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Archives for October 2026

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
ChatGPT now has a virtual changing room.

You can now select images or listings for clothes that appear in the chatbot, tap “Try on,” and then upload images of yourself to see what you’d look like wearing the apparel. Sound familiar? That’s because Google introduced a near-identical AI try on feature over a year ago.

Three screenshots showing ChatGPT’s virtual try on feature.
In this example ChatGPT’s feature even dyed and styled her hair, presumably without being asked to, so I’m sure we can trust the try on results…
Image: OpenAI
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google’s AI satellite successfully launches into space.

A satellite equipped with Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday. The mission is part of Google’s Project Suncatcher, an experimental initiative that could eventually put AI data centers in space.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI severs ties with safety researchers accused of disclosing confidential information.

The three researchers — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni — allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI safety organization, according to The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI confirmed its decision in a statement to the outlet:

We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information. Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Audible’s new Character Guide can help you keep track of who’s talking in your audiobooks.

It adds bubbles on the player page for supported audiobooks showing which character and voice actor is speaking, along with “spoiler-free character cards” with more details on the performers. Audible’s also introducing an Interactive Stories feature for chatting with AI versions of book characters, starting with Dracula’s Renfield.

Promotional screenshots for Audible’s Character Guide feature
Image: Audible
OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

OpenAI and Meta’s cutesy AI agents are about to fight to the death.

Hayden Field
Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
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Verge features writer Josh Dzieza discusses his investigation into the Stratos data center, and how Utah residents fought back against it.

Nilay Patel
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
AI chatbots are still removing women’s hijabs.

After a French far-right politician used AI to strip a real Muslim woman of her hijab last month, The Guardian tested ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini’s image editors and found that all the chatbots would comply with such requests. This issue has persisted for many months, adding to fears about how easily AI tools can be used to undress and violate women and children.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
OpenAI’s president withdraws from second AI super PAC donation.

After handing $25 million last year to Leading the Future — which lobbies for AI-friendly policies — Greg Brockman has now pulled his plans to donate a further $25 million amid mounting public backlash against AI. Brockman said the following in a Slack message seen by The New York Times:

“I also want to say that I feel terrible about the fact that LTF keeps reflecting on the company and become so much of a distraction for people here. I’ve been thinking hard about how to turn the ship on it. We’ve donated $25m so far, and have no plans to donate more at this time.”

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Amodei’s ‘extreme’ AI warnings were questioned by tech CEOs.

The Wall Street Journal reports that AI leaders attending President Trump’s gathering on Tuesday, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, privately grilled the Anthropic CEO about the AI safety alarms he’s publicly sounded regarding cybersecurity and job losses.

Amodei told the other executives that it is important to be honest with the public about model capabilities and not play down risks, some of the people said. Their conversation occurred with a smaller group of executives and White House aides and advisers who were hashing out the principles in the Roosevelt Room.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
South Park has a data center infestation.

The latest episode of South Park — sorry, South America — is overrun by “billionaire weenies” and their data centers. Worse, it’s a dangerous new strain who “like to go on podcasts and get into public arguments with Mark Ruffalo.” This clip should give you an idea of the problem: