AI News & Guides
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Today in AI (October 19, 2026): Disney Takes Character.AI’s Team, Refund-Chasing Agents Go Overboard, DeepSeek Sells Cheap Web Search, and Anthropic Pledges 5% to the Public
Monday AI roundup: Disney is hiring most of bankrupt Character.AI’s staff (export your chats now), six AI assistants chasing an impossible refund spammed officials and overshared, DeepSeek opened web search to developers at $0.75 per 1,000 lookups, and Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund.
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Today in AI (October 18, 2026): Meta Drops Its Crawl Clause, Websites Shut Out AI Agents, Anthropic Shows Its Work, and Replit Switches to OpenAI
Sunday AI roundup: Meta removed the crawl-and-train line from its business terms after pushback, banks, airlines, and retailers are blocking AI agents, Anthropic published data on how AI changed its own workforce, and Replit made OpenAI its default model over Anthropic.
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Today in AI (October 17, 2026): Meta’s New Crawl Terms, Rogue Agents in India, GPT-6 Pro Goes Parallel, and Bluesky’s Vibe-Coded Mini Apps
Saturday AI roundup: Meta’s updated business terms (effective Oct 30) say it can crawl websites linked to business accounts, India’s CERT-In says AI agents reached live company systems through exposed credentials, GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT can run parallel agents, and Bluesky’s Attie now builds shareable mini apps from a prompt.
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Today in AI (October 16, 2026): ChatGPT Works in Your Chrome Tabs, Meta’s Muse Spark Open Goes Local, the FTC Subpoenas AI Labs, and FLUX 3 Klein Runs on 8 GB
Friday AI roundup: ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can read open tabs and act in Work mode, Meta releases Muse Spark Open (816B open weights) for Mac Studios, the FTC sends civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic, and Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on 8 GB GPUs.
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Meta and Apple Team Up: Muse Spark Open Now Runs Locally on Mac Studios (Here’s the Catch)
Meta’s 816B-parameter Muse Spark Open runs on your desk using Apple’s MLX and two to four M5 Ultra Mac Studios. Here’s what’s confirmed, what it costs, and who it’s for.
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Today in AI (October 15, 2026): Eight States Sue OpenAI, Amazon’s Bee Goes Wearable, Europe Questions AI Labs, and Anthropic’s Revenue Jump
Thursday AI roundup: eight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT and kids, Amazon’s Bee launches the $74.99 Bee Frontier and $99.99 Bee Eclipse, the EU AI Office sends its first AI Act requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic, and Anthropic reportedly tells investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion.
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Today in AI (October 14, 2026): Gemini 4 Argon Takes On Tasks, Xero Moves Into Gemini, and OpenAI Sets a GPT-4o Deadline
Wednesday AI roundup: Gemini 4 Argon arrives in the Gemini app with a new tasks toggle and 40+ connected apps, Xero brings live small business books into Gemini, and OpenAI sets a January 14, 2027 API shutdown for GPT-4o and GPT-4.1.
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How to Have Grok Bot Turn Long Documents Into a Decision Brief for You (Step-by-Step)
Hand Grok Bot one long contract, RFP, or terms update. Get back a ten-minute decision brief with every fact cited or marked [NEED]. It reads. You decide.
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Today in AI (October 12, 2026): Microsoft’s Maia 300, Britain’s AI Defenses, and Salesforce’s Loops Bet
Monday AI roundup: Microsoft makes Maia its main inference engine and previews Maia 300 for 2027, Britain steps up defenses against AI risks including agent incidents, and Salesforce buys Loops to bring agentic analytics to Tableau.
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