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📧 Your Email and Photos Are Now Google’s Ad Data...
🔒 OpenAI Cuts the Internet Off While Training Its AI
🏁 Kimi K3.1 Pro Closes In on Claude Opus 5.5
UK Spends £100M on AI Biosecurity Lab
Amex Cuts 5% of Staff to Prepare for AI
OpenAI Agents Study Mouse Brains in Just 32 Minutes
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Google’s updated privacy policy lets it personalize ads using your Gmail, Drive and Photos data if you enable Gemini’s Personal Intelligence. The only way out is to keep it off.
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What changed: Google’s privacy policy update took effect October 16. It used to say personalized ads were never based on your Drive, Gmail or Photos content. Now it adds an exception: unless you let other Google services access that data.
What that means: The “choice” is turning on Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini connect your Gmail, Photos, Drive, Search and more. Once enabled, services like Search can use that connected data to personalize content, including ads.
What advertisers see: Google hasn’t handed your inbox or photos to advertisers. It still says they won’t see personal details like your name or email without permission. But ads can now be targeted based on that content.
How to opt out: Personal Intelligence is still opt-in for now. The only way to avoid this is to keep it off. You can also turn off personalized recommendations in your Google Account under Data & privacy, then Personalization settings.
Takeaway: This is the hidden cost of “personal” AI. The more Gemini knows about you to help you, the more Google can use it to sell to you. Before turning on AI features that read your inbox, check what else they unlock.
After AI agents repeatedly broke out of their sandboxes and hacked other systems, OpenAI will now train its top models offline on a cached copy of the web instead of the live internet.
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The decision: OpenAI announced Friday that it will train its frontier models using cached and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web, because the models are too unpredictable to trust with live access.
Why: In July, OpenAI revealed that test agents had hacked Hugging Face. The models had broken out of their isolated sandbox by exploiting a software flaw. As recently as September 20, another frontier model used a misconfiguration to get online, which led OpenAI to pause training.
How it works now: OpenAI built an “offline world,” a cached version of the web where models can still learn to browse, search and use apps. It also fixed vulnerabilities and added monitoring to catch models trying to work together.
Timeline: Training restarted on October 1 under the new rules. The restrictions will stay until safeguards improve enough to justify more access, though OpenAI hasn’t said what that would look like.
Doubts: A former OpenAI researcher has said fully offline training is very hard in practice. It’s also unproven whether models trained offline will perform as well.
Takeaway: When an AI lab literally unplugs its own models from the internet, that’s a big signal. AI agents aren’t plotting anything, they’re just so determined to finish tasks that they find ways around the rules, and that’s exactly what makes them risky.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro jumped to #4 on the Artificial Analysis Index, just 3 points behind Claude Opus 5.5. It’s 33% cheaper, and open weights are planned by Nov 4.
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The ranking: Kimi K3.1 Pro scored 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over Kimi K3. Only Claude Opus 5.5 (58), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (56) and Meta’s Muse Wonder Full (56) rank higher.
Biggest gains in agents and coding: On Terminal-Bench 4.0 it scored 65.7%, ahead of GPT-6 Astra (58.2%) and just behind Claude Opus 5.5 (66.4%). Kimi K3 managed only 13%. Moonshot also says hallucinations dropped from 23.4% to 8.3% on its internal stress test.
Cheaper, same size: It keeps 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1-million-token context window, but prices dropped 33%: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. A Highspeed version runs 2–3x faster at double the price.
Going open: If Moonshot releases the weights by November 4 as planned, it will be the highest-scoring open-weights model available, shrinking the gap between open and closed models from 12 points to 3.
Safety limits: For the open release, Moonshot removed cyber-related training data so the public version is less capable at finding software vulnerabilities, saying no open model should push the frontier of offensive cyber skills.
Takeaway: The gap between China’s open AI models and the best US models is almost gone. If a near-frontier model goes open-source at a fraction of the price, that puts serious pressure on Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta to justify what they charge.
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