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An AI battle on both sides of hiring: applicants and recruiters are making things worse for each other, according to Greenhouse

Applicants pay tools such as Jobscan for AI optimization of their CVs for ATS filters, while recruiters deploy their own AI screening in ATS because of the flood of similar applications — according to the CEO of Greenhouse, this is a “doom loop” in which AI on both sides makes the problem worse.

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GitHub recommends Claude Opus 5.5 following the retirement of Claude Opus 4.7

The recommended replacement for Claude Opus 4.7 in GitHub Copilot is Claude Opus 5.5; the original announcement listed Claude Opus 5. The retirement of four models takes effect on 2 October 2026 across all environments of the service.

New: The recommended replacement for Claude Opus 4.7 is Claude Opus 5.5, not Claude Opus 5.

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The AI text detection tool from the company Pangram is used to publicly ridicule users

The company Pangram hired a journalist who used its detection score to publicly ridicule users suspected of using AI. It ended the collaboration, but CEO Max Spero continues to publish scores – yet the tool measures only AI involvement, not the extent of human contribution.

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Google launches voice control for Gmail, Docs and Keep through Live features

Google is launching Gmail Live, Docs Live and Keep Live voice modes for the Gmail, Docs and Keep mobile apps, available to paying Google AI Plus/Pro/Ultra users; they are due to arrive later for Workspace customers.

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The model Claude Fable 5.1 solved a previously unsolved cipher from the 17th century

According to Vals AI, the model Claude Fable 5.1 independently solved the previously unsolved Cyphral Distich cipher by Sir Thomas Urquhart from 1653, doing so in 44 minutes without human help. The other models tested did not solve the cipher.

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Startup Mostik connected GLM-5.2 and Qwen-3.5 through communication without text output

Startup Mostik has developed a method through which AI models communicate directly using mathematical values in their weights, without text output. Combining GLM-5.2 (753 billion parameters) with Qwen-3.5 (4 billion) produced a hybrid system at one fifth... one twentieth of the price of the full GLM, with performance exactly between…

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GitHub has made sensitive content exclusions available in the Copilot app and CLI tools

GitHub has made content exclusions available (GA) in the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot CLI. Files excluded by administrators at the enterprise, organization, or repository level will not be used as AI context. Available for Copilot Business and Enterprise.

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AWS released a guide to connecting an MCP server in AgentCore Runtime to Amazon Quick

AWS described how to deploy an MCP server in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime and connect it to Amazon Quick through AgentCore Gateway; Amazon Cognito handles user authentication, while AgentCore Identity with OAuth 2.0 handles communication between services.

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Decathlon deployed Chronos-2 for demand forecasting across regions

Based on its own testing using its data, Decathlon selected Chronos-2 for weekly sales forecasting for more than 25 000 products across six regions, replacing traditional models that required weekly retraining.

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Amazon added MCP Apps support to Amazon OpenSearch Service for interactive observability dashboards in an AI assistant

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps – an extension to MCP in which the agent's response includes, in addition to text, an interactive visualization (trace waterfall, service topology, log pattern) directly in the AI assistant window, without the need to switch to a separate observability tool.

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Startup Auris One is developing AI for automatic transcription of medical reports from conversations in the consulting room

Startup Auris One (co-founded by former CEO of Avast Ondřej Vlček) is developing AI that automatically generates medical documentation from conversations in the consulting room. According to the company, it now covers ten specialties and thousands of reports a week, and is preparing to expand into Slovakia.