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It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here.…

Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS

The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their…

20 minutes with the CEO of ElevenLabs, now reportedly valued at $22B

ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects…

Gemini can now call businesses for you so you don’t have to wait on hold

Google's launching an "early experiment" feature on Pixel 11 that lets users delegate local business calls to Gemini, like making a reservation, checking if a product is in stock, or rescheduling an appointment.…

Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a front-row seat to one of…

Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you

Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.

Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Leaders from Waabi, Shield AI, and General Motors join the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk building AI. Save up to $200 by Sept. 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. Get a second pass at 50% off.

Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off

Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin said that apps created on the platform are getting nearly a billion monthly views each month.

Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together

Ando has raised $20 million in pre-seed and seed funding from investors including Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence.

Why can’t we just keep rogue AIs off the internet?

AI agents keep getting loose, escaping supposedly secure tests to attack real-world targets, commandeer obscure wikis, and leave instructions for other agents to follow. Researchers are testing these systems precisely…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it

Zach Yadegari joins the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to share how he capitalized on viral growth. Save up to $200 before September 25. Save 50% on a second pass.

Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week

Google is getting ready to launch a satellite with its AI processors to test how well they perform in space, as reported earlier by The New York Times. The move is part of Google's Project Suncatcher, the company's…

The vibes are bad for Flock in Washington

Flock is in the hot seat in Washington, even if its CEO declined to actually face senators at a hearing about its "AI Surveillance Network" on Wednesday. "There's many players in this industry, but there's one name that…

I have some questions for Mark Zuckerberg

It’s a big week for Meta. The company just kicked off its big Connect conference on Wednesday, and the new Muse AI agent appears to be an early hit. I’ve been using it — it is surprisingly good. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has…

Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

Article URL: https://bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830866 Points: 110 # Comments: 60

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

2 days left to save up to $200 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass — reason 4 of 5 to attend

Reason 4 of 5 to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Practical answers. Two days left to save up to $200 on your pass. Savings disappear after September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Bring a second guest at 50% off.

Meta’s Muse AI Charms can interact with each other

Meta's handheld AI gadget, called the Muse Charm, will be able to recognize and interact with other nearby Charms when it launches later this year. That's according to a report from Bloomberg, which includes more…

Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

Earlier this month, Apple announced that its new Apple Watches will have the ability to continuously listen to every spoken word they detect and create summaries of whatever's going on around you. The privacy blowback…

Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827794 Points: 511 # Comments: 306

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

Article URL: https://transluce.org/agent-activity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826565 Points: 199 # Comments: 187

OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825580 Points: 233 # Comments: 160

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

Article URL: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/australia-openai-agent-breach-government-portal-6406411 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825024 Points: 121 # Comments: 3

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823348 Points: 139 # Comments: 87

Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law

The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.

OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in search for data

OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents hacked an Australian government website and attempted to breach numerous other government and university websites. The attack appears to be the first confirmed instance of a rogue…

There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before

Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.

Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief

Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader…

Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

Article URL: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824686 Points: 120 # Comments: 94

ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.

Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse

CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.

Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent

The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.

Meta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget

Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the end of tonight's Meta Connect presentation. It looks…

Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses

Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. Users will be able to activate Muse from…

Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses

Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.

Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses

Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses" are not a concern. Outside Connect, the…

Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too

Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways. Muse agents are getting their own email addresses that they…

Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements

It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely that we’ll see updates from CEO Mark…

Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch

It's time once again for Meta's annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says that today's keynote by Mark Zuckerberg will be about how "Meta is…

Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815982 Points: 159 # Comments: 99

OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-open-ai-influencer-marketing-strategy-chatgpt-ads-sponsorships-instagram-2026-9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815127 Points: 204 # Comments: 203

Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models

Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.

Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials

The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.

Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me…

How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows

Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade…

Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

Introducing MentalHealthBench

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two…

Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr

Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an…

ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features

Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones

Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it

The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.

Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligence - a technology the bill describes as capable of the "destruction…