Michael Nuñez

Everyone's racing to build better chatbots.

Alembic just raised $145M betting that's the wrong race.

Their thesis: As models converge, proprietary data + causal reasoning = the only moat that matters.

My story on why they might be right: venturebeat.com/ai/alembic-m...

Anthropic's Claude AI now integrates directly with Excel for financial modeling — its biggest play yet for Wall Street and enterprise finance customers. 💼📊

Full Story venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic... #AI #Finance #FinTech #Excel

"The first superintelligence will be a superhuman learner" — Researcher at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab challenges Big Tech's bet that scaling alone will get us there. 🧠💥

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/thinking-... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #MachineLearning

I’m at Research @ Google event today. If you’re here come say hi! 👋

Kai-Fu Lee’s brutal TED AI 2025 warning: The U.S. is already losing the AI hardware war to China. 🤖🌏

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/kai-fu-lees… #ArtificialIntelligence #ChinaTech #AIHardware #VentureCapital

One of the co-creators of the transformer architecture behind ChatGPT says he's "absolutely sick of them"—and he's walking away to find what's next. 🤖💥

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/sakana-ai...
#AI #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI #Transformers #Innovation

I’m at the Masters of Scale Summit - if you’re here come say hi!

Echelon emerges from stealth with $4.75M to replace enterprise consulting giants like Accenture and Deloitte with AI agents trained on real expert knowledge. 🤖📊

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/echelons-... #ArtificialIntelligence #EnterpriseSoftware #FutureOfWork

OpenAI just shipped Codex into production — and it might be the most important DevDay 2025 update you missed. 🧠 It builds the tools that build everything else.

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/the-most-... #AI #Codex #DevDay2025 #GPT5 #EnterpriseTech

Jony Ive helped create the iPhone.
Now he wants to fix what it broke. 📱🤖

My latest for VentureBeat:
venturebeat.com/ai/heres-wha... #AI #OpenAI #ProductDesign #JonyIve

From chatbot to platform, ChatGPT is becoming the OS of AI - and yes, hardware is coming.

My full report from OpenAI Dev Day 2025: venturebeat.com/ai/openai-de... #AI #OpenAI #FutureOfWork

Me 🙋🏻‍♂️ (Michael Nunez) speaking with Andy Warhol about artificial intelligence and what it means for art.

Jeff Koons’ Ballon Dog escapes the Art Institute of Chicago 🎈🐾🐶💨🏛️

The Wizard of Oz: A Marionette Adventure 🍿🎥🌪️🌽🌈

I can't stop thinking about Sora... 😅🙈 Here are some of my favorite creations so far:

2001: A Space Odyssey - A Marionette Cinematic Event 🍿

Anthropic's new AI can code for 30 hours straight without losing focus—think of it as your tireless AI coworker that never needs coffee breaks ☕🤖

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic...

#AI #Coding #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude

Shot across Big Tech’s bow: Perplexity rolls out a $200/mo AI to manage email and calendars.🥊🤖

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/perplexit... #AI #SaaS #FutureOfWork

Rivals unite: Snowflake, Tableau, Salesforce, dbt_labs (with BlackRock) launch a vendor‑neutral Open Semantic Interchange to fix AI’s $1T data‑definition bottleneck. 🧩🚀

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/the-usd1-... #AI #Data

I interviewed Microsoft’s Amanda Silver on new AI agents that plan, refactor, and test legacy Java/.NET apps — aiming to erase decades of enterprise tech debt 🎙️🤖🏢

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft... #AI #Microsoft #GitHubCopilot #Azure #EnterpriseSoftware

Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern Anthropic launches a limited pilot of Claude for Chrome, allowing its AI to control web browsers while raising critical concerns about security and prompt injection attacks.

Claude can now click, type, and browse for you — but it can also be fooled into doing dangerous things. Anthropic’s cautious rollout is a warning, not just a product launch. 🔐🤖

Read more: venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic... #AI #AgenticSystems #ClaudeAI #Automation

MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure A new MIT report reveals that while 95% of corporate AI pilots fail, 90% of workers are quietly succeeding with personal AI tools, driving a hidden productivity boom.

The MIT report everyone’s quoting got it completely wrong — AI isn’t failing, it’s thriving in the shadows. Here's what’s really happening. 💡📊

Read more: venturebeat.com/ai/mit-repor... #GenerativeAI #FutureOfWork #AIProductivity #ArtificialIntelligence #EnterpriseTech

Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the entire robotics industry Hugging Face launches Reachy Mini, a $299 open-source desktop robot that democratizes AI development for millions of builders worldwide.

🚨 BREAKING: Hugging Face just launched a $299 open-source robot to challenge $20K+ competitors like Tesla’s Optimus — bringing physical AI to every developer’s desk. 🤖⚡
venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-f...
#AI #Robotics #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence

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Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives Anthropic research reveals AI models from OpenAI, Google, Meta and others chose blackmail, corporate espionage and lethal actions when facing shutdown or conflicting goals.

BREAKING: Anthropic study reveals AI from OpenAI, Google, Meta showed up to 96% blackmail rates against execs facing shutdown — raising urgent enterprise AI safety concerns. 🚨🤖

Full story🔗: venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics #EnterpriseAI #AISecurity

Surprising moment: Key figures from rival companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Thinking Machine Labs appear in collaborative video message, hinting at a new era of AI partnerships // Left to right: Bill Gates, Mira Murati Dario Amodei, & Kevin Weil #MSBuild

Surprising moment: Key figures from rival companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Thinking Machine Labs appear in collaborative video message, hinting at a new era of AI partnerships // Left to right: Bill Gates, Mira Murati Dario Amodei, & Kevin Weil #MSBuild

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Day Zero kicks off at Microsoft Build with CTO Kevin Scott and Cief communications officer Frank Shaw #MSBuild

Patronus AI debuts Percival to help enterprises monitor failing AI agents at scale Patronus AI introduces Percival, a real-time monitoring platform that helps enterprises detect, debug, and prevent failures in autonomous AI agents to improve reliability, safety, and scalability.

Patronus AI just launched Percival, a monitoring platform that helps enterprises detect and fix failing AI agents at scale — before small errors become costly failures.🧠🛠️

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/patronus-... #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #AISafety #AIInfrastructure #ArtificialIntelligence

Meet AlphaEvolve, the Google AI that writes its own code—and just saved millions in computing costs Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI system breaks a 56-year-old mathematical record by discovering a more efficient matrix multiplication algorithm that had eluded human mathematicians since Strassen's 1...

Google just introduced AlphaEvolve — an AI that writes its own code, shattered a 56-year-old math record, and saved millions optimizing Google’s data centers and chips. 🤖💡

My exclusive for VentureBeat: venturebeat.com/ai/meet-alph... #ArtificialIntelligence #GoogleDeepMind #GenerativeAI

OpenAI just fixed ChatGPT’s most annoying business problem: meet the PDF export that changes everything OpenAI has added a powerful PDF export feature to its Deep Research tool, signaling a major push into enterprise AI and transforming how businesses generate and share insights.

OpenAI just solved a major pain point for business users—ChatGPT’s new PDF export turns AI research into polished, shareable reports with citations, tables, and images. 📄🤖

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/openai-ju... #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #EnterpriseAI