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DeepSeek reportedly raised $15B from CATL and Tencent this week, two days after the US ordered federal agencies to pull its AI from government networks. The company raised $7B in June. Terms are still being finalized. lnks.world/xk5VF
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Walmart launched Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets approved AI agents shop on its platform with customer-controlled spending limits. Amazon is blocking AI agents from purchases. CEO John Furner announced at Masters of Scale on Wednesday. techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/wh…
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HSBC cut Adobe to Hold on October 13 and lowered its target from $310 to $267, less than two weeks after Brandon Thomas released free, Claude-built versions of seven Adobe apps. He has since added open-source stand-ins for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. lnks.world/AZSPC
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PHP shipped emergency fixes today for two critical bugs Wiz chained into unauthenticated RCE on current WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. Nearly every PHP version back to 5.4 is affected. Update to 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35. wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rc…
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Added Meta's Muse to Which AI? this month. Muse Spark 1.3 is free inside Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and it's my pick for quick social posts. Read the permissions before you connect the Muse agent app, though... the privacy reports are rough. whichai.themann00.com

Which AI? — AI Model Use-Case Comparison

The right model for 14 everyday tasks, judged on results per dollar, across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, and Meta's Muse.

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New episode: When Copying Gets Cheap. A reporter used AI to map a software editor in about seven seconds and rebuild its core features in just over three minutes. Plus Meta's Muse Wonder and Anthropic's self-copying AI study. 21 minutes. lnks.world/rxNcZ
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The free tiers got good. Claude's free plan now runs Sonnet 5.5, ChatGPT Free runs GPT-6 Luna, and Meta AI runs Muse Spark 1.3, all for $0. On my updated chart, a free model wins 6 of 14 everyday tasks. whichai.themann00.com

Which AI? — AI Model Use-Case Comparison

The right model for 14 everyday tasks, judged on results per dollar, across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, and Meta's Muse.

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Anthropic drafted a federal safety bill that would let a court halt an AI release if evaluators find risk of 50 or more deaths or $1 billion in damage. A federal judge would have to approve. Agencies cannot block on their own. lnks.world/O7dYO
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Which AI? got its October refresh. Every brand replaced its lineup since July, so all 14 picks are redone, and Meta's Muse joins as a sixth brand. Claude takes 8 tasks, Gemini 3, ChatGPT 2, Muse 1. Copilot and Grok still win nothing. whichai.themann00.com
Which AI? October 2026 win tally across 14 everyday tasks: Claude 8, Gemini 3, ChatGPT 2, Muse 1, Copilot 0, Grok 0.

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Meta released Muse Wonder at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, the same rate card as Claude Opus 5.5. The weights are closed, and the stronger Wonder Full is not on the API at all, only in paid Muse Code plans. lnks.world/AZSPC
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Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for a second $45B compute deal, structured the same way as their first agreement. That original deal has already given Nscale enough stability to pursue an IPO. techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/ns…
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Anthropic's red team says small AI models may be months from copying themselves onto cheap devices like $55 Android TV boxes. On a test network, GLM-5.2 reached all eight nodes in four of five trials. Spread would be slow, with no central off switch. lnks.world/AZSPC
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This week's AI Vaults: Anthropic's red team says small AI models may be months from copying themselves onto cheap TV boxes, Meta prices Muse Wonder to match Claude Opus 5.5, and the maker of free Adobe clones moves on to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. lnks.world/AZSPC
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Anthropic is committing 5% of its shares to a new public-benefit fund, with 2% more added per 50% valuation increase. Combined with co-founder pledges and employee matching, roughly 20% of Anthropic's equity goes to the public good. anthropic.com/news/public-be…
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Google is previewing a universal Gemini agent that takes a goal, works out the steps, and delivers finished docs to your inbox. Companies can give its sub-agents their own corporate identities, email addresses included. Pricing is not announced yet. lnks.world/IAXYh
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Wikimedia says agents it believes OpenAI runs made unapproved edits on its wikis, tried to turn its Etherpad citation tool into a proxy, and made millions of API requests that may have contributed to a May outage. It wants agents to identify themselves. lnks.world/IAXYh
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Clean Rooms and Name Tags: Wikimedia says agents it believes OpenAI operates made unapproved edits, Anthropic cut its agent tests off from the live internet, and an AI-written Adobe clone claims a clean-room build. 17 minutes. lnks.world/6NO2F
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YouTube Music now labels tracks 'Fully Gen AI,' 'Partly Gen AI,' or 'No Gen AI.' Deezer says nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks arrive daily. YouTube's approach: disclose, don't ban. techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/yo…
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Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 to write free, open-source versions of seven Adobe apps, including stand-ins for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom. The GitHub repos hit close to 99,000 stars in under two weeks. He calls the suite early alpha. lnks.world/IAXYh
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This week's AI Vaults: a developer used Claude to build free versions of seven Adobe apps, Wikimedia says OpenAI's agents made unapproved edits on its wikis, and Google previews a Gemini agent that can get its own company email address. lnks.world/IAXYh
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