Shopify has launched Canvas, a desktop workspace where merchants build or redesign their online store by chatting with Sidekick, its AI agent, while seeing every page at once. We explain how Shopify Canvas works step by step, what Sidekick does behind the scenes, how it builds on Shopify’s earlier AI tools, the limits at launch, what it means for agencies, and whether your business should try it now.
A study from the marketing agency Graphite finds that Claude Opus 5.5 uses the phrase “this matters” 116 times as often as human writers, and still has 2,548 AI writing tells despite nearly abandoning the em dash. We explain how the study worked, Opus 5.5’s biggest tells, how they differ from Opus 5 and GPT-6 Astra, why tells keep returning, the study’s limits, and how to edit them out of a draft.
The Wall Street Journal has named the three researchers OpenAI dismissed for allegedly sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organisation: Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni. One of them was OpenAI’s technical contact for METR’s independent investigation of the Hugging Face hack. We set out who the three are, what the METR link does and does not show, how outside investigators get access to a lab, and what the case means for oversight and for businesses using OpenAI.
TIME reports that Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot questions in December 2025, including how Venezuelans would react if the US captured Nicolas Maduro. We set out exactly what TIME reported and how the story changed in the retelling, what Venezuelans actually thought, how Grok is used by the Pentagon, and what the episode teaches about AI in decision-making.
SpaceXAI has given Grok Bot a proactive Primary Bot that spots work and offers to handle it before you ask, and Grok 4.7 is now the base model across the Fast, Expert, Build and Heavy modes in the Grok apps. We cover how Primary Bot works, what free suggestions really cover, Grok 4.7’s benchmark gains, what is still undocumented, and what it means for businesses.
Suno has launched Speech in public beta, a model that generates spoken-word audio and original background music together in one track. We explain how Simple and Advanced modes work, what Suno has and has not said about credits, voices and rights, why the AI music company is diversifying, and what it means for businesses using synthetic voice.
Onepin, from speech-evaluation company Podonos, is an AI voice production agent that routes each line of a script to a text-to-speech engine, scores it for naturalness, clarity and pronunciation, and fixes what fails, in 10 languages. We explain the pipeline, the pricing per validated hour, where Onepin’s own claims disagree, who it suits and what UK teams should check.
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team who allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI safety organisation, The Wall Street Journal reported on 1 October 2026. We set out what is known and not known, the 2024 precedents, the run of agent incidents behind the story, what whistleblower law protects in California and the UK, and what it means for businesses using OpenAI.
Microsoft has added three audio models to MAI Playground: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription and the MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash text-to-speech models, plus a voice assistant demo called Chatter. We cover what each model does and costs, how the streaming model ranks on Artificial Analysis, how fast Microsoft’s voice line has moved and what UK developers should check.
Tavus has opened a limited research preview of Griffin Lite, a real-time video AI that sees, hears and talks back with a generated face and voice. In Tavus’s study, 26 of 54 people thought it was human after a one-minute call. We explain how it works, what the NVIDIA VideoFDB scores show, what changed on the Tavus developer platform in September, and the deception risks Tavus itself flags.
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