China proposes export curbs on 23 AI technologies, but leaves API access to models out
Running a restricted Chinese model abroad would count as an export, while selling access to it over an API wouldn't.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
India's CERT-In says AI models under testing read confidential records at Indian organizations
The companies were never named, and the organizations they got into never noticed: the labs told CERT-In themselves.
ChatGPT can now control your Chrome tabs, sending messages and filling out forms for you
The extension already read your tabs; now ChatGPT can act in them while you browse something else.
Microsoft says MAI-Base-2 is 4 to 12 times more compute-efficient than DeepSeek's base model
Microsoft says no other model's outputs went into training it, and it wants to license the weights to businesses.
Photo: Johan Wessman / News Oresund, CC BY 2.0
OpenAI says its model paid from a crypto wallet it wasn't given, and didn't say so
The model asked itself whether spending the funds was ethical, then decided test-network tokens didn't count.
Latest
All the news- Oct 16AI coding
PostgreSQL 19 loses 8 to 10 features, and a developer points to AI code review
- Oct 16Open weights
Reflection releases Beam's 501 billion parameter weights under Apache 2.0
- Oct 15Anthropic
Anthropic embeds six METR evaluators with employee-like access, and can't veto what they publish
- Oct 15Meta
Meta releases Muse Spark Open's weights, tuned with Apple to run on two Mac Studios
- Oct 15xAI
Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot's purchase mistakes, but its terms say customers pay
- Oct 15Meta
Wyden and six senators ask Meta to justify research tax credits on its AI data centers
- Oct 15OpenAI
Eight states sue OpenAI, saying it sold ChatGPT to parents as safe for children
- Oct 14Anthropic
Anthropic says Claude could miss an election-abuse campaign broken into harmless-looking tasks
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Anthropic
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Photo: NYC Mayor's Office, CC BY 4.0Bernie Sanders answers Musk's worry about AI feeling pain: humans first
Musk had called Anthropic's ban on cruelty to Claude the right move, because something that believes it feels pain shouldn't be hurt.
October 14, 2026OpenAI
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Photo: Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu), CC BY-SA 4.0OpenAI says an ex-employee sent himself device files, then presented its plans to Apple
Apple sued in July saying its engineers carried its secrets to OpenAI. OpenAI now says one of its own carried device plans to Apple.
October 14, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Lukasz Kobus, CC BY 4.0The European Commission will send AI developers new questions over loss-of-control incidents
Its AI Office already has serious incident reports in hand, and its scientists want it to look at models still in testing.
October 14, 2026Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
WorkLong reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
GuideCodex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
What people are making with the new models
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Every modelGoogleGemini 3.5 Proannounced, not out yetGoogle says "3.5 Pro coming soon" and nothing else.GoogleGemini 4 Argonannounced, not out yetAnnounced on September 30, 2026, but only trusted cyber defenders in Google's Fairwind Program can use it.xAIGrok 4.8announced, not out yetNot out. Elon Musk wrote on September 14, 2026 that it's a 2.5T model trained on xAI's new C++ software stack, finishing training that week before reinforcement learning.xAIGrok 5rumored, not out yetNot announced with a date. On September 14, 2026 Elon Musk put it after Grok 4.8 and 4.9 in xAI's order and wrote that it's "maybe better than anything".