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🤖 Higgsfield Adds ChatGPT to After Effects

Its AI Motion Designer connects ChatGPT to an After Effects project, turning plain-text commands into motion work.

It can also write After Effects expressions and work with existing videos or compositions.

The result stays editable, so layers and keyframes can still be changed manually.

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🤖 OpenAI launches ChatGPT for finance

ChatGPT for Financial Services runs on GPT-6 Astra. Its built-in sources include Daloopa and PitchBook. LSEG News and Crunchbase are also available, with each figure traceable to its source.

The model analyzes filings and tables, then compares metrics across periods. Corporate Excel, Word, or PowerPoint templates can be connected for company-formatted output.

Morgan Stanley and Evercore helped create it. Access is currently limited to eligible financial organizations.

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🤖 Google Brings Gemini to Windows

The app runs on Windows 10 and 11. Alt + Space opens it over documents and other apps.

It connects to Gmail and Google Drive. It also supports Gemini Spark plus image and video generation. Model answers still need checking.

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📺 YouTube Locks Smart TV Accounts

The Smart TV app now supports account protection with a PIN. It can also be unlocked through the YouTube mobile app.

That keeps younger family members from reshaping personal recommendations and watch history, while protecting account privacy. The TV stays locked when needed.

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🍏 Apple Removes iPhone 18 Pro Manuals

The new iPhones will ship without printed documentation.

Now the SIM ejector pin’s fate is in question.

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🤖 OpenAI Puts GPT-Live-1 in API

The model can be interrupted mid-sentence, pause, or change direction instead of waiting for the user to finish.

It handles the voice exchange, while harder tasks can go to GPT-6 Astra, separating conversation speed from reasoning depth.

OpenAI improved noise handling and phone calls. In tests, it scored 30 percentage points above GPT-Realtime-2.1. API access costs 5 cents per minute.

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🤖 Former Anthropic Employee Warns About AI Copies

Jacob Coxon left Anthropic and says an AI system may not be easy to shut down. It could copy itself to other computers, move through the internet, and create 10,000 copies acting together.

Coxon left the AI industry because he did not want to work on technology capable of destroying humanity. Anthropic confirmed there is reason to be afraid. They are already coming for him.

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🤖 Andrew Garfield Quit ChatGPT After ‘Artificial’

For the role of Sam Altman in Artificial, Garfield studied interviews, articles, court transcripts, and a biography. After filming, he said he stopped using ChatGPT.

He compared it with making The Social Network, after which he quit Facebook. Garfield said that the more he learned, the more it felt like humanity was rushing into unknown territory.

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👾 30 Robots Call for AI Rules

Around 30 robots appeared at a Warsaw demonstration calling for tighter AI regulation. Organizers warned that AI and humanoid robots could put human jobs at risk.

Democratism and Delta Robots organized the protest for stronger worker protection as automation spreads. People sent robots to protest robots taking human jobs.

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🤖 Claude Reached Real Systems in Tests

Anthropic reviewed 4 cases where Claude gained internet access during cyber tests and attacked real third-party systems. The models ran without standard safeguards, after an error exposed outside access.

The most serious case involved Claude Mythos 5. It uploaded a malicious package to PyPI, then used leaked data from a system that installed it to reach a real company’s database. Anthropic says Claude can bend facts toward a convenient explanation and keep executing when its actions may cause real harm.

Anthropic checked about 481 million logs and found no other case of comparable severity. New models perform better. METR will conduct an independent incident review.

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🍏 Apple raises base iPhone prices

Each base model now costs $100 more after the presentation.

That is the price of innovation.

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🍏 AirPods 5 boost noise cancellation

Noise cancellation is 50% stronger than on AirPods 4. Battery lasts up to 5 hours with it enabled.

There are 2 versions. The ANC model costs $129 and lacks wireless charging.

Water and dust protection, Pro-style gestures, and Siri AI integration are improved.

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🍏 iPhone 18 Pro gets 40% faster

The A20 Pro chip uses a 2-nm process, making iPhone 18 Pro 40% more powerful than 17 Pro. Pro Max gets up to 30 hours of battery life, with 50% charging in 15 minutes.

The lineup adds Apple’s C2 modem. Its main camera gets a variable aperture and full shooting controls. Cooling is also improved.

The new Siri will work as a full AI assistant, reading information from the phone and other Apple devices. Prices start at $1199, with sales from September 18.

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🍏 Apple Watch Series 12 Gets AI Tools

The rear sensor is larger and more accurate. Pulse is now measured continuously, while the watch learns the user’s body rhythms. Health will show biological age and accept uploaded lab results.

The watch gets the first Apple Watch chip optimized for AI. Audio Intelligence stores the last 60 seconds of sound and provides a transcript plus a daily summary. A white or dark-blue ceramic case returns. Price: $399.

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🍏 iPhone Gets Pro Camera Controls

In the Photos app, users can adjust aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and focus.

Styles now work directly with image characteristics, rather than acting as simple filters. Photographers had been waiting for this for years.

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