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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Oracle's AI power move: new co-CEOs take the helm
Oracle's doubling down on its AI ambitions with new co-CEOs steering the ship toward cloud infrastructure and applications (bold move for a company traditionally known for databases). Meanwhile, OpenAI just dropped the Responses API for reasoning models and agents, Notion is launching full-blown AI Agents to kill busywork, and yikes, Sylvester Stallone pitched an AI de-aged Rambo prequel. Oh, and Tim Kellogg's got a spicy take: AI coding isn't engineering anymore, it's management. Here's the real question: if AI can manage your code and automate your work, what are you actually building for?
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Oracle
Oracle elevates two executives to co-CEO roles to lead the company through the AI era, with one focused on cloud infrastructure and the other on AI-powered industry applications. This reflects Oracle's strategic bet on becoming the premier platform for both AI training/inference and enterprise AI application deployment.
OpenAI
OpenAI launched the Responses API, a new foundational interface designed to replace Chat Completions for reasoning models and agentic systems, featuring persistent reasoning state, hosted tools, and superior performance metrics.
Notion 3.0 introduces AI Agents that autonomously complete multi-step workflows and real work tasks across the platform, moving beyond chatbot suggestions to actionable agents that can be personalized and eventually deployed as specialized team tools.
The Playlist
Sylvester Stallone pitched using AI de-aging technology to star in a 'Rambo' origin film instead of casting another actor, showcasing an early creative exploration of AI's potential for legacy character storytelling in Hollywood.
Tim Kellogg
AI coding success depends on treating it as a management skill focused on ownership and exploiting high-leverage opportunities, not as traditional software engineering, fundamentally changing how developers should approach and be trained for these roles.
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