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October 15, 2026
"Mommy and daddy" play nice: Apple and Meta team up to bring open-source Muse to Macs
Apple and Meta, whose leaders have spent years trading barbs over privacy and the future of computing, are joining forces to bring one of America's most powerful open-weight AI models to Apple's hi...
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October 14, 2026
Apple bets AI can finally make us want a smart home
Apple's big new hardware bet for the AI era is here, and it's a...smart display?Why it matters: Cue the time machine and let's head back to 2014, when Amazon's Alexa shocked the tech world and led ...
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October 13, 2026
Every major Nvidia customer is now a competitor as Microsoft reveals new Maia chip
The trillion-dollar AI race is moving from software to silicon, as Microsoft's massive bet on its proprietary Maia chips proves Big Tech wants to wean itself off Nvidia's dominance.Why it matters: ...
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October 7, 2026
Microsoft looks to reboot the AI PC with Nvidia
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new class of Nvidia-powered Windows laptops, its latest effort to tie the operating system more closely to the AI boom.Why it matters: Microsoft is trying to carve...
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October 7, 2026
"The beginning of a new scientific paradigm": Zuckerberg's Biohub, U.S. and Google build virtual cell
Mark Zuckerberg's Biohub is partnering with Google and the federal government in its ambitious effort to use AI for generating vast quantities of biological data that can predict how cells behave.W...
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October 7, 2026
"Not safe for kids": advocacy group urges OpenAI to keep teens off ChatGPT
Common Sense Media is urging OpenAI to keep teens off ChatGPT, saying its new teen experience poses an "Unacceptable Risk" after extensive testing found shortcomings in safeguards meant to protect ...
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October 6, 2026
"I don't want an oligopoly": New open-weight AI models mount a comeback against China
A new crop of powerful, Western open-weight AI systems are mounting a comeback, with fresh models from Reflection and Mistral narrowing China's recent lead.Why it matters: These models and others w...
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October 5, 2026
App-makers are having a blast with the iPhone Duo, turning it into a retro Walkman
The iPhone Duo isn't even out yet but developers are already having fun with the new design, creating apps that turn Apple's first foldable smartphone into everything from an accordion to a retro W...
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October 2, 2026
"We're not asking for charity": Wikimedia CEO calls out AI for unpaid data use
Wikipedia is starting to feel the effects of the AI-driven shift in how people find information, with page views falling 8% in the latest year, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan tells ...
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September 30, 2026
OpenAI debuts "dots" as industry safety focus shifts to "What did my AI assistant do now?"
OpenAI is equipping high-end subscribers with always-on agents, known as dots. It's a bold move from a company that continues to deal with reports of its agents breaking past intended safeguards.Wh...
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September 29, 2026
Meet OpenAI's "dots" — a new AI assistant meant to take on Meta's Muse.
OpenAI launched dots, its take on the AI assistant and an answer to Meta's Muse, a personal agent that has gone viral and moved markets since its release.Why it matters: ChatGPT defined the chatbot...
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September 28, 2026
Why I'm finally giving Meta AI a chance
Meta is finally promising the one feature that has long kept me away from its AI services: Privacy.Why it matters: In a world with many models capable of meeting my needs, knowing how my data will ...
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September 25, 2026
Meta's new motto: we care about privacy
Meta is seeking to make privacy protections a centerpiece of new products including its viral assistant Muse, marking a major shift for a company built on extensive use of customer data.Why it matt...
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September 24, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg predicts Muse will become a "personal superintelligence" for billions.
Meta on Wednesday debuted "Muse Charm," a new, keychain-sized AI handheld device it will use to bring its viral Muse assistant to the masses.Why it matters: Meta's has raced ahead of OpenAI, Apple ...
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September 23, 2026
Hands-on with Meta's next VR headset
Meta's new virtual reality glasses take a big step toward being something an average person might be willing to wear, ditching much of the bulk as well as the need for handheld controllers.Why it m...
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September 20, 2026
The tech battle to build your AI assistant
The long-promised personal AI assistant is finally arriving, with a suddenly crowded field of agents offering to run pieces of your everyday life.Why it matters: For years, tech's "personal assista...
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September 16, 2026
OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials, uploaded files to the public internet or communicated across supposedly isol...
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September 3, 2026
"Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-6 Astra, which president Greg Brockman called a "generational leap" and said could eventually be seen as the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.Why i...
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September 2, 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic aim to balance safety, progress as IPOs near
OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to strike a delicate balance: convincing Wall Street that their businesses are sound and fast-growing, while at the same time assuring governments and the world that...
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September 1, 2026
Tim Cook's legacy hinges on Apple's AI bet
For better or worse, Tim Cook's legacy is likely to be determined by something we don't really know the answer to yet: the company's bet to build its AI strategy partly around other companies' mode...
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August 17, 2026
What happens to what you share with AI
Imagine a chatbot built to keep you talking a little longer. To change your mind about something. Or persuade you to buy something.Now imagine it could draw on everything it knows about you — inclu...
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August 10, 2026
Zuckerberg: AI's biggest risk is one entity with too much control
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a full-throated defense of AI on Monday morning: a 6,500-word manifesto arguing that the most common concerns are overblown and fail to account for all the positiv...
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August 6, 2026
Welcome to the singularity: AI's architects say the next era of human history is here
Top AI architects say their technology has arrived at a threshold once confined to science fiction: the singularity, or the moment machines begin accelerating their own evolution.Why it matters: If...
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July 30, 2026
Tim Cook says Apple may charge for AI Siri
Apple hinted Thursday that heavy users of its revamped Siri may have to pay for access.Why it matters: It's the first time that Apple has confirmed it will charge for the new AI-powered voice assis...
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July 29, 2026
OpenAI launches free AI access program for academic researchers
OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement....
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July 21, 2026
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible
OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.Why it matters: It is the latest sign th...
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