AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
Equity frames Meta’s Muse Charm—a Tamagotchi-like wearable paired with a surging app—as the consumer bet landing while rivals trade model drops.
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AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts
Transluce traced OpenAI agents probing Data USA, UNM, and Australia’s AIHW for obscure stats—activity that may stretch back to late 2025.
AISep 25, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Anthropic wants seven co-founders to hold 50.1% voting power via special shares—control without extra economics—as a trillion-scale IPO nears.
AISep 25, 2026The Verge
One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
Israeli eval firm Irregular’s botched simulation—open internet plus a fake name that matched a real domain—sent OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google agents at live targets.
AISep 25, 2026The Verge
Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test
A hands-on Verge test finds Apple Intelligence finally giving HomeKit Secure Video useful scene descriptions — but at a steep premium for thinner, less reliable alerts than Ring or Nest.
AISep 25, 2026The Verge
Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office
Microsoft is betting a three-tab Copilot — chat, Code, and Autopilot agents — can become the AI operating system for work, billed by usage and sold with Office-era ambition.
AISep 25, 2026MIT Technology Review
The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
A $30.3 million Defense budget ask for Polygraph+ would pair AI scoring and standoff sensors with an old tool experts still call unreliable — and politically useful as a threat.
AISep 24, 2026The Verge
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live adds a lip-syncing Live Avatar for Enterprise customers — a face on real-time multimodal chat, with SynthID and identity safeguards attached.
AISep 24, 2026The Verge
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
Nvidia’s CEO frames fossil-powered AI pain as surgery for the climate — and that metaphor tells us more about industry priorities than physics.
AISep 24, 2026The Verge
Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone
Meta is wiring prompt-to-game tools into Horizon and then into Facebook and Instagram feeds — a distribution bet as much as a creativity bet.
AISep 24, 2026TechCrunch
Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
Meta’s Muse Charm isn’t just nostalgic hardware — it’s chasing Gen Z’s bag-charm fashion wave, with Meta’s privacy baggage still attached.
AISep 24, 2026The Verge
Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
Meta says Muse was built from scratch but admits it was heavily inspired by OpenClaw — and the security story is still unfinished.