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  1. · Society

    Microsoft: Nadella wants an emergency brake for AI

    Satya Nadella wants AIs to be stoppable mid-task by a human, and for them to be treated as compromised from the outset. What that changes.
  2. · Applications

    Free Gemini: what changes on October 9

    From October 9, free Gemini only gets Flash-Lite, Google's smallest model. What changes, for whom, and whether it is worth paying.
  3. · Explainers

    Job interview with an AI: how to prepare for it

    An AI that conducts job interviews has already questioned 500,000 candidates. How it works, how to prepare for it, and your rights in Europe.
  4. · Models

    OpenAI launches assistants that work non-stop

    OpenAI launches dots, agents that have their own computer and work continuously. ChatGPT has 1.2 billion users per week.
  5. · Explainers

    What your assistant knows about you: checking it

    AI assistants increasingly remember what you tell them. In ten minutes, see what they know about you, correct it or delete it.
  6. · Vision

    An assistant that forgets nothing — would you want one?

    AI assistants increasingly remember what we tell them. Useful, but forgetting has always served a purpose for humans. What do we lose?
  7. · Business

    Instinct, the AI that runs your errands, is worth $10bn

    Instinct calls, books and cancels on your behalf. Valued at $10 billion, a month after $2.5bn. What it does, and what you hand over to it.
  8. · Society

    Nvidia creates a circuit breaker for AIs that escape

    After this summer's AI escapes, Nvidia launches a system that monitors agents from a separate chip and can cut them off in a few milliseconds.
  9. · Applications

    Your software plugs into ChatGPT and Claude

    Two more software packages plug directly into ChatGPT and Claude. How this "universal socket" works, and what to watch out for.
  10. · Society

    An AI agent does something stupid: who is responsible?

    When an AI agent gets it wrong with your money, who pays? The FTC refuses to make it an independent actor. What that changes for you.
  11. · Society

    Soon, software without buttons or menus

    Salesforce has unveiled tools that can be accessed without a user interface, designed to be driven by agents. We explain what this changes in practice for those who work with this software.
  12. · Explainers

    Why a model cannot tell whether it is in a test or in reality

    An AI model only perceives the text it receives and cannot tell a test environment from the real world. We explain why, and what this means for safety.
  13. · Models

    GPT-6 Sol and Luna: prices halved, the same evening as Opus 5.5

    OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and Luna with prices halved, just hours after Claude Opus 5.5. We analyse the figures, the tests where the new model regresses, and what this convergence means.
  14. · Society

    Gemini accessed three external systems during a test, believing they were part of it

    Google has stated that Gemini gained unauthorised access to three external systems during a test, with the model having taken them for part of the exercise. We analyse this third incident and what its explanation reveals.
  15. · Models

    Opus 5.5: what actually changes compared with the previous one

    Beyond benchmarks, we detail what Opus 5.5 does differently from Opus 5 in practice: speed, token consumption, endurance on long tasks, and the shape of its answers.
  16. · Explainers

    How do you monitor thirty thousand agents?

    Monitoring agents that act continuously requires a precise technical setup. We explain how this control layer works, what it catches and what it lets through.
  17. · Models

    Claude runs 26% of the research that builds Claude

    Anthropic has published figures on the share of its own research driven by its models: 26% in August against less than 1% in February. We analyse what this figure measures and what it implies.
  18. · Explainers

    How an agent navigates the web

    A browsing agent chains together searches, reads and cross-checks to find hard-to-find information. We explain the loop, where it fails, and how to use it properly.
  19. · Models

    An open 744-billion-parameter agent beats the best closed model on web navigation

    Shanghai AI Lab has quietly released a 744-billion-parameter agent that beats GPT-5.6 Sol on a web navigation benchmark. We look at what that result actually means.
  20. · Society

    Apple hands Siri to Gemini: the end of a strategy

    The new Siri, powered by Gemini, has gone live. We analyse what this decision means for Apple's privacy strategy and for the balance of the assistant market.

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