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65 articles in October 2026
AI

JSON vs TOON: Token Usage, Cost, and Key Differences

JSON vs TOON explained: compare token usage, API cost, accuracy, and compatibility, then learn when TOON is worth testing for LLM prompts.

Waqas Ahmad
Tech

Gmail AI Inbox Can Turn Email Threads Into a To-Do List

Gmail AI Inbox is rolling out to more paid Google Workspace plans, turning email action items and project updates into a task list. The feature is currently limited to US users working in English.

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AI

NVIDIA Nemotron AI Agent Models Expand to PCs and Servers

NVIDIA Nemotron AI agent models now span enterprise servers and local PCs, with a smaller 4GB Bolt model scheduled for release on October 23.

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AI

What Is an AI Agent Harness? How It Works and Why It Matters

An AI agent harness connects a model to tools, context, execution, and safety controls. Here is how it works and why reliable agents need it.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

How to Build an AI Sales Agent With Harvey and Codex

Use Harvey with Codex to find prospects, research businesses, draft emails, review outreach, and handle replies with safeguards.

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Apps

Google Chrome vs. Chromium: What’s the Difference, and Which Should You Use?

Google Chrome vs. Chromium comes down to more than branding. Compare their updates, Google services, privacy controls, media support, and everyday usability before choosing a browser.

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AI

OpenAI Killed Its Browser. Now ChatGPT Wants Control of Your Chrome Tabs.

ChatGPT can use open browser tabs as context and handle website tasks through its desktop app, bringing OpenAI into existing browsers instead of requiring a separate AI browser.

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Hardware

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 Fixes Severe Pixel UI Freezes

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 targets severe Pixel interface stuttering and multi-second freezes, with a known Face Unlock issue on Pixel 11 Pro Fold.

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AI

Jev Becomes Vercel’s Fastest-Adopted AI Model: What Developers Should Know

Jev became the fastest-adopted model in Vercel AI Gateway history, reaching 35.3% of paid teams in two weeks. Learn what Jev does, why developers are trying it, and what adoption data does and does not prove.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Gemini Plus vs Pro: Price, Features, and Which Plan Is Worth It

Gemini Plus vs Pro comes down to price, usage limits, storage, and advanced features. Compare Google AI Plus and Pro to find the better value.

Waqas Ahmad
Apps

YouTube Begins Rolling Out GIF Comments for Videos and Shorts

YouTube is gradually adding GIF comments to videos and Shorts through an in-app library, but the option has not reached every account yet.

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AI

Claude Code Mods Explained: How to Customize AI Coding Workflows

Claude Code Mods change prompts, tool calls, permissions, and interface behavior. Learn how they work, how they compare with hooks, and how to use them safely.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Google Launches Universal Cart Across Search and Gemini in the US

Google Universal Cart is rolling out in the US across Search and Gemini, letting shoppers save products from multiple retailers, track price drops, find promo codes, and choose checkout options.

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Apps

What If You Never Needed Figma's Cloud to Design Again?

FigCraft is an open-source Figma alternative built in Rust that works offline and keeps files on the user's device. Its AI-agent controls are promising, but the project still describes itself as alpha software.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Grok Voice 3.0: Can AI Handle Real Customer Support Calls?

Grok Voice 3.0 targets customer support calls with fast responses and multi-step actions. Here is what its benchmarks, pricing, and Starlink use reveal.

Waqas Ahmad
Apps

Google Messages Gemini Scam Protection Targets Sophisticated Text Scams

Google Messages Gemini scam protection adds opt-in cloud AI analysis, smarter link checks, and clearer warnings for messages from unknown senders.

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AI

Google Brings Gemini 4 Argon to Search and the Gemini App

Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and Search AI Mode, expanding access beyond early testers.

Waqas Ahmad
Apps

5 Hidden Waze Features That Make Everyday Driving Easier to Manage

Waze does more than route around traffic. These tips help drivers find contacts, personalize directions, plan trips, sync calendars, and manage voice prompts.

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Apps

Facebook Lets Users Fine-Tune Reels and Feed With “Your Algorithm”

Facebook Your Algorithm gives users a new way to shape Feed and Reels recommendations with written preferences and more detailed feedback. The feature is rolling out gradually.

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AI

X Subscription Bundles Grok, Cursor, and X Premium for $30 a Month

The X Subscription combines Grok, Cursor, and X Premium benefits in one plan. Premium costs $30 monthly, but third-party AI models in Cursor cost extra.

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AI

Meta Muse Wonder: Coding Benchmarks, Performance, and How It Compares

Meta Muse Wonder targets complex coding and long-running AI tasks. See its benchmarks, API pricing, access limits, and how to compare it with rival models.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

ArtCraft’s Open-Source Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Alternatives Are Still in Development

ArtCraft has released open-source Office alternatives for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The Rust-based apps are available to try, but remain in development.

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Apps

Google Health 5.10 Adds Chat-Based Deletion for Logged Data

Google Health 5.10 adds chat-based deletion for daily logs. It also adjusts Readiness Score and expands irregular rhythm notifications in Japan.

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Apps

Google Wallet Payments: 6 Checks Before You Tap to Pay

Google Wallet payments can fail even when the app is installed. Check card support, NFC, the default payment app, screen lock, and device security before checkout.

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Hardware

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7 Fixes Pixel Battery Drain and Download Bugs

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7 fixes Pixel idle battery drain linked to Flip to Shh and failed HTTPS downloads, while one Pixel 11 Fold issue remains.

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Industry

Cloudflare Acquires Deno to Make Workers Easier to Self-Host

Cloudflare is bringing the Deno team aboard to make Workers and Durable Objects easier to self-host. Deno runtime and Deploy users also face transition timelines.

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AI

Google’s Gemini Auto Change Limits Model Choice for Free Users

Google’s Gemini Auto model selection removes manual model switching for free users, while new thinking levels give people another way to adjust responses.

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Startups

Why the Nuvacore Valuation Reaches $2.5 Billion Before a Product

Nuvacore's reported $2.5 billion valuation raises a question: why back an AI chip startup before it has a commercial product?

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How-To

Google Passkeys: How to Set One Up and Sign In Without a Password

Learn how to set up Google passkeys on a phone or computer, sign in with a fingerprint, face scan, or PIN, and protect access if a device is lost.

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AI

Anthropic Adds Live Dashboards and Animated Explainers to Claude

Anthropic adds Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta, bringing data charts and editable animations to paid Claude plans, with access varying by tier.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Google Brings Gemini Agents Into Everyday Business Workflows

Google’s new Gemini agent connects business data and apps to handle research, content creation, coding, and other multi-step tasks from a single prompt.

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AI

ArtCraft Builds Seven Open-Source Adobe Alternatives With AI Assistance

ArtCraft is building seven open-source creative apps inspired by Adobe workflows. Its AI-assisted approach tests the cost of challenging established software.

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Tech

Cross-Platform Desktop Application Roadmap: Avalonia, Electron, Tauri, Flutter, Qt by Project Type

A cross-platform desktop application roadmap that maps Avalonia, Electron, Tauri, Flutter, and Qt to six project types and five team languages.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Claude Haiku 5.5 Is Fast and Cheap. That Matters More Than Its Benchmarks

Claude Haiku 5.5 is built to make routing, summaries, subagents, browser tasks, and high-volume agent work cheap enough to run at scale.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Claude Google Workspace: How to Install It in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Claude Google Workspace brings Claude into Docs, Sheets, and Slides with a sidebar that can read and edit the open file. Here’s how to install it and use it.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Meta Muse Comes to iPad, but Its AI Agent Features Matter More

Meta Muse is now on iPad, but the bigger update is its growing set of connectors, shopping actions, and tools for getting work done across apps.

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AI

GPT-6 Turns ChatGPT Answers Into Interactive Apps

GPT-6 makes ChatGPT feel less like a chatbot and more like software, turning some answers into interactive tools built around the task.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Gemini 4 Argon for Coding: Benchmarks, 1M Token Output, and Access Status

Gemini 4 Argon leads 12 of 18 Google-picked benchmarks but trails Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on coding, and only Fairwind partners can use it.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Mistral Large 4 Makes France a Serious AI Contender Again - But There's a Catch

Mistral Large 4 reaches 38 on Artificial Analysis, putting France's model at the top outside the U.S. and China while its task cost remains high.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

What Does OpenAI Do? A Complete Guide to ChatGPT, Models, APIs, Agents, and Codex

What Does OpenAI Do? This guide explains how OpenAI's models, ChatGPT, APIs, agents, Codex, tools, voice, images, and apps fit together for readers.

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How-To

How to Edit Markdown Files in Google Docs Without Converting Them

Learn to edit Markdown files in Google Docs without converting them, preview .md files in Drive, add comments, and keep Markdown as the source.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

TikTok AI Agents Can Shop, Qualify Leads, and Manage Ad Campaigns

TikTok AI agents are moving beyond ad creation: the company is adding tools that can help shoppers find products, qualify leads, and manage campaigns.

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AI

OpenAI Adds Invisible Watermarks to ChatGPT Text in the EU for AI Provenance

OpenAI text watermarking is coming to eligible ChatGPT and Codex output in the EU, using textGrain to add a machine-detectable provenance signal.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

ChatGPT Visual Ads Turn Image Generation Into a New Ad Surface

ChatGPT visual ads will appear beside generated images in a U.S. test later this month, giving OpenAI a way to connect ads with visual product discovery.

Waqas Ahmad
AI

Gemini 4 Argon Can Find, Validate, and Patch Security Vulnerabilities

Gemini 4 Argon is Google's new frontier model for complex work, with a major focus on finding, validating, and patching software vulnerabilities.

Waqas Ahmad
Security

Google Open-Source Bug Bounty Pauses New Reports After AI Flood

Google has paused new product vulnerability submissions to its open-source bug bounty after a surge of automated reports, most of which it says were invalid.

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Hardware

Apple Doesn't Promise iPhone 18 Pro Support, But Its History Points to the Early 2030s

Apple does not promise a fixed iPhone 18 Pro support period, but its long iOS support record suggests major updates could continue into the early 2030s.

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AI

Voice AI Models Explained: How They Work

Voice AI is moving beyond dictation. Learn how voice models hear, reason, speak, and use tools, with ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, ElevenLabs, and Qwen.

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Apps

YouTube Cuts Recommendation Reach for Re-Uploaded Shorts That Add Nothing New

YouTube is cutting recommendation reach for Shorts re-uploaded from other creators, but gave no date, no creator check, and no monetization detail.

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AI

Google Limits the Gemini free tier to Flash-Lite Starting October 9

Google is changing Gemini model access on October 9, limiting personal accounts without an AI plan to Flash-Lite while AI Plus loses Pro.

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AI

Google's Gemini Map Tool Lets Users Add Map Areas to Prompts

Gemini Map tool is rolling out on Android and iOS, letting users select a geographic area, add it as Map Area, and ask Gemini location-based questions.

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AI

Claude Code Adds a Side Agent to Catch Things You Might Miss

Claude Code now has an optional side agent called You should know that watches the session and flags information developers or Claude might otherwise miss.

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AI

Anthropic Bets $100 Million on Engineers Who Can Put AI to Work

Anthropic AI training is getting a $100 million push through a new academy that aims to prepare 10,000 engineers for enterprise AI deployment.

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Tech

Apple Tightens Full Disk Access in macOS as AI Agents Gain More System Access

Apple will add macOS controls around Full Disk Access as AI agents make broad access to files, messages, mail, and browsing history more consequential.

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Hardware

HONOR Magic9 Pro Max Turns a Smartphone Into a Handheld Cinema System

HONOR Magic9 Pro Max launches in China with dual 200MP cameras, ARRI Image Science, cinematic color tools, 4K video, and an 8,800mAh battery.

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Apps

Google Phone Brings Back the Contacts Tab After Last Year's Redesign

Google is testing the Contacts tab in Phone by Google again, placing it between Home and Keypad after last year's redesign moved it into the sidebar.

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Hardware

OnePlus 16 Launches in China on October 12 With 185Hz Gaming Display

OnePlus 16 launches in China on October 12 with a 185Hz gaming mode, Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, and no global launch date announced.

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AI

DoorDash AI Agent Lets You Order Food and Groceries by Text

DoorDash AI agent lets U.S. users request food and grocery orders by text, build carts, use preferences, and check out without opening the app.

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AI

ChatGPT Virtual Try-On Brings Personalized Clothing Previews to AI Shopping

ChatGPT now lets shoppers virtually try on clothes and accessories, while Favorites keeps products and try-on images together for later reference.

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AI

Shopify Canvas Turns Sidekick Into an AI Store Designer for Merchants

Shopify Canvas gives merchants a visual workspace for building and changing themes with Sidekick, while merchants review changes before publishing.

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AI

Google Home Update Makes Gemini for Home More Reliable at Everyday Commands

Google's latest Google Home update improves Gemini for Home voice commands, Find My Phone reliability, smart-home controls, and Nest device setup.

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AI

Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime for More Capable Voice Agents

Alibaba's Qwen team introduced Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a duplex voice model built to reason over spoken requests, use tools, and manage turn-taking.

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How-To

How to Upgrade a Samsung Galaxy to One UI 9

Learn how to upgrade a Samsung Galaxy to One UI 9, including the update steps, preparation, Smart Switch method, and fixes if the update does not appear.

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AI

Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon With a 1 Million-Token Output Limit

Gemini 4 Argon raises Google’s output limit from 64K to 1 million tokens for long coding, enterprise, and cybersecurity workflows in its first rollout.

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Apps

WhatsApp Adds Parental Controls for Teens Without Reading Private Chats

WhatsApp is adding optional parental controls for teens, including privacy settings, group alerts, Channel controls, and Meta AI restrictions.

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