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Gemini skills are rolling out, but they don’t sync everywhere yet Google started rolling out skills to Workspace, which lets teams save and reuse instructions. For now, though, skills don’t sync between the Gemini app and Workspace apps. If your team uses both, check which version of your instructions each one is working from. ChatGPT …

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OpenCode Breach Puts AI API Keys at Risk OpenCode’s hosted Console sprang a leak, and it may have exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API keys. The company claims 1.4% of Console users were affected and notified; its co-founder insists that keys stored solely in local apps weren’t dragged into the mess. Surprise! Users are already …

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iPhone Duo Orders Slip, but Some Dates Improve Apple finally folded the iPhone. Your delivery date may need a calendar upgrade. Apple’s $1,999 iPhone Duo saw delivery estimates stretch into January 2027 within minutes of last Friday’s preorders opening, proving that Apple fans will wait through the holidays for a phone that bends. Its first …

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Anthropic’s 5% Pledge Awaits the Fine Print AI’s latest competition: convincing everyone else they’ll get a slice. Pending shareholder approval, Anthropic intends to park 5% of its equity in a new Public Benefit Fund for nonprofits and AI-displaced workers. Conveniently, this sudden burst of philanthropy arrives just as the Claude developer gears up for a …

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Google Play Boots a Fake Chrome App Google’s vaunted reviewers somehow let a startlingly bold Chrome impersonator slip through the cracks, though Google Play finally removed the counterfeit browser on Oct. 14. The bogus app boasted over 100,000 downloads, but that inflated metric largely spans its past life as a mundane game called Ball Bounce. …

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Apple’s Touchscreen MacBook May Debut Oct. 28 Apple may finally stop treating fingerprints on a Mac screen as a criminal offense. Apple is reportedly planning an Oct. 28 product experience in Los Angeles for its first touchscreen MacBooks, an OLED iPad mini, and M6 Macs, and is already inviting selected media to attend. Note that …

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Anthropic Commits 5% of Its Stock to a New ‘Public Benefit’ Fund Anthropic has announced plans to commit 5% of its shares to a fund supporting the “public good,” a move that could be worth approximately $48 billion based on its latest reported valuation. The initial 5% share commitment is subject to shareholder approval. Anthropic …

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OpenAI’s rogue-agent ledger is up to 19 OpenAI added four more misbehaving-agent incidents to the disclosures page it created after July’s Hugging Face hack, bringing the public total to 19 incidents spanning January through October 6. All four new ones happened in June. Three of them were not discovered until August or September. Two are …

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ChatGPT’s Take on the WW3 Threat AI can’t predict the next world war, but rising tensions are forcing governments to take the risks seriously. ChatGPT was asked about the possibility of World War 3 as fears grow over rising international tensions and potential conflict involving major powers. UK military leaders have warned that the country …

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Meta Launches an Open-Weight AI Model Built to Run on Macs Meta has released Muse Spark Open, “the most capable US open-weight model to date,” designed to run locally on Apple computers. Muse Spark Open has 816 billion parameters and a 1 million-token context window. On benchmarks, the model shows competitive performance against other popular …

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