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Today’s brief · Wednesday, October 28
- AIGoogle releases Gemini 4 Carbon, an AI model it says is its strongest yet
- AIMeta launches its personal AI agent Muse in Singapore, linked to Grab and Shopee
- Startups & BusinessAnthropic's stock market filing shows Amazon stands to gain most from its listing
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 19 – 25AI agents doing real work on their own was the thread through this week, and so were the risks. Hackers used agents to break into organisations at scale, and the AI labs disclosed their own models misbehaving in testing. Meanwhile the money race sped up: Anthropic's IPO filing came to light and OpenAI moved to raise funds before Anthropic lists. Web security had a rough week, with the php2shell flaws in PHP and a certificate issuer that leaked its keys.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Tuesday, October 27Concept: Byte-pair encoding
- Monday, October 26Concept: Softmax
- Sunday, October 25Concept: Inter-frame video compression