Good morning. It’s Friday, September 5th.

On this day in tech history: In 1983, the term “hacker” broke into mainstream media when a youthful Neal Patrick from the 414s appeared on Newsweek. The story catalyzed hacker-culture visibility and began shaping public and policy perceptions on cybersecurity, subcultures, and digital agency.

In today’s email:

• OpenAI Challenges LinkedIn

• Google’s EmbeddingGemma

• RoboBallet

• 5 New AI Tools

• Latest AI Research Papers

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OpenAI challenges Nvidia, LinkedIn, and regulators in one sweeping move

OpenAI is developing its first in-house AI chip with Broadcom, slated for 2026 and fabricated at TSMC, in a bid to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs and control spiraling compute costs. Broadcom’s CEO flagged a $10B AI infrastructure order from a “new client,” almost certainly OpenAI, signaling industrial-scale deployment.

The company is also preparing the OpenAI Jobs Platform, an AI-driven hiring service to rival LinkedIn, launching mid-2026. It will use machine learning to match candidates with employers and includes a dedicated track for small businesses and governments. Through OpenAI Academy, the company will also pilot “AI fluency” certifications in late 2025 with Walmart as a key partner and a goal of certifying 10 million Americans by 2030.

OpenAI’s push now extends beyond tech. Recently, It has subpoenaed advocacy groups Encode and CANI over funding, calling it transparency. Critics, however, call it intimidation. Some filings verge on absurd, such as linking a nonprofit leader to Elon Musk via a property owned by “Tesla Place, LLC,” later revealed to belong to an unrelated retired couple. At the same time, its Super PAC, “Leading the Future,” has now raised over $100M to push back on regulations it argues could slow U.S. AI dominance.

On the consumer side, OpenAI has opened up ChatGPT Projects, once paywalled, to free users, with tiered file uploads and customization nudging upgrades.

It also added conversation branching, letting users explore multiple directions without losing the original thread. Read more.

Google’ EmbeddingGemma, Veo 3, and Nano Banana drive device-level AI adoption from

Google is now turning devices and apps into fully capable AI platforms. EmbeddingGemma, a 308M-parameter model built on Gemma 3 and trained in 100+ languages, now tops the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark for sub-500M systems. Designed for on-device RAG and semantic search, it leverages Matryoshka Representation Learning to flex between speed and precision, while integrations with llama.cpp, LangChain, LMStudio, and Ollama make deployment frictionless.

On the consumer side, Google Photos now lets U.S. users turn still images into four-second silent clips with Veo 3, offering “Subtle movements” or random “I’m feeling lucky” effects. Once locked behind the $250/month AI Ultra plan, it is now free with limited daily access.

Meanwhile, Gemini’s Nano Banana has driven 200M+ image edits and, since its launch last week, was responsible for 10+ million first-time Gemini app users. The model, now integrated across AI Studio, the Gemini prompt bar, and social media, has quickly become a leader on LMArena’s Image Edit leaderboard, outperforming competitors by a 171-point margin.

Android features now include on-device Gboard AI editing, Quick Share with live previews, LE Audio group syncing, and generative Androidify avatars. Flow video generation expands interactive storytelling via Flow Sessions, supported by recently joined filmmaker-in-residence Henry Daubrez.

Topping it off, a Google Senior Engineer released a free 400+ page guide on agentic design patterns. Read more.

Deepmind’s ‘robotballet’ promises to choreograph production line gains

RoboBallet, built by UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic, is turning robotic arms into precision production-line assemblers. Using reinforcement learning and graph neural networks, it maps tasks and obstacles as network nodes, letting fleets of arms solve up to 40 jobs in seconds, even in layouts it’s never seen.

Traditional programming can take weeks for a handful of robots; RoboBallet scales instantly, generating plans hundreds of times faster than real-time while adapting to layout changes or failures on the fly. Current focus is welding, but the architecture can extend to pick-and-place, painting, or strict sequence workflows. Open-sourced code positions it as a new benchmark for autonomous industrial robotics. Read more.

• DeepSeek targets Q4 launch of self-learning AI agent to rival OpenAI

• Past chats reference is rolling out to Claude Pro users

• Apple tests AI-powered Siri using Google’s Gemini on private cloud

• Here’s how the Pixel’s AI zoom compares to a real 100x lens

• DuckDuckGo’s subscription now includes access to GPT-5 and GPT-4o

• Ethan Mollick: We can finally say AI is advancing faster than anticipated

• Watch: Man spirals into AI-induced mathematical framework psychosis, calls national security officials

• Moonshot upgrades Kimi K2 with K2-0905 boosting coding speed and 256k context

• Ideogram launches Styles feature for customizable, shareable presets

• Meet the $100m AI startup that wants to kill the billable hour: ‘Most legal departments have lost control of their budgets and their knowledge’

• Students get early access to Perpexity Comet

• Musk claims Optimus robots will drive 80% of Tesla’s value amid EV slump

• How Clay and Octave are quietly killing off traditional sales jobs

• Goldman Sachs warns AI growth will push data center electricity up 160%+

• Similarities between human and AI learning offer intuitive design insights

• Captions rebrands as Mirage, expands beyond creator tools to AI video research

• SwitchBot launches three AI-powered smart home products, including a pair of robots

• 'CopyPasta' attack shows how prompt injections could infect AI at scale

• Chinese companies could start making money from AI agents next year, UBS says

• Brian Armstrong wants half of Coinbase code to be AI-written by October

• Warner Bros Discovery sues AI photo generator Midjourney for stealing Superman, Scooby-Doo 

• WisdomAI launches autonomous AI agents that act like data analysts on steroids

• Meta poaches Apple researcher as hiring shifts from skills to ideas

• PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions

• Watch: Figure’s Helix can now load the dishwasher with delicate items

• Nvidia speeds up 3D asset generation by 20% on its RTX graphics cards with new AI Blueprint

• Figma won't let the AI hype distract it

• The Illusion of Consciousness in AI Companionship

• Scale AI still exists and it’s suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage

• Stardog’s ‘hallucination-free’ answer engine brings AI insights to high-stakes industries

• Grok Imagine Video with speech is now available on mobile

📄 Robix: A Unified Model for Robot Interaction, Reasoning and Planning

📄 UI-TARS-2 Technical Report: Advancing GUI Agent with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning ​​

📄 Open Data Synthesis For Deep Research

📄 Towards a Unified View of Large Language Model Post-Training

📄 DeepResearch Arena: The First Exam of LLMs' Research Abilities via Seminar-Grounded Tasks

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