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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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Simon Willison built a blog newsletter index almost entirely by voice

Key points
  • He used the ChatGPT desktop app's Codex voice mode while cooking, against a local dev server with a visual preview.
  • The feature adds a Newsletters index mixing free weekly Substack posts with sponsors-only monthly updates.
  • Newsletters appear on date archive pages but not tag pages or the homepage; monthly ones become searchable after going public.
  • Typed prompts were still needed for PR review and fixing the private repository import, adding about half an hour.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams may find voice-plus-preview useful for drafting and quick iterations, but detailed fixes and code review still favored typing, per the author.

via Simon WillisonTools & productsCreator & marketing AI

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StepFun's Step 5 Preview and StepAudio 3 models: pricing and rankings

Key points
  • Step 5 Preview costs $1 per million input tokens and $2.70 per million output tokens, per the sponsored item.
  • Step 5 Preview reportedly scores near Claude Opus 5 (Medium) on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, with a 1M-token context.
  • Step 5 Preview is on OpenRouter and works in OpenCode, Kilo Code, Cline, omp and Hermes Agent; more integrations are planned.
  • StepAudio 3 ASR ranks first in Artificial Analysis non-streaming transcription at 1.7% WER; Realtime ranks first in two conversational categories.

Why it matters for marketers: Teams building coding agents or budgeting for voice features can compare StepFun's per-token prices and benchmark rankings against current options.

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