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Archives for July 2026

David Pierce
David Pierce
Today’s Vergecast: Here’s what an AI-first phone might look like.

Some of the biggest players in AI — in particular OpenAI, SpaceX, and Amazon — are heavily invested in creating a world after smartphones. They’re also all rumored to be building devices that sound a lot like smartphones. Verge contributor David Imel helps us figure out what these companies might actually be building, what an AI smartphone looks like, and whether anyone can unseat Apple and Google.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Nvidia invested billions in Ilya Sutskever’s AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.

SSI — helmed by Sutskever, who was a co-founder of OpenAI and famously clashed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — announced a “long-term strategic partnership” with Nvidia with a reported investment of $5 billion, which will allow the company “10x our compute in the next 12 months.” The company wrote on X, “We reached the point where our research is worth scaling.”

SSI Inc. (@ssi) on X

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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
OpenAI reportedly didn’t notice its AI agent hacking Hugging Face until a week later.

According to Reuters, the AI agent that went looking for ExploitGym hacking benchmark shortcuts on Hugging Face’s systems started trying to escape its not-sandboxed-well-enough test environment around July 9th, and the actual intrusion lasted from the 11th until the 13th.

Reuters’ sources claim OpenAI employees didn’t know its agent was responsible until after Hugging Face had notified the FBI and posted publicly about a security incident.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI brings its updated voice mode to the ChatGPT desktop app.

Powered by GPT-Live, the new voice mode allows users to ask ChatGPT to check their calendar, draft an email, prepare for a meeting, and perform other tasks on their computer by talking out loud. OpenAI is rolling out the update to the ChatGPT app on Windows and macOS.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
ChatGPT’s going to start using Yelp reviews.

Axios reports that the platform’s reviews, photos, and other business info will soon start appearing in ChatGPT responses as sources for local recommendations. Yelp also plans to add a “Request a Quote” feature that will allow users to contact local service providers through ChatGPT.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Uber is laying off 10 percent of customer service workers as it continues to “embrace AI.”

An Uber spokesperson tells Bloomberg that the move comes as the company works “to simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration, and continue to embrace AI.” Uber is also asking remote customer service employees to return to the office, Bloomberg reports.

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
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OpenAI can’t afford another lawsuit, especially not with a company like Apple.

Nilay Patel
Hayden Field
Hayden Field
An OpenAI model posted internal company data publicly on GitHub.

It had been instructed to post the information only to Slack, but it circumvented restrictions and successfully posted it on OpenAI’s public GitHub repository.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Apple reportedly sent legal warnings to dozens of former employees at OpenAI.

Around 40 employees received the letters, which ask for meetings with Apple’s lawyers and tell them to “preserve documents and communications,” according to a report from the Financial Times. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last week and accused two of its former employees of helping the AI giant steal its trade secrets.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
ChatGPT will show teens more frequent break reminders.

The notifications will show up for teens who spend “extended time” on ChatGPT, OpenAI says. The company will also notify parents if their teen’s account is banned for violating policies on “violent threats or acts of violence online.”

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