Monday, October 12, 2026
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As AI gets better and better, we’re going to have to learn to stomach some negative outcomes in exchange for vast prosperity and improvements in our overall health, wealth and life expectancy.
EmbeddingGemma 2 can work with more than just text, featuring capabilities across coding, images, video, and audio. Google says the upgraded model has 740 million parameters and is designed to perform on-device tasks like finding a video clip from a voice memo or searching through audio recordings based on a text prompt. [Link: EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model | https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/ | Google]
An IPO prospectus viewed by Reuters included Amodei’s compensation, which the outlet says is higher than last year’s pay for Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Anthropic is expected to file for its IPO this fall, potentially valuing the AI company at over $2 trillion. [Link: Anthropic's Amodei made $18 million last year, middle of the tech CEO pack | https://www.reuters.com/technology/anthropics-amodei-made-18-million-last-year-middle-tech-ceo-pack-2026-10-06/?taid=6ac50846df69b80001ee1d30 | Reuters]
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
Florida scientists have used machine learning to identify when python-removal surveys are most likely to capture Burmese pythons with the greatest
The AI industry will need to generate as much as $6 trillion in revenue by 2031 to sustain its ongoing global infrastructure build-out.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has announced that it will add invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex for users in the European Union, as the
Rivian announced the rollout of its new AI powered voice assistant. The company designed the assistant in-house, while also relying on unspecified third party models.
After buying millions of Nvidia’s AI chips last week, Meta has now also signed a multi-year agreement to buy six gigawatts worth of AMD processors for AI data centers. The deal could see Meta owning 10 percent of AMD’s stock, and follows a similar agreement between AMD and OpenAI. [Link: Meta and AMD Partner for Longterm AI Infrastructure Agreement | https://about.fb.com/news/2026/02/meta-amd-partner-longterm-ai-infrastructure-agreement/ | Meta Newsroom]
Google is launching a new AI-powered “auto browse” feature inside Chrome that can perform multi-step searches and complete tasks on the web.
The company says it codes just as well as Claude Sonnet 4 but does so “significantly faster” and at a third of the cost. Anthropic’s advanced model is the recently released Sonnet 4.5, which can “break down a complex problem into multi-step plans” and manage several Haiku 4.5s to implement the subtasks concurrently. Haiku 4.5 is now available on free Claude plans. Update: Free Claude plans do not default to Haiku 4.5.
Google announced a new SynthID Detector tool at Google I/O that lets you check if content has been made with the assistance of Google’s AI tools.
French AI startup Mistral says its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4 — also called Le Chonk — is the best open-weight model developed outside of China. It says it’s particularly strong at coding, cybersecurity, and tasks in finance, engineering, and manufacturing. The model is currently available in preview, with weights dropping at the end of October. [Media: https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/2107457414387622310?s=20]
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
Workers are terrified that new machines will put them out of work. And they’re right — technology will replace jobs. But it’s an insult to humanity to assume that people will just roll over and play dead.
Google is limiting free users to Gemini’s Flash Lite model starting October 9th, and removing access to its Pro model on its lowest-cost AI Plus subscription.
There are chores we complain about and would never give up. Choosing a birthday present for a friend. Putting together a playlist for a long drive.
