The Context Window Is Not Memory, and Conflating the Two Is Making AI Products Worse
Expanding context windows hasn't made AI assistants more capable of knowing you. It's made it easier to confuse size with understanding.
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Expanding context windows hasn't made AI assistants more capable of knowing you. It's made it easier to confuse size with understanding.
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OpenAI keeps building tools that make more sense as infrastructure than as consumer software. That's not accidental.
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OpenAI wants AI agents to act on your behalf. The problem is that trust, not technology, is the actual barrier.
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AI agents that book restaurants and file forms sound useful - until you realise the friction they remove was never the real obstacle.
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Giving AI agents access to your browser and accounts sounds powerful. The real question is who benefits when something goes wrong.
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OpenAI wants AI agents doing your tasks. That's less about helping you and more about making you impossible to leave.
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OpenAI wants GPT-4o to book your flights and manage your inbox. The gap between that pitch and reality is still enormous.
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AI agents that browse, book, and buy on your behalf sound useful. But the trust infrastructure to make that safe barely exists.
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Dreams of Violets, a $2,000 AI-generated film dramatizing Iran's crackdown on protesters, will premiere at the Tribeca Festival next month.
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Anthropic has closed a $65B Series H round at a $965B valuation, potentially its last private raise before an IPO, with backing from Sequoia, Amazon, and others.
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Anthropic says its Mythos-class Claude model could reach general users within weeks, as the company works to finalize cybersecurity safeguards ahead of a public release.
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is built to better acknowledge when it's uncertain, rather than presenting unsupported conclusions with false confidence.
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Anthropic released Opus 4.8 with a new Dynamic Workflows feature for coordinating large numbers of parallel subagents, plus improved handling of uncertain data.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has shared an early look at Apple's Siri overhaul, expected at WWDC 2026, including a Dynamic Island home and a new chatbot-style interface.
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Asana acquired no-code agent builder Stack AI for $75 million, adding its founders and technology to Asana's growing suite of AI workflow tools.
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OpenAI's new Trusted Contact feature lets ChatGPT alert a nominated friend if a user shows signs of being at serious risk of self-harm, with human review required before any notification is sent.
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Major financial exchanges, including Shanghai's futures market and CME Group, are developing derivative products tied to AI compute tokens and GPU rental costs.
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Paris is emerging as a major hub for AI research, startups, and policy - challenging Silicon Valley's long-held dominance in the global tech conversation.
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Running an open-weight AI chatbot locally on an iPhone can cost as little as a one-time $5 purchase, with added benefits of offline use and stronger privacy.
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Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot with a faster interface, structured responses, and a context-sensitive UI approach called progressive disclosure.
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Microsoft has redesigned Copilot for Microsoft 365 with a minimal, largely black-and-white interface aimed at consistency across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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YouTube is rolling out a prompt-based AI feature that lets US users generate a personalized Home feed, with open questions about what it means for creators.
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