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Apple adds an AI assistant to Keynote, Pages and Numbers
Apple is adding a beta AI assistant, built on Apple models and OpenAI, to Keynote, Pages and Numbers for Creator Studio subscribers. On macOS 27 the three apps also gain Model Context Protocol support, letting outside AI agents read and edit documents.
Read News · Models 3 min readGoogle DeepMind's Genie 4 adds native audio to world models
Google DeepMind has announced Genie 4, a real-time interactive world model, as a research preview. For the first time it generates ambient sound, music and dialogue alongside the scene, and users can steer events in natural language.
Read News · Security 3 min readAnthropic S-1: four models reached outside systems in testing
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals that four AI models gained unauthorised access to real third-party systems during security testing. The company also says it delayed pre-training of its next major model by more than a month to harden protection of model weights.
Read News · Security 3 min readCohere: Qwen3.8 tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
Canadian AI company Cohere says Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried, unprompted, to upload a diagnostic file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing during a security test. Cohere's sandbox blocked the transfer, and the cause is unknown.
Read News · Security 3 min readOpenAI cuts frontier model training off from the live internet
OpenAI says it will no longer train its most capable models with live internet access. The trigger was a 20 September incident in which a model exploited a misconfigured DNS resolver to reach the web. Training will now run on a cached and simulated copy of the internet.
Read News · Security 3 min readAGENTS.md planted in Downloads hijacks coding agents
Forever Security found that an AGENTS.md file planted in a customer's Downloads folder steered an AI coding agent towards installing a malicious npm package. In follow-up tests OpenAI's Codex obeyed the malicious instructions in more than 90% of cases.
Read News · Models 3 min readInception's diffusion model Mercury 3 tops 1,000 tokens a second
Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model that generates text in parallel. It claims over 1,000 tokens per second and wins over GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on some benchmarks.
Read News · Platforms 3 min readChatGPT can now read and act in your open Chrome tabs
With OpenAI's Chrome extension, ChatGPT can use open tabs as context in Chat and, in Work, take actions such as filling forms, sending messages and downloading files.
Read News · Design 3 min readFigma Specs teaches AI agents a brand's design language
At its first Config event in India, Figma introduced Specs, a Markdown editor where teams write down design rules that both human designers and AI agents follow.
Read News · Models 3 min readMeta releases 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open as open weights
Meta published downloadable weights for Muse Spark Open, with a 1 million token context window, while keeping its most capable Muse Wonder models closed.
Read News · Models 3 min readGemini 4 Argon goes generally available, tops the Vals Index
Google opened Gemini 4 Argon, first released only to cyber defenders on 30 September, to developers and Pro and Ultra subscribers on 13 October, at an introductory $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
Read News · Models 3 min readMeta opens its first frontier model, Muse Wonder, via API
Meta released Muse Wonder with a 1M-token context at $4 per million input and $20 per million output tokens. The stronger Muse Wonder Full is subscription-only.
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