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Facebook lets people steer their feed in their own words

Meta’s “Your algorithm” controls are coming to Facebook’s Feed and Reels. Meta says large language models now let the feed understand plain requests and change within the same session.

Meta began rolling out “Your algorithm” on Facebook on October 13. From the three-dot menu on a post, people can add and manage the topics they want to see in Feed and Reels. They can also describe in their own words what they want, Meta says, and its AI models use that to change the feed.

ChatGPT gets GPT-6 and answers with charts and buttons

Paid users get GPT-6 Sol from October 7, and Free and Go users get GPT-6 Luna from October 8. A new feature called Intelligent UI lets answers include charts, forms and small tools.

OpenAI started bringing GPT-6 to the Chat tab of ChatGPT on October 7. Answers can now mix text with diagrams, buttons, forms and charts, a feature OpenAI calls Intelligent UI. ChatGPT can also start answering while it is still thinking. Nobody outside OpenAI has tested the new answers yet.

Google now lets people speak to Gmail, Docs, and Keep

The new voice tools can search email, create a document, and organize notes. Users need to see which private information the AI used.

AI assistants are starting to remember whole projects

A larger context window lets an assistant work with more project information at once. The real benefit is not repeating the same background in every chat.