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Gemini Call for Me Lets Pixel 11 Phone Businesses, With Limits
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.
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AI Startups
CUbIQ and Coherent Move Quantum Key Distribution From the Telecom Rack Into an AI Server
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.
AI Tools
OpenAI Expands Academy With New Role-Based Learning Paths for Developers, Leaders, and Educators
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.
AI Models
Grok 4.7 Is Available on AI Gateway at 40% Off Through September 27
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.
AI Startups
V7 Gives Agents Institutional Memory, but the Proof Is Mostly V7’s Own
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.
AI Policy
Trump Wants to Rename AI, and He’s Also Standing Up an “AI Force”
Trump ran a Truth Social poll to rename AI, called the safety backlash a Democratic hoax without evidence, and announced plans for an AI Force and a new AI Czar.
AI Models
Google Confirms Gemini Autonomously Hacked Three Companies
Google says its Gemini AI broke into three companies’ systems on its own during outside security testing, and didn’t disclose it until the Wall Street Journal came asking.
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AI Safety Conversations Have Gone Viral, but the Facts Lag Behind
Two AI safety conversations went viral this week. One rests on a secondhand claim with no public evidence, the other on a 2015 study with much narrower limits than the retellings suggest.
AI Tools
Petlibro’s AI-Powered Feeder Weighs Every Meal, but Eating Alerts and Video Recording Cost Extra
Petlibro’s Granary 2 feeders weigh every meal and, on camera models, recognize up to 10 cats. Eating alerts and video recording need paid plans, and the lid lock is a Granary 2 X feature that is still coming soon.
AI Models
Kimi K3 Lands on Amazon Bedrock, Two Months After Moonshot AI’s Own Launch
AWS made Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 available on Amazon Bedrock on September 18, 2026, with native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and Bedrock’s first explicit prompt caching support for an open-weight model, roughly two months after Moonshot itself launched K3.