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Ads have OFFICIALLY entered the chat(gpt):
TBH we find this a bit disappointing. Ads that look like Google ads? Ads in GPT could look way cooler than this… For example, and
we’re not saying OpenAI should do this…
because it would be horribly distracting… but THIS is the frontier of generative content, and we would expect generative ads to at least be as weird and engaging as this:
What is this advertising?
We have no idea; probably nothing. But it absolutely slaps and after two minutes of this, we would 100% buy whatever it was selling.
Come on OpenAI… you gotta do SOMETHING with all those Sora assets you abandoned…
Here’s what happened in AI today:
😼 Google shipped more AI in a day than most companies ship in a quarter, including a compression breakthrough the internet is calling "Pied Piper"
📰 Apple will open Siri to rival AI assistants in iOS 27, ending OpenAI's exclusive deal
📰 Shield AI raised $2B for autonomous military drones
🍪 Mistral released a voice model that fits on a smartwatch and beat ElevenLabs in blind tests
💡 Seven think pieces worth your Friday evening (see Intelligent Insights below)
… and a
whole lot more that you can read about here
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Google Shipped More AI in One Day Than Most Companies Ship in a Quarter
DEEP DIVE:
Google’s New Releases (Including TurboQuant) Explained
Your AI assistant is about to get a lot more competitive, and two very different strategies are fighting over who wins.
Here's what happened:
Google
launched Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, its best voice model yet, powering
Search Live
across 200+ countries. Point your phone camera at anything and talk about it in 90+ languages. Already deployed by Verizon and Home Depot.
Google rolled out
memory and full chat history import
from rival AI chatbots into Gemini. Copy-paste your preferences or upload a ZIP of your conversations and pick up where you left off. One-click migration for your AI life.
Google Research unveiled
TurboQuant
, a compression algorithm that shrinks AI's working memory (the temporary "cheat sheet" a model uses to track your conversation) by
6x with zero accuracy loss
. The internet is
calling it Pied Piper
.
Hours later,
Apple announced
it will open Siri to rival AI assistants (Gemini, Claude, others) via "Extensions" in iOS 27, ending OpenAI's exclusive partnership. Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is a likely reason Apple accelerated that timeline; Google's voice model is now good enough to be the default Siri brain for millions of users who opt in.
Why this matters:
Google wants to make Gemini so good and so sticky that you bring your entire AI life to it. Apple's playing the opposite game: make the iPhone the building where every AI rents space, and collect a cut of each subscription.
One bet says the best model wins. The other says the device wins. Either way, your AI assistant is about to get dramatically better because both companies are now competing for the same person.
And Google's memory import tools mean you can switch chatbots without losing your context; previously, switching meant starting over from scratch. TurboQuant could make every AI model cheaper to run by shrinking the memory bottleneck that drives most inference costs.
The open question is whether anyone actually switches. Google's best AI products are still scattered across too many interfaces (NotebookLM, AI Studio, Opal, Stitch, Gemini CLI / Antigravity). There's no quality central hub like Claude's desktop app or even what Codex is becoming. With Google Next around the corner and OpenAI
consolidating its own app strategy
, Google will likely do the same. But they're not there yet.
Our take:
TurboQuant is the real headline here. Voice models and platform moves grab attention, but a 6x compression breakthrough with zero quality loss is the kind of plumbing upgrade that changes pricing for every AI product you use. Cloudflare's CEO
called it
Google's DeepSeek moment. Developers are
already implementing it
for open-source models.
If the Pied Piper comparisons hold up, we're all about to get a lot more AI for a lot less
money.
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🎓 AI Skill of the Day:
Your AI chatbot history is now portable. Here's how to move it.
Google just made it possible to bring all your AI memories and conversations to Gemini without starting over. The same principle works in reverse: if you've built up context in one chatbot, you can export it and carry it with you. Here's a prompt that creates a portable snapshot of your AI relationship with any chatbot:
Review our entire conversation history and create a comprehensive personal context document I can take to any AI assistant. Organize it into these sections:
1.PREFERENCES: How I like responses formatted, my communication style preferences, topics I care about
2. CONTEXT: My job, projects, goals, and recurring themes from our conversations
3. KEY DECISIONS: Important choices or conclusions we've reached together
4. ONGOING WORK: Any active projects, drafts, or threads I'd want to continue elsewhere
Format as clean markdown I can copy-paste into a new AI assistant's memory or system prompt.
This works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chatbot with conversation history. The output becomes your "AI passport" that you can import into Google's new Gemini tool or paste into the system prompt of any other assistant.
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New From The Neuron: Our Livestream with Dan Shipper of Every!
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Dan Shipper (CEO of Every) joined The Neuron live to break down "agent-native engineering" — the framework his 15-person team uses to ship entire products without writing code by hand.
Dan basically lives his life “agent-native.” He vibe-coded a doc editor that went viral, runs AI agents as the core of every product (not a bolt-on), and follows a four-step process called "compound engineering" that took one team member from a one-line prompt to a working app in under an hour. If you want to understand how software actually gets built in 2026, this is the conversation.
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OpenAI launched plugins in Codex
, connecting it to Slack, Figma, Notion, Gmail, Google Drive, and 20+ other tools out of the box. Codex can now handle planning, research, and coordination across your actual work apps (not just write code), with plugins available in the Codex app, CLI, and VS Code extension. Users can also
build and share their own
.
Plus One
by Every builds you a personal AI agent with a name, memory, personality, and an infinite toolbelt using OpenClaw.
Stripe Projects
is a CLI tool that lets you or your agents provision hosting, databases, auth, AI, and more from the command line.
Tinker
by Shopify gives you free AI creative tools to make videos, images, 3D models, and product photography from your phone —free.
Voxtral TTS
by Mistral clones any voice from a 5-second sample and generates speech in 9 languages on ~3GB of RAM,
outperforming ElevenLabs
in blind tests —free (open source).
Ramp CLI
gives your AI agents 50+ tools for managing company finances: cards, bills, expenses, travel, and approvals —free to install.
Codebase-to-Course
turns any code repository into an interactive HTML tutorial using Claude Code Skills —free to try.
scans your hardware in the browser and tells you exactly which AI models your machine can run locally —free.
📰 Around the Horn
Anthropic
is discussing an IPO as soon as Q4 2026, with bankers expecting it to raise over $60B, which would make it the second-largest public offering ever behind SpaceX (paywall).
Shield AI
raised $2B for autonomous military drones and plans to acquire a simulation software maker, as defense-tech investment soars (paywall).
HUMAN Security
reported automated internet traffic grew 8x faster than human traffic in 2025, with agentic AI traffic up 7,851% and OpenAI generating ~69% of all observed AI bot traffic.
Reflection AI
, the Nvidia-backed open-source startup, is in talks to raise $2.5B at a $25B valuation to build models countering China's DeepSeek.
Cohere
released Transcribe, an open-source speech-to-text model that ranked #1 on HuggingFace's leaderboard, with 14-language support and on-premise deployment.
Microsoft
froze hiring across its Azure cloud and North American sales groups.
The
EU Parliament
voted to ban nudify apps (AI tools that generate fake nude images) and delay deadlines for high-risk AI system rules that were set to take effect this August.
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Intelligent Insights
The Guardian
: Marriage over, €100K down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
New York Magazine
: The people getting falsely accused of using AI to write (clean prose has become a liability)
BBC
: A reporter tried to prove she's not AI. Even her aunt wasn't convinced. Deepfakes are now so convincing a sitting prime minister struggled to prove he's alive.
ngrok blog
: Quantization from the ground up. If today's main story made you curious about how AI compression actually works, this is the companion read: a complete explainer from 32-bit floats to 4-bit integers with code you can run.
The Algorithmic Bridge
: "It's AI, so I Didn't Read" coins the term AI;DR
The Guardian
: AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying.
AP News
: AI is giving bad advice to flatter its users, says new study on chatbot sycophancy
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