Jules & Codex: Initial Impressions

Jules & Codex: Initial Impressions

I’ve been playing with OpenAI’s Codex (online) and Google’s Jules, both asynchronous web-based coding agents. Both start the same way: connect to GitHub, choose a repository, and give them a task to work on. Codex lets you set up an environment with...
AI News

AI News

First, some notes on Gemini as I posted them to my Slack group: Last week Google released Gemini 2.5. Free on their AI studio website if you don’t mind them training on your chats. In the API, Gemini has a context window of 2,000,000 tokens, about 1,500,000 words....
OpenAI Adopts MCP

OpenAI Adopts MCP

My notes to my peer group on the adoption of MCP by OpenAI: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1904957755829481737.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter MCP 🤝 OpenAI Agents SDK You can now connect your Model Context Protocol servers to Agents: We’re also working on MCP...

DeepSeek No Travel

The Information is reporting that some DeepSeek employees are no longer allowed to travel after the company’s rise to fame. “Management asked some staff to hand in their passports, the three people said.” This is a part of why I’m bearish on...
OpenAI: Up & To The Right

OpenAI: Up & To The Right

This gem came in my inbox this morning from The Information: Still, OpenAI’s business dwarfs competitors like Cohere and Mistral. OpenAI is expecting to more than triple revenue this year, from $3.7 billion to $12.7 billion, we scooped Friday. OpenAI told...