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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
Meta’s Muse agent rolled out nationwide this month with access to email, calendars, payments and smart home devices, and Zuckerberg just doubled down on it at Connect 2026 with a holiday hardware launch. The catch is convincing people to hand that much control to a company with an $18 billion privacy settlement still fresh on the books.
Google has started using machine learning on search topics and YouTube viewing habits to estimate whether Canadian account holders are under 18. There is no opt-out, and adults flagged by mistake are asked for a government ID or a selfie.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model entirely on-device, no cloud needed, but it launches as memory costs push flagship Android prices past $1,000.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue brief the UN Security Council on AI today. Two days ago the UN’s own scientific panel published its first report, on an incident in which OpenAI’s test agents breached Hugging Face.
MIT’s insect-scale flying robot just got about 450% faster and pulled off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The robot itself was not rebuilt. A new AI control system replaced the math that was holding it back.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna on September 22 at half the price of GPT-5.6. On the headline coding benchmarks, Sol actually scores lower than the model it replaces. Here is why that is the point.
Google cut Gemini 3.6 Flash’s price in half just weeks after launch, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek’s own moves. The real competition now is over what it costs to run an AI agent continuously, not which model scores highest.
Ema’s $77 million Series B more than quadruples its 2024 valuation on a thesis that enterprise SaaS apps are turning into mere databases once AI agents do the actual work on top of them.
The world’s richest man says he is living in an Airstream trailer parked at xAI’s Memphis site so he can sleep steps from the servers. The trailer is the charming part. The 2 gigawatt facility it sits beside is the story.
King Charles summoned the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google DeepMind to a Georgian house in East Ayrshire to talk about existential risk. Nothing binding came out of it, but the guest list says plenty.