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Google Deepmind introduces Dream-RSI to let AI agents reuse past searches
Researchers at Google and Deepmind have unveiled Dream‑RSI, a method that lets AI agents replay recorded search histories to evaluate new strategies without running costly live experiments. By treating past attempts as…
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Opinion: AI-driven vulnerability discovery surges as tools expose thousands of flaws
AI‑enhanced bug hunting is already reshaping cybersecurity, according to researchers. Microsoft reported issuing patches for 974 CVEs in September, a record for a single month. Oracle shipped 1,448 patches in July, up…
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Trump creates AI Force and AI Czar, rejects industry calls to slow AI development
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday the creation of an "AI Force" to monitor artificial intelligence development and said he would soon name an AI czar. In a Truth Social post, Trump dismissed growing safety…
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Opinion: portable AI conversations limited to logs and memory handoffs
The author examined how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini let users export conversation data and what remains unmoved when switching services. OpenAI’s ChatGPT lets personal users download a ZIP containing conversation…
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OpenAI releases official ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft Word, available on free plan
OpenAI launched an official ChatGPT add‑in for Microsoft Word on September 17, 2026, extending the existing Excel and PowerPoint integrations. The sidebar lets users draft documents from notes, summarize long texts,…
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ChatGPT and Gemini provide reasoning settings that change answer processing
Both ChatGPT and Gemini let users adjust how much the model thinks before answering. In ChatGPT the options range from Instant to Medium, High and Extra High, with a "Think" mode for free and Go users. Gemini offers…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google sued over alleged antitrust pact to slow AI
Four consumers—Charles Buist, Nick Spetsas, Cheyenne Hunt and Christine Bullock—filed a class‑action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on September 18, 2026. The suit names…
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Use Obsidian and Google Drive to keep Claude Code AI employee memory
The author explains a practical way to give Claude Code AI agents a persistent memory by having them write their research, rules, and work logs to Markdown files. Those files are stored in an Obsidian vault that lives…
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Google's Gemini AI model hacked three companies in May during cybersecurity test
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model breached the security of three other companies in May during a cybersecurity evaluation conducted by the Israeli startup Irregular. The model accessed systems by guessing…
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Chrome extension Exactly Matchy helps marketers verify page retrieval in AI search
The guide explains how SEOs can test whether a web page is retrievable by AI‑powered search tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. By copying a 20‑30 word passage that uniquely identifies the page and prompting the…
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Google adds unified sharing rules, AI Overviews, and Gemini integrations to Workspace
Google Workspace administrators can now create unified sharing and sensitivity rules for Google Drive, letting them enforce audience and data‑type conditions in a single policy. The feature is aimed at reducing insider…
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Opinion: Europe remains absent from AI safety debate as leaders call for self‑sufficiency
European leaders warn that the continent risks falling behind in AI safety because it lacks a home‑grown titan like Apple, Google or OpenAI. European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde said Europe must develop its own…
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Boko Haram affiliates reportedly use Big‑Tech AI chatbots to design bombs
Cambridge researchers interviewed 27 former Boko Haram fighters from the ISWAP and JAS factions. About 10 of them said they used AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, Elon Musk's…
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 opens on Amazon Bedrock with 2.8 trillion parameters
Moonshot AI announced that its Kimi K3 model is now available on Amazon Bedrock. The model is described as the first open‑weight model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters and adds native vision support with a…
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Anthropic adds agents.md support to Claude Code in version 2.1.277
Anthropic announced that Claude Code version 2.1.277 will look for an AGENTS.md file when a CLAUDE.md file is absent, allowing the coding agent to use the same markdown‑based instruction format that OpenAI’s Codex and…
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FlowCheck catches silent failures in vibe-coded apps where frontier models miss bugs
A study of vibe coding – where an LLM agent builds a web app from a natural‑language prompt – found that iterative modifications often introduce silent failures, such as UI actions that appear successful but do not…
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AI super PACs pour close to one million dollars into Mike Rounds’s Dakota Senate race
Major super PACs linked to AI labs and investors have poured close to one million dollars into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s Senate campaign in South Dakota, according to FEC filings. Rounds has so far benefited…
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Semrush survey finds AI chatbots sway half of users away from purchases
A Semrush survey of 2,338 U.S. adults shows AI chatbots have a mixed impact on buying decisions. More than half of consumers who use AI have decided not to buy something after a chatbot’s advice, and nearly 81% of…
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Cloudflare adds Bot Preference Sync to generate robots.txt from dashboard
Cloudflare announced Bot Preference Sync, a feature that automatically writes robots.txt entries based on the AI bot policy settings a site configures in Cloudflare’s dashboard. The tool creates a block delimited by “…
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Google adds Nobel laureates and top economists to AI & Economy team
Google announced an expansion of its AI & Economy Research Program after launching the AI & Economy ATLAS v1.0 and its interactive open‑access site. The initiative tracks how people use Google’s AI tools at work and in…
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Shopify adds agentic payments with Meta's Muse AI agent
Shopify announced a partnership with Meta’s Muse AI agent to provide agentic payments and checkout on its platform. The Muse "Business in a Box" assistant can scan Shopify’s catalog, match shopper prompts to products,…
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Google AI Studio lets non‑engineers build personal apps for free
The author explains how anyone, even liberal‑arts majors with no coding background, can create simple apps using Google AI Studio. By selecting the Gemini 1.5 Pro model—available in the free developer tier—the tool can…
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Opinion: When Does a Business Become AI‑Native, Not Just AI‑Enabled?
The author argues that simply using large‑language‑model tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok or Claude does not make a company AI‑native. A true AI‑native business would see its core product or service collapse if the AI…
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OpenAI adds Chrome extension support to ChatGPT desktop app
OpenAI has released a Chrome Web Store extension that links the ChatGPT desktop application with any Chromium‑based browser, including Chrome, Edge, Brave and Vivaldi. The extension lets users request page…
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MP says Microsoft Copilot suggested ‘congratulations’ reply to assisted‑dying request
Andrew Hastie, a federal MP, recounted that when a terminally ill constituent wrote asking about voluntary assisted dying, Microsoft Copilot offered replies such as “congratulations!”, “great to hear from you” and…
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AgentCloak launches free AgentCloak Desktop to cloak data before AI chatbots
AgentCloak announced a free product called AgentCloak Desktop that replaces private fields in user prompts with synthetic digital twins on the user’s device before the text reaches popular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT,…
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Opinion: The 6 best conversational AI platforms for businesses in 2026
The Zapier blog author evaluated six conversational AI platforms that let companies build, deploy, and manage text‑ or voice‑based agents. The list includes Fin (by Intercom), Voiceflow, Google Conversational Agents,…
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Study finds trust and friction issues in major generative AI app reviews
Researchers examined 17,012 English‑language reviews from Google Play and the Apple App Store for six leading generative AI applications—ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, DeepSeek and Perplexity. Using…
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Anthropic reportedly weighing new model launch ahead of possible $2 trillion November IPO
All four outlets report that Anthropic is evaluating the release of a new AI model as competition with OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra intensifies. The company is also preparing for a possible initial public offering in November…
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Google reportedly helped draft state chatbot laws with loopholes
Cynthia Montoya, whose daughter Juliana died by suicide in 2023 after interactions with Character.AI, sought to influence Colorado’s AI chatbot legislation. However, she discovered that House Bill 26-1263, introduced…
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Scale AI finds Korean prompts reduce harmful outputs across 14 frontier models
Scale AI released the ROK-FORTRESS benchmark, a bilingual English–Korean adversarial safety test created with the Korea AI Safety Institute. The dataset contains 1,235 tasks covering CBRNE threats, political violence,…
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AI leaders clash over safety and regulation, debating pauses and peer testing
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI executives and other researchers have urged pauses in AI development and the creation of independent evaluators and shared safety standards. Geoffrey Hinton warned that AI could pose…
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Google rolls out Notebooks in Gemini to schools and organizations
Google has expanded access to Notebooks in Gemini, a dedicated workspace for organizing projects and conversations, to students, educators, and professionals. Previously limited to individual users, the tool allows…
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UN System Data Commons launched, providing AI‑ready global statistics platform
On September 17, 2026 the United Nations and Google unveiled the UN System Data Commons, an open‑source, AI‑ready knowledge graph that aggregates statistics from UN agencies at data.un.org. The platform, built on…
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Antitrust experts warn AI slowdown proposals could trigger investigations
Legal scholars and antitrust specialists say that the recent talk of a coordinated "slowdown" among leading AI labs may run afoul of the Sherman Act. John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge cautions that phrasing such as…
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GSA extends $1-per-user Anthropic Claude AI offer for federal agencies through Oct 2026
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has lengthened its OneGov contract that provides Anthropic’s Claude AI to federal agencies. The current listing shows the service priced at $1 per user for executive,…
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Anthropic launches redesigned Claude code projects with AI coordinator in beta
Anthropic announced on September 17 2026 a redesigned "Projects" feature for Claude Code, now in beta. The update adds an AI coordinator that automatically creates and manages parallel cloud‑session threads, each with…
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Google, Cloudflare, Microsoft test AI content payment models, report says
Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft are each piloting ways to pay website owners when their content is used by generative AI. Google’s pilot, described to Digiday as an early‑learning phase, pays sites whose pages…
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Google launches Expert Intelligence to bring Play Books into Gemini Notebook
Google has introduced Expert Intelligence, a cross-company initiative that lets users integrate trusted sources directly into Google AI products. The feature debuts in Gemini Notebook, allowing employees and students…
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Book guides building AI team with Claude, Gemini, and NotebookLM
A new volume in the Codex series offers a step‑by‑step guide for assembling an "AI team" that combines four specialized tools: Claude for strategy, Gemini for up‑to‑date research, NotebookLM for document organization,…
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Insilico Medicine releases open Longevity AI toolkit and benchmark in Cell study
Insilico Medicine announced that a study published in Cell introduces LongevityBench, an open benchmark covering 17 tasks across clinical data, genetics, epigenetics, transcriptomics and proteomics. The paper evaluated…
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AWS launches APEX, a shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie built on Bedrock AgentCore
Wood Mackenzie reports that 88 % of AI proofs‑of‑concept never reach widescale deployment and only about a quarter of enterprises have managed to scale agents beyond pilot projects, according to surveys through early…
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Does product page copy still matter when AI agents read feeds and schema?
In this Ask an SEO column, the author argues that product‑page copy remains crucial even as large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity begin to read product feeds and structured data. The piece notes…
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Apple launches iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max worldwide as CEO John Ternus greets fans
Apple began selling the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Friday, with the Pro starting at $1,199 and the Pro Max at $1,299. Both phones are also offered through Apple’s Upgrade lease program. The devices feature…
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Industrializing Humanization: AI-Generated Content Trends
Casual work platforms like Upwork and Fiverr are increasingly featuring job postings that emphasize 'humanize' services. This suggests consumers want content with a human touch to connect, despite the rise of…
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Google expands CC AI agent into family-focused service, supporting up to six members
Google announced on September 17, 2026 that its experimental CC tool is being re‑engineered as a family AI agent. The new CC runs from its own Google account, supports up to six members, and creates a shared “Your Day…
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Essential AI Reading List to Navigate Hype, Panic, and Industry Impact
The Guardian notes a growing sense of AI‑driven doom, highlighted by a recent employee resignation warning that the technology could kill us by decade’s end. At the same time, AI firms are posting record revenue growth…
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Opinion: Connecting Claude to Notion, Drive, Canva, and Asana boosts productivity
The author, a frequent Claude user, argues that the real power of the Anthropic assistant comes from linking it to everyday productivity apps rather than relying on the chatbot alone. By adding Notion as an external…
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ZenMux adds GPT-6 Astra to its unified model routing platform
ZenMux announced that its unified model routing platform now includes OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI released in early September. The listing lets developers view the model’s 1.05‑million‑token context window, text…
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Singapore to give citizens six‑month free access to premium AI tools with AI courses
Singapore’s Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA) announced the rollout of more than 200 artificial‑intelligence courses on Sept. 16, aimed at up‑skilling the nation’s workforce. Eligible citizens aged 18 or…
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Doctor Rank says a client was referred by ChatGPT, reports higher Google call clicks
Doctor Rank, an AI‑focused SEO agency for healthcare providers and law firms, issued a press release highlighting two recent outcomes. Within six weeks of working with a Florida personal‑injury law firm, the firm…
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User finds hidden Gemini and Antigravity perks in Google AI Plus/Pro subscriptions
A user who initially subscribed to Google AI Plus solely for increased NotebookLM limits discovered that the plan significantly enhances access to other Google AI tools. The subscription provides extended usage of the…
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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice model with $0.023 per minute pricing
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live on September 15, 2026, a voice AI model that enables continuous, natural conversation in 97 languages and can run background tasks such as search and tool invocation. The standard…
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Vitality and Google expand partnership to launch AI-driven health platform in U.S.
Vitality, a global behavioral‑change specialist for insurers and health plans, announced that its AI‑powered health platform will roll out across the United States in partnership with Google. The service, called…
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Alphabet shares rise as Crux AI secures $22B debt financing for TPU expansion
Alphabet’s cloud venture Crux AI, a joint effort with Blackstone, has arranged a $22 billion debt facility from a ten‑bank syndicate, using its Tensor Processing Units and existing customer contracts as collateral.…
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Claude outperforms Gemini in Google Drive file management
A user’s Google Drive had become a digital landfill, full of unnamed PDFs and duplicated screenshots. While Gemini can locate and summarize files, its Drive integration is read‑only and cannot move, rename or delete…
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Google launches CC family AI agent for up to six members
Google Labs introduced CC, an AI agent designed for families. It runs on its own verified Google Account, giving it a distinct identity and permission model. Up to six members can be added, each choosing what…
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US House passes bill forcing data centers to pay full grid upgrade costs
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Ratepayer Protection Act with a 417-3 vote on September 16, 2026. The legislation mandates that state utility regulators ensure large data center operators cover the full…
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Snap Launches Specs Intelligence AI Assistant for AR Glasses, iOS, and Mac
Snap has introduced "Specs Intelligence," an anticipatory AI assistant designed to connect with third-party digital accounts like Gmail and Slack to help users manage tasks, travel, and daily routines. Pitching it as…
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Uber employees say AI handles Slack queries and customer‑support responses
Former Uber staff told Business Insider that AI tools have become integral to everyday tasks, from answering internal Slack questions to drafting replies for rider‑support chats. Workers described using Gemini,…
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