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An AI just bought us an extra day of typhoon warning.

Google's storm forecasting bought the world an extra day of warning, an AI wrote working viruses from scratch, and free ChatGPT lost its message limit.

01Top Story

Google's AI sees the storm a day sooner

Google DeepMind showed in the journal Nature that its weather system, WeatherNext, predicts where a typhoon will go and how strong it gets about a full day earlier than the systems national weather agencies use now.

why it matters
Google has released it for anyone to use free, and an extra day is the difference between evacuating on time and evacuating in the rain.
Read at Google DeepMind
02Science

An AI wrote a virus that actually works

Researchers at Stanford had an AI write the full genetic code for viruses that had never existed, built 16 of them in a lab, and watched them kill strains of E. coli that shrug off natural ones.

why it matters
These viruses only attack bacteria, and doctors already use them on infections antibiotics cannot clear; the same method pointed at a human bug is what has safety experts worried.
Read at The Guardian
03OpenAI

Free ChatGPT is now unlimited

OpenAI removed the cap on text chats for free accounts, switched them to its newer GPT-5.6 Luna, and added a Think button that makes it work harder on a difficult question.

why it matters
OpenAI says answers carrying at least one wrong fact are 62% less common on the new version than on the older GPT-5.5 it replaces.
Read at OpenAI
04Philippines

Marcos is asked for P650M and a task force

The panel of business leaders that advises President Marcos asked him at Malacanang to set up a national AI task force and release P650 million from a higher education fund to pay for AI training in colleges this year.

why it matters
The money already exists in that fund, so it needs a release order rather than a new budget, which is the fastest route it could take.
Read at Manila Bulletin
05Apps

Google Maps will now order your food

Google Maps can order from a restaurant, book a hotel and buy event tickets inside the app when you ask it to, and it can read your Gmail and calendar to plan around what you already have booked.

why it matters
The ordering and booking part starts in the US only, and the Gmail link stays switched off until you turn it on yourself.
Read at TechCrunch

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