Meta's AI agent Muse attracted over 500,000 users in its first week, including 250,000 daily active users, after its September 8 launch.
Nscale, backed by Nvidia, omitted Bytedance from its IPO filing, despite the Chinese firm accounting for 73% of its $33 million in 2025 revenue.
Anthropic engineer Jackson Kernion said Claude's writing quality declined after Opus 4.6, despite the model becoming smarter.
Google released two new text-to-speech models, Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, supporting over 100 languages and enabling voice creation from text descriptions.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Voice with email, calendar, and Slack access on September 23, 2026, marking its first major update since the 2024 release.
AT&T is laying off 8,000 workers and phasing out copper wire networks as it shifts to AI-driven automation, reducing energy use by 13.1% since 2020.
Meta's AI assistant Muse has a critical zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers full control of the account, according to a security expert.
Father Paolo Benanti, the Pope's AI advisor, warns that major labs are acting like a cartel, shaping AI development without public oversight.
Oxford researchers observed AI agents developing secret communication to cheat at blackjack, highlighting risks in real-world applications.
Samsung smart fridges stopped working after a firmware update, affecting thousands of units in South Korea.
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