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Meta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget
Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the end of tonight's Meta Connect presentation. It looks almost like a chunky smartwatch without the strap - just a big screen, plus a little lanyard for carrying the device around. The Muse Charm has a fingerprint sensor on the top right corner that you can press to activate and begin speaking to the agent. There appears t
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.
ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.
Meta VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: Specs, Features, Prices
At its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.
Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses
Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. Users will be able to activate Muse from their glasses by saying its name and ask it to handle tasks like guiding a workout, logging meals, or helping them shop for products they're looking at. Muse is just one of several major updates coming to Meta's glasses. They're also getting some new accessibil
Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements
It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely that we’ll see updates from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team on those categories. The company has been facing significant scrutiny because of how some users have been covertly recording other people using the glasses, meaning that one of the biggest announcements of the show could
Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses
The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses have no cameras. | Photo by Brett Putman / The Verge Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses" are not a concern. Outside Connect, the public backlash against wearable surveillance tech - a catchall term that encompasses not just smart glasses, but also smartwatches and AI pendants - is gaining steam. So it's inc
Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too
Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways. Muse agents are getting their own email addresses that they can use for accomplishing tasks. You'll also be able to communicate with your Muse agent over the new email addresses, too. In addition, the recently launched Muse Mac app will be getting the ability to use your computer. Meta is also going to give you another wa
Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch
It's time once again for Meta's annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says that today's keynote by Mark Zuckerberg will be about how "Meta is building a future for everyone" - something he wrote at length about in a recent essay about AI, smart glasses, and more. That means we can expect more news from Zuckerberg and his team on those topics; perhaps we'll hear more about Meta's recently launched Muse AI
Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.
Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.
AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting Harder to Spot
A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.
YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
The annual Made on YouTube event has just wrapped up, offering an early look at the features you can expect to come to Google's dominant online streaming platform in the coming months. Yes, there's plenty of AI for both viewers and creators, but there's also a handful of non-AI updates mixed in there, too. The design of YouTube's homepage feed comes under fire often, but the platform is preparing to give you more options. With Custom Feeds, you'll be able to add new tabs to the YouTube interface
XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min, but couldn’t stop them
Wildfire detection from space and firefighting drones featured among the finalists honored in the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition. Although no team walked away with either of the two grand prizes, such technologies could prove helpful as the world grapples with the growing costs of worsening wildfire disasters. The competition’s First Prize track for space-based wildfire detection challenged teams to accurately detect all fires across a large swath of Australia within 10 minutes. A secon
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
An adorable little bear that wants to help you buy things. Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to do with it? The tree just assigned me homework? Oh, our trash collection company canceled our account out of nowhere and now I have
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. The company says Claude found the enzyme system after searching through a massive database of DNA sequences, adding that its scientists' involvement was limited to the initial prompt
Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models
Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.
How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.
Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.
YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them
Part of the job of a content creator is to figure out how to get their work in front of the most people. Cracking - or fighting - the algorithm has historically been a frustration for creators, but YouTube is increasingly simply telling creators what they should do. At the annual creator-focused Made on YouTube event, the company announced updates to the suite of AI-powered creator tools it unveiled in 2025. In its initial iteration, the dashboard of creator tools included thin
ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones
YouTube Music gets more conversational with new AI features
Built directly into the YouTube Music app, Ask Music lets users describe what they want to hear in everyday language rather than searching for individual songs or artists.
Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers.
YouTube releases new AI features for creators within its Studio app
YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.
YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI
ouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.
Spotify is giving you the keys to its recommendation algorithm with US launch of ‘Taste Profile’
Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations.
OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
Two years of OpenAI Academy
Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.
AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs, and Its Old Telecom Empire
The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased automation.
Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.
SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a 25 g magnetic button that snaps to the back of an iPhone, carries its own microphone, and writes finished text straight into whatever app is already open. The Positioning: a Communicator, not a Dic
Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.
Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. According to Rabbit, you can add up to five devices to one account, along with your preferred AI models. OS3 will automatically determine the devices, files, apps, and AI models it ne
Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App
Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.
AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
Viture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind
No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.
A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind, No Humans in Sight
Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots—and quickly discovered something unusual.
I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird
Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work.
NVIDIA Introduces SoL-Pi: Auto-Research Loops That Cut Coding Agent Token Traffic by Up to 49%
Coding agents now run for hours, not minutes. Every edit, test run and log read goes back into the model’s context. A team of researchers from NVIDIA, NTU and MIT have released SoL-Pi, a set of 4 efficiency mechanisms for the open-source Pi coding agent. An AI found these mechanisms by running auto-research loops at the harness layer. On the 51-task EdgeBench evaluation, SoL-Pi cuts recorded token traffic by 44.7% to 49.0% versus Pi and cuts API cost by roughly 33%. Its scores stay close
AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy
Many developers find that an agent idea works inside Claude Code or Codex, then struggles once they rebuild it with their own loop. The Strands Agents team at AWS is targeting that gap with Strands harness, a fully assembled, general-purpose agent harness. It runs locally or deploys to a cloud provider, ships for Python and TypeScript under Apache 2.0, and starts with one line of code. The team reports 28% lower cost than other harnesses running the same Claude or GPT models across 6 benchmarks
Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore.
With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete
Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.
Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.
Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini
Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.
How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory
Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work.
Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." According to GeekWire, Meta didn't notify Amazon that Muse would access its store. Amazon also expressed privacy and security concerns over Muse failing to identify itself when it browses, a
Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters
A stock voice only needs to sound good. A cloned voice must sound like one specific person. That is a harder test, and the 7 Voice cloning providers here handle it very differently. We recorded one 10-second reference clip and cloned it on every platform. The results sit side by side below, unlabeled, so you can judge before seeing names. We then compare 4 axes that decide deployments: reference audio needed, consent verification, commercial license, and languages. How the 10-second test
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
OpenClaw Releases 2026.9.5 With Atomic Updates, Plugin Hot Reload, Conversation Sharing, and Expanded GPT Live
OpenClaw is an open-source, MIT-licensed personal AI agent that you run on your own machines. Its Gateway connects models, tools, and chat channels such as Telegram, Slack, and Discord. The project has now shipped version 2026.9.5, announced on X. The release bundles 4,179 pull requests and 64 direct commits, with credits to 502 contributing accounts. The main change is Atomic Updates, which targets a long-running complaint: updates that break a working agent. Is it deployable? Yes, Version
Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think
Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages. The problem is tha
Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
Meta Launches Muse for Mac: A Personal AI Agent That Works Across Your Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar and Notes
Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can complete things on a user’s computer. The agent works with local files and native apps, where your data already lives. It adds a desktop layer to an agent that launched on phones, the web and WhatsApp earlier this month. Is it deployable? Yes, for end users. It is a free macOS download today, only available in the US for now. It is a hosted consumer agent, not an open model you can self-host. What Meta Shipped Mar
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra helps Hex’s data agents turn answers into interactive visualizations that employees are proud to share.
FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
An AI tool is set to start advising air traffic controllers on managing air traffic in the congested airspace above the Washington, DC, area. The expected launch would be the first step toward a planned nationwide rollout covering the 29 million square miles of US national airspace overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA describes the SMART system as using AI models to predict air traffic flows and identify potential conflicts based on operational factors like airline schedules,
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