Microsoft releases Mage-VL-Cowork on Hugging Face

Reddit user says a banner promoting "GPT Astra" and ChatGPT Pro appears every second message in any chat touching math or computing. The poster objects to paying roughly 4x their current membership price.

Cohere says its multi-year Canadian effort, begun in 2024, will create more than 1,500 jobs and deliver over C$4 billion in R&D and AI infrastructure investment through 2031. At least 1,000 roles target AI research, engineering and product development.

DoorDash disclosed on its Q3 earnings call that third-party agents like Muse, Instinct, and Fo have placed only "several hundred" orders total, against roughly 3 million deliveries per day. CEO Tony Xu said users still predominantly order through the DoorDash app.

Spotify is aiming for an early 2027 launch, possibly unveiling around the Grammy Awards in February, with the paid add-on reportedly costing an extra $4 to $5 a month. Sony Music and Warner Music Group are still negotiating to join UMG, Merlin and Believe in licensing the tool.

Microsoft's Industry Evaluation Data Generation Platform builds full-scale synthetic enterprise environments from O*NET occupational data, job postings and SEC filings to test Copilot without touching sensitive real data. Automated content-safety checks keep generated data free of harmful or personally identifiable material.

Altman told the Cheeky Pint podcast OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions on math and will keep publishing, saying humanity "deserves fundamental knowledge." He conceded the company needs to improve how it communicates results, after mathematicians criticized inadequate attribution and verification.