Amazon Reconsiders the Alexa Smartphone

OpenAI is becoming a superapp. Does Amazon really want to try its hand at a smartphone again? Google is making further steps to obviate classic Google Search in that innovator’s dilemma way. And in the Longreads, why has AI gotten worse at writing.

• OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop ‘Superapp’ to Refocus, Simplify User Experience (WSJ)
• White House releases AI policy blueprint for Congress (Politico)
• Exclusive: Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop (Reuters)
• Super Micro shares tank 25% after employees charged with smuggling Nvidia chips to China (CNBC)
• Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (The Verge)
• Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion for AI Manufacturing Fund (WSJ)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer (The Verge)
• The Human Skill That Eludes AI (The Atlantic)

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