Anthropic President Daniela Amodei calls AI companions a "terrible use of AI"

Paseo's Vercel Sandbox plugin runs fx, Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, and Pi in the cloud, letting you start a session on a laptop and control it from a phone with the laptop closed. Stopped sandboxes preserve files and conversation history, though active processes stop.

Virtual Models abstract the model string behind an ID like vmc/coding-agent, so teams can swap models, set fallbacks and priority, and enforce Zero Data Retention centrally without redeploys. Vercel says 125 new models from 10+ labs landed on AI Gateway in the last 90 days, roughly 10 a week.

Built for the WhisperNow voice-to-text app, the fine-tuned cleanup models strip fillers, false starts and self-corrections, and format lists. The developer positions it against the many WisprFlow clones by training the cleanup step rather than relying on a general model.

GPU inference via ML Drift runs about 1.4x faster than the legacy GPU delegate, exposed through the new CompiledModel API. Apps switching from bundled LiteRT shrink by roughly 8 MB, with over 100K Android apps still bundling their own copy.

Azure's first-ever dollar disclosure shows $33.2 billion for the July–September quarter, about $850 million above the $32.3 billion analysts expected and ahead of Google Cloud's $30.7 billion. Microsoft also booked $10 billion in OpenAI-related revenue, nearly 11% of its $92.3 billion quarter.