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🚀 Google launches Gemini 4 Argon
🦾Plus: ⚔️ Elon Musk Will Help Pentagon Map AI’s Military Future
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of GPT-6.1 Sol, Decisions API, Apple Pay 👇
👨💻GrokBot wants to be your coding manager
⚙️8 real ways to use Jev in your apps
💰Cutting GPT-6 agent costs with prompt caching
🚨 FTC Investigates OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Risks
AI Tutorial: How to Create Interactive Flashcards in ChatGPT
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, its most advanced model yet, with big jumps in coding, cybersecurity and the sort of complex professional work that actually pays the bills. The twist: it is going to trusted cybersecurity defenders before the rest of us, because Google reckons a model this good cuts both ways. Argon debuted at No. 1 on Arena’s text leaderboard and scored a 53 on AA’s Intelligence Index, sitting behind just 5.5 Opus and tying 5.1 Fable and Astra.
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SpaceXAI shipped Team Bots, shared AI teammates available on its Teams and Enterprise plans. It also added ready-made bots for its personal agent, covering project management, QA, and fact-checking, each with built-in skills. You can tag one directly in Slack, and it delegates the actual coding to Cursor agents while tracking the entire workflow.
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This tutorial skips the theory and shows where a fast decision model actually fits. You’ll learn how to use Jev for voice commands, data deduplication, routing users through an app, multi-step classification, and other jobs where you need a quick structured decision instead of a full LLM response.
This guide shows how to reuse shared context across agent runs instead of paying to process the same instructions and tool definitions again. Cached input tokens can be up to 90% cheaper, and the new dashboard helps you spot cache misses, keep tool definitions stable, and even prewarm context before the user asks anything.
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Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.
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AI News:
Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs are under investigation as the FTC examines whether their technology puts people at risk. The probe also includes METR, a research group that has investigated AI security incidents for OpenAI and Anthropic. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has suggested that existing laws could hold developers responsible for harm their agents cause.
The Pentagon has launched Project Meridian to study how AI could change warfare and help decide which technologies the military should develop. Elon Musk will lead the project alongside Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The team has 120 days to produce a public report, with sensitive findings kept in a separate classified document.
Apple is preparing to launch several smart home devices on October 13. The company plans to ship a smart-home hub, an updated HomePod mini, and a new TV set-top box. The company is developing a broader smart-home ecosystem that expands on HomeKit software and supports new categories of connected products. It is also working with third-party manufacturers on devices designed for the Siri AI home platform.
Dyna Robotics just released Dyna-2.1, a physical-agent system built around its new semi-humanoid robot Taku, with an unusually convincing demo: roughly one hour of autonomous commercial laundry, shown uncut: Taku has 2 7-DoF arms, a folding torso/lower body, and four steerable wheels so it can move between washers, dryers, folding tables, and shelves.
AI Tutorial
How to Create Interactive Flashcards in ChatGPT
Go to ChatGPT and start a new chat.
Ask for flashcards on a topic you want to learn, or upload your notes and ask ChatGPT to turn them into flashcards.
For example, say "Turn this study guide into flashcards" or "Make me some flashcards about the planets in our solar system."
ChatGPT will create the flashcards directly in the response.
Tap a card to flip it and check your answer, mark what you know, and practice the ones you miss.
Your flashcards are saved in your library, so you can return to them whenever you need a refresher.
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