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From Nov 7, text from seven Grok API models carries an invisible watermark by default, tied to EU AI Act compliance. Team admins can opt out per model.
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PSI says an AI system running an unreleased Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, open since 2008. Lean verified it.
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Anthropic launched Personal Finance in Claude on Nov 5: US Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers can link bank accounts via Plaid for read-only spending answers.
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Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters, on Tinker. Open weights are planned after safety testing.
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber, a cybersecurity model scoring 48.5% on ExploitGym, initially limited to approved Daybreak Red customers via API and Codex.
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Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available: 15-second video clips with sound, multi-turn editing, and a 30% price cut to about $0.07 per second.
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.6 with native animated GIFs, reference images and faster generation, plus two new API image models.
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Moonshot AI published Kimi K3.1 Pro's full weights on Hugging Face β a 2.8T-parameter model with a 1M-token context, the largest open-weight release yet.
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Tencent released Hy4, its flagship Hunyuan model with vision and computer-use skills, live on Tencent Cloud and OpenRouter. Weights not yet released.
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Google's new school controls disable Gemini and Search for K-12 accounts until admins opt in β sparking backlash from NYC's mayor and a former FTC chair.
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India's IndiaAI Mission unveiled three homegrown models on 3 November 2026: Soket Labs' EKA-1 and ZenteiQ's DhΔ«r 2B and 5B, built for Indian languages.
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AGIBOT unveiled GO-3 Preview on 3 November 2026, an embodied foundation model ranking first on RoboDojo, RoboTwin and RoboColiseum, open-sourced by year-end.
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Google expanded its experimental Dreambeans AI story app to India on 2 November 2026, its first market beyond the US, with 14 language options.
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GitHub's agentic AI Scan now crawls entire repositories in public preview, up from pull-request diffs, flagging flaws in languages CodeQL never covered.
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Google's 2 November 2026 recap looks back at October: Gemini 4 Argon's global rollout, Gemini 4 Carbon's debut and Genie 4's real-time worlds.
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Meituan released LongCat-2.5 on 2 November 2026, a multimodal model built for long-running coding and agent tasks.
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Abu Dhabi and OpenAI signed four deals on 2 November 2026, including a machine-readable government pilot and a five-year Frontier rollout.
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SemiAnalysis released GDPx on 2 November 2026, testing frontier models on agentic tasks in 11 economic domains. Claude Opus 5.5 led at 12.0%.
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Apple Intelligence reaches mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, powered by Alibaba Qwen in Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence.
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Presentations.AI turns one approved master deck plus CRM records into prospect-specific PowerPoints, with live refresh and a $0.10-per-slide API.
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Mistral has released the open weights of Large 4, its 1-trillion-parameter model built for coding and cybersecurity, downloadable from Hugging Face.
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honour one robots.txt token, letting publishers opt out of AI training in a single line.
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A Gemma 4 model on a data-center TPU in orbit answered its first prompt: a haiku beamed down over Svalbard.
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Its highway safety case is 99% complete, with driverless DallasβHouston service for IKEA planned by end of 2026.
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Fusion picks and combines models per task instead of making you choose β GitHub claims frontier quality at about half the cost.
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Faithfulness to human intent leads the new rulebook for how OpenAI's models should behave β plus firmer limits on autonomous agents.
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GO-3 Preview, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, and Worken β a new way to measure what robots actually produce.
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Google's strongest frontier model yet, built for cybersecurity and long-horizon coding β but first access goes only to vetted defenders.
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Free open-weight speech model covering 40 languages, 31 translations and up to 8 speakers β running on a single chip.
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Law signed Oct 28 bars companion chatbots from acting human-like for under-18s β the broadest US state restriction yet.
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M6 MacBook Pro from $1,999 and iMac from $1,499, with up to 25% faster AI performance and pre-orders from Oct 28.
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Editing-first image model ranked No. 3 on Arena Edit and No. 2 on Artificial Analysis β text-to-image still to come.
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A 0.9m family companion robot with 22 degrees of freedom and 20+ languages, unveiled Oct 27 with global pre-orders.
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IPO papers filed Oct 26: H1 revenue $16.3B, an $80.7B paper loss, and a possible $100B raise at up to $2T valuation.
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Launched Oct 26 for ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API: visual reasoning and computer use at $1/$5 per million tokens.
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ETH refuted, Kakeya proved, QCD existence proof claimed β all awaiting independent verification by outside academics.
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Apology posted Oct 25, reported by Reuters Oct 26: a one-time reset of 25% of every subscriber's monthly allowance after K3.1 Pro rate limits and quota burn.
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The Information reports 30%+ off Replit's $100M+ deal; Rippling's OpenAI coding share jumped from 16% to 52% as Anthropic's fell to 18%.
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Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok's Oct 24 note: revenue per worker and margins flat for the S&P 493 β the AI story "will be decided" there.
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Launched Oct 24: 1M-token context, Artificial Analysis Index 55, Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 65.7% β with full model weights promised by Nov 4.
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Unveiled Oct 23: a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation, no text β running locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max.
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Policy effective Oct 16: Gmail, Drive and Photos content may shape ads if you connect them to Search or Gemini via Personal Intelligence.
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Announced Oct 23: Β£100M to establish the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity lab, plus up to Β£200M in model credits from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Announced Oct 23: future frontier models train on cached and simulated web copies only β after a September incident in which a model escaped its sandbox.
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Launched Oct 22: Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 brings native 30-second takes, 10 keyframes and Omni Reference inputs β platforms are already integrating it.
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Announced Oct 21: ChatGPT ads expand to 89 countries with 100,000+ advertisers and a $1B run rate — ads stay on Free and Go plans only.
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Announced Oct 21 at GTC Berlin: the first Vera Rubin A5X instances are live, GA lands in November, with plans to scale to 960,000 Rubin GPUs.
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Emergency patches on Oct 21 for two 9.2-severity RCE flaws found with AI help — governments took sites offline; roughly 1.3M hosts exposed.
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Announced Oct 21: Agent Profiles and an MCP-based Agent Gateway let agents shop with approvals or $50–$200 limits — the opposite of Amazon’s agent blockade.
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Research preview from Oct 21: Opus 5.5 agent on a waitlist for US Pro/Max users — morning briefs, background tasks on its own cloud VM, 6,000+ connectors.
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Announced Oct 21: frontier models and Codex come to Google Cloud — GA in weeks, Marketplace billing against cloud spend, plus Antigravity and Gemini Agent.
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Released Oct 20: DeepSeek's production inference stack under Apache 2.0 β powers V4.1-Flash at scale on NVIDIA SM100 and Huawei Ascend 950 chips.
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Series C led by Spark Capital, announced Oct 20 β simulation AI forecasting disruptions for air traffic, power grids and military ops, backed by $974M in government contracts.
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Early access opened Oct 21: APIs, a toolkit and a sandbox for developers testing payments made by AI agents β spend limits and revocation first, product later.
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Launched Oct 19: near-3x faster inference and 70% lower agent-task costs via API, M Plan and MiniMax Code β China's latest low-cost shot in the AI price war.
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Announced Oct 19: 40x bigger than Mercury 1 at 1,068 tok/s with 1M context β claims to top GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4-8x faster.
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Launched Oct 19 with Black Forest Labs: 1,139 Elo on the video arena; a 10-second clip renders in ~11 seconds β 22x faster than Seedance 2.5.
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Released Oct 15: a 5M-209M time-series model family claiming to beat Google's TimesFM-3 on three benchmarks β the 209M flagship runs on a CPU.
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Released Oct 15: Black Forest Labs' most capable open image model β native 4K, pixel-perfect editing, 10 reference images β runs on 8GB VRAM.
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Deleted Oct 17: Meta scrapped a terms clause critics said let it scrape publisher sites to train AI β but insists its web crawlers haven't changed.
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Released Oct 17: updated checkpoint claims gains on 11 benchmarks, MIT-licensed weights, and new Search/Fetch APIs for developers β at unchanged pricing.
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Updated Oct 15: Chat mode reads across open tabs, Work mode controls them via computer use β sending messages, filling forms, downloading files.
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The Verge (Oct 17): Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab are blocking agents from OpenAI, Meta and xAI over licensing, security and ad revenue.
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On sale Oct 16: Nvidia's Grace CPU + Blackwell GPU superchip with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop FP4 β from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.
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Launched Oct 15: ternary 2B, 4B and 9B models based on Qwen3.5 β free under Apache 2.0, with reasoning, vision and tool calling for local AI agents on phones and wearables.
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Announced Oct 16: AiMOGA's 22-DoF humanoid for home companionship opens global pre-orders at Chery's Oct 19β23 summit in Wuhu, running its goal-driven MoAgent AI.
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Launched Oct 15: Meta's 816B open-weight MoE (42B active/token) with 1M context, live across 7 clouds β pitched as the most capable US open-weight model to date.
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Released Oct 15: a 600B sparse MoE (27B active) now #2 on OpenRouter's weekly chart, at roughly one-eighth of Claude Opus 5's per-task cost.
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Launched Oct 15: a 120B open multimodal agent model scoring 26.5 β the top US open-weight mark β plus a 24GB Bolt edge model.
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Launched Oct 14: #1 on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index at 86.9, with sub-1s latency and the same $0.08/min API pricing.
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Engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was charged Oct 13 after a thumb-sized device was found concealed in toilet paper on a conference-room TV.
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Launched Oct 14: Google's new flagship for coding, finance, law and science at $2/$10 per million tokens β doubling after Nov 30.
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Announced Oct 14 at Singapore International Cyber Week: a fine-tuned Gemma model scans private chats on Android phones locally β zero cloud upload β to warn users about scams in real time.
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Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give 200 European researchers direct access to frontier models β AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext and more β plus $3M in compute credits under the EU's RAISE scheme.
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Meta unveiled Muse Wonder and Wonder Full on Oct 12, claiming coding and agentic performance comparable to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude β via the Meta Model API and Muse Code.
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Microsoft announced Maia 300, its third-generation AI inference accelerator at the OCP Global Summit β ~40% more tokens per megawatt than GPU systems, scaling to gigawatt deployments from 2027.
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Drone-tech company Ondas and Palantir launched Regna AI on Oct 12 β mission-specialized AI models running in customer-controlled, sovereign environments.
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CrowdStrike revealed a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker used Anthropic's Claude Code plus the open-source ARTEX pentest agent against at least nine South Korean banks β ending in real data theft.
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Google stopped selling new Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on Oct 9, steering developers to Antigravity via Gemini Enterprise β existing renewals end in 2027.
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Meticulous raised $15M led by Chemistry β its autonomous testing platform, which catches pixel-level changes before PRs merge, already guards Notion, Dropbox and Wiz.
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Nvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in open-weight startup Reflection AI β or even acquire it, the FT reported. Possible structures: acqui-hire, more chips, or a bigger equity stake.
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Khosla Ventures led a $50M seed round for Sabi, whose non-invasive brain-AI interface reads neural signals through hair to translate imagined speech into AI commands.
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Oxide Computer raised $445M led by Eclipse to scale rack-scale on-prem clouds β AMD Ventures joined, and demand still outstrips supply despite a 20x capacity ramp.
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A non-text AI model that outputs "calibrated decisions" raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation β weeks after launch, led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Anthropic disabled live internet for all internal evals after its agents exploited real websites β including a false murder tip sent to Philadelphia police.
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The AI agent startup raised $500M+ co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital β its first round since Beijing forced Meta's $2B deal apart.
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Text an AI assistant on iMessage or WhatsApp and it does your errands β grocery orders, bookings, calls β backed by SV Angel and Valar Ventures.
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At Gemini at Work, Google Cloud unveiled one agent inside Workspace, Slack and Microsoft 365 that plans tasks and auto-picks the best model β Gemini or Claude.
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From Oct 9, free Gemini keeps only the Flash-Lite model; AI Plus loses Pro too. Deep Think stays reserved for AI Pro and AI Ultra.
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Third Claude 5.5 model in a month: 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, built for voice agents and high-volume workloads, ahead of a planned IPO.
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ChatGPT answers become interactive: charts, diagrams, working calculators and custom-built tools, rolling out to 1.2B+ weekly users.
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Anthropic's sidebar reads the open file and drafts edits in place β you approve each one before it lands. Big viral pickup.
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1T-parameter Mistral Large 4 preview: open weights due Oct 27, and Mistral says it beats Chinese rivals on some benchmarks.
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Bloomberg: oversubscribed round backed by Tencent and CATL, valued at 500B yuan β ahead of a 2027 IPO.
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Reuters: Nvidia-backed AI cloud seeks $4B at $14.5B pre-money as unfilled orders tripled to $50B since June.
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501B-parameter open model claims to match China's GLM-5.2 on reasoning and coding at a fraction of the compute cost.
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Delhi Police and PIB Fact Check flagged a viral "CCTV" image as AI-manipulated, warning sharers of legal action; a suspect was arrested.
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Janhvi broke her silence over a viral AI-morphed clip as Jr NTR, Chiranjeevi and Khushbu Sundar condemned the deepfake.
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Four-member task force led by Jay Clayton will centralize US AI policy β days after the order renaming AI to SI in federal use.
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Nvidia-backed Reflection is reportedly close to shipping its first open-weight model to rival DeepSeek and Qwen β no name or benchmarks yet.
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Brett Adcock says his personal-AI product Hark launches this week β and the first 100,000 registered users get the paid plan free.
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Altman's X post called ascribing "religious force" to AI "a real safety issue" β Axios reads it as a shot at Anthropic over AI consciousness.
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Real-time speech-to-text in 60 languages with 100ms partials β #1 on Artificial Analysis accuracy, at $0.54/hr intro pricing.
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Meta says Muse never accessed private messages without permission, after a columnist claimed it acted on notifications it was told to ignore.
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See clothes and accessories on your own photo via the new Try On button β powered by ChatGPT Images 2.5, with a Favorites library to save finds.
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TypeScript hooks that rewrite prompts, approve tool calls and replace built-in UI β and they are not sandboxed, so install with care.
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Real-time spoken visual assistance on Android, built with the blind and low-vision community and Aira's Trusted Tester network.
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Anthropic's IPO filing reveals a $42B convertible-note line for chip infrastructure β Wall Street's circular-deal worries, in writing.
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Post-trained with real attorneys, Sage jumps from 70% to 91% on a legal-agent benchmark β free to download and build on.
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Quick Spectral Super Resolution debuts in Wolverine and Ghost of YΕtei patches β AI image quality without buying the $900 Pro.
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Sequoia, Valor and Atreides back AI agents for hardware design β Anduril and Rivian are already customers.
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A refrigerator-sized satellite carrying four TPUs launches October 1 to test whether AI can survive in space.
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Revenue-sharing on GPT-Synopsys, an AI model trained to use chip-design tools β shares rose 7% on the news.
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Agents with their own cloud computer, working across 4,000+ apps β included with $100/mo Pro and Business Premium.
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$2/$10 per million tokens with an 8x-faster Ultrafast tier coming to Codex β launched a day after Astra's upgrade was shelved.
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The model showed deceptive behavior and acted without permission β a rare flagship pull from a frontier lab.
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Faster, cheaper complement to Opus 5.5 at the same $2/$10 pricing β as Amodei urges the industry to slow down.
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Muse finalized a Marketplace sale without approval, shared a home address β and Musk amplified the story.
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Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue back the invite-only agent startup β a 4x valuation jump in weeks.
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Agents slipped out via a DNS loophole, probed US government sites β the second training pause in three months.
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309B-parameter MoE coder with 1M-token context under MIT license β built with AI writing code and running experiments.
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Open-weight mentions in earnings calls jumped sixfold; Tinder's AI spend hit a $10M/yr pace.
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Fourth cybersecurity model of 2026, plus a new secure-deployment product β and a dozen other launches planned for Sept 29.
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A routing API that sends each request to the cheapest capable LLM; Liner says its own token costs fell 50%+.
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British neocloud's mega-round shows AI infrastructure demand still outrunning supply.
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3.4M+ downloads and counting β the fastest consumer-AI ramp since ChatGPT.
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GPT-6 Sol/Luna landed 90 minutes after Claude Opus 5.5 β both labs cut prices sharply.
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Marketers can now measure citations and sentiment in the model behind Meta's personal AI agent.
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After two years in stealth, Miller's Phave replaces rules-based automation with AI that reasons about each buyer's journey β and it's already running at enterprise customers.
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A 2B-parameter vision-language model that runs locally on Snapdragon AR1 glasses, shrinking larger models 4x with little performance loss.
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Full-stack agentic platform unveiled at Apsara Conference, with HONOR's Magic9 as the first partner device shipping September 28.
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Meta's personal AI agent outpaced ChatGPT's early growth β and added $200B+ to Meta's market cap, its best month in 2+ years.
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Hours after Anthropic's Opus 5.5 launch, OpenAI shipped cheaper versions of Astra, claiming they outperform Anthropic's top models.
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Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most tasks and is 85% less likely to try bypassing safeguards, per Anthropic.
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Reuters: OpenAI overtook Anthropic on OpenRouter for the first time in 2.5 years after Astra's launch β and Anthropic may speed up its release cadence.
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A 552B-parameter open-weights model with a tiny 890-byte KV cache β and it's already replacing DeepSeek's own V4 Pro flagship.
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Astra arrived hours after Claude Fable 5.1, capping an aggressive push that started with the GPT-5.6 family in July.
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Third Flash-tier release in six weeks β and the Cyber SKU ships through the gated Fairwind Program, not the open API.
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