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Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026 (Alex Heath/Time)

Alex Heath … They hoisted signs to “stop the AI race” and scrawled chalk messages on the sidewalk.

  • OpenAI previews Astra, advanced AI model family, in tense scene
  • CEO Sam Altman optimistic about persistent agents and new knowledge discovery
  • Company faces criticism, setbacks, and legal challenges from Anthropic

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

  • Particle, an AI newsreader startup, pivots to podcast search engine Radar
  • Radar transcribes over 130,000 podcasts with speaker labels and metadata
  • Hedge funds and AI search platforms are top-paying customers for Radar API

Connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cross-account knowledge bases

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in one account can generate answers from an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base backed by Amazon Redshift Serverless in another account, without copying source…

  • AgentCore enables AI agents at scale across frameworks and models
  • Agents retrieve answers from governed knowledge bases in separate AWS accounts
  • Sample GitHub provides deployment procedures for two AgentCore orchestration models

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