Tech News Weekly 396

Emily Forlini of PCMag joins Mikah Sargent this week! A look into Synchron's headquarters, Beeper relaunches its messaging services after being acquired by Automattic, OpenAI releases its new agentic AI service, and an AI service company is hosting over 5,000 nonconsensual AI models of real people.

• Emily shares her time checking out Synchron, a company developing brain-computer interface implants that is considered a significant competitor to Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk.
• Mikah talks about Beeper's relaunch of its messaging app, which runs on devices and offers premium services such as access to more accounts and power-user-type features.
• OpenAI launched its new agentic AI service, ChatGPT Agent, on Thursday morning. This service can complete work for you on your computer and perform a variety of tasks for you.
• And Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media shares his reporting into Hugging Face and how it is hosting over 5,000 AI models of real people, without consent, following another company, Civitai, which previously banned these models.

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• Tech: OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent
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Links

• Inside the Secret HQ of One of Neuralink's Biggest Competitors
• Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades
• OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
• OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT
• ChatGPT Agent System Card
• Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People