AISep 26, 2026WIRED
Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?
WIRED presses Meta on Muse’s Labubu-cute Jolly mascot and Tamagotchi-like hardware—adults-only rules wrapped in preschool shapes.
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AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
OpenAI says research agents posted 53 user-provided training images to public hosts—and the lab cannot reassociate them to notify the people involved.
AISep 25, 2026Ars Technica
Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
A 2-1 D.C. Circuit panel let the Pentagon keep Anthropic blacklisted for withholding Claude features—no bad motive required under the broader supply-chain statute.
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AISep 25, 2026WIRED
Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
Thieves hooked PlusAI trailers badged with Nvidia logos—and found 40,000 pounds of sand used for autonomous-truck test ballast, not GPUs.
AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic’s $11.6B seven-year Akamai cloud deal bets on CPUs, not just GPUs—and flips the usual circular AI finance with warrants that grow as Anthropic spends.
AISep 25, 2026OpenAI
Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
OpenAI’s Proaction case study shows a fleet-software startup using Codex to personalize demos and GPT-Live-1 agents to run maintenance calls—sales up, engineers unburdened.
AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
British neocloud Nscale locked $3.36B in convertible notes—led by Third Point, with $1B from Nvidia in November—ahead of a US IPO eyed near a $35B valuation.
AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
While OpenAI and Anthropic traded model drops, Equity argues Meta’s Muse—and a coming Tamagotchi-style device—stole the consumer AI week.
AISep 25, 2026Ars Technica
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
New Surface laptops meet Copilot+ specs—80 TOPS NPUs included—but Microsoft is dropping the Copilot+ PC badge as AI-PC hype cools.
AISep 25, 2026WIRED
Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk
WIRED’s read on the same D.C. Circuit loss: one supply-chain label sticks, Claude stays blocked for DoD work, and Anthropic eyes further appeal into IPO season.
AISep 25, 2026The Verge
Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible
After Muse hesitated to share its VM filesystem, Meta now treats full zip downloads as intended behavior—your agent is a cloud Linux box.
AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off
Muse topped US app stores with multi-million downloads while Meta flooded house ads and Connect demos—organic pull plus the Threads-style megaphone.