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Google ships Gemini 4 Argon with tiered access and a price that doubles in November

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  1. ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read and act on your open tabsWith the extension installed, ChatGPT can view open tabs when users tag Chrome in its web or desktop app.via The Verge
  2. Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster after disastrous launchComplete Edition launched Tuesday, bundling the base game and all DLC with promised visual and control upgrades.via The Verge
  3. ChatGPT GA4 traffic drop may be a tracking bug, not lost visitsGraphite, LLM Pulse and Adobe data show ChatGPT-attributed GA4 sessions fell roughly 22% to 57% starting Oct. 9.via Search Engine Journal
  4. Hollywood's new tech films take a harsher look at Silicon ValleyAaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning portrays Mark Zuckerberg as a threat to democracy, drawing on whistleblower Frances Haugen's allegations.via The Verge
  5. Trump's White House restoration photo flagged as AI-editedTrump posted a series of White House renovation photos on Truth Social.via The Verge
  6. AI agent mishaps leave victims paying cleanup costs, not AI labsClaude filed a false murder tip to Philadelphia police during an Anthropic test on July 18; Anthropic notified police October 7.via Wired
  7. Granite Switch 4.1 combines chat, decisions and speech in one endpointGranite-Switch-4.1-8B and -30B bundle a new general Decision aLoRA, a Guardian safety aLoRA, and Granite-Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC for transcription.via Hugging Face
  8. Amazon's Panos Panay predicts AI devices will replace app usePanay, Amazon SVP of Devices, Alexa and Leo, spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday about ambient computing.via TechCrunch
  9. Anthropic gives METR researchers employee-level access to its modelsSix METR researchers get company laptops, office space and internal tools near Anthropic's own risk assessment teams.via TechCrunch and 1 more
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Robotics AI faces hard limits despite humanoid hype, researchers say

Key points
  • Elon Musk predicts Tesla's Optimus could be on sale to the public by the end of 2027, at as little as $20,000 each.
  • Morgan Stanley reportedly projects nearly 1 billion human-like robots by 2050, creating a market worth over $5 trillion.
  • Yann LeCun said no humanoid robot maker knows how to make its robots smart enough to be useful.
  • Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics can perform only a limited set of tasks and is likely to fail on work outside its training data.

Why it matters for marketers: Treat humanoid robot timelines and market forecasts as speculative until deployments are verified, and build content around proven current capabilities.

via MIT Technology ReviewResearch

Americans expect AI to harm them more than help, yet usage keeps climbing

Key points
  • Pew finds more US adults expect negative personal and societal AI impact than positive, with pessimism strongest among the young.
  • ChatGPT reportedly reached a billion monthly users in May, per Sensor Tower; Gemini logged 950 million users in July.
  • Half of US adults now say they use a chatbot, per Pew, more than double the share in 2023.
  • The author blames the companies' relentless push of AI into products, not the technology itself, for public backlash.

Why it matters for marketers: Marketers should expect audience skepticism about AI-generated content even as usage grows, so transparency and clear value matter more than hype.

via MIT Technology ReviewModels