// a daily digest from the AI world
New models, tools and announcements every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.
Under Jensen Huang, Nvidia poured tens of billions of dollars into AI startups. With him no longer at the helm, founders and investors are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations. For young AI companies, raising money could get harder.
OpenAI is adding a wallet called ChatGPT Wallet to its Dots agents platform. Once you add a card, the agents can shop and check out on your behalf. For now it is rolling out only to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and older with select US cards.
According to Reuters, Amazon is preparing a project called the World Product Graph, a vault of data on every product sold anywhere online. It would include goods Amazon does not sell and surface the information on its own site. The goal is to keep shoppers from leaving even as AI search grows.
New research reported by TechCrunch shows that China's most advanced AI models were trained on Nvidia chips covered by export bans. The finding reopens the question of how effective export controls on AI hardware really are.
The new datasette-llm 0.1a11 release adds support for OpenAI-compatible endpoints. That lets you point Datasette at a model hosted anywhere that speaks the protocol, including local models run through LM Studio or Ollama. Handy for makers who would rather keep data off the cloud.
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