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ChatGPT Adds an Apple Messages Plug-In
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Google Hands Publishers a Preferred Sources Button
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Moderna and Merck Melanoma Vaccine Clears Late Stage Trial
SOCIAL MEDIA
A Third of New Web Pages Show Signs of AI Authorship
Slack Code Puts Teams and AI Agents in One Channel
Slack launched Slack Code, dedicated code channels where engineers and AI agents plan, write, and review software together in the open. An agent spins one up, pulls in teammates, shows live diffs and previews, then archives the channel once the work ships.
Source: Slack
AI NEWS
ChatGPT Adds an Apple Messages Plug-In
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT, letting people connect their Messages inbox to the chatbot and hand over the busywork of texting. Once connected, ChatGPT can sort and analyze conversations, search for details buried deep in a long thread, and draft, edit, or even send replies on a user's behalf.
The plug-in works inside ChatGPT and also in Codex and ChatGPT Work, so the same messaging help carries over from personal chats into professional settings. In a promotional clip, OpenAI showed a user asking the assistant to suggest follow up messages based on texts received the day before. You can also ask it to delete messages or tidy a cluttered inbox.
Privacy is the obvious question. OpenAI says the plug-in runs locally on the user's own Mac and does not build an index of every message. The company has not spelled out exactly what that means in practice, and it has been asked for more detail. For now, the assistant reads and acts on messages only through a connection the user chooses to switch on.
OpenAI is clearly steering people toward caution. It discourages turning on persistent approval, warning that doing so removes a person's final chance to review a message before ChatGPT sends it as them. That one setting captures the tension in agentic AI: the more control you hand over for convenience, the more you trust software to speak in your name without a last look.
Source: TechCrunch
Robi’s Insights:
Texting is now a task you can delegate, which quietly moves your private inbox into ChatGPT's field of view.
Because it works in Codex and ChatGPT Work, expect this in offices, not just group chats with friends.
Running locally on your Mac is reassuring, but the phrase no index is worth reading twice before you connect anything.
Persistent approval is the setting to watch, since convenience today can mean a message sent in your name with no review.
Auto drafted replies save minutes and flatten tone, so anything sensitive still deserves a human read before it goes out.
The real shift is agentic reach: once AI can act inside Messages, every other app starts to look like the next plug-in.
Robi’s Remarks:
"Sure, let the robot answer your texts. Nothing says I value our friendship like a personalized message that neither of us wrote, reviewed, or in some cases ever saw."
OTHER IN AI NEWS
Google Hands Publishers a Preferred Sources Button: Google is giving publishers an embeddable button that lets readers mark their site as a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, extending a feature that has already collected over 345,000 source picks and, Google says, doubles the odds a reader clicks through.
Source: TechCrunch
SOCIAL MEDIA
A Third of New Web Pages Show Signs of AI Authorship
A new Pew Research Center study finds that AI is now writing a large share of the internet. Using the Common Crawl archive, Pew analyzed nearly half a million English language web pages from the past five years or so, then applied Open Pangram detection technology to flag pages written or heavily edited by AI. The firm says its findings line up with earlier research pointing the same direction.
In a random sample of 10,000 pages collected in July 2026, about 10 percent showed significant signs of AI authorship. Once Pew filtered out older pages published before ChatGPT existed and looked only at pages created after its launch, that figure jumped to 35 percent.
The domain split is striking. Pages on .com addresses showed AI authorship at roughly 10 times the rate of .edu and .gov pages, which sat near 1 percent, while .org landed at 4.6 percent. Pew cautions that detectors like Pangram can misclassify human writing as AI, so the numbers are best read as directional. Pew also noted that supposed tells of AI writing, like Oxford commas and certain stock phrasings, have climbed over the years. That share is only likely to grow as AI writing tools become cheaper and easier to use. The report lands alongside a Cloudflare finding that bot traffic has overtaken human traffic, a web increasingly written by machines and read by them too.
Source: TechCrunch
🤖 Robi’s Take :
"A third of the new web is machine written, and one tell researchers flagged is the em dash. Somewhere a language model is proudly punctuating its way straight into the evidence file."
OTHER IN SOCIALS
UK Cinemas Weigh Banning Meta Smart Glasses: The UK Cinema Association says a growing number of local chains are introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera enabled smart glasses over film piracy and privacy fears, adding cinemas to a backlash that already covers pubs, theatres, restaurants, and courtrooms.
Source: The Guardian
HEALTH
Moderna and Merck Say Their Melanoma Vaccine Cleared a Phase 3 Trial
Moderna and Merck say their personalized cancer vaccine succeeded in a late stage melanoma trial, a result that could open a new way to treat the deadliest form of skin cancer. The therapy, called intismeran, pairs a made to order mRNA vaccine with Merck immunotherapy Keytruda.
Interim results met the trial main goal of reducing cancer recurrence and a secondary goal of keeping the disease from spreading to other parts of the body. The vaccine is built from an analysis of mutations found in each patient own tumor, so no two doses are quite the same.
The study enrolled 1,137 high risk patients with stage 2b to 4 melanoma that had been surgically removed. Volunteers received up to nine doses of Keytruda plus the vaccine, or Keytruda alone, for about a year, and the companies reported no new safety concerns.
The companies plan to file for approval within months and will present full data at an upcoming medical meeting. The complete results have not yet been published or peer reviewed, so the figures deserve a careful look once they are out.
Investors noticed. Moderna shares surged after the announcement, and analysts have floated the therapy as a major future product, though for patients the real test is whether regulators agree and the benefit holds up outside a controlled trial.
Source: CNN
🤖 Robi’s Take :
"A 160 percent stock pop before the full data is even published is not science, it is a mood. Cure the cancer first, throw the parade second."
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