A poll published on 14 October finds only 18% of French people plan to use AI to learn about the presidential election. Just 20% say they trust tools such as ChatGPT for that purpose.
Meta has extended its Private Processing system to its AI glasses so that AI tasks and persistent user context can be handled in the cloud with stronger privacy. It relies on confidential virtual machines, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, anonymous credentials and OHTTP routing.
Epic Games released a preview of its refreshed PC launcher, which it says is much faster and now supports Linux. The company, which has been pushing AI-assisted development, says the new version was vibe coded.
Tiffany Sloane gained 375,000 followers in a few weeks as a stand-up comedian, but she does not exist. The AI-generated character reuses routines by real comedians, down to copying their outfits.
Elon Musk said Grok Bot, a platform for handing complex tasks to AI, will not depend only on Grok models. Through APIs it will be able to call the most suitable model, such as Claude Opus 5.5, a Midjourney model or a Suno module.
Tests run by the agency Webloom for eight advertisers suggest ChatGPT ads currently build brand awareness but do not pay for themselves. The campaign reports also appear skewed.