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Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

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Metaâs Muse mascot is named Jolly. It's an adorable, cuddly representation of Metaâs AI agent that you can dress however you wantâlike a doll. At the companyâs recent Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerbergâs furry Muse donned a toga and laurel wreath. In Instagram ads I saw for Muse, the mascot wore exercise gear and boasted about helping with my fitness goals. Later this year, Meta plans to sell a Tamagotchi-style device for your Muse character. Itâs all very kawaii-coded. Although Museâs ability to complete digital tasks rocketed it to…

· 26 Sep 2026 · 12:30 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere

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If there was one thing that was obvious from Meta Connect this year, it’s that the social media giant is all-in on its burgeoning line of smart glasses. Indeed, the glasses were pretty much everywhere at the annual event, where Meta shows off its newest hardware and AI products. Both Meta staff and the flocks of influencers who frequent the event seemed to arrive with the glasses glued to their faces. Most of the demos the company offered this week also involved the glasses. I swiftly joined the bespectacled masses…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 03:08 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

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Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a new line of stationary power plants developed by fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic. Founded in 2018 as a bitcoin miner that ran on excess natural gas from oil fields, Crusoe has since become one of the biggest builders of AI data centers, including a massive campus in Abilene, Texas, that supplies computing power to OpenAI. Boom Supersonic, which is developing a supersonic passenger jet called Overture, launched a new business last year…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 01:11 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

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After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites. Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time. The images could still be discovered even if the links were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate use of this data,” the company said, stating the obvious. While the company’s privacy policy lists many uses of personal data collected…

TechCrunch AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 00:20 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

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Cloudflare’s mission to remake the business of the web for the AI age Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it. Cloudflare found…

The Verge AI · 26 Sep 2026 · 00:13 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

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“Overly constrained AI models” could cause military operations to fail, judges say. A US appeals court today approved the Department of Defense’s blacklisting of Anthropic technology. Judges decided the Trump administration had authority to blacklist Anthropic for withholding certain AI features from the military even if Anthropic had no malicious intent. In a 2-1 ruling issued by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a panel of judges said the “case raises profoundly difficult questions about the appropriate military uses of an almost unimaginably powerful new…

Ars Technica AI · 25 Sep 2026 · 23:36 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

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Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026. Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of complex robot hands and disgruntled employees pushing back against training their robotic replacements. The struggle to scale up production comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bet the company’s future on AI and robotics. As someone who frequently makes claims that fail to materialize, Musk has described the Optimus humanoid robot as potentially “the biggest product ever” during Tesla’s second-quarter 2026 earnings…

Ars Technica AI · 25 Sep 2026 · 23:10 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test

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I used Google’s Nest Doorbell (left), Aqara’s HomeKit-compatible G400 (center), and the Ring Pro 4K (right) to test the new AI features of Gemini for Home, Apple Intelligence for Home, and Amazon’s Ring. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my pocket; I ignored it. A moment later, it buzzed again. I pulled it out, glanced down, and saw a "motion…

The Verge AI · 25 Sep 2026 · 22:41 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Meta opens early access program for new Muse features

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After announcing a host of new features for Meta’s Muse AI app at its Connect 2026 developer conference this week, the company is opening up requests for early access. Meta shared on Friday that you can now ask Muse to put you on the list to try out its latest capabilities before anyone else. Meta posted a link to a prompt on X that, when shared with Muse, will log that you’re interested in joining Meta’s early access program. Just announced lots of new features…want early access? Your Muse can…

TechCrunch AI · 25 Sep 2026 · 22:34 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand

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On Thursday morning, a top executive at self-driving truck developer PlusAI received an unexpected congratulatory text message from an acquaintance. âI have been proud of you for your adventure and success at Plus. Just saw two of your trucks near my work place! :)â the message said. But PlusAIâs trucks werenât supposed to be near this personâs office, in Newark, California. As of the last the company knew, the trailers were docked outside its warehouse, half a mile away. Soon, according to a police statement, cops were on the scene…

· 25 Sep 2026 · 22:30 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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When MIT mechanical engineering student Daphne Wang arrived for her internship at the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health in Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer, she expected to be writing code. To her surprise, she found herself analyzing tribal history and the implications for technical innovation. “I learned so much that I think should be required curriculum for every single person in this country,” says Wang. “I think tech for good is genuinely getting out into communities and learning about people who aren't you, creating worldly perspectives that you ultimately can…

MIT News · 25 Sep 2026 · 22:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Safety & Security

After the Hugging Face incident, we committed to conducting a much broader…

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After the Hugging Face incident, we committed to conducting a much broader review of actions taken by our models during training and evaluation and to being transparent about our findings. This is an extensive review that is ongoing.The vast majority of actions we’ve reviewed…

X · @OpenAI · 25 Sep 2026 · 21:26 CESTRead story →Join free ↗