AI Mornings with Andreas Vig
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AI Mornings with Andreas Vig
Notion Goes Agentic & xAI's Unregulated Power Plant
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Hey, welcome to AI Mornings with Andreas Vig. It's the 14th of May 2026. Notion just made one of the biggest pivots we've seen from a productivity app. They announced a full developer platform that transforms their workspace into a hub for AI agents. This includes Workers, which is their cloud-based environment for running custom code, plus database sync that can pull in data from Salesforce, Postgres, or any API. They're also letting external agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex connect directly. CEO Ivan Zhao said customers have already built over 1 million custom agents since February, but the old system couldn't connect to external data or use custom logic. Now it can. This moves Notion from being a note-taking app with AI features to potentially being core infrastructure for the agentic era. Elon Musk's XAI is running a massive unregulated power operation in Mississippi. Nearly 50 natural gas turbines are powering their data center, all exploiting a regulatory loophole that classifies power plants as mobile if they sit on flatbed trailers. That exempts them from air pollution regulations for one year. The NAACP has filed a lawsuit on behalf of local residents arguing the emissions are worsening air quality in an already polluted region. XAI has only obtained permits for 15 of the 46 turbines currently running. A significant shift in the enterprise AI market. Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI for the first time. Ramp's AI index shows 34.4% of participating businesses paying for Anthropic services versus 32.3% for OpenAI. What's remarkable is the trajectory Anthropic was at just 9% a year ago and climbed 26 points, while OpenAI's share actually dropped one point over the same period. Google is getting ahead of its own I.O. conference with a major Android announcement. They introduced Gemini Intelligence as a cross-device AI system, plus a new line of AI-native laptops called Google Books that ship this fall with partners including Dell, HP, and Lenovo. The Gemini Intelligence System can carry out agentic tasks within apps and operate with on-screen context. They also showed something called Magic Pointer, an AI-infused cursor that uses voice commands like this and that to interact with content. This is Google integrating AI at the platform level rather than bolting it on, which could give them a real advantage over Apple's delayed Siri AI revival. Alright, a few more things worth knowing about today. Origin Lab raised $8 million to build a marketplace connecting video game studios with AI Labs training world models. The idea is that games like Eve Online have decades of physics simulations and player behavior data that's valuable for training AI to understand physical spaces and long-term reasoning. Adaption, a startup founded by former Cohere VP Sarah Hooker, launched Autoscientist, a tool that helps AI models train themselves by co-optimizing both the data and the model. They claim it's doubled win rates and is making it free for the first month. WhatsApp added an incognito mode for meta AI chats. Conversations aren't saved and messages disappear when you close the chat or lock your phone. Meta's VP of products said people are using AI for financial and health questions their most private thoughts and wanted more privacy controls. Inside Amazon, employees are reportedly gaming their AI adoption metrics. The company set a goal for 80% of developers to use AI weekly and started tracking token usage. Staff told the Financial Times they're burning unnecessary tokens on made-up tasks just to rank higher on the leaderboard. DeepMind took a stake in Fenris' creations to use EVOnline as an AI research sandbox. The 23-year-old Space MMO runs on a single persistent server where players form corporations and fight massive battles. That makes it perfect for testing agents that need to reason over long timelines and operate in unpredictable environments. And Rivian rolled out an AI assistant across its EVs that controls car hardware and chains agentic tasks through voice or a steering wheel button. That's it for today. See you tomorrow.