Cursor Tops Favorite AI Code Editor, Trump to be AI Czar, and NVIDIA Sound is Cool

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning folks!

This is the last newsletter of the week since Thanksgiving is tomorrow! I hope you get some rest and get ready for the final month of 2024. What happened? Where the heck did it all go?!

• Sora’s new video model apparently leaked by activist group.

• Former Google / Strip execs launch new “Android” startup.

• Zoom’s rebrand; dropping “video” from its official title.

• Trump to be the Whitehouse AI Czar?

• An API for AI agents.

• Custom AI interviewer.

• I said NO to $20k because writers must take a stand against AI.

• NVIDIA et.al. are building superclusters.

• AI interfaces via Ant; open source.

• Building LLMs is probably not going to be profitable.

• OpenAI’s red teaming sequence.

• Juna will make factories more efficient.

• Agentic feature in Slack.

• Uber’s gig service now offers AI.

• Fugatto, the NVIDIA sound machine.

And a fun fireside chat with Sam:

Have a good one! I’ll see you Monday! Don’t get too fat.

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer