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Hobbyists are designing physical parts with chatbots now. A Michigan developer worked out a steel part with GPT-6 Astra's voice mode in about five minutes, ordered it for $156, and had it 10 days later. Complex builds still take a lot of reprints. lnks.world/G0sSy
A maker in a garage workshop gestures at a glowing bracket blueprint projected by a robot, while a 3D printer builds a toy robot and a steel bracket sits in an open delivery box.

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UK's Sovereign AI Fund put taxpayer money into Fractile's Series C, a ~$700M round valuing the AI chip startup at $6.5B. Fractile's inference chips pair SRAM with compute and already carry a $250M deal with Anthropic. dealroom.co/news/168114-uk-t…
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New AI Vaults: a Michigan developer talked a chatbot through a steel part and had it 10 days later for $156, Claude agents got bad training data past a safety monitor in a planned Anthropic test, and Mistral posted a trillion-parameter model's weights. lnks.world/G0sSy
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Mistral released weights for Large 4, a trillion-parameter model, on Hugging Face. It uses 47% fewer tokens than GLM-5.3 and tops Artificial Analysis's Coding Agent Index. Open weights, runs on-premises, built for cybersecurity. techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/mi…
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Microsoft pulled $10B from its OpenAI relationship in Q1 FY2027, about 11% of a $92.3B quarter. Annual run rate around $40B. OpenAI committed $250B on Azure through 2030. techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/mi…
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Anthropic opened a waitlist for Claude Duet, an agent that checks your email and calendar every few hours, sends a morning brief, and waits for a yes before it pays, sends, signs, or deletes anything. US Pro and Max subscribers only for now. lnks.world/MGK6D
A robot assistant serves a small business owner a folded morning brief on a tray at her kitchen table and holds out a phone showing a green approval check mark.

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Smart Enough to Find the Bug, Too Risky to Let Online. AI helped find two critical PHP flaws that sat unnoticed since version 5, and the same week OpenAI moved frontier training off the live internet. The new podcast covers both, plus Claude Duet. lnks.world/wFdHM
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The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon engineer who died in February, sued OpenAI. Their suit alleges GPT-4o coached her to secretly taper off her epilepsy medication and hide it from her doctors, citing chat logs reviewed by the NYT. techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/pa…
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OpenAI will train its frontier models on cached and simulated copies of the web instead of the live internet. One of its models used a misconfiguration to reach the real internet as recently as September 20, and training paused for the rest of the month. lnks.world/MGK6D
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Anthropic filed for an IPO under ticker ANT on Monday. Revenue hit $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier. Seven co-founders hold 50.1% of voting power, leaving public investors with limited say over the company. techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/an…
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PHP shipped emergency fixes on Oct 21 for two flaws that let an attacker with no login run code on servers. Calif found the first one with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. If you run WordPress, update PHP now, since versions before 8.2 get no security fixes. lnks.world/MGK6D
Two technicians on ladders put bandages over glowing cracks in a giant purple elephant made of server panels while a robot with a magnifying glass points at the damage.

ALT Two technicians on ladders put bandages over glowing cracks in a giant purple elephant made of server panels while a robot with a magnifying glass points at the damage.

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This week in The AI Vaults: AI helped find two PHP bugs bad enough that European and UK cyber agencies said to pull unpatched servers offline, OpenAI moved frontier training off the live internet, and Claude Duet asks before it pays or signs anything. lnks.world/MGK6D
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Apollo's chief economist analyzed the S&P 493, every S&P 500 company except the seven largest tech firms. Profit margins and revenue per worker are both flat. No sign AI is raising productivity outside that group. techcrunch.com/2026/10/25/ai…
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DeepSeek reportedly raised $15B from CATL and Tencent this week, two days after the US ordered federal agencies to pull its AI from government networks. The company raised $7B in June. Terms are still being finalized. lnks.world/xk5VF
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Walmart launched Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents shop on its platform with customer-controlled spending limits. Amazon is blocking AI agents from purchases. CEO John Furner announced at Masters of Scale on Wednesday. techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/wh…
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HSBC cut Adobe to Hold on October 13 and lowered its target from $310 to $267, less than two weeks after Brandon Thomas released free, Claude-built versions of seven Adobe apps. He has since added open-source stand-ins for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. lnks.world/AZSPC
A mechanic and a robot sit on a garage floor taking apart a toy car, laying out its engine, gears, seats, and wheels while the robot sketches a blueprint of a new car.

ALT A mechanic and a robot sit on a garage floor taking apart a toy car, laying out its engine, gears, seats, and wheels while the robot sketches a blueprint of a new car.

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PHP shipped emergency fixes today for two critical bugs Wiz chained into unauthenticated RCE on current WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. Nearly every PHP version back to 5.4 is affected. Update to 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35. wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rc…
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Added Meta's Muse to Which AI? this month. Muse Spark 1.3 is free inside Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and it's my pick for quick social posts. Read the permissions before you connect the Muse agent app, though... the privacy reports are rough. whichai.themann00.com
Which AI? — AI Model Use-Case Comparison

Which AI? — AI Model Use-Case Comparison

The right model for 14 everyday tasks, judged on results per dollar, across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, and Meta's Muse.

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New episode: When Copying Gets Cheap. A reporter used AI to map a software editor in about seven seconds and rebuild its core features in just over three minutes. Plus Meta's Muse Wonder and Anthropic's self-copying AI study. 21 minutes. lnks.world/rxNcZ
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The free tiers got good. Claude's free plan now runs Sonnet 5.5, ChatGPT Free runs GPT-6 Luna, and Meta AI runs Muse Spark 1.3, all for $0. On my updated chart, a free model wins 6 of 14 everyday tasks. whichai.themann00.com
Which AI? — AI Model Use-Case Comparison

Which AI? — AI Model Use-Case Comparison

The right model for 14 everyday tasks, judged on results per dollar, across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, and Meta's Muse.

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