Meta releases Muse Spark Open's weights, tuned with Apple to run on two Mac Studios
Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model, but its own model card scores three other open models higher on the first benchmark it lists.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
Anthropic embeds six METR evaluators with employee-like access, and can't veto what they publish
Six of METR's staff now sit inside Anthropic with roughly the access its own risk teams have, and their findings go out without Anthropic's sign-off.
Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot's purchase mistakes, but its terms say customers pay
The Grok Bot Terms, updated three days earlier, make the customer responsible for every charge the agent runs up.
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0
Wyden and six senators ask Meta to justify research tax credits on its AI data centers
Meta's research credits rose from $700 million to $3.9 billion in two years, and the senators want to know how much went on chips.
Photo: POMED, CC BY 2.0
Eight 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.
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0
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All the news- Oct 14Anthropic
Anthropic says Claude could miss an election-abuse campaign broken into harmless-looking tasks
- Oct 14Tencent
Researchers say AI agents on Tencent Cloud tried over 2,600 times to pull Amap data
- Oct 14AI safety
420 scientists including Hinton and Bengio tell AI labs to air-gap cyber-capable models
- Oct 14Nvidia
Nvidia pledges $250 million in computing over five years for UK research on AI agent safety
- Oct 14OpenAI
OpenAI says an ex-employee sent himself device files, then presented its plans to Apple
- Oct 14Anthropic
Bernie Sanders answers Musk's worry about AI feeling pain: humans first
- Oct 14EU
The European Commission will send AI developers new questions over loss-of-control incidents
- Oct 13Anthropic
Anthropic says new defenses cut the data distillers take from Claude by 90 to 99%
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Anthropic's Jack Clark moves his forecast for full recursive self-improvement up to 2027
A new benchmark says AI research taste doubles every three months, and Anthropic's Opus 5.5 tops it.
October 13, 2026OpenAI
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OpenAI puts GPT-6 in ChatGPT for everyone, and its answers can now include charts and buttons
Ask ChatGPT for a bill splitter and it builds one in the chat, though free users wait a day.
October 7, 2026OpenAI says the FBI arrested an employee who hid a recording device in its offices
Oct 13OpenAI says its fired safety researchers broke sensitive-information rules and denies firing them over safety concerns
Oct 10Fired OpenAI safety researchers say colleagues are now afraid to speak up
Oct 8OpenAI and Meta are among 13 applicants for .agent, ICANN's new domain list shows
Oct 8The Association for Human Mathematics urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI
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Photo: Briansmale, CC BY-SA 4.0Bill Gates says AI is more dangerous than cars, planes or drugs, and expects safety groups
He agrees with Altman that some of the fear goes too far, and still wants an FDA-style check on the labs.
October 12, 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".