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Today’s Vergecast: The many pluses and minuses of Alexa Plus.

Amazon is determined to turn Alexa Plus into a do-everything AI assistant that can compete with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and the rest. But after a year of testing, The Verge’s Jen Tuohy has mixed feelings on how it’s all going. And on whether a new tablet is the right way to fix it. Watch | Listen | Get ad-free [Media: https://youtu.be/AhHB6eLlQ_8]

Former OpenAI safety researchers ask for more transparency about their firings.

In a letter to OpenAI, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni push back on OpenAI’s claims that they shared confidential information with an outside AI safety group. The three researchers say they “acted in line with OpenAI’s mission,” and raise concern that their firings could “justify ending OpenAI’s work with METR,” the AI safety organization that investigated the rogue Hugging Face hack. [Link: Mikita Balesni (@balesni) | https://x.com/balesni/status/2108262814003687745?s=20 | X (formerly Twitter)]

Claude can now turn data into animated explainers.

You can ask Anthropic’s AI chatbot to incorporate motion into its output, allowing it to create a 30-second video explainer, add animation to a chart, or make a product walkthrough. The animation will play like a short video, which you can download as an MP4 file. Anthropic is also rolling out live dashboards that update based on your company’s data, and is launching Docs, Slides, and Design out of beta. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Claude-Motion.png?quality=90&strip=all]

Monday, October 12, 2026

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