Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 4, 2026

OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub outages in recent months that directly affected OpenAI's own developers. The project is still in its early stages and likely won't be ready for several months.

Internally, the company is reportedly discussing whether to offer the product to outside customers - a move that would put OpenAI in direct competition with Microsoft, one of its biggest investors. GitHub has attributed some of its outages to problems with Microsoft's Azure cloud, which the service is currently being migrated to. Google and Meta both run their own internal code platforms but don't offer them externally. OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub all declined to comment.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 3, 2026

AI in practice

Meta sends private AI glasses footage to Kenya with few safeguards - and Europe's privacy regulators may come knocking

Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 3, 2026

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Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI chatbot designed to compete with similar tools from OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. According to Bloomberg, the feature lets users ask for product suggestions. The chatbot responds with a carousel of product images that include brand, website, and price details, along with a brief bullet-point explanation of its recommendations.

The feature is currently rolling out to a limited number of US users in the Meta AI web browser. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the test but didn't share any further details.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 3, 2026

Short News

Several US federal agencies are already dropping Anthropic's AI products and switching to competitors like OpenAI. According to Reuters, the shift currently affects the State Department, Treasury Department, Department of Health and Human Services, the Pentagon, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. President Trump ordered all agencies on Friday to phase out Anthropic products within six months. The Department of Defense had previously classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk and signed a deal with OpenAI.

The switch isn't exactly an upgrade, though - at least not yet. The State Department is replacing Anthropic's Claude models in its internal chatbot with OpenAI's outdated GPT-4.1 model.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 3, 2026

AI in practice

A calendar invite is all it took to hijack Perplexity's Comet browser and steal 1Password credentials

Security researchers demonstrate how a manipulated calendar invite can trick Perplexity’s agentic Comet browser into stealing local files and taking over a full 1Password account.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 2, 2026

Short News

ASML, the world's sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines used to produce advanced chips, is looking to expand beyond its core business. That's according to a Reuters report citing ASML Chief Technology Officer Marco Pieters.

The Dutch company is specifically planning to move into advanced packaging - a technique where multiple specialized chips are connected and stacked on top of each other. This approach is critical for modern AI chips and the high-bandwidth memory that feeds them. TSMC already uses advanced packaging to build Nvidia's most powerful AI processors, among others.

Pieters told Reuters that ASML is planning 10 to 15 years ahead, studying what kinds of machines the industry will need for packaging and bonding. The company is also exploring whether chips can be printed beyond their current size limit. On top of that, ASML wants to use AI to speed up the control software running its machines and improve quality checks during chip manufacturing.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 2, 2026

AI in practice

Thousands of procurement documents show how China's army wants to weaponize AI

Researchers at Georgetown University have analyzed thousands of procurement requests from China’s People’s Liberation Army. The documents reveal how broadly Beijing is already experimenting with military AI, from drone swarms and deepfake tools to autonomous decision-making systems.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 2, 2026

AI and society

Inside the Anthropic-Pentagon breakdown: mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, and a rival deal waiting in the wings

Maximilian Schreiner

Feb 22, 2026

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AI in practice

Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Hollywood is done asking nicely. First Netflix, then Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, and Sony. Now the MPA itself. Hollywood is closing ranks against Bytedance’s Seedance 2.0, arguing the AI video generator was built on stolen content. The API launch might already be on hold.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Feb 20, 2026

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Nvidia is close to investing $30 billion in OpenAI, Reuters reports, citing a person familiar with the matter. The investment is part of a funding round in which OpenAI aims to raise more than $100 billion total - a deal that would value the ChatGPT maker at roughly $830 billion, making it one of the largest private fundraises in history.

SoftBank and Amazon are also expected to participate in the round. OpenAI plans to spend a significant portion of the new capital on Nvidia chips needed to train and run its AI models.

According to the Financial Times, the investment replaces a deal announced in September, under which Nvidia was set to provide up to $100 billion to support OpenAI's chip usage in data centers. That original agreement took longer to finalize than expected.

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