News
Less noise, more signal.
I pick a few stories and explain why they matter. Every item has its source; I separate official announcements from rumours (often via TestingCatalog), which deserve caution.
ChatGPT can now read your Chrome tabs (and act for you)
With the updated extension, ChatGPT compares the pages open in your browser and, in Work mode, fills in forms, sends messages and downloads files. Handy, with a few precautions.
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Meta's new terms and AI trained on news sites
From 30 October Meta's commercial terms will allow it to use websites linked to business accounts to train its AI. Publishers fear losing any compensation; Meta says blocking crawlers still works.
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Meta opens Muse Spark's weights: a huge model that (almost) runs at home
Muse Spark Open has 816 billion parameters, uses 42 per word and can run on two Mac Studios. It's the most capable American open model so far, with a licence that isn't fully free.
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Claude found a CRISPR-like system in DNA on its own
Anthropic's agents spent over 21 hours analysing thousands of sequences and identified an enzyme system never described before. What it does is still unknown, and many scientists urge caution.
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Gemini 4 Argon is out: Google is back on top, but not everywhere
Google's new flagship model reaches the Gemini app for Pro and Ultra subscribers and the API at a launch price. First on some leaderboards, behind on others: here is what really changes.
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