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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

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Brandi Reed

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Brandi Reed covers Tech News, Threats and AI News.

Articles by Brandi Reed

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GPT-5 shipped — what actually changes at your desk

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What Granola's meeting notes actually cost, and where your audio goes

What Granola's meeting notes actually cost, and where your audio goes

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What the EU AI Act's code of practice actually requires from AI model makers

What the EU AI Act's code of practice actually requires from AI model makers

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Why small AI models are suddenly everywhere

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AI baked into browsers: Edge Copilot, Chrome's assistants, and what to enable

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Training-data opt-outs: what vendors actually document you can control

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Raycast as an AI launcher: the Mac power tool, documented

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Why AI models invent things: the mechanism, in plain terms

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Copilot in Word and Excel: what Microsoft documents it does — and doesn't

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Multimodal, in plain terms: what it means when a model sees and hears

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Gemini in Gmail and Docs: what Google documents it does with your mail

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What actually counts as an AI agent? A definition with consequences

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AI keyboard apps see everything you type — here's what that means

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"Memory" features vs context windows: what your chatbot remembers and why

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NotebookLM Audio Overviews: the podcast feature that's secretly a comprehension tool

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What AI benchmarks actually measure — and the three ways they mislead

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The Perplexity app for quick research on the move

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How to read a model card: the five sections that carry real information

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The Claude mobile app: what it adds beyond the browser, per Anthropic's docs

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Open-weight vs closed models: the difference that decides where your data goes

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What the ChatGPT mobile app actually does, per its own release notes

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GPT-5.1 Turbo, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro: how to read AI model names

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Otter vs Fireflies vs Fathom: what the big AI notetakers document about themselves

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