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A TechCrunch contributor built an interactive AI avatar of themselves that others can talk to, adding a fresh, honest account to the debate over making an AI avatar of yourself.
Muse is climbing app store charts fast, but a kid like mascot, a coming Tamagotchi device, and an exposed filesystem complicate Meta’s adults only pitch.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 now lists Waabi, Shield AI, General Motors and Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari, and the discounted pass window closes September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
The Agent-Editing World Model preprint says predicting tool outputs adds little when real feedback exists, and names task-state contamination as a separate problem.
The OpenAI Australia health service hack reached the government months later, by email, according to Wired, and Australia is now probing whether OpenAI broke the law.
Gemini Call for Me is a Pixel 11 test that starts with U.S. owners who pay for a Gemini subscription, and several basics remain unanswered.
CUbIQ Technologies and Coherent Corp. showed a CV-QKD transceiver in a QSFP-28 pluggable running on an NVIDIA DGX Spark at ECOC 2026, the third such demo in about a year and the first aimed at AI infrastructure rather than telecom networks.
OpenAI added three new OpenAI Academy pathways for developers, executives, and educators on September 21, 2026, building on the three courses it launched in June.
Vercel put Grok 4.7 on AI Gateway at 40% off through September 27, at $1.20 and $3.60 per million tokens. SpaceXAI’s benchmark table is its own, and independent speed and cost data is still missing.
OpenAI’s September 21 customer story says V7’s Context Graph gives agents institutional memory using GPT-5.6 models. Nearly every performance figure is V7’s own, so here is what is confirmed and what is not.
