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TechCrunch 1 week ago 7
Melius, an AI platform for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25 million after pivoting from its first marketing-tool product. The funding includes a $20 million Series A led by CRV. Following the failed initial product, the team scrapped its codebase and refocused on generating creative assets and campaigns instead of optimizing ad spend.
Fortune 6
Arvind Narayanan argued that chatbots are moving toward being more reliable sources for factual questions, which would further reduce the newsroom’s role in settling basic facts. He cited a Pew survey finding that 10% of Americans already use chatbots as a “truth oracle.” As a result, journalism would need to shift toward contested issues, narrative, and explicit positionality while news production breaks into separate, smaller specialists and publishers lose negotiating power with AI companies.
Fortune 46
Researchers report that U.S. 2026 campaigns are running AI-generated political ads, after tracking about US$80 million across almost 170 AI-using ads.
404 Media 1 week ago 18 ● 2 sources
An Arizona appellate court ordered resentencing for a man convicted of manslaughter after a judge considered an AI-generated victim impact video that was ruled to have had “undue emotional weight.” The maximum sentence at the original hearing was 10 and a half years. The manslaughter conviction stays, but the prison term must be reconsidered without the judge’s reliance on the AI video, with the same judge expected to preside.
The Verge 1 week ago 19
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days is discounting multiple robot vacuum and mop hybrids from brands including Roborock, Dreame, Narwal, Eufy, and Deebot. The Dreame X60 Ultra is listed at $999.99 reduced to $634.99 on Amazon. These lower prices for several top models expand the options for shoppers looking to buy a robot cleaner during October sales.
Fortune 9
L’Oréal’s chief digital and marketing officer Asmita Dubey said the company is redesigning its marketing “engine” to account for AI mediating how consumers discover and evaluate products. She reported that almost 20% of L’Oréal’s marketing investments are now AI-led. As a result, L’Oréal is bringing data/IT and marketing together on marketing architecture, testing AI search placements like Google’s AI Overviews, standardizing account and product data, and expanding work on generative-engine optimization.
Simon Willison’s Weblog 1 week ago 34
Scrimshaw Jukebox used Claude Opus 5.5 to generate computer game music in a text-based format and created an artifact to play it aloud. The write-up says the music was aimed at matching the quality of the original Secret of Monkey Island. It changes by showing the output can be surprisingly good, prompting questions about whether music composition is a recent new capability of text models.
TechCrunch 1 week ago 28
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides convert beauty Pins about hair and nails into salon-style action plans. The guides estimate costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs. Users can follow the resulting plan instead of just viewing inspiration Pins.
SiliconANGLE 1 week ago 31 ● 2 sources
Gamma Tech Inc. released Gamma 5, a rebuilt presentation and visual-content platform that uses a redesigned editor, a stronger AI agent, and a larger set of visual styles linked to internal company tools. It claims its visual-accuracy benchmark for imported materials improved from roughly 30% early in development to over 97%. The update gives users more layout freedom, adds safeguards and connectors for importing company information, and aims to reduce repetition and generic “AI smell” by producing more distinctive, illustration-focused outputs.
SiliconANGLE 1 week ago 31 ● 2 sources
Gamma Tech Inc. released Gamma 5, rebuilding its AI presentation platform to reduce repetitive layouts and more generically designed visuals by adding a redesigned editor, a more capable AI agent, and a larger visual-style library connected to company information. The import visual-accuracy benchmark improved from roughly 30% early in development to over 97%. The update lets users create and revise slide elements more freely with agentic tools in a sandbox, adds thousands of templates and connectors to internal data, and is reported to cut presentation creation time from 8–10 hours to about 30 minutes.
Workspace Updates Blog 1 week ago 44
Google Docs and Google Drive added native support to view, edit, and collaborate on Markdown (.md/.markdown) files, with Drive also showing rendered previews. The rollout starts October 5, 2026. Users can edit Markdown without importing or converting it to a Docs format, while keeping Docs real-time editing and Drive formatted previews.
npr.org 1 week ago 50
NPR reported that some voters are using chatbots to compare candidates and debunk viral claims ahead of the election. About one in five voters consult chatbots for election news, based on a September survey. As a result, chatbots are becoming part of how election information is checked and shared.
Tech.eu 1 week ago 49
SimpL raised €1.2 million to develop an AI-powered operating system that generates B2B sales opportunities by using public data and deep learning to decide who to contact, when, and how. The funding round brings in €1.2 million in a pre-seed round led by Techshop Capital. SimpL will use the money to develop its product further, strengthen its technology, and grow its team.
Product Hunt 1 week ago 23
Featherweight Dictation launched as a lightweight AI dictation app for Mac and Windows that lets users hold a key to speak and insert cleaned text into other apps. It is 4.6 MB on Mac and 2.3 MB on Windows, and it costs $5/month after a free trial. As a result, the app offers filler removal, spoken corrections, and formatting for emails, messages, lists, and prompts.
Product Hunt 1 week ago 13
HeyPi launched today as an AI meeting tool that tracks conversations in real time and uses past meeting context to surface key information and start follow-up work during the meeting. It follows what was said and can generate outputs like landing pages, apps, social media content, and ad campaigns live within the meeting. The result is less AI meeting notes and more automated execution after ideas are discussed.
Product Hunt 1 week ago 48
Manus launched a Video Editor in Manus 2.0 that combines its AI video features with editing workflows. It’s launching today, after a month of daily use. This adds a free video-editing option so users can turn raw footage and ideas into polished videos.
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18 October 2026
The sharpest AI story today isn’t a new model—it’s a new gate. U.S. banks and brokerages are blocking outside AI agents from logging into customer accounts and moving money, with Charles Schwab reporting it blocks external agents “in the tens and twenties each week.” The pattern is practical: outside assistants like Meta’s Muse can view balances and run analysis via Schwab’s MCP servers, but they can’t touch transactions. Regulators have been contacted, and the subtext is clear: as agents move from chat to action, the financial system is answering with permissions, not prompts.
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