2026-04-25 By Mara Vale 3 min read
Romain Huet confirmed that OpenAI's dedicated Codex line is dead. The main model and the coding model are now the same system, changing how builders should evaluate GPT-5.5.
2026-04-25 By Rex Dane 2 min read
xAI’s new voice model claims top spot on the Tau Voice Bench, promising to survive background noise and interruptions. But a capable voice model still needs you to know what you want it to do.
2026-04-25 By Mara Vale 4 min read
The new prompt guidance for GPT-5.5 is an exercise in demolition. The advice isn't to add new magic words; it's to clear out legacy prompt debt and define the destination rather than the path.
2026-04-25 By Mara Vale 3 min read
API access means teams can stop admiring GPT-5.5 from the showroom and start deciding where it actually deserves production budget.
2026-04-25 By Mara Vale 3 min read
OpenAI’s workspace agents sound autonomous, but the useful test is much duller: can they take a real workflow, preserve context, and return an artifact that is actually reviewable?
2026-04-24 By Mara Vale 3 min read
OpenAI pitches its new model as better at complex coding and data analysis. The real test is whether it can navigate messy workflows without requiring constant human cleanup.
2026-04-17 By Eli Mercer 3 min read
OpenAI’s new agent observability tools sound like developer jargon, but they represent the difference between useful delegation and finding out your bot rearranged the CRM while you were asleep.
2026-04-10 By Eli Mercer 3 min read
OpenAI’s deep research tool lets you restrict sources and interrupt runs. The real lesson isn't that AI can summarize the web, but that research is useless if you can't defend the citations later.
2026-03-12 By Eli Mercer 3 min read
Zapier's look at the future of workflow automation emphasizes human-in-the-loop systems, proving that the best AI knows when to step back.
2026-03-06 By Tess Navarro 2 min read
Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model lets users choose whether they want a fast answer or a deep thought. It's the right product move in a market obsessed with confusing model menus.
2026-03-04 By Eli Mercer 3 min read
Microsoft’s Frontier Firm vision of hybrid AI teams is compelling, but practically, companies just need one human owner, one repeatable workflow, and a clear way to review failures.