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Can You Trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to Run Your Life?

The Verge’s Decoder asked whether you can trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life. We check Nilay Patel and Hayden Field’s arguments against what Meta and OpenAI have published: free versus paid, the data Muse collects on the people you know, the permission prompts behind recent failures, Zuckerberg’s plan to take a fee from transactions, the summer’s agent breaches and lock-in, then turn it into a practical test for what to connect.

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Google Renames Antigravity Agent to Chief of Staff in Latest Update

Google has renamed an unreleased agent in its Antigravity 2.0 desktop app from Concierge to Chief of Staff. We compare the 5 and 8 October screenshots, explain the “Chief of stuff” confusion, set the change against Antigravity’s fast release cycle, Gemini 4 Argon and the Gemini agent Google Cloud announced the same day, and list the controls businesses should set before a chief-of-staff agent arrives.

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AI Behaves More Like a Brain Than a Database — Cognitive Science’s Role in Its Origin Story Helps Explain Why

Two cognitive scientists argue that modern AI behaves more like a brain than a database, and that its origin story explains why. We trace the psychology behind neural networks from Hebb and Rosenblatt’s perceptron to backpropagation, check the primary sources, show how research on human memory explains AI hallucinations, inconsistent answers and sycophancy, and set out practical rules for using these systems at work.

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Using AI to Mitigate the Growing Environmental Threat of Data Centers

MIT’s Christina Delimitrou argues the fastest way to curb the environmental threat of data centers is to stop wasting the servers we already have. We explain the scale of data center energy demand, the 15 percent utilization problem, her machine learning systems from Paragon and Quasar to Seer, Sinan and Ditto, other AI levers from cooling to grid timing, where efficiency runs out, and the steps IT teams can take now.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 and Reduces Sonnet 5.5 Caching Costs

Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model, at up to 90% lower per-token prices than Haiku 4.5, and halved the cache read price on Sonnet 5.5. We explain the two price tiers, the tokenizer catch, the benchmarks and early customer results, the arithmetic behind the 20% Sonnet saving, the new monthly API credits for Max and Team plans, and the breaking changes developers must handle before switching.

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Grok Bot Can Now Search, Read and Monitor X Without a Connector

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot can now search, read and monitor X natively, with no X account or connector needed for reading. We explain what was announced, how the integration changed since August, what the first day of testing showed, what the same reading would cost on X’s paid API, and the prompt injection, privacy and platform-rule risks businesses should check first.

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Microsoft Brings More AI to PCs as It Challenges Apple

Microsoft used its 7 October Windows and Surface event to bring more AI to PCs and take aim at Apple. The Surface Laptop Ultra on Nvidia’s RTX Spark starts at $2,599, Windows now runs coding and open models locally, and Microsoft Execution Containers sandbox AI agents. Here is what was announced, how the prices and benchmark claims compare with the Mac, and what UK businesses should do next.

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AI Could Upend Food Delivery, and a $1-Fee Startup Already Has DoorDash’s Attention

Bites, a 10-person Bay Area startup, lets diners order from restaurants inside ChatGPT at in-store prices plus a flat $1 fee, sending orders straight to the restaurant’s POS. DoorDash has emailed restaurants about it. We explain the model, the price gap in a real order, the court ruling on customer data, DoorDash’s own AI tools and what it means for restaurants.

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The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos

The Pentagon’s Tradewinds programme lets AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, pitch in videos of up to five minutes and win contracts fast. We explain how the process works, what the numbers show, why this year’s brief asks for kill chain agents, how other transaction deals and their $100m and $500m thresholds work, and why transparency lags.

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