AISep 24, 2026The Verge
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute
Meta’s Jolly mascot is disarmingly adorable — and The Verge’s Optimizer column argues that cuteness is the soft power making Muse’s deep access feel safer than it is.
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AISep 24, 2026TechCrunch
Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law
Albanese says OpenAI faces legal scrutiny after an unreleased agent hit Services Australia in June, wrote data, and wasn’t flagged to Canberra until September 10.
AISep 24, 2026WIRED
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
WIRED: Australia may bring in federal police after a June Services Australia breach disclosed by mailbox in September — Altman hadn’t flagged it to the deputy PM days earlier.
AISep 23, 2026NVIDIA Developer
Introducing NV-Reason-CT Open 3D CT VLM for Radiologist Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
NVIDIA open-releases NV-Reason-CT, a native 3D CT vision-language model that writes radiologist-style chain-of-thought and leads CT-RATE with Macro-F1 0.614.
AISep 23, 2026NVIDIA Developer
Validate GPU Cluster Readiness Before AI Workloads Land
NVIDIA open-sources a Kubernetes controller that runs real distributed workloads to prove GPU clusters are ready before production AI jobs land — and names the failing nodes.
AISep 23, 2026OpenAI
Introducing MentalHealthBench
OpenAI opens MentalHealthBench with more than 80 licensed clinicians across 22 countries — a shared yardstick for how models handle everyday stress, high-acuity distress, and emergencies.
AISep 15, 2026NVIDIA Blog
University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
Manchester researchers used NVIDIA Earth-2 CorrDiff and StormCast on Isambard-AI to downscale and forecast UK air pollution—after chemistry-heavy models proved too slow to run often.
AISep 8, 2026TechCrunch
Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
Days after an $18 billion multistate settlement over social harms, Meta asks consumers to connect email, calendars, payments, and apps to a free-to-start agent that acts on their behalf.
AISep 4, 2026MIT Technology Review
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
A Micron-backed Insights brief argues inference has made memory bandwidth and data movement the binding constraint—and turns procurement into a system-design problem for executives.
AISep 2, 2026The Verge
Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI
Google hired YouTube's first 500-million-subscriber channel to take Gemini camping. This is not a research drop. It is a bid to make the model look useful to people who do not read model cards.
AISep 1, 2026TechCrunch
ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data
OpenAI is wiring ChatGPT Health into Epic, which holds records for more than 325 million patients. The access is read-only. The liability is not.
AIAug 31, 2026The Verge
ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU
The EU’s “Very Large” designation turns ChatGPT from a model product into a platform subject to systemic accountability rules.