AI Daily Briefing: Suno leans into customization with v5.5

Sunday, March 29, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 9 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Suno leans into customization with v5.5; Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing; Why OpenAI killed Sora. Top Stories Suno leans into customization with v5.5 The Verge AI Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control. It includes three new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models. In the releas ...

March 29, 2026 · 3 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old ...

Saturday, March 28, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 20 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company; Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable; AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics. Top Stories STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company OpenAI Learn how STADLER uses ChatGPT to transform knowledge work, saving time and accelerating productivity across 650 employees. ...

March 28, 2026 · 3 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: You can now transfer your chats and personal infor...

Friday, March 27, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 429 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini; David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar; Apple will reportedly allow other AI chatbots to plug into Siri. Top Stories You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini TechCrunch AI ...

March 27, 2026 · 4 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop are...

Thursday, March 26, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 420 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well; OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora; Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app. Top Stories Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well The Verge AI ...

March 26, 2026 · 4 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: Helping developers build safer AI experiences for ...

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 427 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens; Update on the OpenAI Foundation; With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI. Top Stories Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens OpenAI OpenAI releases prompt-based teen safety policies for developers using gpt-oss-safeguard, helping moderate age-specific risks in AI systems. ...

March 25, 2026 · 4 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: Bernie Sanders' AI 'gotcha' video flops, but the m...

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 637 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great; Apple sets June date for WWDC 2026, teasing ‘AI advancements’; Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way. Top Stories Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great TechCrunch AI Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks he’s tricked Claude into revealing the AI industry’s secrets, but he really just exposed how agreeable chatbots can become. ...

March 24, 2026 · 3 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art

Monday, March 23, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 354 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art; Musk says he’s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas; An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple. Top Stories Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art The Verge AI Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the final release. Now the developer has acknowledged that AI art was indeed used during the game’s creation, but says that it was intended to be replaced ...

March 23, 2026 · 3 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Sunday, March 22, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 21 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics; Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive; Amazon is making an Alexa phone. Top Stories The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics The Verge AI Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn’t fully understand the technology, she was curious about what it could do, and she saw that other artists were building online communit ...

March 22, 2026 · 2 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: What's New in Mellea 0.4.0 + Granite Librarie...

Saturday, March 21, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 308 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: What's New in Mellea 0.4.0 + Granite Libraries Release; Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI; Fitbit’s AI health coach will soon be able to read your medical records. Top Stories What's New in Mellea 0.4.0 + Granite Libraries Release HuggingFace Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI Wired AI Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people. ...

March 21, 2026 · 4 min · Rob Taylor

AI Daily Briefing: OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’

Friday, March 20, 2026 TL;DR Today’s briefing covers 485 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’; Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI; DoorDash launches a new ‘Tasks’ app that pays couriers to submit videos to train AI. Top Stories OpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’ The Verge AI OpenAI is working on a desktop “superapp” that merges its ChatGPT app, the Codex AI coding app, and its AI-powered Atlas browser into one app, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is making the change as part of an effort to simplify its various product efforts, according to a memo cited by ...

March 20, 2026 · 4 min · Rob Taylor