Matthew McConaughey’s weekly audio newsletter took an unanticipated left turn after a report detailing how the actor’s “Lyrics of Livin’” premiere is being narrated in Spanish via AI-puppeteered clone of his voice, Mattbot3000, also revealed that he partnered with ElevenLabs to digitally reconstruct his tone. The story goes on to explain that his original English recordings

Databricks and Snowflake are at it again, and the battleground is now SQL-based document parsing. In an intensifying race to dominate enterprise AI workloads with agent-driven automation, Databricks has added SQL-based AI parsing capabilities to its Agent Bricks framework, just days after Snowflake introduced a similar ability inside its Intelligence platform. The new abilities from

Google has added Go to the list of languages supported by the company’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), a modular framework for developing and deploying AI agents. Introduced November 7, ADK for Go offers an idiomatic, performant way to build agents, said Toni Klopfenstein, a Google developer relations engineer for ADK for Go. Source code can

The AI marketspace is getting mighty crowded, and Chinese company Baidu is the latest player to launch its newest model into the world. At its Baidu World conference this week, it unveiled Ernie 5.0. Baidu CTO and head of AI Group Haifeng Wang said (via translated subtitles supplied by the conference) that Ernie 5.0’s technical

The latest update to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor centers on Agent HQ, featuring a single view to start, monitor, and review agent sessions, whether local or remote. Also called the October 2025 release, Visual Studio Code 1.106 was published November 12. Downloads for Windows, macOS, and Linux can be accessed from visualstudio.com. Agent

Google has boosted its BigQuery data warehouse with three new managed AI-based SQL functions to help enterprises reduce the complexity of running large-scale analytics, especially on unstructured data. The functions — AI.IF, AI.CLASSIFY, and AI.SCORE — are designed to enable LLM usage for analytical tasks for enterprises on both structured and unstructured data directly within

The tech world is abuzz with news of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI signing a seven-year, $38 billion cloud computing deal, a partnership that promises high-powered AI advancements through massive infrastructure investments. AWS is providing OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, including clusters of next-generation GB200 and GB300 chips networked via

Is Mojo still a contender for Python’s ML/AI crown? What languages outside of the Pythone ecosystem are good for data science? What’s the deal with Python dataclasses? And what’s this shiny new distributed-processing framework from the folks who gave us PyTorch? Find the answers to these questions and more, in this week’s report. Top picks

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.1, an update to its GPT-5 model, aiming to deliver faster responses, improved reasoning, and more flexible conversational controls as the company works to refine its ChatGPT experience for both consumer and enterprise users. The release includes new Instant and Thinking variants designed to offer more adaptive reasoning and a broader range

Synopsys said it would eliminate approximately 10% of its global workforce as the chip design software company integrates its $35 billion acquisition of engineering simulation firm Ansys. This move could affect up to 2,800 employees. The Sunnyvale, California-based company disclosed the restructuring plan in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on November 12, stating that