This Week in AI: The October 2026 Catch-Up
Catch up on AI news from September 25 to October 12, 2026: GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude 5.5 models, creative tools, work agents, and a practical 15-minute test.
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Ai Safety Articles
Published Colin Michaels blog posts tagged Ai Safety.
This Week in AI: Siri, Voice Models, and Safety Brakes
Siri AI, Gemini 3.8 Live, Claude Docs, Jev, Neon, Koa, Astra for Law, OpenAI safety disclosures, and the week’s practical AI news explained.
This Week in AI: Astra and ChatGPT Images 2.5
GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT Images 2.5, Meta Muse, OpenAI Agents API, AlphaGenome Atlas, Suno v6, and this week’s practical AI news explained.
This Week in AI: GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 and More
GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8, Muse Spark 1.3, NVIDIA’s Hugging Face deal, local AI, safety, and school limits explained.
Chat Told Me to Touch Grass. I'm Taking an AI Break
Chat told me to touch grass, so I asked what kind. Here is why I am taking a one-week break from AI in my personal life and returning to reality.
This Week in AI: The Agents Left the Chat Window
This week's AI news in plain English: vision, voice and video models, browser agents, local AI, faster chips, memory controls, and a security report.
AI News This Week: Specialized Models & Safety (Aug. 14–20)
Open models, audio and robot tools, OpenAI's Astra pause, and major acquisitions show why AI is becoming specialized tools—not one chatbot race
5 Everyday ChatGPT Tasks I'd Actually Use as a Regular Person
A plain-English guide to five useful ChatGPT scheduled tasks for reminders, family planning, bills, job searches, small business check-ins, and monitoring.