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Articles by Jason Gunnells
Amazon Just Went to War With AI Shopping Agents, and Washington Is Betting Big on Not Slowing Down
This week's AI news had a little of everything: a corporate turf war over who gets to shop on your behalf, a security researcher trio that broke into a frontier lab in under three days, a president floating a new AI police force, and two of the industry's biggest labs racing each other to market within 90 minutes. The biggest story of the week was a fight over who controls the emerging "agentic shopping" economy.
The AI Slowdown Nobody's Actually Slowing Down For
A week ago, three of the industry's biggest names agreed AI needed to pump the brakes. This week, the two governments that would actually have to enforce that both said no — and the fallout says more about where AI is headed than the original call for caution did. The story starts with Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk publicly endorsing a plan to slow frontier AI development, a rare moment of alignment among rivals. It didn't last.
OpenAI Cracks a Million-Dollar Math Problem — and the Credit Fight Starts Immediately
Today's biggest AI story isn't really about the breakthrough itself — it's about who gets to claim it. OpenAI announced that an unreleased internal model, one the company describes as "significantly more capable" than its just-launched flagship, has produced a proof solving Navier-Stokes, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize problems and the equation set that governs how fluids flow.
AI Is Now Out-Working the People Who Build It
Inside the top AI labs, the machines have quietly started pulling more research hours than the humans who supervise them — and that's just the opening line of today's roundup. The most striking data point to surface today came from inside a frontier AI lab, where internal numbers show coding agents now logging roughly three full workdays of research output for every single workday a human researcher puts in.
Runway Just Showed What a Code-Free Internet Could Look Like
A new AI model can render an entire website in real time without running a single line of code behind it — and that wasn't even the most surprising AI news of the day. The headline development came from a research preview of an "Interface World Model" that treats every webpage or app as a video the AI is generating on the fly.
OpenAI Cuts Cursor Loose as the Altman-Musk Feud Finally Hits Developers
The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk has burned through lawsuits, poached talent, and years of public sniping. Now it's landing somewhere developers will actually feel it. OpenAI announced this week that it's pulling its models out of Cursor, one of the most popular AI coding editors on the market, following Cursor's acquisition by Musk's SpaceX.
The Robots Had Their Biggest Week Yet — Record-Breaking Games, a Viral $399 Duck, and Billion-Dollar Bets
Robotics stopped feeling like a side story this week and started feeling like the main event, with humanoid machines breaking human athletic records, a tiny desktop robot going viral, and investors racing to pour billions into the space before it's too late. The headline moment came out of China's World Humanoid Robot Games, where the machines didn't just compete — they rewrote the record books.
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