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The company behind Facebook and Instagram wants to keep consumers connected to the digital world via its ever-growing line of smart glasses. Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere Lucas Ropek 6:08 PM PDT · September 25, 2026 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.

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans. Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers Kirsten Korosec 4:11 PM PDT · September 25, 2026 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.

AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge. Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge Tim Fernholz 3:20 PM PDT · September 25, 2026 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.

Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. 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 ask for you.

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more. Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal Aditya Mehta 12:13 PM PDT · September 25, 2026 Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday .

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Mark Wahlberg is taking the Disrupt stage with Bruce K. Lee for a candid conversation on entrepreneurship, investing, deal flow, healthcare, wellness and how he’s leveled up his approach to business. Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his TechCrunch Events 11:48 AM PDT · September 25, 2026 Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets.

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and […]

Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent's promotion across its own apps and beyond. Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off Sarah Perez 9:16 AM PDT · September 25, 2026 Muse’s traction is surging, fueled by Meta’s promotion of the AI app at its annual Meta Connect developer conference this week and strong early reviews that praised its polished design and highly capable AI model under the hood.

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and […]

Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages. 25% off tickets now Disrupt ticket savings of up to $200 + 50% off a second ends Sept 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. REGISTER HERE. For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts Tim Fernholz 8:48 AM PDT · September 25, 2026 With little help from frontier labs, independent researchers are piecing together how AI agents coordinate in internet backwaters to access private data hosted on secure servers.

In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's blacklisting of Anthropic. Livestream Menu Make It select USA INTL Livestream Search quotes, news & videos Livestream Watchlist SIGN IN Create free account Markets Business Investing Tech Politics & Policy Video Watchlist Investing Club PRO Livestream Menu A federal appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., on Friday upheld the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic , dealing a blow to the artificial intelligence company in its months-long battle with the Trump administration. The 2-1 decision rejected Anthropic's argument that the Department of Defense's ban on its Claude models was arbitrary, unauthorized and unconstitutional.

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 detected" notification from my security camera. "Just my dog in the yard," I thought, dismissing it. As the colorful eggs piled up in the baskets, my phone kept buzzing.

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. This is a note by Simon Willison, posted on 24th September 2026 . Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Research Policy Commitments Learn News Try Claude Economics Project Swap: What happens when agents trade for us? Sep 24, 2026 Read in PDF Summary To see what works and what breaks when agents are sent into a market, we made a miniature market of Claudes—a more controlled sequel to Project Deal , our first experiment with agents interacting in a marketplace on people's behalf. Anthropic employees across six offices brought in a book they wanted to give away. Each participant had a short chat with Claude about what they like to read, and sent a Claude-powered agent onto an open trading floor to pitch, haggle, and strike deals with other people’s agents.

Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3 This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 24th September 2026 . Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Release: datasette 1.0a41 Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release. I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use . Tags: javascript , datasette , web-components , alex-garcia , opentelemetry

As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show . But his comments boil down to the same accelerationist spin we've seen from a variety of tech leaders as well as President Donald Trump. They promise that AI will be such a gift to humanity that it's worth the damage caused by data centers currently running on dirty energy. Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring in the interview. He … Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app that offers more granular controls. The apps will be available in early access, and interested users can sign up for a waitlist . Horizon has struggled as a platform, but Meta has a plan to give these new Horizon games significantly more reach: It's going to let published games made with Horizon Create and Horizon Studio get recommended on Facebook and Instagram, where they also will be playable. … Read the full story at The Verge.

A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta's Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zipping up and sharing the entire contents of its root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation. Saunders posted on Mastodon that it was "extremely easy" to replicate James' results and that Muse had "Almost no prompt injection resistance." Meta denies that the incident represents a security breach. As noted in its announcement post, Meta's Muse runs in persistent Linux virtual machines for each user. Meta spokes … Read the full story at The Verge.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which brings near real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI. Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar brings real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI. By natively coupling our live dialogue capabilities with low-latency streaming video, Live Avatar enables a more natural and intuitive conversational experience for enterprises and their users. Building on the momentum of last week's Gemini 3.8 Live launch, today we are excited to introduce Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar — bringing near real-time visual presence to our native live dialogue models.

How does speculative decoding work for VLMs The vision drafter uses the same architecture as our text LFM2.5-DSpark drafters: it captures the target model's hidden states at a fixed set of tapped layers and conditions on them to draft a block of k candidate tokens. Image patches and text tokens are projected into a shared representation before those layers, so the drafter operates on hidden-state vectors of identical dimensionality regardless of input modality. The inference algorithm is therefore unchanged from the text models. Training and Architecture We follow the DSpark recipe with a mixture of vision-language SFT data, weighted toward the workloads we expect the model to serve.

Adobe brings pro-grade creative tools to Google Gemini with Adobe in Gemini and expands its Adobe for Claude plugin with Acrobat tools and new ways to edit PDFs and Adobe Express designs directly in Claude Adobe is expanding access to its pro-grade tools across AI chatbot platforms, bringing its creative tools to Google Gemini, and in Claude, uniting Acrobat tools together with its existing creative tools plus introducing new hands-on editing capabilities. At Adobe, we build pro-grade tools people trust to create their best work and be more productive. Increasingly, that work is starting inside AI chatbot platforms, where people brainstorm ideas, solve problems and get things done.

MuJoCo Warp (MJWarp) , built on NVIDIA Warp , takes compatible MuJoCo models into that GPU-scale regime. In this article, we will move an SO-101 follower arm from a familiar MuJoCo workflow to as many as 2,048 parallel MJWarp environments and examine the technology and validation steps that make the transition possible. Figure 1. How MJWarp connects Python to GPU simulation. MuJoCo loads and compiles the MJCF model; MJWarp implements the physics in NVIDIA Warp, which compiles CUDA kernels to advance simulation states on NVIDIA GPUs. This is the second article in our State of Simulation for Physical AI series. The first article mapped the robot-simulation landscape.

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, partnering with Industrious for an extended network, and proving our impact at Google and beyond. Google Beam is expanding its global reach to six countries, supported by 18 partners and new hardware from HP. Internal testing shows the technology improves team connection and reduces the need for follow-up meetings. Starting in October, you can book and test these units at select Industrious locations to see how they enhance your own professional meetings. Google Beam uses special hardware to make video calls feel like you’re actually in the room with someone.

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you have the rights to use". I vibe coded this bring-your-own-key playground interface with GPT-6 Astra, taking advantage of the open CORS policy of the underlying Gemini API. A notable feature of the API is that it makes it easy to define a full conversation between multiple characters, each with different voices and voice style instructions.

Learn about shadow DOM through interactive examples that demonstrate style encapsulation, inheritance, slots, parts, and JavaScript access. Explore how shadow roots create isolated DOM trees with private stylesheets and elements … Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd September 2026 . Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

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Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet. Generate custom character voices and direct scene dialogue across Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids. Director, Research Science, on Behalf of the Gemini Audio Team Google just launched new AI tools that let you create and customize realistic voices from scratch. You can direct these voices to sound exactly how you want, from their accent to their emotional tone. It’s perfect for making audiobooks, games, or podcasts that sound like real people talking.