Tuesday Newsday #1: every source (Sep 29 – Oct 6)

Every story was checked at the source on Oct 6. Where a source has a public link, it's below. Where it doesn't, we name the source.

Starting Oct 9, free users only get Flash Lite. Standard Flash needs Google's $4.99/mo plan, and Pro needs the $19.99/mo plan or Ultra.

OpenAI says ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion people a week, and businesses can sign up today at ads.openai.com. Image ads start testing later in October in the US.

TikTok launched an Ai shopping assistant that answers questions on sizing, shipping and availability, plus one-click checkout right in the For You feed.

US Amex Business Card members with Perplexity Enterprise get 10 ready-made Skills: cash flow forecasts, tax prep, vendor price checks, campaigns and hiring.

Companies founded in the last 5 years, or funded in the last 2, can apply for a free year of Claude Team (up to 5 seats) plus $1,000 in API credits.

OpenAI partnered with America's Small Business Development Centers to train about 150 advisors and run three-hour, hands-on Ai workshops across the country.

California signed new work laws (SB 947, SB 951, AB 1331, AB 1883): employers can't rely only on Ai to discipline or fire someone, and must say if Ai caused a mass layoff or termination. Not legal advice.

A Sep 29 executive order tells federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "Ai." A day later, California ordered its agencies to keep "artificial intelligence."

To meet the EU Ai Act, OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU. Swapping 10% of the words dropped detection from 92% to 66%.

Google calls Gemini 4 Argon its most powerful model yet. It starts with a small group of cyber defenders, then paid API customers and Ultra subscribers.

• Gemini "Call for Me" for personal calls: a rumor, and the feature itself launched Sep 24.
• Claude and Google Workspace: 2025 news.
• Copilot Business pay-per-use billing: Microsoft's notice is admin-only and the default cap is unclear.
• ChatGPT Mac app flaw: the fix version came from one secondary source.
• Meta Muse: we covered it Oct 1.