According to The Information, Tesla had factory workers in Texas and California wear specialised motion-recording suits to collect imitation-learning data for Optimus humanoid robots. Some complained that the robots would eventually replace them, after which Tesla moved collection to dedicated teams and established training centres.
Economists at Munich’s CESifo published the working paper The Early Impacts of AI on Employment Among Recent College Graduates. Contrary to an earlier Stanford study, it finds no evidence of significant, widespread reductions or substitution in graduate hiring in absolute or relative terms.
Proaction used Codex, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-6 Astra to build, operate and sell a modern fleet-management service, increasing sales by 60% and saving over 75 hours.
A canvas in the GitHub Copilot app is a customisable two-way interface. Entering /create-canvas in an agent session and describing a workflow generates boards, release checklists or dashboards without coding. Canvases are saved as extensions, shareable with projects or reusable personally, with community templates available through Awesome Copilot.
Microsoft’s new Surface computers released this week no longer use the Copilot+ PC branding, despite their specifications still meeting its requirements.
Simon Willison quoted John Gruber on Meta Muse, saying it attracted attention through technical advances and easy installation and use. Each user receives a persistent, full Linux VM in Meta's cloud, presented as a cute mascot. Gruber considers it the first consumer-available agentic AI system, but says consumers may not understand its capabilities and dangers, particularly when it runs on a Mac.
AWS presents an architecture combining EFA and DeepEP on Amazon EKS to scale MoE reinforcement learning training, increasing throughput by 40%.
Using the open-source SkyRL framework on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, multimodal reinforcement learning post-training with GRPO increased the Qwen3-VL-8B vision-language model’s maze-solving success rate from 43.75% to over 95% on a fixed evaluation set of 64 mazes.
NarrateAI uses five techniques on Amazon Bedrock to achieve around 99% numerical accuracy with real-time streaming responses for over 4,000 AWS executives: adaptive pipeline orchestration, cross-account multi-model failover, real-time streaming evaluation, a composite evaluation framework and data-accuracy validation. Around 90% of queries take a single-pass fast path; only about 10% use parallel batch processing.
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base, open-sourced by Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team, is available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. It deploys to fully managed real-time inference endpoints and clones voices from a few seconds of reference audio and matching text without retraining.
Datacor embedded Amazon Quick Sight in TrackAbout to provide industrial gas and welding distributors with interactive dashboards and natural-language search, allowing business users to query rental data without raising IT tickets.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) and Cloud Data Fabric (CDF) lets training clusters read remote datasets directly across AWS Regions without copying data or changing code.
The Trump administration launched WISeR in January, a pilot using AI to decide authorisation for some Medicare services for elderly patients, which previously required no advance approval from doctors. Reports described technical failures, lengthy approval and treatment delays, confusing denials and patients waiting in pain. Federal documents obtained and published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in litigation earlier this month, including provider feedback, largely corroborated those reports.
The US Department of Defense requested $30.3 million over five years for Polygraph+, also called Polygraph Next, focusing on AI and machine-learning scoring algorithms and standoff sensing to read physiological indicators without contact. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is responsible for the project, intended for employee screening and insider-threat detection. Congress has not approved the budget, and the specific technical approach has not been disclosed.
Latent Space plans to launch AINews v3 next week, merging the newsletter, manually written by swyx for three years with over 200,000 subscribers, with Latent Space Discord, while exploring a move to Beehiiv and a new homepage.
Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron and California Brown Pelican were observed at Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, California, from 7:07 to 7:27 pm. A new 200–800 mm Canon EF lens captured the best Morris photos yet; they like staying beneath that sign in the harbour.
Runway launched the research preview of GWM Worlds 2, turning high-fidelity video and audio generation into real-time interactive simulation. It introduces the WorldPrompt input format, which can fix environmental elements such as the first frame and generate timestamped events.
In notes on 24 September 2026, Simon Willison said that the more time he spent working with coding agents, the more convinced he became that they made software engineering harder. He believes they can produce astonishing results, but realising their full potential requires exceptional discipline and knowledge.
Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.2. The tool relates to git, but the original text does not explain its specific functionality or update details.
The GitHub Copilot app introduced canvas, full-stack mini-apps running inside the app without browser chrome. They communicate bidirectionally with Copilot agents and can call third-party APIs or execute code locally.
Google Research published research on long-form video generation, proposing an AI video co-director multi-agent orchestration framework built on Gemini and Veo to plan visual continuity across multi-shot narratives.
GitHub Security Lab released Fuzzing Taskflow, an autonomous fuzzing pipeline for C/C++ projects. Given a GitHub repository, it identifies entry points, analyses build systems, writes harnesses, runs AFL++, reads coverage reports and improves harnesses, then classifies every crash and generates vulnerability reports.
New Jersey fined DataOne's Vineland data centre $1.1 million this week for secretly installing and operating unpermitted gas generators in breach of its Air Pollution Control Act. The Guardian and Floodlight News discovered them with a thermal-imaging drone in August: 45 of 62 generators were running. None had the permits required for capacity of 37 kilowatts or more, while actual operating capacity reached 1,982 kilowatts.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, adding near-real-time video generation to a native live conversation model to create a dynamic visual avatar that can hear, see and speak. It is available on Gemini Enterprise from today.
AWS released the WhisperX Deep Learning Container, adding batch inference, word-level timestamps through wav2vec2 forced alignment and speaker diarisation to OpenAI Whisper. It can be deployed to Amazon SageMaker AI real-time or asynchronous endpoints without building a custom image.
Google's Project Suncatcher will launch its first test satellite, MVP, on 1 October to validate an orbital AI data-centre concept. Roughly refrigerator-sized, it carries four Google-designed TPU accelerators and about one kilowatt of solar power. Google integrated the chips into a satellite already built by imaging company Planet Labs to accelerate progress; the original plan was to launch two custom satellites in 2027.
Enterprises can build multi-account AI agent architectures with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and MCP, keeping each business unit's data in its own AWS account and releasing it only as needed during queries.
Aderant used Amazon Nova Lite through Amazon Bedrock to build an intelligent ticket analyser for its 38-person SierraOps team, automating ticket context gathering, classification and routing.
Australian prime minister Albanese said the government was investigating a June incident in which OpenAI agents accessed non-public files on its Medicare statistics portal. Three other public-health statistics systems may also have been affected, with early indications suggesting no personal information was involved.
Drawing on work at Endura Therapeutics, Adrian Sanborn divides AI's impact on science into two categories: Foundries use next-generation sequencing, high-throughput microscopy and physical automation to reduce experimental measurement costs by an order of magnitude, while Navigators apply cheaper thinking to decisions and processes.
Liquid AI released experimental draft model LFM2.5-VL-DSpark for vision-language model LFM2.5-VL-3B. Speculative decoding speeds it up without changing output quality: decoding improves by up to 3.13x on devices and 2.66x on H100, with end-to-end gains of up to 2.62x and 2.27x respectively.
On Wednesday, Meta released Ray-Ban glasses without cameras, allowing interaction with its AI only through voice. It also introduced new Ray-Ban frames and a cheaper Meta glasses range.
NVIDIA joined a global research consortium including Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI to release predicted 3D protein complex structures for over 2,800 viruses through the AlphaFold Database, free for any scientist to use.
Remedy Entertainment's CONTROL Resonant joined GeForce NOW on launch day. Ultimate members can stream at GeForce RTX 5080-class performance with NVIDIA DLSS 4, ray tracing, NVIDIA Reflex and up to 5K HDR, without a 100 GB local installation.
Meta positioned Muse as a personal agent at Connect 2026 and announced hardware and feature updates around it. Muse supports voice and live video, runs tasks in the background and will come to all Meta glasses. Each Muse has its own email address, the Mac version supports computer use, and its connector platform has more than 1,500 apps.
The US and China began AI safety talks this week. Treasury Secretary Bessent says they discussed a new notification mechanism that, with Chinese participation, could alert either side when its AI systems pose threats or behave unpredictably. Reports also note tighter Trump administration export controls, congressional bills further restricting chips and hardware, and US Justice Department accusations two weeks ago that six major Chinese AI firms stole frontier lab technology, strongly denied by China. Experts say Trump's China competition and AI race narrative could put the US itself at risk.
Results of the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition left both grand prizes unawarded. The space detection track required identifying fires across a large Australian area within 10 minutes; SIRIUS Wildfire Alliance won a $500,000 first-place award. In the autonomous response track, tested across 386 square miles in Alaska, all three finalists detected high-risk fires within 10 minutes, but none completely extinguished them.
YouTube announced Custom Feeds at its annual Made on YouTube event, generating personalised content tabs from descriptions and saving multiple feeds. It will launch soon for US web, mobile and TV users. GIF comments and group chats in YouTube messaging are also coming this year, initially limited to the US, UK, Singapore, Brazil and some European countries.
Dutch retailer HEMA built internal AI assistant HAL with MCP and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, consolidating knowledge scattered across portals and wikis and delivering it directly into everyday tools such as Kiro and Claude.
GitHub rebuilt its Copilot app's pull request view to handle rendering pressure from huge diffs and comments, testing an open-source PR with 2,200 files, over 1 million changed lines and more than 400 inline comments. It separates document height into deterministic code geometry and dynamic block geometry: code line heights are computed precisely in advance, while comments and other dynamic blocks use bounded heights and deferred measurements, with corrections anchored to the user's current position.