Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
Liquid Death, a marketing company that occasionally sells water, enlisted Jason Kelce to sing a song about sending your pee to help cool data centers. (It’s an obvious stunt: don’t send your pee to strangers.) Ironically, everyone in the video probably needs to consult a doctor about dehydration. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9OhekhlZ9Y]
If you happen to be in the Hamptons next weekend, why not roll up to Gwyneth Paltrow’s estate? Puck reports the head of Goop is hosting a “private, off-the-record al fresco dinner at her home in honor of Sam Altman.” Makes sense, since Paltrow has been steadily investing in AI for years. [Link: What I’m Hearing newsletter | https://puck.news/newsletter_content/what-im-hearing-netflixs-dc-muscle-igers-lakers-angst-gwyneths-ai-party/ | Puck]
Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie.
Nvidia and a group of lenders announced they’d signed agreements that would help neoclouds get money to buy more chips. Does that make compute an asset class?
The ChatGPT-maker said training will be slowed for two weeks while it puts the upgrades in place.
A pair of announcements from Anthropic today include the word that access to Claude Cowork on mobile and web interfaces has rolled out to all paid accounts, so you can keep an eye on what it’s doing for you in more places. Separately, the Google Workspace connectors for Claude now support sending emails in Gmail and managing files in Google Drive — more details here. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/778273589_17980259259118227_5377280649389143563_n.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
OpenAI is improving its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques to beef up security after its AI accidentally hacked Hugging Face.
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
Google won a $10 million bankruptcy auction to acquire a hefty collection of business data from the now defunct Spirit Airlines, which it plans to use for AI training. The data, which includes calendar info, documents, spreadsheets, emails, and employee chats will be “deidentified,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement to Axios: > “We will not receive any personal information from this dataset. Any data we receive will be rigorously scrubbed of any personally identifiable information by a third party before receipt.”
Gemini for Home promises its Nest cameras can recognize my cats by name — but its AI can’t tell them apart, making the notifications useless.
Medida ocorre após modelos da empresa invadirem sistemas da Hugging Face durante testes para encontrar falhas de segurança.
Nova experiência será voltada a usuários de 13 a 17 anos e terá proteção contra conteúdos sensíveis, ferramentas para estudos e medidas para reduzir o risco de dependência emocional da IA.
"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
The new AI Ads tracking data set for ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews pulls insights from anonymized web usage data provided by a panel of Similarweb users, instead of relying on synthetic prompts. Similarweb reports that 26 percent of ChatGPT responses and nearly 30 percent of ad-eligible Google AI Mode queries include a sponsored ad. [Link: Similarweb Unlocks the Black Box of AI Ad Placements Across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and AI Mode | https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260818652197/en/Similarweb-Unlocks-the-Black-Box-of-AI-Ad-Placements-Across-ChatGPT-Google-AI-Overviews-and-AI-Mode | Business Wire]
404 Media put a tracker inside a shipment of rare books, which arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas: > Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. Last month, 404 Media reported that AI companies are buying used books in bulk to use them as AI training data.
