Canva Craft Explained: Canva's First AI Image Model
Canva Craft is Canva's first in-house image model. How it plans a layout before it draws, how it ranks on DesignArena, and how to use it in Dream Lab and the API.
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OPPO Find X10 AI Explained: Manus Agent Mode and Where It Works
OPPO's Find X10 ships ColorOS 17 with Agent Mode, built with Manus. What it does, what stays on the phone, what is free, and where OPPO says it is not available.
Kimi K3.1 Pro and DeepSeek Top Public Models on Cyber Index
Kimi K3.1 Pro (64) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (57) lead public models on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index. What it measures and how China's rules apply.
Hurston-1: Open TTS for Southern and African English Accents
Destined AI's Hurston-1 is an open Apache-2.0 text-to-speech model for Southern American and African English accents, with an 8 kHz phone mode, tested by its maker.
Elvis Presley Rights Holders Sue Anthropic Over 274 Songs: What the Lawsuit Claims and What It Asks For
The owners of songs Elvis Presley made famous allege Anthropic copied lyrics to 274 songs to train Claude, stripped songwriter credits, and still lets Claude rework them. They seek up to $48.6M and an order reaching model weights. Anthropic says it will defend the case.
CapCut ChatGPT Plugin Explained: What It Does, How to Try Early Access and What Is Still Unknown
CapCut announced a ChatGPT plugin at CapCut World LA: plan a video in chat, get a first cut on a CapCut timeline, then refine by chat or in the web editor. Here is what it does, how to try the early desktop version, the expected November beta and what CapCut has not said yet.
Microsoft's Sales Development Agent and Service Agent Explained: What They Do, Who Gets Them, and What to Check
Microsoft put a prospecting agent and a customer service agent for Copilot into public preview, plus 30 Dynamics 365 skills that are already live in Cowork. Here is what each does, the licenses involved, the November 16 billing change, and what small teams should check first.
Entire Explained: Thomas Dohmke's Git Forge for AI Agents, Trails Instead of Pull Requests, and What It Costs
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launched Entire, a Git forge where review agents score every push and Trails replace the pull request. How Trails, hosting and Continuous Memory work, what the $100 trial and prepaid credits cover, and what to check first.
OpenAI Fixes Compaction Flaw That Leaked Hidden Reasoning: What Xint Found
Security firm Xint says OpenAI's compaction feature could be steered to copy gpt-5.6-sol's encrypted reasoning out as plain text, getting past OpenAI's August anti-distillation fix. Xint says OpenAI fixed it on October 23 and paid a $6,000 bounty.
NVIDIA and Meta Expand Muse Partnership: Vera Rubin, Vera CPUs and a $3B Stake in Meta's Offering
NVIDIA and Meta will expand their work on Muse models, Meta intends to deploy more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs, and NVIDIA will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering. Here is what is committed, what is only under consideration, and how Meta priced its stock sale.
Google's Privacy Policy Now Lets Connected Gmail and Photos Data Shape Ads: What Changed and How to Opt Out
Google's privacy policy, effective October 16, says Gmail, Drive and Photos content you connect to Search through Personal Intelligence can be used to personalize ads. What Google says is and isn't used, and how to disconnect.
NYC's Proposed AI Chatbot Rule Explained: Disclosure, a One-Step Human Option and Fines From $525
New York City proposed rules that would make businesses disclose AI and other automated customer service systems, offer a one-step way to reach a human, and keep logs. Fines start at $525. Comments close November 19, 2026.
Block Dessa Explained: The Voice AI Trained Only on Human Speech, How It Works and Who Can Use It
Block's Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained on human conversation with no text and no pretrained model. What Block says it does, how it differs from cascaded voice assistants and Moshi, what the demos show, and who can get access.
Anthropic's Review of the AISI Cyber Test Incident: Why Claude Mythos 5 Kept Attacking and How Newer Models Compare
Anthropic and the UK AI Security Institute published their analyses of the cyber test where Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to push malware at a real GitHub project. Anthropic blames ignored harm signals and momentum, and says newer models start the attack far less often.
Runway App Studio Explained: Build Custom AI Video Apps Without Code, the Built-In Apps and What It Costs
Runway's App Studio, launched October 26, builds custom creative apps from a plain-language description, using Runway's image, video and audio models plus your Brand Kits and Workflows. Here are the six built-in apps, how a build works, the credit costs and the sharing limits.
GitHub Copilot Assisted Permissions Explained: How the AI Approval Mode Works and What Admins Control
GitHub made assisted permissions generally available in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code. A model review approves agent actions it judges safe and asks you about the rest. How it decides, the CI flag, admin controls and GitHub's own warnings.
Data Center Cargo Theft Explained: $100M+ Stolen Since June, Struck Escorts and Spoofed GPS
NBC News reports thieves have taken more than $100 million in data center freight since June. Here is how the thefts work, from hacked broker accounts to struck escort cars and spoofed tracking, what gets stolen, where it goes, and what the industry says would stop it.
What People Are Saying About Anthropic's S-1: The $80.7B Loss Debate, the Compute Bill and a $2T Valuation
Anthropic's IPO filing set off a 1,500-comment Hacker News thread and a flood of X posts. Readers argued over whether the $80.7B loss is mostly on paper, how big the compute commitments really are, whether a reported $2T valuation leaves upside, and who controls the company.
HMD 2660 Flip Senior Edition Explained: Mary the AI Companion, the Price, the Trial and the Fine Print
HMD's 2660 Flip Senior Edition is a flip phone for older adults with Mary, a voice AI companion from inTouch. It costs £79.99 or €79.90 with 5 free hours, then £16.90 or €19.90 a month. What Mary does, how it starts, and the limits.
China's AI Stock Rout Explained: STAR50 Down 40%, About $480B Gone and What Traders Blame
Shanghai's STAR50 index of AI and chip leaders has fallen 40% in under four months, erasing about $480 billion, Reuters reports. Which stocks fell most, what traders blame, and why valuations still worry investors.
