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OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/open

OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?

Excited! So, a while ago I started mapping design methods to values. I then started informally polling clients and colleagues about their values. I did this to check against the way they designed. But there was often a conflict between what they designed and what they valued. I've figured out why! My hypothesis is that creatives design worlds where they can survive or thrive. However, there is a common transformation narrative that skews action towards certain values. It's not their …

If you're interested in experimental weaving, community building, and unusual free/open source software, then this opportunity might well be for you:
https://unstable.design/work/community_manager/

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2024/06/26/design-your-organization-to-serve-customers-well/
"Bill discusses how focusing on improving quality is the best way to reduce costs and increase productivity. Improving process…

Animal Aided Design / Biodiversität in Städten / Urban Ecology / tierfreundliche Gebäude in der Stadt / Architektur der Cohabitation / Vertical Garden - das sind die Schlagworte, wenn es um neues Bauen in der Stadt geht. Aber egal wie es heißt, Hauptsache es gibt mehr von solchen grünen Innenhöfen in Berlins Stadtnatur! (der Hof ist übrigens am Kudamm 37)
#AAD

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My collaborator represents our school in the university library board. This week’s topic: #OA. Our school is the one with the highest number and share of Diamond OA publications. She was asked whether there’s a strategic decision behind? Not to her knowledge, but if she could know the authors involved, she could tell more.
Turned out: it’s only me :)
Ah, she said, yes, that’s a strategi…

OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-signal-chats-that-cost-openai-re…

Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generati…

Canva releases its first image generation model | TechCrunch
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year as it monitors Anthropic's IPO, expected next month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sb-energy-considers-waiting-d…

SB Energy Considers Waiting Until December or Later for an IPO
SB Energy, the SoftBank Group–controlled developer of a massive planned Ohio data center project for OpenAI, is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year, according to people familiar with the discussions. That is a later timeline than previously expected. The data ...