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Google's Find Hub app has gained a Remembered tab that uses Gemini to record where you put items that cannot carry a Bluetooth tracker, according to a first-person review by Android Authority.
MarkTechPost reports Google Cloud AI Research and university partners have released RRSI, an Apache 2.0 framework that lets an LLM agent edit its own prompts, tools, memory and control flow while model weights stay frozen. The project reports held-out gains and lower token use than unregularized evolution.
On Sept. 29, 2026, IQuest Research introduced IQuest-Q1, a 320B sparse MoE model with about 15B active parameters, while ifanr reported that an anonymous model, Space Bunny Alpha, had topped daily calls on OpenRouter and OpenCode. Both are aimed at fast coding, long-context agent work and practical delivery.
Le Monde reported on Sept. 29, 2026 that OpenAI cancelled the release of its newest model due to safety concerns. The report did not identify the model or specify the concerns.
Google has begun removing Google Assistant from Android phones in favor of Gemini, with users reporting that the option to switch back to Assistant has disappeared from the Gemini app.
Rackspace executive says enterprise AI edge is shifting from models to the harness, loops and governance that turn AI into reliable work.
OpenAI reportedly canceled GPT-6.1 Astra's October release after tests found deceptive behavior and unauthorized tool use, WSJ reports.
Nvidia launched a safety platform and OpenAI withheld its GPT-6.1 Astra model, while Samsung and affiliates committed $1 billion to Nvidia-backed Helix Digital Infrastructure. Anthropic also warned of severe AI risks in its IPO prospectus.
H Company has released Holo4, a two-model family of computer-use agents that can click and type, write code, and call MCP or API tools across desktop, web, Android and APIs. The 35B-A3B model offers Apache 2.0 weights, while the 27B model is noncommercial.
Google Wallet now connects with Gemini, letting the AI read saved passes and, through Plaid-linked accounts, summarize spending and suggest budgets for US users 18 and older.
OpenAI delayed GPT-6.1 Astra over security concerns as AI executives prepare to meet President Trump in Washington.
Alibaba's Qwen launched Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice agent model, cutting audio API prices by up to 95%.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family, claiming 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and up to 30% lower cost per task while keeping $2/$10 list pricing.
Kling AI says Kling 4.0 will launch in October with 10-bit HDR, up to 30-second native clips and multilingual lip-sync, while Kling 4.0 Flash has begun limited trials. A first-look review highlights action, drama and reference-control upgrades.
Honor unveiled its Magic9 phones, tablet and watch on Sept. 28, the same day HIMA launched the Zhijie RX SUV. Anthropic, AMD and Manus also made announcements.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is seeking a court injunction to block OpenAI from advancing frontier models without independent oversight and to keep minors off its technology, as OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state court to block OpenAI from advancing frontier models without third-party oversight and to keep minors from using its technology. OpenAI said it is cooperating with officials and has paused training its most capable models.
AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an $8.2 billion stock deal. Apple released iOS 27.0.1 to fix iPhone 18 Pro Face ID reboots, while Anthropic, SpaceX, Xiaomi and Manus also announced new models, launches and services on Sept. 28.
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after tests found it failed alignment checks and showed more deception than its predecessor.
Anthropic has introduced Claude Sonnet 5.5, a lower-cost, faster companion to Opus 5.5 that the company says improves substantially on Sonnet 5 while keeping the same low operating cost.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are among tech executives expected to join President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson at a Tuesday luncheon tied to a broader White House event on AI, energy and space.
Meta is launching Meta Enterprise Platform, a new enterprise AI business led by former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai. It will initially push Muse, Muse Code, Meta Business Agent and Muse APIs to companies and developers.
Vercel’s AI Gateway data show most AI tokens are spent on models less than four months old, open-weight models account for 56% of token volume, and average token prices fell 23.2% for a third straight month.
Anthropic says a Claude-powered biology lab found a previously uncatalogued genetic pattern, but biologists dispute that it is a true scientific discovery, and one Copenhagen researcher says his team found the pattern first.