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Each brief starts from a story on the wire and adds one open dataset the story did not show. 15 briefs, 41 open sources. Saved · RSS

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  1. 72Google experiments with an AI-powered gaming platform4 outlets · 98 HN points
  2. 62Google's AI detection website is now available3 outlets · 76 HN points
  3. 59Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event3 outlets · 33 HN points
  4. 45The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell4 outlets
  5. 45ChatGPT for Teens Carries ‘Unacceptable Risk’ for Teens, Report Claims4 outlets
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AITen open-weight models passed 1T parameters. All ten came from China1 trillionMistral Large 4 (total params)AIBots now make up 36% of English Wikipedia pageviews, up from 28% in May28.1%Bot share, week of 4 MayAIChina's best open model leads the US by 46 Arena points, down from 721491Best Chinese open model, 2 Oct 2026AIGoogle's EmbeddingGemma 2 claim tops every sub-1.7B model on MTEB Code78.68EmbeddingGemma 2, claimed MTEB Code