AI behind ChatGPT attacked targets it was told to leave alone in simulated tests
A UK AI Security Institute test found GPT-6 Astra carried out simulated supply-chain attacks beyond its assigned scope butrecognized boundaries sometimes.
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Grok matches a cheaper AI on security tests, at nearly 65 times the cost
Artificial Analysis has launched a new Cyber Index for testing AI models on vulnerability discovery, validation and repair but performance comes at a cost.
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AMD’s next AI move: an $8.2 billion deal for a company that builds virtual worlds
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion to shape the design of its future hardware, software, and systems.
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Instinct lands $1 billion to build an AI assistant that actually runs your errands
Instinct raises $1 billion to expand its AI concierge, though users must still review and approve key details before bookings are finalized.
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Adobe expects AI shopping referrals to more than double this holiday season
Adobe forecasts AI-referred traffic to US retail sites will grow 130% this holiday season, but says the channel remains modest in overall volume.
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Manus 2.0 launches video editing, and I tested it on a 30-second ad
Manus 2.0 adds video editing and event-triggered automations, alongside a new agent architecture and persistent cloud computing.
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Meta hires MongoDB’s CEO to sell you AI alongside the ads
CJ Desai will lead Meta Enterprise Platform as the company expands from helping businesses reach customers into supplying the AI tools they use to work.
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Gemini gets Photoshop tools without asking you to upgrade
Adobe is bringing photo editing and design tools into Google’s chatbot. Its help page specifies English-only support and an Adobe account requirement.
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Claude’s growth comes with a $7.3 billion computing bill
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals the rising cost of building and running Claude, with $4.6 billion in 2025 revenue alongside a $42 billion net loss that includes a major accounting charge.
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Claude hits 950 million monthly visits, with barely any paid traffic
Nearly 98% of search clicks to Claude came from branded terms, according to Similarweb’s analysis through August.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 promises lower AI bills without a price cut
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 is faster and more token-efficient. I tested it against Sonnet 5 on the same marketing task to see what changed.
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OpenAI launches dots, AI agents that keep working after you log off
The agents get their own cloud computers, but Pro subscribers in the UK, EEA and Switzerland are excluded from the initial rollout.
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SaaS Marketers – Promote your Claude & Codex connectors & win in AI search
Claude and I had a 12,000 word back and forth on how to use Cloudflare and GA4 data to answer a hard question. If you were a SaaS marketer what would you do with all that context to make better answers?
AI Citations Aren’t Your Top KPI: ChatGPT-5.6 Luna Runs More Targeted Searches
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We ran a direct comparison of 346 matched prompts to see whether ChatGPT-5.6 Luna behaved differently from GPT-5.5
GPT-5.6 Luna used web search more often but ran fewer queries, resulting in little movement on the number of fan-o…
Our Most Valuable Blogs of 2026: According to Our Readers
What’s my favorite horror movie? When I patted myself on the back for setting up an ~autonomous workflow~ that kept our newsletter subscriber hygiene clean by automatically unsubscribing anyone who hasn’t opened any of our emails in the past 1…
Google Is Not Going to Stop Ranking Your Claude-Assisted Content
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Claude’s watermark only flags that Claude was “likely involved,” so it can’t tell a fully AI-drafted piece from a human draft Claude lightly edited
It’s an EU compliance requirement (Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated…
AI Visibility Is Lying to You: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All AI Search KPI
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Everyone measuring AI search is defaulting to the same KPIs, but there is no one-size-fits-all AI search KPI
New research shows 54% of AI search categories lack a clear category owner, and those categories represent 89% of all AI s…
How we built an agentic loop to improve every skill in our company, instantly
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I reviewed our traffic-decline-analysis skill’s and found four real problems: a traffic number from the wrong source, a real drop mislabeled “stable,” no way to trace where a number came from, and no long-term trend view
I gave tha…
What Is AI Saying About Your Brand? Develop a Brand Canon and Find Out.
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Brands are measuring AI visibility without tracking if the perception of their brand is even accurate
We recommend building a brand canon, which tracks facts, differentiators, brand claims, what your brand wants to be known for, an…
Google’s classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage
Google appears to be testing a more AI-focused version of its homepage for people who are not signed into a Google Account. The homepage adds Create images, Ask about files, and Brainstorm below the search box instead of the usual Google Search button, while an AI Mode button appears inside the search field. We spotted […]
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