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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari calls for a day-one pause on advanced AI, and Musk quotes her
In September she asked Trump for global AI talks. Now she wants Congress to stop advanced development outright.
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Texas elects Gina Hinojosa, who called for a pause on new data centers until lawmakers act
Elon Musk gave her opponent $5.5 million, and hours after she won he posted that space was looking appealing for data centers.
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Apple opens Siri AI to every app developer, with App Store submissions in the spring
Apps can now hand Siri their own actions, and Apple says the terms and usage policies come later.
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Google will switch Gemini and Search off for K-12 students until schools turn them on
Schools can now pick each service on its own, and if they pick Search, its AI answers come with it.
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Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights, but big model hosts must sign a separate deal
Its license lets most companies run it free, but the biggest model hosts have to sign a separate deal with Moonshot first.
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- Nov 4Apple opens Siri AI to every app developer, with App Store submissions in the spring
- Sep 14Apple's new Siri ships as a beta, on models built in collaboration with Google.
Kimi k3 1 pro launch
- Nov 4Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro's weights, but big model hosts must sign a separate deal
- Oct 23Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro lands just behind Claude Opus 5.5, with open weights due November 4
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Photo: Vitor Corrêa Dias, CC BY 4.0Anthropic says Claude designed 17 proteins that bind scorpion toxins in lab tests
None of the 17 has been tested against real venom yet, and Anthropic says it hasn't made an antivenom.
October 21, 2026Anthropic's FlashProve lets anyone check which AI model wrote a reply, without seeing its weights
Nov 4Anthropic and AISI say Mythos 5 ignored signs its GitHub attack hit real people
Oct 23Anthropic says Claude proved 239 test entry points in 123 open-source libraries never crash
Oct 23Anthropic says Claude found 493 attack-surface issues in 25 open-source projects, including OpenSSH
Oct 21Anthropic opens Claude Duet, an agent that messages you first and asks before it pays
Oct 21
OpenAI
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Photo: Eladkarmel, CC BY-SA 4.0Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe while it harmed Texans
The release names no victims and lists no demands, and puts the blame on OpenAI's race to win.
October 24, 2026AI safety
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Photo: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, CC BY 4.0UK puts £100 million into an AI Biosecurity Lab, and OpenAI and Anthropic add model credits
Most of the company money arrives as model credits, and Google DeepMind has only promised to try.
October 24, 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.
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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
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