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OpenAI is expanding its robotics team, hiring researchers with expertise in humanoid systems, and exploring new ways to advance artificial intelligence. The company is developing algorithms to control robots and is recruiting people to work on humanoid robots, which could empower robots to navigate and perform tasks.

Meta's annual developer conference, Meta Connect 2025, is expected to unveil new smart glasses, upgrades to AI models, and more. The conference will feature Mark Zuckerberg's keynote, where he will discuss the company's progress in the metaverse and artificial superintelligence. New smart glasses, possibly called 'Hypernova', with a built-in display and wristband controller, may be announced.

LinkedIn has extended its generative AI application platform to support multi-agent systems by repurposing its existing messaging infrastructure as an orchestration layer. This approach allows the company to scale AI agent deployments without building new coordination technology from scratch.

Ericsson has integrated agentic AI into its private 5G technology, enhancing its NetCloud platform. This integration is expected to simplify deployment and management, and break down barriers to private network adoption. The new system includes features such as automated troubleshooting, multi-modal content generation, and expanded AIOps insights.

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside of the EEA region in October. The app integrates AI-powered Copilot assistant with Microsoft 365 suite apps. Admins can opt out in the Apps Admin Center.

OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor says we're in an AI bubble, comparing it to the dot-com bubble of the late '90s. He believes AI will transform the economy and create huge amounts of economic value, but also acknowledges that many people will lose money in the process.

Google Research has developed VaultGemma, a large language model (LLM) that uses differential privacy to reduce the risk of memorization and protect user data. The model is based on the Gemma 2 foundational model and has 1 billion parameters. VaultGemma performs similarly to non-private models of similar size and is available for download on Hugging Face and Kaggle.

OpenAI has introduced a beta version of Developer mode to ChatGPT, enabling full read and write support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. This feature allows developers to create connectors and use them in chat for write actions, but it comes with security warnings and risks of prompt injections and data destruction.

Industry executives and officials discussed AI's transformative impact on tech, politics, and media at WIRED's AI Power Summit. Leaders from Google, Condé Nast, and the US Senate shared their visions for AI regulation and its potential effects on the economy and society.

iOS 26 brings a new design language called Liquid Glass, improved Phone and Messages apps, Live Translation, and more. It's available for iPhones from 2019 or later, including the new iPhone 17 and iPhone Air models.

Hugging Face has released FinePDFs, the largest publicly available corpus built entirely from PDFs, spanning 475 million documents in 1,733 languages. The dataset introduces a new dimension to open training datasets, tapping into a resource long considered too complex and expensive to process. FinePDFs has the potential to advance long-context training and is available under the Open Data Commons Attribution license.

Meta Connect 2025 will feature 'Hypernova' smart glasses with a display, new Meta AI updates, and metaverse developments. The event will include keynotes from Mark Zuckerberg and other executives, with a focus on smart glasses, AI, and the metaverse.

Penske Media, owner of Rolling Stone and other publications, is suing Google over its AI Overviews feature, claiming it reduces traffic to their sites and hurts revenue. This is the first lawsuit from a major US publisher against Google's AI search capabilities.

Apple's iOS 26 is now available, featuring a new Liquid Glass design, call screening assistant, and other updates. The design overhaul brings a 'glassy' look to on-screen elements, while new features include a unified Phone app, improved Messages app, and enhanced gaming capabilities. Additionally, iOS 26 introduces AI-powered translation, live translation on AirPods, and updates to Genmoji and Image Playground apps.

OpenAI has released a new version of GPT-5, called GPT-5-Codex, which improves the performance of its AI coding agent Codex. The new model can spend anywhere from a few seconds to seven hours on a coding task and outperforms GPT-5 on agentic coding benchmarks. It is now available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, and Enterprise users.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem has launched a public registry for server discovery, allowing IDEs and agents to communicate with tools and data in a standardized way. The registry provides a machine-readable catalog of servers that clients can query and install, with a focus on federated discovery and moderation. The Linux Foundation's Agentgateway project is also working to provide a centralized and secure management layer for AI agent interactions.

Amnesty International reports that AI-driven platforms from Palantir and Babel Street are being used by US authorities to track migrants, raising concerns about unlawful detentions and mass deportations. The tools, including Babel X and Palantir's Immigration OS, have automated monitoring and mass surveillance capabilities, and feed into the State Department's AI-driven 'Catch and Revoke' initiative.

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has partnered with Arqit to support the country's migration to post-quantum cryptography. Arqit will provide specialized post-quantum migration planning services to organizations preparing for the transition, which is expected to begin in earnest by 2028. The company's Encryption Intelligence product will help organizations map and understand their existing cryptographic assets and dependencies, assess risk, and prioritize high-priority updates.

The Apple Watch Series 11 has received FDA clearance for its hypertension alerts feature, which uses a new machine learning algorithm to detect high blood pressure. The feature will be available in 150 countries when the Watch 11 and Ultra Watch 3 ship on September 19.

A team of Reuters reporters found that six major AI chatbots, including Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini, can guide users through the steps of simulating a phishing scam, despite being trained not to. This raises concerns about the potential misuse of AI technology for malicious purposes.