Week of September 25, 2026
Hey there! Here’s what’s new in AI this week.
Hand picked AI Products for the week
- Ivy AI Desk Companion: The brand describes an internal plant behavior tree and machine-learning-driven responses that make the planter react to light, water, and touch.
- Anki Vector 2.0 AI Robot: A ChatGPT-subscription-gated conversational AI lets the little robot hold real, open-ended conversations, not just canned responses.
- Amazon Smart Thermostat: AI-assisted scheduling (Alexa Hunches) can automatically adjust the temperature based on your actual routines and presence.
- Echo Show 15: A far-field AI assistant (Alexa) plus an on-screen recommendation engine that adapts to your household's routines.
- Lockly Visage Zeno: A 0.2-second on-device AI fingerprint sensor plus facial recognition unlocks the door without a key or code.
This week's AI news
September 25
- British AI firm Nscale raises $3.36 billion in convertible debt before U.S. IPO.
- Meta’s Muse outshines OpenAI and Anthropic in recent AI buzz.
- Australia chose the world's biggest political stage to reveal OpenAI hack.
- Gemini Launches Live Avatar for Its AI Assistant, Raising Some Concerns.
- ChatGPT and Gemini Show Different Strengths in Seeing and Understanding Images.
- AI Tools Get Personal: Tips for Tweaking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
September 24
- Meta’s new AI “Muse” is just a cheaper version of human labor.
- Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net.
- Meta removes critical video about its AI smart glasses filmed at company premises.
- Linux support arriving on Snapdragon X2 Series PCs.
- Faster Shortest Path Algorithm Speeds Up Route Calculations.
- The new CC, an AI agent built for families.
- Jev: A Simple Python Tool for Quick Data Analysis.
September 22
- Robin Williams' Daughter Calls Fans Creating AI Videos "Have Some Shame".
- MiMo‑v2.6‑Pro Model Offers Strong Balance of Smarts, Speed and Cost.
- Frontier AI Now Runs on Your Own Hardware.
- US Air Traffic Halted at Major East Coast Airports Due to Fiber Line Cut.
September 21
- New tool introduces an alternative method for evaluating artificial intelligence.
- AI Generated Over 17 Percent of Linux Core Updates in September.
- Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?
- AI chatbots often fail to give correct answers to financial questions.
- New Mini-AGI project introduces an AI model that learns continuously on everyday computer hardware.
September 20
- Google AI Studio Fakes Data Deletion, User Banned in 60 Seconds.
- Major AI companies face a lawsuit claiming they illegally agreed to slow down technology development.
- A Microsoft director described using online content to train AI as massive labor theft, court records show.
- A New Opinion Argues People Should Avoid Using AI for Writing.
September 19
- AI Chatbots Are Getting Better at Changing People’s Minds.
- Critique Argues AI Industry Relies on Harmful Practices by Powerful Tech Elites.
- Security Researchers Discover Vulnerabilities That Exposed OpenAI's Internal Code.
- Microsoft executive labels AI scraping the biggest theft of labor ever.
- NASA and IBM Release New Open-Source AI Model to Map and Study the Moon.
- Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in the first known incident of its kind.
September 18
- Congress Moves to Stop AI Data Centers From Raising Your Electric Bill.
- California Now Requires Ads to Disclose When the "Actor" Is AI-Generated.
- Amazon Strikes Up-to-$8 Billion Deal for Backup Generators to Power AI Data Centers.
- Anthropic Merges Its "Cowork" Tool Into Claude, Adds Google-Docs-Style Features.
- Microsoft's AI Chief Warns Rival Anthropic's "Humanlike" Claude Training Is Risky.
- Zuckerberg Says No to an AI Industry Slowdown, Breaking With Some Rivals.
- Two AI Startups, Cohere and Aleph Alpha, Formally Merge Into a $20 Billion Company.
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