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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Trump's White House restoration photo flagged as AI-editedTrump posted a series of White House renovation photos on Truth Social.via The Verge
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Tools & products stories
Yesterday
Semrush shows how to run SEO audits in Claude via its MCP server
Key points
- Site Audit checks sites for 140+ technical issues, and Claude can pull those findings via the Semrush MCP server.
- Claude retrieves only completed audits; new audits and setting changes must be made in the Semrush dashboard.
- Each MCP request uses 100 to 10,000 API units, with past-audit pulls at the high end; plans include 50,000 units.
- Claude can rank issues by impact, affected pages, and effort, and suggest which team should own each fix.
Why it matters for marketers: Content and SEO teams can turn raw audit reports into a ranked, owner-assigned fix list through plain-language prompts, though API unit costs apply.
Earlier
Enterprise email marketing software is judged on governance, data, and attribution
Key points
- HubSpot Blog says the hard parts sit before and after the send, not in the send itself.
- Three evaluation areas are named: governance across teams, CRM-native consented audience data, and attribution to pipeline and revenue.
- The guide targets high-volume email programs spanning multiple teams, brands, and regions.
Why it matters for marketers: Content teams buying enterprise email tools should weigh governance, consented CRM data, and revenue attribution alongside send features.