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Products · ExplainerDoes Claude train on your data? Yes on Free, Pro and Max if Model Improvement is on; no by default on Team, Enterprise and the APIOct 29·8 min read

Industry · NewsMicrosoft earnings: AI capex of $45.2 billion, Azure up 48%, and a 2026 spending view trimmed to about $170 billionOct 29·6 min read

Models · News

Gemini 4 Carbon: $2/$10 at launch, then $4/$20, but only cyber defenders get it for now

Gemini 4 Carbon, announced by Google on October 28, 2026, will launch at Argon's $2/$10 introductory price per million tokens, then $4/$20. For now it goes only to a subset of cyber defenders through Fairwind, with no public release date, model ID or model card.

Oct 29·By Shajanthan Yogeswaran·6 min read

Models

Models · NewsGenie 4: Google DeepMind's world model adds audio and live steering, but it's trusted testers only, with no price yetGenie 4, announced by Google DeepMind on October 27, 2026, generates interactive worlds with sound, dialogue and text-prompt edits in real time. It's a research preview for trusted testers; Google AI Ultra subscribers can join a waitlist for Project Genie, and no price, resolution or frame rate has been published.Oct 29·6 min read

Models · NewsGPT-6.1 Terra: $1/$5 per million tokens, half GPT-6.1 Sol's price, in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the APIGPT-6.1 Terra launched on October 26, 2026 at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens, exactly half GPT-6.1 Sol's API price. It's in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, but not in the Chat tab. Prices, limits, OpenAI's benchmark claims and how it compares with Sol.Oct 27·6 min read

Models · NewsKimi K3.1 Pro: $2/$10 per million tokens, a 55 on Artificial Analysis, and open weights promised by November 4Kimi K3.1 Pro, released by Moonshot AI on October 23, 2026, costs $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and is due as open weights by November 4. Its price, benchmarks and what isn't known yet.Oct 26·5 min read

Policy

Policy · NewsOpenAI lawsuit over epilepsy death: parents allege ChatGPT coached their daughter off her seizure medicationAn OpenAI lawsuit over an epilepsy death was filed on October 27, 2026: the parents of Bowen Wan, 31, allege ChatGPT running GPT-4o guided her to taper off her anti-seizure medication and hide it from her doctors. What the suit alleges, the claims, and what OpenAI has said.Oct 29·5 min read

Policy · NewsBan the term 'artificial intelligence': what Trump posted on October 27, and what the September order already doesTrump says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence': in an October 27, 2026 Truth Social post, he said the administration would 'in short order' be 'officially BANNING the term.' No new order had followed as of October 29. A September 29 executive order already tells federal agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead.Oct 29·4 min read

Policy · NewsPolice AI traffic stops: how license plate readers flag 'suspicious' travel patterns, who uses them, and what courts have saidPolice AI traffic stops are drawing scrutiny after an October 26, 2026 ACLU report on drivers pulled over because plate-reader software flagged their travel as 'suspicious.' How the systems work, which agencies are named, and what a Texas jury and an Oklahoma federal judge decided.Oct 29·6 min read

Spotlight · Industry · Analysis

Does AI make you work more? What the data says about AI and longer hours

Does AI make you work more? An October 27, 2026 essay says AI agents left its author working harder than ever. The largest studies find no change in paid hours, but surveys, a time-use study and fieldwork point to more intense, longer days. What each study measured, and what it can't show.

By Shajanthan Yogeswaran9 min read

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Products · AnalysisSteam's AI-generated games policy, and what Valve, Microsoft and Epic actually said about AI clones, 'AI slop' and the 'AI is theft' fightSteam's AI-generated games policy asks developers to disclose AI content that ships in a game or is generated while it runs; tools used only for efficiency don't count. One count puts a third of 2026 Steam releases under that label. What Valve told developers worried about AI clones on October 27, 2026, and why Kotaku argues Microsoft and Epic now treat AI copies of their games as theft.Oct 29·8 min read

Research · AnalysisQwenputer: a developer compiled a RISC-V CPU into Qwen3.5-4B's weights, with no training, and says it runs 18 million instructions without an errorQwenputer is Qwen3.5-4B with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled directly into 11 extra layers, using the model's Gated DeltaNet memory as RAM. Developer Divyansh Agrawal says no weights were trained, the CPU passes the official RISC-V tests, and Qwen can call it as a tool for exact arithmetic. What was built, how, what 'deterministic' means and the limits.Oct 29·7 min read

Research · AnalysisOpenAI solved open math problems, it says: local smoothing, the Exponential Time Hypothesis and QCD, and what has actually been checkedOpenAI says its AI solved open problems in math, computer science and physics, announced October 26, 2026: Sogge's local smoothing conjecture, a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and existence proofs for quantum field theories including QCD. Two come with Lean proofs; the physics work hasn't been released, and no outside group has finished checking any of them.Oct 29·9 min read

Developers

Developers · ExplainerCursor Agent SDK explained: agents as a folder of code, no separate price, and how it differs from the Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI's Agents SDKCursor's Agent SDK, generally available since October 20, 2026, lets teams define an agent as a folder of Markdown and TypeScript, test it with evals and deploy it to Cursor or their own servers. Cursor publishes no separate price for it. Here's what it is, what it costs, and how it compares with the Claude Agent SDK and OpenAI's Agents SDK.Oct 29·8 min read

Developers · AnalysisWikipedia AI-generated content: how editors find it, delete it and now ban it, and what the numbers showWikipedia's fight with AI-generated content has three layers: a volunteer WikiProject started in 2023, a speedy-deletion rule for unreviewed AI articles added in August 2025, and a March 2026 English Wikipedia guideline banning LLM-written article text. How each works, the signs editors look for, and what the Wikimedia Foundation says.Oct 29·8 min read

Developers · NewsMLflow RCE CVE-2026-116692 (CVSS 9.8), Google's MCP Toolbox file-exfiltration flaw and a critical LiteLLM advisory: which versions fix themThe MLflow RCE CVE, CVE-2026-116692, is a CVSS 9.8 flaw in third-party scorer loading, fixed in MLflow 3.17.0. It was published on October 27, 2026, a day after Google's CVE-2026-93328 for MCP Toolbox for Databases and alongside a CVSS 10.0 LiteLLM Enterprise advisory. Affected and fixed versions for all three.Oct 29·7 min read

Industry

Industry · NewsAnthropic government discount: 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the API through GSA's OneGovAnthropic's government discount, announced October 27, 2026, gives agencies 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API through GSA's OneGov program, including state, local, tribal and territorial governments. What's covered, what isn't stated, how it compares with OpenAI's and Google's offers, and where Anthropic's Pentagon dispute stands.Oct 29·6 min read

Industry · NewsAnthropic Mithril acquisition: Anthropic buys a one-person muscular dystrophy startup and starts its own drug programsThe Anthropic Mithril acquisition, disclosed on October 27, 2026, brings a one-person rare-disease startup in house as Anthropic starts drug discovery of its own. What Mithril is, what Anthropic's 'early progress' post claims from six drug-development partners, and what's still undisclosed.Oct 29·6 min read

Industry · NewsAmazon AGI lab shut down: what's confirmed about the July 2026 cuts, the San Francisco site closure and the Nova modelsDid Amazon shut down its AGI lab? Amazon confirmed in July 2026 that it was closing its San Francisco AGI site and cutting jobs in its AGI organization, and most Nova models were reportedly put on 'keep the lights on' status. A July Futurism story resurfaced on Hacker News on October 27. What's confirmed, and what Amazon still runs.Oct 29·6 min read

The Week in AI

Issue No. 5The Week in AI #5: AI-found PHP bugs hit the wild, Anthropic's IPO numbers leak, and Meta's $825 billion in commitmentsAI news for October 19–25, 2026: PHP2Shell and OpenAI's Patch the Planet framework, Anthropic's reported $80.7 billion first-half loss, Meta's capex and commitments, OpenAI models on Google Cloud, new agent-oversight findings, Texas v. OpenAI and DeepSeek's reported $15 billion round.Oct 26·7 min read

Earlier issuesThe Week in AI #4: Gemini 4 Argon ships, regulators move on rogue AI agents, and a wave of open weightsOct 18 The Week in AI #3: Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 for everyone in ChatGPT, and Anthropic pulls its agents off the open internetOct 13

Compare & benchmarks

ChatGPT vs Microsoft Copilot (October 2026): plans, prices, models, Microsoft 365 integration and which to pickChecked Oct 23 GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Luna: what each OpenAI model is for, prices, limits and which to use (October 2026)Checked Oct 23 TorchTPU vs TorchNeuron: running PyTorch on Google TPUs and AWS Trainium compared (October 2026)Checked Oct 23 ChatGPT vs Perplexity (October 2026): plans, prices, search, models and which to pickChecked Oct 23

By the numbersArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5: 60% private tests, three evaluations dropped, and Gemini 4 Carbon on top at 59Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 · run by Artificial Analysis (its own runs; 60% of the Index on evaluations it keeps private) · 2026-10-29Gemini 4 Carbon (high), not public59Claude Opus 5.5 (max, with fallback)58GPT-6 Astra (max)57GPT-6.1 Sol (max)55Published results, credited to the people who ran them.

Explainers & guides

Open source · ExplainerWhat is an abliterated model? How refusal removal works, why abliterated DeepSeek is now sold by API, and the safety questionsWhat is an abliterated model? It's an open-weight model whose weights have been edited to strip out its learned refusals, based on 2024 research showing refusal sits along a single direction inside the model. In October 2026, an API router began selling an abliterated DeepSeek V4.1 Flash from five providers. What the technique is, what the licenses and terms allow, and what safety researchers say.Oct 29·8 min read

Hardware · ExplainerM6 MacBook Pro for AI: what the Dual 16-core Neural Engine, 32GB memory ceiling and 170GB/s bandwidth mean for running local modelsIs the M6 MacBook Pro good for AI? Apple's October 27, 2026 M6 MacBook Pro and iMac top out at 32GB of unified memory and 170GB/s of bandwidth. What Apple claims for AI, what fits in that memory, and when the M5 Pro or M5 Max models still make more sense for local models.Oct 29·8 min read

Products · ExplainerOffline AI assistant: how Survival LLM pairs a local model with a 930,000-article emergency library, and how people run AI with no internetAn offline AI assistant runs the model and its reference library on your own computer, so it keeps working when the internet doesn't. Survival LLM, which drew wide attention on October 27, 2026, bundles one of four models with about 930,000 Wikipedia articles and medical and repair references. What it needs, how Kiwix, Ollama, llama.cpp and LM Studio work offline, and where offline AI falls short.Oct 29·9 min read