggestions and plugin extensions, collectively challenge the traditional app store model.
Latent Space's AINews rounds up developments from 9/24–9/25, noting positive community feedback since Opus 5.5 launched this week, particularly on generating explainer videos with code.
WeatherNext, the AI weather model developed by Google DeepMind and Google Research, helped the US National Hurricane Center predict five days ahead with 80% confidence that Hurricane Melissa would make landfall in Jamaica at Category 5 strength. Confidence approached 100% three days ahead.
Google Quantum AI published a white paper saying future quantum computers would require fewer qubits and gates than previously estimated to break the elliptic-curve cryptography protecting cryptocurrencies.
Google introduced urban flash-flood forecasts on Flood Hub, using a new AI approach to predict risks in urban areas up to 24 hours ahead.
Google Research and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conducted a prospective, single-centre feasibility study in which AMIE held text consultations with patients before outpatient primary care visits, under live physician supervision by video.