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Byte-Sized: Your AI Industry News Summary

Your AI Industry breakdown. What's been going on in the world? There are loads of newsletters and breakdowns out there, so we're summarizing it all into one, easy to read place.

AI scientists & more (May 2, 2025)
Byte-Sized: Your AI Industry News Summary

AI scientists & more (May 2, 2025)

AI scientists go public, leaderboards under fire, mini models make big moves, and Claude gets integrations — here’s your Byte-Sized AI breakdown.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AI gets credit cards & more (May 1, 2025)
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AI gets credit cards & more (May 1, 2025)

Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal launch AI shopping tools. GPT-4o gets rolled back for being too agreeable. China and Amazon drop powerful new models.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Reddit bots, privacy & more (April 30, 2025)
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Reddit bots, privacy & more (April 30, 2025)

Reddit’s AI scandal raises red flags, Meta launches a Llama-fueled social AI app, and anyone can build with no-code tools. It’s all happening this week in AI.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AI goes shopping & more (April 29, 2025)
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AI goes shopping & more (April 29, 2025)

GPT-4o gets too agreeable, Qwen3 drops open-source, ChatGPT adds shopping smarts, and a new AI startup wants to build actual starships.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

OpenAI stumbles, China surges & more (April 28, 2025)
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OpenAI stumbles, China surges & more (April 28, 2025)

China races toward AI independence, Meta sends Llama into orbit, Microsoft launches memory PCs, and OpenAI's o3 model struggles to meet expectations.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Deep research for all & more (April 25, 2025)
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Deep research for all & more (April 25, 2025)

OpenAI expands Deep Research access, Anthropic investigates AI consciousness, Adobe levels up Firefly, and Baidu, Perplexity, and others launch major updates.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AI paints the future & more (April 24, 2025)
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AI paints the future & more (April 24, 2025)

OpenAI's image model goes public, Microsoft bets big on AI agents, and Grok starts seeing—welcome to the new creative and corporate frontier.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AI Voices, rogue agents & more (April 23, 2025)
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AI Voices, rogue agents & more (April 23, 2025)

Two undergrads entered the AI voice war, OpenAI wants Chrome, and Anthropic says bots are coming for your job.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AI gets a gavel & more (April 22, 2025)
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AI gets a gavel & more (April 22, 2025)

A moral chatbot, autoregressive video generation, and governments outsourcing lawmaking to LLMs. What could go wrong?

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

The curious case of the o3 model & more (April 21, 2025)
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The curious case of the o3 model & more (April 21, 2025)

OpenAI’s o3 gets creepy, DeepMind goes experiential, and the AI job takeover becomes a little too real.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Cheap thinking & more (April 18, 2025)
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Cheap thinking & more (April 18, 2025)

Gemini 2.5 adds toggleable reasoning and AI gets smarter across memory and biology.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

OpenAI can think in images & more (April 17, 2025)
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OpenAI can think in images & more (April 17, 2025)

OpenAI unlocks image reasoning, Claude gets voice and research powers, and Copilot learns to control your computer.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

GPT goes social & more (April 16, 2025)
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GPT goes social & more (April 16, 2025)

OpenAI goes social, GPT-4.1 launches, Claude levels up, and Kling 2.0 takes on Google.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Talking dolphins & more (April 15, 2025)
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Talking dolphins & more (April 15, 2025)

GPT-4.1 emerges after GPT-4.5, dolphins are chatting with us, and China’s Seaweed is dominating video AI.

Chris Raroque

Chris Raroque

Co-Founder

$32B and still no product & more (April 14, 2025)
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$32B and still no product & more (April 14, 2025)

Ilya raises $2B for a startup with no product and ChatGPT goes viral turning users into anime — all while Microsoft quietly records your screen.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

ChatGPT gets a brain & more (April 11, 2025 edition)
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ChatGPT gets a brain & more (April 11, 2025 edition)

ChatGPT remembers you, Murati raises billions, and CPUs might dethrone GPUs.

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Google goes AI bazooka & more (April 10, 2025 edition)
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Google goes AI bazooka & more (April 10, 2025 edition)

Google goes AI bazooka & more

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Cartoon AI filmmaking & more (April 9, 2025)
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Cartoon AI filmmaking & more (April 9, 2025)

Cartoon AI filmmaking & more

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

OpenAI's iPhone moment & more (April 8, 2025)
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OpenAI's iPhone moment & more (April 8, 2025)

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Llama 4 is here and more (April 7, 2025 edition)
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Llama 4 is here and more (April 7, 2025 edition)

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Intel partners with a rival & more (April 4, 2025 edition)
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Intel partners with a rival & more (April 4, 2025 edition)

Intel partners with a rival & more

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

LLMs clear the Turing Test & more (LLMs clear the Turing Test & more (April 3, 2025 edition)
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LLMs clear the Turing Test & more (LLMs clear the Turing Test & more (April 3, 2025 edition)

LLMs clear the Turing Test & more

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

Therapy bots & more (April 2, 2025 edition)
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Therapy bots & more (April 2, 2025 edition)

Therapy bots & more

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder

AWS can control your browser & more (April 1, 2025 edition)
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AWS can control your browser & more (April 1, 2025 edition)

AWS can control your browser & more

David Pawlan

David Pawlan

Co-Founder