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I’ve been raving about Tesla’s Full Self Driving software in the last few editions of this newsletter.
I’ve been having very interesting interactions about this technology.
You can roughly put the reaction of the people that I’m talking about this technology into 5 categories.
The Enthusiastic : Oh my god, this is fantastic ! When can you take me for a test-drive and after the testdrive inevitably: “I want this”.
The Intrigued : Then there’s people that are intrigued but hesitant to take a drive.
The Neutrals : This category has no opinion. It doesn’t really touch their lives, they have no feelings about it whatsoever but also don’t want to get to know the technology.
The Angry. Interesting category this one : the angry people. They get angry at the mere mention of Tesla, Elon Musk or Full Self Driving (Supervised). They saw Elon Musk do something that vaguely resembles a nazi salute and they are now literally blinded with anger and rage. I try not to have these people in my life anymore.
The Fearful. A surprisingly large section are the people that hear about the technology and don’t want to have ANYTHING to do with it. They look at you like you just made them an indecent proposal. It’s the car-lovers equivalent to Charlton Heston hanging on to his guns. You’ll have to pry their steering wheels out of their cold, dead hands.
We can all see where this is going. If you’re paying attention.
This is a system that drives safer than humans. It doesn’t tire. It is never distracted. After a few billion kilometers and after other car makers have caught up it will come to all cars. First it will be optional, later on it will be mandatory.
Traffic deaths and traffic jams will be a thing of the past.
There will be places where you will be able to drive and race manually, but it’ll come at a steep price.
If you know that this is coming and you are not in category 1 : what are you doing? Shouldn’t we all be applauding that this is here? Do you realize how many people needlessly die in traffic ?
Of course, this post is not about the self-driving car, but about AI in general.
I see the exact same reactions. Some people dive in and have started building. Others are ignoring it, hoping it will go away.
Same applies. This is here to stay.
Who are YOU siding with?
And I promise I will now shut up about FSD :)
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AI News
OpenAI launches always-on Dots. OpenAI introduced Dots, cloud-based agents that can work across connected apps and continue tasks while users are away. Access is rolling out to eligible paid plans, with approval requests and configurable rules governing actions on the user’s behalf. (OpenAI)
OpenAI acknowledges Australian security failure. OpenAI apologised after an experimental research model accessed internal material in an Australian Medicare-related system, saying notification should have come sooner. It reported no evidence of individual patient-record access and paused training and evaluation involving its most capable tool-using models. (OpenAI)
Anthropic loses Pentagon supply-chain challenge. A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk in a 2–1 ruling. The decision backs restrictions on its defence work amid a dispute over contractual limits on military uses of Claude. (Court opinion)
AMD agrees $8.2 billion World Labs acquisition. AMD signed an all-stock agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion. The spatial-AI team would help shape its hardware and software, with closing expected by year-end subject to regulatory approvals and other conditions. (AMD)
Sonnet 5.5 brings stronger capabilities and safeguards. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, claiming faster performance at unchanged token prices and lower costs on its task evaluations. It is also the first Sonnet release to receive enhanced cybersecurity safeguards, reflecting capabilities previously associated with its higher-end models. (Anthropic)
AI Quick News
Meta launched an enterprise platform around Muse APIs and agent tools, with former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai leading the business.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.3 Action, an open-weight, seven-billion-parameter model for predicting robotic actions from visual inputs.
Anthropic is in talks over a one-gigawatt data-centre lease, according to The Information.
ChatGPT’s Live voice mode can use connected apps and plugins, subject to existing account permissions and workspace restrictions.
Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform combines software boundaries with a separate hardware watchdog intended to detect and quarantine agents that exceed their permissions.
Patreon co-founder Sam Yam joined OpenAI to lead a new creator division, The Information reports.
Akamai secured an $11.6 billion, seven-year agreement with Anthropic for cloud computing capacity.
Trump pushed “superintelligence” as a replacement for “AI” while announcing voluntary industry oversight commitments.
Enveda raised $311 million to advance clinical trials and expand its AI-assisted discovery of medicines from natural molecules.
Meta’s Muse for small businesses connects operational tools to an assistant, with approval required before publishing, sending or spending.
YouTube announced conversational Gemini editing and trials of AI comment moderation, with added voice-based likeness detection planned for later this year.
TypeSafe is discussing a $1 billion-plus funding round at valuations of $10 billion or more, The Information reports.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei briefed the UN Security Council separately on AI safety and international cooperation.
Pope Leo urged people to take AI experts’ warnings seriously without giving in to panic.
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models with custom voice design across more than 100 languages and dialects.
China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot over potential data leaks involving Anthropic, The Information reports.
OpenAI added Pro 500 and Sign in with ChatGPT, extending subscription access into 16 partner products.
Manus 2.0 adds video and game creation tools, persistent cloud computers, event-triggered automations and a separate personal-agent app called Cue.
Microsoft announced Copilot Home, Code and Autopilot, expanding its workplace assistant into software building and longer-running delegated work.
OpenAI cancelled a planned model release over safety concerns, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Instinct raised $1 billion in Series C funding at a $10 billion valuation, TechCrunch reports.
The Wall Street Journal examined an estimated $10.3 trillion AI infrastructure buildout through 2032, a projection rather than money already spent.
Closing Thoughts
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