Saturday, May 9, 2026

OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 API, new text-to-speech models

OpenAI launched a slew of new APIs during its first-ever developer day. DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image model, is now available via an API after first coming to...

App Store for AI: OpenAI’s GPT Store lets you build (and monetize) your own...

OpenAI took the leash (and the “Chat”) off ChatGPT today with the announcement of GPTs, a way for anyone to build their own version of the...

Why this autonomous vehicle veteran joined a legged robotics startup

Zhang Li‘s career path has looked like a bellwether for China’s tech trends. When the Cisco veteran joined WeRide in 2018, the Chinese autonomous vehicle company...

Lucid adopts Tesla’s charging standard

Lucid has reached an agreement that will give owners of its luxury EVs access to Tesla’s network of superchargers — following the path of Ford, GM...

Sources confirm that Salesforce intends to announce new Slack CEO next week

It was a whirlwind kind of day at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end...

Max Q: Will Starlink IPO?

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Breakeven cashflow for Starlink News from Kuva Space and more SpaceX’s Starlink has “achieved breakeven cash flow,” CEO Elon Musk...

Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs

A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos,...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users

ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Monday at the company’s first developer conference in San Francisco. The service...

Klarna’s financial glow-up is my favorite story in tech right now

Klarna’s Q3 2023 results are the latest in a growing list of evidence that the Swedish fintech giant is evolving from a loss-making unicorn to a durable...

Apple, it’s time to fold

Apple is relatively fresh off its annual iPhone refresh, having just released the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro in September. The hardware updates for this generation...