DHS orders federal agencies to remove DeepSeek, including tools other companies built on it
The order also covers software other companies built on DeepSeek's open models, and it was signed in July.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
Anthropic says it will revise the preemption language in its draft federal AI bill after backlash
Its federal affairs lead says states should keep a say on shutting down models, and that the 50-death threshold may need another look.
Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after a security firm finds 6,800 share addresses in public DNS
Muse put each chat's title in its share address, and DNS records keep those titles searchable even now.
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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scores 86.6% on its COBOL migration test, up from 5.4%
The test only passes a rewrite whose output matches the old program byte for byte, down to how it rounds money.
Spotify says it took 50 million AI slop and spam tracks out of recommendations this year
It also says AI-made tracks are 10 times more likely to miss the 1,000-stream line where royalties start.
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All the news- Oct 20Google
The US sanctions MiraclePlus, the Beijing investor that backed a convicted ex-Google engineer's startup
- Oct 19DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ranks second among open-weight models, one point behind MiMo-V2.6-Pro
- Oct 19Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3 Image Klein is out as open weights, and OpenMOSS released MOSS-Image a day later
- Oct 19Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft on their own in 27 hours
- Oct 19xAI
Musk says he'll give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America next year
- Oct 19AI agents
NorForge found over 20 open panels where hackers steer AI agents at online shops
- Oct 19OpenAI
Prosecutors say the OpenAI bugging suspect was in frequent WhatsApp contact with a Saudi royal
- Oct 19Anthropic
OpenCode says a distillation attack exposed the AI provider keys of 1.4% of its Console users
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Anthropic
MoreAnthropic puts 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund that grows with its value
The stake grows by up to 2% each time the company's value rises by half, and Anthropic names AI's effect on workers as one place the money could go.
October 18, 202691% of Anthropic staff expect a Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, but 39% of Americans do
Oct 17Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones on eight tasks
Oct 17Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires
Oct 17Anthropic says Claude traced the NSA's mystery NIST curve seeds to a 1997 clock
Oct 17Anthropic embeds six METR evaluators with employee-like access, and can't veto what they publish
Oct 15
OpenAI
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0Eight states sue OpenAI, saying it sold ChatGPT to parents as safe for children
Arkansas wants more than penalties: it asks a judge to stop OpenAI building models that can improve themselves.
October 15, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Richard Morgenstein, CC BY-SA 4.0Satya Nadella says he treats every AI agent as an insider risk
Microsoft wants agents doing more work on Windows, and its CEO's plan is to box each one in and watch it like a suspect employee.
October 18, 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".