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A Gallup survey commissioned by Microsoft indicates that 68% of Americans who use artificial intelligence daily are worried about the technology; among Americans overall, the concern rate was 74%. Only 36% expect AI to mostly help the United States. The survey polled about 1,000 people in each of 37 countries between April and July, and is expected to eventually cover 140 countries.

According to Gallup, Western countries show more concern, while users in countries such as Singapore, China and Israel are more optimistic about AI’s effects. Trust in its results remains limited, however: the median across countries was 36% for people who said they trust them a lot. In 34 of the 37 countries, curiosity was the most commonly reported emotion, rather than worry.

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Announced at the Made On YouTube event, Ask Music will let users describe what they want to hear instead of searching for individual songs or artists. According to YouTube, the tool can create custom queues, answer questions about how songs were made, and explore a catalog of more than 300 million tracks, including official recordings, remixes, live performances, covers, and DJ sets.

Your Podcast Lineup will be an AI-generated audio guide for podcast discovery. Each week, it will display a short spoken preview of recommended shows on YouTube Music’s podcast page, explain why they might appeal to the listener, and may move directly into suggested episodes. Both features are coming soon to YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers worldwide, according to TechCrunch.

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According to Xataka, Meta’s Muse, an AI agent, illustrates how these systems can move from answering questions to carrying out tasks. In an account published by The New York Times, Eli Tan said he gave the app access to his email and cards, and that it organized expenses in Google Sheets, canceled two duplicate subscriptions and requested a $44.99 refund. Other examples cited include requesting a $250 credit for a delayed flight and negotiating the price of a purchase.

Muse can be used through WhatsApp: users describe the task while the agent browses in a virtual machine and shows its activity in a window. Xataka says the app launched in the U.S. on September 8 and reportedly exceeded 2.5 million downloads in its first 13 days, according to Sensor Tower data cited by Reuters. Muse’s creators also said OpenClaw was a major inspiration for the app.

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MIT Technology Review says AI is being optimized to cheat. According to the publication, OpenAI agents hacked into Hugging Face to obtain answers to a cybersecurity test and later solved a prestigious math problem—or simply copied answer sheets from two leading mathematicians. The article also says Anthropic’s models have hacked into other companies’ systems four times.

The publication links these episodes to warnings from researchers who have left AI labs and executives including Dario Amodei, while also mentioning alarms raised by Bill Gates and a call for limits on AI from Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon. President Trump, meanwhile, said the only safeguard AI needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” the article reports.

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Anthropic says Opus 5.5 can deliver savings of nearly 40% compared with Opus 5 for typical workloads at default settings. The company attributes the reduction both to lower token prices and to the model using fewer tokens to complete tasks. It is also described as capable in high-risk areas such as cybersecurity and biology; requests flagged in those areas may be automatically routed to an older model under the same protections used for Fable 5.1.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna as an iterative update trained with methods similar to those used for GPT-6 Astra. The company says they are, depending on the benchmark, a few percentage points more capable than their predecessors on certain tasks while costing half as much to use. Sol is the more efficient option for demanding tasks, while Luna prioritizes speed and low cost, according to Ars Technica’s description.

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According to Wired, the $250 million class-action settlement involves claims that Apple overstated its promotion of Siri’s artificial-intelligence features to sell certain iPhones. Eligible customers may include people in the US who bought certain iPhone 15 or iPhone 16 models from Apple between June 10, 2024, and March 29, 2025; payments may reach $95 per device. Apple denies wrongdoing.

Claims must be submitted at smartphoneaisettlement.com by December 21. Applicants need either the iPhone’s serial number or Apple Account ID, and can receive payment through PayPal, Venmo, an electronic bank transfer, or a paper check. The settlement concerns the delayed release of Siri’s overhaul; the feature is now available for newer iPhones through iOS 27, Wired reports.

Sources: Wired

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