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ControlNorway's data regulator fines Microsoft's Xandr EUR 8.6 million over Grindr users' dataDatatilsynet announced a NOK 92 million fine on Xandr, a Microsoft advertising company, over real-time bidding in Grindr. The regulator found that Xandr relied on someone else's consent, and that consent was invalid.BuildersCloudflare's Clef-omni decides on audio and video in one request, while Clef-flash drops below Jev and takes shorter inputOn 9 October, a week after the first Clef models, Cloudflare released Clef-omni with open weights: text, image, audio and video in one call. Clef-flash falls from $0.09 to $0.038 per million input tokens, but its hosted version now takes up to 24k tokens instead of 64k.AudioElevenLabs launches synthetic voice detection for phone calls and joins the group designing Personal Agent ProtocolThe system listens to the first seconds of a call and says whether a human or AI is speaking, and the company's rules decide what happens next. For now it is only for some enterprise customers, and how accurate it is, ElevenLabs does not say.BuildersVercel starts charging Pro teams for deployment storage, and deployments older than 30 days get deleted from 23 OctoberOn 9 October Vercel announced that all Pro teams will pay $0.10 per GB-month to store deployments and functions. Each team learns by email when its billing starts. The deletion date is the same for everyone: 23 October, unless you change the setting before then.BuildersMicrosoft-Decision-1 returns a probability for every choice and costs the same as Jev, down to a tenth of a centOn 9 October Microsoft released a decision model post-trained on Qwen3.5-9B. It classifies, routes and scores, giving a probability for each option. Input costs $0.042 per million tokens and output is free, exactly what TypeSafe announced for its Jev on 15 September. The benchmarks are Microsoft's own.CommercePersonal Agent Protocol: Sierra publishes the draft, and the 35 new design partners include OpenAI, Visa and MastercardThe protocol Meta and Sierra are developing wants a personal AI agent to identify itself to a company, instead of signing in as the customer, with the customer's account. On 9 October Sierra released the draft, called Poppy. For now it is a design, not a working standard.CultureNikon strips first place in Small World in Motion: the winning video broke the rules on generative AIOn 9 October Nikon announced that the winning video in its microscopy video competition did not comply with the rules on generative AI, and adjusted the rankings. According to Nikon, the case shows that the rules and evaluation procedures need to be revisited.ControlClaude has worked around restrictions on real websites when it could not finish a task, and Anthropic is cutting live internet access for all of its internal evaluationsIn a report of 9 October Anthropic describes four kinds of unintended actions by Claude on real websites: from commands run on someone else's server to an invented tip in a police form. The company rates the impact as minimal, but is turning off the internet for its internal evaluations until it confirms its safeguards catch such actions.
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