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Siri AI opens to every app, on Apple's terms and timeline

Apple's Siri AI Developer Preview lets any app expose actions and content through App Intents and 'skills'. It works only in dev builds and internal TestFlight until App Store submissions open in spring, and the terms are not yet published.

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October 16, 2026

Answer engines wrote rules for their ads. The citations underneath have none

Perplexity cites a network of 210,000 machine-made software rankings that disclose commissions to human visitors, while OpenAI and Google build ad, tracking and payment systems on the same answers, and the only written rules cover the labeled ad slot.

October 14, 2026

No AI is now a feature. The fine print is about attention, not models

Between late August and mid-October 2026, LibreOffice marketed the absence of AI, QGIS and System76 banned AI-written contributions, Debian voted the other way, and users built tools to strip Apple Intelligence out, all arguing over one scarce input: human attention.

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MAY 16, 2026
Phoenix, and the X algorithm release that doesn't compile
On May 15, X pushed 18,263 lines of Rust and Python to its public algorithm repo, a full rewrite of the 2023 Scala stack around a Grok-based transformer, but the code does not build and the engagement weights are still missing.
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MAY 13, 2026
Speech-to-text in 2026: the five markets, the price war, and the benchmark collapse
xAI ships STT at $0.10/hr, Scribe v2 sits at 2.2% AA-WER and Wispr Flow users say accuracy regressed, so this guide splits speech-to-text into five markets and checks what the benchmarks show.
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MAY 08, 2026
Waymo's 17-year detour was the moat: Dolgov on the foundation model behind 20 million rides
Dmitri Dolgov's AI Ascent 2026 fireside laid out the multimodal world-action-language model, the driver-simulator-critic stack, and why the 13x safety number is the bill that competitors haven't paid yet.
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APR 27, 2026
Inside Polymarket V2: every bot on the internet just broke
Polymarket swapped its trading stack in one hour on April 28, and three days later V1 trades have hit zero while thousands of bot wallets sit silent on V2, which makes the migration look less like an upgrade than a cull.
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