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Hark, the AI lab founded by Figure creator Brett Adcock, launched Handoff, a computer-use agent that can order food, shop and book flights, per the lab's announcement. On the public Online-Mind2Web human evaluation it scores 97.7, above GPT-5.4. Hark closed a Series A of over $700 million in May at a $6 billion valuation.
OpenAI product and platform lead Thibault Sottiaux announced that for the next 28 days, Codex and ChatGPT Work will ship either one improvement that is clearly useful to most users or a full credit reset each day, per his announcement on October 5. The day before he had narrowed the focus to simplifying the product, raising limits, breaking through features and new models.
OpenAI announced it will test a visual ad format in ChatGPT's image generation later this month in the US with initial advertisers, per the company. Ads will be clearly labeled and separate from generated images, and the company says they do not affect answers. It follows February's test of text ads for free and Go tiers.
Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year cross-license on October 5 covering patent portfolios across 5G, computing, AI and networks, with Qualcomm also buying some of Huawei's US patents, pending regulatory approval, per Reuters. Reuters calls it the pair's first agreement covering 5G, and Huawei says the total value of its patent license agreements is expected to exceed $6.9 billion once completed.
MaruthLabs launched Madhuram-v1 on October 5: a 151M-parameter model pretrained on 1 trillion tokens with 16K context, aimed at on-device use. The company says it beats LFM2.5-230M, Gemma 3 270M and other peers on 9 of 17 pretraining benchmarks — comparisons from its own suite, without third-party reproduction.
Sam Altman said in an interview on Decoded that the world should accept some bad things happening in exchange for the benefits of AI, per a community post sharing the interview.
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