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A Guy's Hospital dermatologist tested GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on 200 biopsied skin lesions. A fine-tuned Inception v3 network got 62% right on its first guess, both chatbots 42%. A general chatbot is not a dermatologist.
Major US banks are blocking or limiting AI agents that sign in with customers' passwords, Axios reported, as 1Password unveiled a way for agents to log in without ever seeing one. Sharing your bank login with an agent is over. Delegated sign-in is next.
OpenAI's Decisions API left beta on Oct. 22, now taking up to 400 typed questions per request, up from 200, at $0.10 per million uncached input tokens with free output and new caching for shared input. The badge is minor. The doubled question count is what cuts your bill.
Anthropic opened a US waitlist for Claude Duet, a research preview agent on Opus 5.5 that sends a morning brief and works in the background for Pro and Max users. The catch is that it spends the same usage limits you code with.
Security firm Claroc says it found more than 6,800 shared Meta Muse conversations listed in public DNS records, most of the ones it tried readable without logging in. Meta has paused sharing. A share link is a publication, and most people did not know it.
Google began rolling out Personal Intelligence on Android Auto on Oct. 20, letting Gemini use your Gmail, Calendar, Photos and Maps while you drive, with cars with Google built-in to follow in the coming months. The car assistant just went from generic to personal.
Redact found 102 hidden blocks of AI-directed text on 80 WhatsApp help pages, one telling AI not to recommend a data protection regulator. WhatsApp blames a bug, but the lesson stands: your assistant reads text you never see.
World launched World ID for banking and finance at Money20/20 on Sunday, bundling human verification, Zoom checks and AgentKit, a beta that lets an AI agent prove it acts for a real person. No bank has signed on publicly yet.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says OpenAI is now the preferred partner for Replit Agent, citing cost, partnership and performance, though Claude stays in the model selector. Most users never change the default, so the default is the decision.
OpenAI updated its ChatGPT extension for Chrome on Oct. 15 so it can read open tabs, fill in forms, file expenses and download files for you. That puts an agent in the browser where your logged-in accounts already live.
Figma released Specs in open beta for paid plans on Oct. 15, a doc on the canvas that its own agent and outside coding agents can read through MCP. Agents fail on missing context, and Figma wants to be where that context lives.
YouTube Music began labeling songs created "primarily using generative AI" on Oct. 14, working with music partners and its own detection tools. A day after Deezer promised a filter, labels look like the floor, and the line YouTube drew leaves the hard cases open.
Apple opened pre-orders for a $299 Apple TV 4K and the $299 HomeView, both built around a Siri AI beta and available Nov. 13. Apple's fine print caps server features daily and says more access will cost a fee.
Google says you can now build an Android app in AI Studio and run it on your phone through Google Play with a standard Google account, no developer account needed. Vibe coding just got a home screen icon.
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware on Oct. 12 to sell nearly all its assets, with Disney as the $20 million opening bidder for a license to some of its IP. One of the best known AI companion apps is now selling itself in pieces, and whether it stays online depends on who bids.
Push Security says a Google ad for "claude mac" showed bing.com, then routed users to a fake Claude page whose copy button swaps in a malicious command. If you install AI tools from a search ad, stop.
Anthropic put Claude Dashboards into beta for paid plans on Thursday, connected to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and Redshift, plus Motion explainer videos for Team and Enterprise. Dashboards is the one to try, because every number opens to the query behind it.
Google Cloud unveiled the Gemini agent on Thursday, one agent for chat, long-running tasks and code that routes each job to Gemini or Anthropic's Claude models. Google gave no price and no general availability date, so plan for it but don't budget for it yet.
OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 Sol and Luna into ChatGPT on free and paid plans, with answers that arrive as charts, forms and buttons. The model number is the smaller half of this launch.
From October 9, the free Gemini app offers only Flash-Lite, and Google AI Plus subscribers lose Pro on a date Google will email them, per Google's help center. Free Gemini is now a sample. Find out this week whether the sample does your work.