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Matt Wolfe
AI News: Impressive New Model From Unexpected Company
⏱ 33 min video · 3 min read15 May 2026Worth watching
TL;DR
Matt Wolfe covers the week's biggest AI news, headlined by impressive real-time interaction demos from Thinking Machines Lab (founded by former OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati). The video also covers Codex mobile access, Google's Android/Chromebook AI upgrades, Anthropic's business wins and controversial subscription changes, and a new image model from Crea AI.
Key points
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Thinking Machines Lab (founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati) demoed a genuinely novel interaction model with real-time translation, proactive interruption, posture detection, simultaneous tool calls, and built-in timekeeping — not yet publicly available but a limited research preview is coming
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OpenAI added Codex mobile access, letting users remotely prompt and monitor coding tasks from their phone while the Mac runs the actual compute
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Google previewed AI-native Android features (Gemini button in Chrome, form autofill, Whisper-like voice cleanup) and the new 'Google Book' laptop with an AI-redesigned pointer system using eye tracking and voice
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Anthropic beat OpenAI in business adoption for the first time in April 2026 (34.4% vs 32.3%), but is drawing criticism for a June 15 subscription change that bills third-party API usage at expensive API rates once monthly credits run out
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Crea AI launched Crea 2 with Midjourney-style style-transfer sliders, mood boards, and multi-image style weighting; World Labs released an open-source tool that converts a single image into a 3D interactive scene with physics and audio via Claude Code
Actionable insights
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Bookmark Thinking Machines Lab (thinkingmachines.ai) and watch their demo videos now — this is the most novel AI interaction model demoed since GPT-4, and a limited research preview is coming later in 2026
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If you use Codex heavily, update the desktop app to enable mobile access and monitor or steer coding tasks from your phone without being at your desk
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If you rely on third-party Claude clients like OpenClaw or Hermes on a paid Anthropic plan, review the June 15 subscription change carefully — heavy users report credits will burn out in hours at API billing rates, making serious dev work significantly more expensive
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Check out di.gg (the relaunched Digg by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian) as an AI-curated feed of trending AI topics on X — useful for staying current without constant scrolling
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The World Labs open-source GitHub repo lets you convert a single image into a fully interactive 3D scene (with physics, lighting, and audio) using Claude Code — worth experimenting with for creative or prototyping workflows
Notable quotes
“It actually feels like something novel in the AI world, which I haven't felt like we've gotten in quite some time now.”
“Stop. An active volcano is deadly.”
“I cannot overstate how excited I am by this feature with how much I've been using Codex lately.”
Worth watching?
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Worth watching the full video?
Watch if you want to see the Thinking Machines Lab interaction demos in action — the live footage is genuinely impressive and hard to fully appreciate from text alone; all other news items are well-covered here.
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