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Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?

TechCrunch · Sep 27, 2026

On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Meet the New Microsoft Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot

Towards AI · Sep 27, 2026

Microsoft is reimagining the Copilot to enable work as it evolves and to help expand what every individual and every organization can accomplish in the flow of human ambition. Today Microsoft is introducing the new Copi…

OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

The Verge · Sep 27, 2026

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite ris…

AI agents do more of the work in model development, but humans still make the decisions

The Decoder · Sep 27, 2026

A research team analyzed 769 task logs from building its own AI model. AI agents supplied up to 55 percent of method proposals, but humans made more than 85 percent of final decisions. A third of the tasks wouldn't have…

Nvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speakers in real time

The Decoder · Sep 27, 2026

Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an AI model that identifies which speaker is talking at any given moment in a conversation. The article Nvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speake…

Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen

The Decoder · Sep 27, 2026

Researchers from Stanford and Caltech had a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra independently tidy up an unfamiliar kitchen. Their HomeBody system skips a specially trained control layer, letting the language model ca…

OpenAI says 80 to 90 percent of its research already targets GPT 7 and beyond

The Decoder · Sep 27, 2026

Boris Power, OpenAI's Head of Applied Research, says 80 to 90 percent of the company's research goes toward GPT 7, GPT 8, and beyond. Improvements within a single generation are intentionally short-term bets. But Power…

Why I’m Keeping Meta’s Muse on a Short Leash

The Information · Sep 26, 2026

• The Big Read: A biology contest pitting OpenAI against human scientists goes awry • Why the big, bad bears aren’t ready to bet big on AI yet • A gusher of oil money is washing up in Silicon Valley • Plus, Recommendati…

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

TechCrunch · Sep 25, 2026

AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.

Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic

TechCrunch · Sep 25, 2026

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,…