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The AI Tamagotchis are coming

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Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: it’s useful, and it’s cute. While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetite for…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:07 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Safety & Security

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

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Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he’s renamed the technology to “Super Intelligence.” He brushed off concerns that the government wasn’t…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 19:27 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Introducing SynthID Bio

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Today, we’re introducing SynthID Bio to bring watermarking technology to synthetic biology. SynthID Bio embeds an imperceptible signature directly into the biological code, ensuring the watermark is verifiable not just on a digital model but on the synthesized, physical protein itself – all while preserving its biological function in laboratory testing. Generative AI is helping scientists address critical biological challenges, from predicting the structure of proteins (AlphaFold) to designing entirely new proteins (AlphaProteo, and ProteinMPNN), and more recently, developing new bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. Yet these tools also present…

Google DeepMind · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:03 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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This is it: 3 days to get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Exhibit bookings close Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT, and this is your final opportunity to showcase at the heart of the global startup ecosystem. Once the deadline passes, the Expo Hall moves on without you. Your competitors, potential investors, customers, and members of the press will be in San Francisco, discovering new companies, making connections, and deciding which startups are worth their attention. If you…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse

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Dots are OpenAIâs new always-on AI agents, announced at the companyâs DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday in San Francisco. These agents complete tasks on a userâs behalf and are depicted as cute blobs you can personalize and assign multi-step projects to complete. OpenAIâs Dots are powered by the startupâs GPT-6 Astra model. A core selling point is their âalways-onâ designâunlike a single-turn chatbot experience, these agents constantly crawl the web and attempt to complete whatever task you assign to them. Dots also pull context from connected apps and learn more…

· 29 Sep 2026 · 19:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Safety & Security

OpenAI DevDay 2026: The biggest news and announcements

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It’s OpenAI’s turn in the fall tech events calendar. The company is hosting its annual DevDay on September 29th in San Francisco, starting with a live keynote featuring CEO Sam Altman. The company is teasing “20+ launches” with Altman saying that “we have found a new thing,“, and rumors suggest it could launch a consumer AI agent to rival Meta’s Muse. The keynote begins at 1PM ET / 10AM ET, and you can watch it on OpenAI’s website or on YouTube. DevDay is happening at a tumultuous moment for OpenAI.…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 18:27 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Safety & Security

DevDay 2026 Recap

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At DevDay 2026, we’re giving people more ways to take on ambitious work and tools to build what comes next. DevDay 2026 is our biggest yet, with more than 20 major announcements across ChatGPT, Codex, our models, and entirely new forms of working with AI. We believe AI can help bring about a new renaissance of creativity and discovery. It should give people more time for what matters to them, more freedom to pursue their ideas, and the ability to do things they didn’t think were possible. Today, we introduced…

OpenAI · 29 Sep 2026 · 12:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Business use

The Future Is for Everyone: Muse for Small Business

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Earlier this month we introduced Muse, a personal AI agent available in the US and Canada that completes tasks on your behalf. Today, we’re expanding it with a collection of new skills and connectors inside Muse to help people run their businesses. Small businesses have been growing on our apps for nearly two decades. They told us they’re short on hours, not ideas. So we built Muse for Small Business to help get work done with the tools they already use. Tom Mulholland, owner of Mulholland Grocery in Malvern, Iowa,…

Meta AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 11:30 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Models & tools

Introducing dots

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Dots are remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything. They’re a whole new way to work with AI—one that gets to know what matters to you, is always working on your behalf, and takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back. Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT‑6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to…

OpenAI · 29 Sep 2026 · 02:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

AI Video

Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2

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In this post, you turn a text prompt into an image, then animate that image into a short video on Amazon SageMaker AI. You deploy two endpoints from the same AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container (DLC): a real-time endpoint for FLUX.2-klein-4B image generation and an asynchronous endpoint for Wan2.1-VACE-1.3B video generation. The workflow sends a text prompt to generate a still image, then passes the image and a motion prompt to the video endpoint. It retrieves the MP4 from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides an optional Streamlit…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

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Holo4 is our new series of agentic models. It comes in two sizes: 27B dense and 35B-A3B Mixture of Experts. Both are available on the H Models API. We are also releasing an updated version of Holotron 3: Holotron4 Nano. Holo4 builds on our previous model and interacts with software through any available interface: GUIs, code, MCP and APIs. It scores well on academic benchmarks, but we built it for real business workflows. It was trained through supervised and reinforcement learning on a large set of environments and tasks, including…

Hugging Face · 28 Sep 2026 · 11:44 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

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The following was issued as a joint announcement on Monday, September 28, 2026, from the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and OpenAI. The Lenfest Institute for Journalism today announced the next phase of the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program, building on what has become the largest AI fellowship program in American journalism. Since its launch in 2024 with AI engineering fellows in 11 major American news organizations, the program has demonstrated that embedded AI engineers can help local news organizations accelerate innovation, strengthen business sustainability, and responsibly adopt emerging technology.…

OpenAI · 28 Sep 2026 · 09:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗