OpenAI moves up the stack OpenAI added tools to connect to Google Docs, Teams and a few other third-party services, including the ability to record, take notes and summarise for Teams calls. This is a bunch of startups' entire product (remember 'thin GPT wrappers') - but of course, when you build on a platform you should always be building at right-angles to its provisions (remember 'why won't Google do this?'). LINK Conversely, Anthropic caused a fuss by cutting access to its models for the coding tool Windsurf, because of rumours that OpenAI might be buying it. This is probably not the best way to persuade API buyers that you're a reliable partner. LINK Advertising automation Mark Zuckerberg has been talking about AI ad-creation for a while now, and the WSJ says it's now working on a fully automated creation system, in which many variants of ads would be dynamically generated, complete with all the creative, and tested and refined in real time. As Zuck said, tell us the aim and give us a budget and we'll do the rest. This seems a little simplistic about the aims of marketers, but Meta would certainly like to lower the barriers to entry and optimisation for its SME advertisers, which make up about half of revenue. LINK Meanwhile, WPP has launched its own model for generating segmentation, creative and media planning (people in advertising talk a lot about the scope to automate all of the media buying, which is still very manual). LINK Data licensing Bloomberg reports that three major labels are in talks to license work to Udio and Suno, which can generate new music 'in the style of…' This is an interesting point on a matrix of copyright issues vis-à-vis training data: these companies' outputs are not piracy per se but they are competitive and substitutional to the training data, as opposed to (say) using a LLM trained on novels to automate accounting systems. LINK Conversely, Reddit is suing Anthropic for scraping its forums for general and specific training data despite being told not to. LINK And third, as part of the NY Times lawsuit against OpenAI, the NYT speculated that people might be getting verbatim chunks of its news stories in responses to ChatGPT prompts, so it got a judge to order OpenAI to retain all logs of all users' outputs, which seems like a huge overreach and potential privacy problem. LINK The week in AI The FT reports that Apple plans to use Alibaba's models for 'Apple Intelligence' in China, but it's stuck in the approval process due to Trump's trade wars. There's a narrative here that Apple is losing share in China to Android with a blizzard of new AI features from the local players (though see below). LINK Meta, like Microsoft a while ago, has signed a deal to buy electricity for data centres from a nuclear power plant. LINK Unsurprisingly: Amazon is testing humanoid robots for delivery. LINK | 
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