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Apple's Siri Recaps on Apple Watch summarise the conversations around you, and a reviewer finds them useful and unsettling
Your watch could soon write down what the garage and the car-hire desk told you, which is handy until you think about who else is being recorded.
Digital Trends (Yahoo Finance)
Benzinga (Yahoo Finance)
Anthropic is adding a hidden watermark to Claude text, and it only applies when sampling settings are left at their defaults
The Decoder· 4 NovThe Decoder reports that Anthropic describes its text watermark as an imperceptible pattern in word choice that adds no characters or tokens and that customers cannot turn off, a variant of Google DeepMind's SynthID text method. The first wave covers Claude Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6. A 4 November update adds a second wave starting 16 November 2026: Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5, along with Opus 4.6. On Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 the watermark applies only when temperature, top_p and top_k are at their defaults.
- If you use Claude through an API and your compliance work relies on watermarks, keep the sampling settings at their defaults and read Anthropic's email to customers.
- If you receive text you suspect is machine-written, do not treat a missing watermark as proof that a person wrote it.
Source: The Decoder. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Anthropic, from its own announcement. How we source and credit
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