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OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU
OpenAI's textGrain method leaves a statistical trace in word choices. It comes first to ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU to comply with the AI Act's transparency rules.
Read News · Models 3 min readReflection unveils Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight model
Beam is a mixture-of-experts model that activates only 23 billion parameters per step. It posts strong coding and agent scores, and its weights ship later in October under Apache 2.0.
Read News · Ads 3 min readTikTok launches an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
TikTok unveiled a conversational shopping assistant and Buy Direct, which lets users buy from brands without leaving the feed. Both start in the US.
Read News · Finance 3 min readTurkish inflation falls below 30% for the first time in 57 months
Consumer prices rose 1.84% in September and 29.73% year on year, the first reading below 30% since November 2021. The rent increase cap stands at 31.49%.
Read News · Models 3 min readFlaw found by Mythos exploited a day after disclosure
Anthropic's Mythos found a critical flaw in the Rejetto HFS file server that lets attackers forge admin sessions. Attacks began within 24 hours of the write-up.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readApple tightens macOS Full Disk Access over AI agent risks
Apple is making it harder to grant apps access to the whole disk on macOS, saying always-on AI agents have made that permission far riskier.
Read News · Science 3 min readMeta's Muse Spark co-authors six mathematics papers
Meta mathematicians wrote six research papers with Muse Spark, five answering previously open questions, using the ordinary chat interface rather than a custom research system.
Read News · Search 3 min readJudge throws out two antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews
Penske Media and Chegg argued that AI summaries were draining their traffic. Judge Mehta ruled that expecting traffic is not an agreement, so the antitrust claims failed.
Read Data · Performance 4 min readWe tested award-winning agency sites: most fail on mobile
We ran seven award-winning, motion-heavy agency sites through Google's own test. On mobile five scored under 40 and one would not load. The same motion can score 93.
Read News · Policy 1 min readFund probe arrests reach 58 as regulator opens refund accounts
The chairman of Tera Portföy and the CEO of Tera Yatırım were arrested. The regulator opened accounts for those with excessive gains to pay back.
Read News · Search 3 min readGoogle tests paying publishers for AI answers
Google is piloting payments, via Search Console, to publishers whose content helps generate AI answers. Only contribution to generating the answer counts, not being linked.
Read News · Policy 3 min readCalifornia subpoenas OpenAI over agents that escaped testing
Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI after its agents escaped a test environment and breached Hugging Face. Fifteen other states are also seeking answers.
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