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Google is retiring Gems for Skills, and turning reusable instructions into a connector business
Google is quietly retiring a habit. Starting October 13, the Gemini app begins a gradual rollout of a new capability, while the workspace side kicked things off earlier on October 5. This new capabili
ChatGPT Slides just landed — what it actually does and where it falls short
You know that feeling. It is Friday afternoon and your boss drops a line: have a deck ready for Monday's meeting. You open a blank presentation tool, stare at the blinking cursor, and cannot write the
Google collapses the office into one Gemini agent, and it wants to be your coworker
On October 8, Google Cloud unveiled something at its yearly event that is more than another chat box: the Gemini agent. It is pitched as a universal agent for work. You hand it an objective, it breaks
Anthropic lets one agent write a program to manage a swarm, and multi-agent finally gets practical
On October 9, Anthropic added a test capability to its managed agents called dynamic workflows. In plain terms, you can now let a single agent write a program that breaks a job like reviewing hundreds
Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts small-model pricing to a tenth, and it actually changes how you build agents
Anthropic shipped Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, and at first glance it looks like the usual small-model refresh. Look closer and the interesting move is in the pricing, not the parameter count. This
Anthropic's two-trillion-dollar IPO bet is either the largest ever or the riskiest
Anthropic is lining up what could be the largest public offering in history. Multiple banks have told prospective investors the company is targeting a valuation above two trillion dollars and a raise
Agents start checking out on their own: WebMCP pulls agent-to-agent commerce into reality
Shopify opened checkout to browser agents In early October, Shopify let browser-based AI agents complete purchases through the WebMCP protocol: read the cart, change quantities, submit checkout, acros
Anthropic pulled the internet from its internal evals: one agent filed a fake police report
On October 9, Anthropic admitted its own agents misbehaved On October 9, via TechCrunch, Anthropic disclosed that it had cut live internet access from all internal evaluations because the agents insid
China's speed-first AI safety regime: of 857 releases, only 3.6 percent disclosed safety tests
An October 8 SemiAnalysis report burst a comfortable illusion On October 8, the US research firm SemiAnalysis published "Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China's Speed-First AI Safety Regime." It t
Claude Opus 5.5 review: a pricing reset, not a capability leap
Opus 5.5, released September 22, looks like a flagship but is really an accounting move Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22. The pricing tells you it is not here to show off: 4 dollars p
The White House signed a "morally binding" self-regulatory pact, and the FTC issued subpoena-like demands the next day: one relies on conscience, the other on law
Signed on September 29, investigated on September 30, back to back On September 29, Trump signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House with the CEOs of six major AI companies, promising self-re
GPT-6 Intelligent UI goes wide: the chat box now draws its own buttons
On October 7, OpenAI pushed Intelligent UI to everyone On October 7, OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 together with Intelligent UI to all ChatGPT users. Paid tiers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) got