☕️ Still not Grok

Pavel Durov announced the launch of Perplexity’s official bot on Telegram.

Perplexity for Telegram functions as a full-fledged AI assistant, combining web search, image generation and editing, and even participation in group chats.

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⚡️ Gift Auction

A new feature spotted in Telegram’s beta version reveals an auction system for purchasing gifts.

What’s new:

💘 Gifts will now be sold in auction rounds, with each batch containing 50 items.

💘 Users can place bids using Stars. The top 50 bidders in each round will receive gifts, while the remaining bids roll over to the next round with a new batch.

💘 Rounds continue until all gifts are sold out. If a user never makes it into the top 50 across all rounds, their Stars are refunded.

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🤩 Samurai law

Japan’s trade association CODA has formally demanded → that OpenAI stop using Japanese creative works in its video generation model Sora 2.

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🤔 Sorry, I don’t speak English

A new study shows → that AI systems respond more accurately to queries in Polish and Russian than in English.

Polish leads with 88% accuracy, followed by Russian at 87%. French, Italian, and Spanish score slightly lower, while English ranks only sixth with 84%.

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😀 Call me baddie

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found → that rude, demanding prompts lead to more accurate responses from ChatGPT than polite ones.

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🫡 Surprised it wasn’t “qwerty”

French newspaper Libération reports → that the password for the Louvre’s video surveillance system was literally “Louvre.”

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🤩 Now with body settings

XPeng has unveiled a humanoid robot → that allows buyers to choose its gender and body type.

The model features soft skin, synthetic muscles, and a flexible spine, with production expected to begin next April.

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🤔 One AI for two

Apple is preparing to use Google’s Gemini model → to power the next version of Siri.

Bloomberg reports the companies are close to a deal worth around $1 billion per year for access to the technology.

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🤐 Wait

Rockstar Games has officially postponed → the release of Grand Theft Auto VI to November 2026.

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🤔 Guess who’s making smart glasses

After the ambitious but niche Vision Pro, Apple seems to have accepted the obvious: the future is not in bulky 3500 dollar headsets but in something people can wear every day without thinking about it.

We put together everything known so far about Apple’s upcoming smart glasses → and why they may be Cupertino’s next real game changer.

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😀 We’ve changed our mind

Many companies that laid off staff expecting AI to replace them are now bringing those workers back.

A new study shows → automation isn’t delivering at the scale executives were counting on.

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😄 Your move, OpenAI

Chinese company Kimi AI has released → its new reasoning model Kimi K2. According to the developers, K2 outperforms GPT-5 on several advanced reasoning benchmarks.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 iPhone prices may increase due to rising chip production costs. Reports indicate an 8–10% price adjustment starting next year.

💘 Tesla shareholders have approved a new compensation package for Elon Musk, valued at approximately $1 trillion.

💘 Apple is preparing a major satellite expansion for the iPhone, negotiating a $1B deal with Google for Gemini in Siri, and developing a new budget MacBook.

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🍏 No iPhone Air for now

Apple is pausing the iPhone Air lineup → after weaker-than-expected demand for the current model.

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👍 Perfect timing

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spent → £312 million upgrading its computers to Windows 10, just after Microsoft ended support for the system.

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☕️ Not quite as planned

Perplexity reportedly offered Telegram up to $350M a year for an official integration.

The bot → is available in the app now, though performance remains inconsistent: it responds to user queries, but does not reliably process commands.

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🛸 Teamwork!

ChatGPT now supports shared projects — a new feature that lets multiple people work inside the same chat. It was originally tested only with business customers, but as of October 24, it’s available to everyone.

We explain how it works →

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😄 Still patching the “unsupported”

Microsoft has released update KB5068781 → the first security patch for Windows 10 since the end of official support.

The update is part of the Extended Security Updates program, available to users with an active subscription.

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