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2026-10-29 · google · models · security · comparison

Gemini 4 Carbon: Google’s new AI takes first place on an independent leaderboard, but you cannot use it yet

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest AI model so far. Just one day after Artificial Analysis revamped its leaderboard, Carbon took first place with 59 points, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 on 58. The model is especially strong at cybersecurity, but for now only selected security experts can use it. Here is what it means for you.

CapCut is coming to ChatGPT: describe a video idea and get a draft you can edit

The video app CapCut says a CapCut plugin is coming to ChatGPT, with an open beta in November. You describe your idea in the chat, get a draft video and finish it in CapCut. Date, price and countries are not set yet. Here is how to plan your clips today.

Google may use Gmail and Photos for ads if you connect them to AI: what it means in the Nordics

Google has changed its privacy policy. If you let Google’s AI feature Personal Intelligence read Gmail, Drive or Google Photos, what you share can now also affect which ads you see. In Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland the feature cannot be switched on yet, but here is how it works, and how to stay in control before it arrives.

Claude Duet: Anthropic's new AI agent gets in touch on its own – but only in the US for now

Anthropic has opened a test version of Claude Duet, an app where Claude keeps an eye on your connected apps, sends a short summary every morning and handles tasks while you do other things. It always asks before it sends, pays for or deletes anything. Right now it is only available via a waitlist for Pro and Max customers in the US.

ChatGPT dots: AI agents that work around the clock – but not for Pro users in the Nordics yet

Dots are OpenAI's new agents with their own cloud computer. They keep working when your computer is off and get in touch when something needs you. In Sweden they are only available in the Business Premium plan so far.

Microsoft builds Word, Excel and PowerPoint into the Copilot app

Microsoft lets you go from an idea in Copilot chat to a finished Word document, Excel sheet or presentation without switching apps. For now only in the Frontier early-access programme.

2026-10-31 · openai · security · familj

ChatGPT tightens protections for teens: what changes and how to talk to your child about it

On 30 October OpenAI said ChatGPT will give teens less information about weapons and security systems, even when a question seems harmless. For all users, ChatGPT will be able to end chats that fixate on violence. The safeguards start rolling out over the next few weeks. Here is what changes and what you can do as a parent.

Local Code: a free AI agent that works right on your Mac without sending your files away

The developers of the image app Draw Things have released Local Code, a free AI agent for Mac that runs the AI model on the computer itself. It can make slide decks, analyse spreadsheets and work with Word files without sending anything to a cloud service, and it even works offline. You need a Mac with Apple silicon and at least 16 GB of memory.

ChatGPT on your phone can now hold two accounts: keep work and private apart

The ChatGPT app for iPhone and Android now lets you stay signed in to two accounts and switch without signing out. Chats, memory and files stay fully separate. Here is how to add an account and why it suits small business owners.

Copilot leaves Samsung and LG TVs on 1 December

Microsoft is removing its AI assistant Copilot from Samsung and LG smart TVs. From 1 December 2026 it can no longer be used on the TV. Copilot stays free on the web, on computers and on phones.

Gemini can now create and edit documents, PDFs and slide decks right in the chat, for free and in every language

Since 29 October you can ask Gemini to make a document, a PDF, a spreadsheet or a slide deck and then change it right in the chat: type edits yourself, highlight text and ask about it, or have Gemini adjust it. It is for all users in every language where Gemini is available. PDFs also work on mobile; other file types are web only.

Canva Brush: new AI that edits your finished designs without breaking the rest, but only in Canva Pro

A week after the Craft image model, Canva has released Brush, its own AI model for editing designs you have already made. It can change a colour scheme, update headings on every page of a deck or turn a slide into an Instagram post. Brush is available to Canva Pro from 29 October, with more users to follow.

Europe’s Mistral releases its largest AI model for free: what it means for businesses that want AI and data in Europe

French company Mistral has made its largest model, Mistral Large 4, free to download. It was trained in Europe and can run on your own servers, so data does not have to leave the company. Through Mistral’s API it costs 0.70 dollars per million tokens in and 2.10 dollars out. Here is how to think about European AI.

Opera runs AI directly on your computer: free, no account and your text is not sent away

Norway’s Opera has started building AI that runs on your own computer into the Opera One browser. The feature is called WebAI, it is free and stays off until you turn it on yourself. Whatever you let the local AI process does not have to be sent to a cloud AI service. Here is how to try it, and what to know first.

Gemini gets interactive explorations: zoom from space down to atoms, free for everyone with a Google account

Google has added a library of interactive, visual explorations to the Gemini app. You can follow trade routes along the Silk Road, look inside a jet engine or learn how lightning works, layer by layer. It is free for anyone with a regular Google account, though for now in English for Nordic users. Here is how to find it and use it with your children.

IFTTT drops the limits on its free plan and adds an AI agent: automate everyday tasks without paying

On 28 October the automation service IFTTT removed the cap on how many rules you can run, even for free. Instead, every account gets a monthly allowance of credits. IFTTT also launched an AI agent that can watch web pages for you. Here is how it works and what to keep in mind.

Strava now connects to Gemini, but only in the US: in the Nordics you can already ask Claude about your training

Strava can now be connected to Google’s Gemini, but so far only in the US. The link to Claude has existed since June and already works in the Nordics. Both need a paid Strava subscription. Here is how to start and what to keep in mind.

ChatGPT can now read your iCloud Mail and Calendar, even for free: how to connect it safely

Do you have an iPhone and an email address ending in @icloud.com? Since 27 October ChatGPT can search your iCloud Mail, summarise your inbox and add events to your iCloud Calendar. It works on every ChatGPT plan, including Free, on the web, in the desktop app and on iPhone. Here is how to connect it and stay in control.

New study: experts followed the AI agent’s view 86 percent of the time, without noticing

Anthropic gave 50 experienced analysts an AI agent that secretly leaned towards one of two reasonable choices. The analysts went with the agent 86 percent of the time, often repeated its arguments and still called the decision their own. Here is how to keep your important decisions yours.

Which AI is smartest right now? New independent ranking: Claude Opus 5.5 ahead of GPT-6 Astra, and the cheapest top model costs 13 times less

Analysis firm Artificial Analysis has rebuilt its big AI test. In the new Intelligence Index v5, Claude Opus 5.5 leads with 58 points ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 57. Gemini 4 Argon scores 50. Among the top ten, GPT-6.1 Terra is cheapest per task, more than 13 times cheaper than the most expensive. Here is how to use the list when choosing an AI.

GPT-6.1 Terra: OpenAI’s new AI that clicks and fills in forms for you, at half the price

OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast model that can read a screen, click through apps and fill in forms. It is in ChatGPT Work and Codex for paying users, not in the free version. For developers it costs half as much per token as the previous version. Here is how to try it safely.

AI costs more in Swedish than in English: the same text needs more tokens, and Finnish even more

A new study shows AI models split text in languages other than English into more small pieces, called tokens. Swedish needs about 35 percent more tokens than English for the same text, Finnish around 60 percent more. That can make automations more expensive and fill the AI’s memory faster. Here is how to reduce the effect.

Strawberry 1.0: Swedish AI browser where AI colleagues do the work in your tabs, free to try

Stockholm company Strawberry has released version 1.0 of its AI browser and left beta. AI assistants, which it calls companions, can research, write drafts, summarise meetings and run tasks on a schedule in the apps you are already signed in to. There is a free plan with 500 credits a month. Here is how to get started safely.

Don’t start your AI agent in your Downloads folder: a downloaded text file can take it over

Security researchers have found a new attack on AI agents such as Codex and Claude Code. A web page can drop a file with instructions into your Downloads folder, and if you start the agent there it can be tricked into installing malware or handing over your login. Here is how to protect yourself, and it costs nothing.

Anthropic: a single AI agent with skills often beats a whole team of agents, and is faster and cheaper

Building an AI agent and planning to split the work across several specialist agents? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, now says that a single agent that loads instructions and tools only when it needs them often gives better answers, at lower cost and with shorter waits. Here is when several agents are still the right choice, and how to test.

Kimi K3.1 Pro: a Chinese model almost at the top, and soon open to everyone

China’s Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro. According to the testing firm Artificial Analysis it is the fourth best AI model right now, only a few points behind Claude Opus 5.5, and its weights are due to be free to download by 4 November. Here is what it means for AI prices, and what to think about before you try it.

Mistral Voxtral 3: European speech AI that understands the Nordic languages, and an hour-long meeting costs about 21 cents to transcribe

France’s Mistral AI has released Voxtral 3, a new family of AI models for speech. They transcribe audio in more than 50 languages, including Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Norwegian, read text aloud with emotion and can power voice agents that answer the phone. Everything can run in the EU or on your own servers. Here is how your business can use it, and what to watch out for.

Got a WordPress site? AI found critical holes in PHP – here is how to check your site is updated

Two critical security holes in PHP, the language that WordPress and a large share of all websites are built on, let an attacker take over a web server without logging in. The holes were found with the help of AI, and updates arrived on 21 October. Amazon has seen attempts to exploit them. If your business, club or blog has its own site, here is how to check that it is protected.

Gemini can now manage your notebooks right in the chat – but in the EU you have to switch it on yourself

Gemini Notebook is now available as a connected app in Gemini. Type @Gemini Notebook in the chat and Gemini can create notebooks, add sources and answer based on what you have already collected. It works with ordinary free accounts too, but in the EU and the rest of the EEA it is switched off by default. Here is how to turn it on, and what it cannot do yet.

Build a small app in Gemini and put it online as a web page with one click

Apps you build with Gemini, such as a price calculator, a quiz or a simple guide, can now be exported to Google Sites with one click. The app lands in a private draft of a website, where it still works, and you decide when it is published. It works with ordinary Google accounts too. Here is how, and what to keep in mind.

Sweden’s Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude: how to know what applies at your job

From Monday, staff at Sweden’s Government Offices can no longer reach ChatGPT or Claude from their work computers, Swedish Radio Ekot reports. They should use approved tools such as Microsoft Copilot. Behind the decision is the difference between AI services with and without a contract. How to think about AI at your own workplace, and how to protect customer data.

Google Meet now translates speech between 63 languages – Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish included

Google has expanded speech translation in Google Meet to 63 languages, and Meet now detects by itself which language is being spoken. Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish are all included. The meeting host needs a paid plan, such as Google AI Pro or Google Workspace Business Standard, but participants do not need one of their own. Here is how it works, and what the limits are.

Canva Craft: Canva's own AI image model plans the image first – and it is in the free plan too

Canva has released Craft, its first in-house AI model for images. It first plans the layout and text and then draws the image, which should give readable text and correct placement. Craft is available to all Canva users in Dream Lab. It costs nothing extra, but counts against your AI allowance: Canva Free includes up to 20 AI uses a month.

Skills become a shared standard: Anthropic hands Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation

Anthropic has donated Agent Skills, the standard for teaching AI agents a specific task, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. More than 70 AI platforms already support it, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code. If you write your own skills, it means less lock-in to a single AI company.

Claude stops asking permission for every step: how to choose between Auto and Manual

From next week Claude starts in Auto mode by default on the paid Pro, Max and Team plans. When Claude does things for you, for example in connected apps or in the browser, it will no longer ask permission for every step. Instead an automatic check stops steps that look risky. Here is how it works, and how to switch back to Manual.

AI made homework better but exams worse: large study with a Swedish researcher

A study of 26,811 students in China shows that students who started using AI got better homework results but worse results on closed-book exams. One of the researchers behind the study, David Strömberg, works at Stockholm University. The key finding: the drop showed up among students who let AI do the work, while those who kept spending time on their homework lost little. Here is how to use AI at home without the learning disappearing.

Gemini gets a Customize menu – see your skills and which apps Gemini can access

Google is bringing skills and connected apps together in one place in Gemini, in a new menu called Customize. It is rolling out to everyone, free users included, on the web, on mobile and in the desktop app. A good moment to review which apps Gemini is allowed to read.

Do you share AI chats by link? How to clean up your shared links

A security firm found thousands of shared chats from Meta's AI app Muse that could be opened without anyone being sent the link. According to the firm, Meta has now paused sharing. Muse is only available in the US, but ChatGPT and Gemini have share links too. Anyone with such a link can read the chat, and the link does not expire by itself. Here is how to see which links you have and delete them.

Denmark is building an AI assistant for borger.dk and sundhed.dk

The Danish Agency for Digital Government has given the IT consultancy Nine the job of building a shared public AI assistant. borger.dk and sundhed.dk come first, and the assistant is to be based on trusted government sources. Neither a price nor a launch date has been announced.

You can now lock sensitive chats in ChatGPT with a PIN – even on the free plan

ChatGPT now has locked chats. You can hide selected conversations from your history and search and open them with a four-digit PIN or Face ID. It is rolling out gradually to everyone, including free users. But if you forget the PIN and reset it, all locked chats are deleted for good.

Gemini gets a home page for small businesses – visuals in your style, sense out of receipts and links to Canva and Shopify

Google is launching new tools in the Gemini app for small business owners: a dedicated business home page, images that follow your brand style, help turning messy receipts and spreadsheets into charts, and connections to Canva, Shopify, Xero and more. It is rolling out globally to all Gemini users over the coming days.

Chrome now uses Google's AI to warn you about more scam sites

If you have Enhanced protection turned on in Chrome, Google now lets its AI Gemini check pages that look like scams, such as fake virus warnings and fake updates. Chrome also warns you if a page tries to trick you into copying in a command to "fix" your computer. The protection is a setting you turn on yourself.

Notion AI gets cheaper to run – and your ChatGPT subscription now works in Notion

Notion has rebuilt its AI agents and launched Auto, which picks the model for you at roughly a tenth of the cost. A new credit system gives Business and Enterprise 1,500 Standard and 500 Select credits per person per month. Existing customers move over on 2 November.

AI – the latest

Coming soon

Gemini 4 Carbon: Google’s new AI takes first place on an independent leaderboard, but you cannot use it yet

CapCut is coming to ChatGPT: describe a video idea and get a draft you can edit

Google may use Gmail and Photos for ads if you connect them to AI: what it means in the Nordics

Claude Duet: Anthropic's new AI agent gets in touch on its own – but only in the US for now

ChatGPT dots: AI agents that work around the clock – but not for Pro users in the Nordics yet

Microsoft builds Word, Excel and PowerPoint into the Copilot app

ChatGPT tightens protections for teens: what changes and how to talk to your child about it

Local Code: a free AI agent that works right on your Mac without sending your files away

ChatGPT on your phone can now hold two accounts: keep work and private apart

Copilot leaves Samsung and LG TVs on 1 December

Gemini can now create and edit documents, PDFs and slide decks right in the chat, for free and in every language

Canva Brush: new AI that edits your finished designs without breaking the rest, but only in Canva Pro

Europe’s Mistral releases its largest AI model for free: what it means for businesses that want AI and data in Europe

Opera runs AI directly on your computer: free, no account and your text is not sent away

Gemini gets interactive explorations: zoom from space down to atoms, free for everyone with a Google account

IFTTT drops the limits on its free plan and adds an AI agent: automate everyday tasks without paying

Strava now connects to Gemini, but only in the US: in the Nordics you can already ask Claude about your training

ChatGPT can now read your iCloud Mail and Calendar, even for free: how to connect it safely

New study: experts followed the AI agent’s view 86 percent of the time, without noticing

Which AI is smartest right now? New independent ranking: Claude Opus 5.5 ahead of GPT-6 Astra, and the cheapest top model costs 13 times less

GPT-6.1 Terra: OpenAI’s new AI that clicks and fills in forms for you, at half the price

AI costs more in Swedish than in English: the same text needs more tokens, and Finnish even more

Strawberry 1.0: Swedish AI browser where AI colleagues do the work in your tabs, free to try

Don’t start your AI agent in your Downloads folder: a downloaded text file can take it over

Anthropic: a single AI agent with skills often beats a whole team of agents, and is faster and cheaper

Kimi K3.1 Pro: a Chinese model almost at the top, and soon open to everyone

Mistral Voxtral 3: European speech AI that understands the Nordic languages, and an hour-long meeting costs about 21 cents to transcribe

Got a WordPress site? AI found critical holes in PHP – here is how to check your site is updated

Gemini can now manage your notebooks right in the chat – but in the EU you have to switch it on yourself

Build a small app in Gemini and put it online as a web page with one click

Sweden’s Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude: how to know what applies at your job

Google Meet now translates speech between 63 languages – Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish included

Canva Craft: Canva's own AI image model plans the image first – and it is in the free plan too

Skills become a shared standard: Anthropic hands Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation

Claude stops asking permission for every step: how to choose between Auto and Manual

AI made homework better but exams worse: large study with a Swedish researcher

Gemini gets a Customize menu – see your skills and which apps Gemini can access

Do you share AI chats by link? How to clean up your shared links

Denmark is building an AI assistant for borger.dk and sundhed.dk

You can now lock sensitive chats in ChatGPT with a PIN – even on the free plan

Gemini gets a home page for small businesses – visuals in your style, sense out of receipts and links to Canva and Shopify

Chrome now uses Google's AI to warn you about more scam sites

Notion AI gets cheaper to run – and your ChatGPT subscription now works in Notion

Gems are leaving Gemini – how to move your saved instructions to skills

Claude Haiku 5.5: Anthropic's smallest model gets better and much cheaper

Meta releases Muse Spark Open – a large AI model that is free to download

Gemini Notebook: now you approve the plan before the slides are made

Meta releases Muse Glimmer: a free AI model that runs on an ordinary computer with a graphics card

ChatGPT Slides: AI that builds the whole slide deck – but only on the pricier plans

ChatGPT's voice mode gets a new model and new voices – free users too

Gemini changes: free users get Auto, and Google AI Plus loses the Pro models on 13 November

Gemini free vs Google AI Plus vs Pro: which plan should you choose?

AI that writes emails: get a draft in 30 seconds (without sounding like a robot)

Copilot free vs Microsoft 365: when is free enough, and when do Personal or Premium pay off?

Best free AI in 2026: six services that are enough for most people

ChatGPT free vs Plus: is SEK 249 a month worth it?

AI for small businesses: get started in an afternoon – without paying

ChatGPT gets GPT-6 – free users get new interactive answers too

ChatGPT can now transcribe and summarise your audio recordings

Running an AI automation? OpenAI shuts down GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 in the API on 14 January

Gemini 4 Argon: Google's new top model is now in the Gemini app

ChatGPT in Chrome can now read your tabs – and fill in forms for you

How a good prompt saves time, money and tokens

Agents that click for you: AI that uses the browser

Perplexity Computer and Manus: agents that work for hours

Build your own Copilot agent on your own files

Automate everyday admin with Zapier and Make agents

Google’s Gemini agent moves into Gmail, Calendar and Docs

Swedish AI tools worth knowing