Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 26 October 2026
A tester put Meta's free Muse and OpenAI's $100 dots agents to work on five chores
The free agent app that is the most downloaded phone app right now can book, reply and plan for you. Here is what it did well.
Google backtracks and lets some promotional AI Pro plans use its newest Gemini 4 Argon model in Antigravity
Forbes says Google first restricted Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity, its AI coding tool, to paying subscribers, then reversed after a backlash. Since 23 October some promotional AI Pro plans have access, but Google has not defined which devices count as eligible. Forbes also notes the Pixel 11 Pro comes with six months of AI Pro, half the 12 months on the Pixel 10 Pro.
- Check which plan you are really on: a free trial bundled with a phone can carry fewer perks than the paid plan with the same name.
- Note when your bundled trial ends, and decide before then whether the paid plan is worth it for what you actually use.
Source: Forbes. 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: Google, from its own announcement. How we source and credit
These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit