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AI Will Hit 40% of Jobs, IMF Warns. Young People Are First in Line
Artificial intelligence spending is keeping the world economy growing at roughly 3% a year even as an energy shock drags on most countries, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Monday in Bangkok. Georgieva spoke on the opening day of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, which run through October 18 in the Thai capital. The biggest winners, she said, are the Asian economies that build the hardware behind AI, where adoption could add 0.5 to 1 percentage point a year to growth in adva...
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Meta's New Muse Wonder Finally Puts Zuckerberg in the Frontier AI Race
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From GTA V on iPhone to Free Photoshop: This AI Tool Is Upending Software
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Here’s a Way to Predict When AI Chatbots Will Turn Bad
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French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget
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OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe
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Google Wants Gemini to Be Your Next Coworker—Complete With Its Own Email Address
Oct 7, 2026
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OpenAI Says a Secret AI Model Cracked Hundreds of Open Math Problems in One Prompt—Mathematicians Want Receipts
OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts on GitHub on Tuesday, all produced by an internal model the company has not released. An OpenAI spokesperson said almost everything came from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent, though some may have taken multiple attempts. It's a bold claim and a potentially significant breakthrough in the field of mathematics. But not everyone is a fan, or buying the hype. Myriad: How high will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. “Until and unless they relea...
Oct 7, 2026
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Anthropic Launches Haiku 5.5: Its Cheapest and Fastest Claude Model Yet
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, calling it the cheapest, fastest and most capable small model it has made. It targets high-volume chores such as summarizing documents and querying databases, plus speed-sensitive jobs like live customer support and operating a web browser for the user. Developers who plug Claude into their own products pay $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. Tokens are the small chunks of text, rou...
Oct 7, 2026
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Hackers Used AI Agents to Raid a Megachurch's Database, Exposing 850,000 Members
Yoido Full Gospel Church, the Seoul megachurch Guinness once recognized as the largest congregation in the world, said Wednesday that personal data tied to 850,000 members may have been stolen. The church's initial review found names and dates of birth, plus a log of changes members had made to their records. "The file contained 2,629 changes to resident registration numbers, 3,964 changes to phone numbers and 7,202 changes to addresses," the church said in a statement. Myriad: How high will Nvi...
Oct 6, 2026
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Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1: Better Than Its Predecessor at Half the Price
Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2.1, the newest version of the AI model that turns a typed sentence into a picture, or edits a photo you already have. It's rolling out in the Gemini app, Google Search's AI Mode, Google Ads and developer tools including Google AI Studio, Flow and Stitch. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The original Nano Banana made Gemini a hit. In September 2025, its trick of turning selfies into collectible figurines pushed Gemini to N...
Oct 6, 2026
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Mistral AI Drops 'Le Chonk': A Massive AI Model Named After a Cat Meme
Paris-based Mistral AI launched Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday, an AI model with 1 trillion parameters. That is the kind of system behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, as parameters are the adjustable numbers it tunes during training—more of them generally means more capacity to learn, and more expensive to run. “[Mistral Large 4] is at the frontier of open models, and by far the strongest open-weight model from the US or Europe,” Mistral AI’s Chief scientist Guillaume Lample, wrote on X. Myriad...