Instacart launched Clementine, an AI shopping assistant integrated into its Marketplace app across the U.S. and Canada on September 9, 2026, that builds ready-to-buy carts from text, recipes, or photo…
Kepler Computing, a stealth startup based in Moraga, California, announced a ferroelectric composite material that boosts SRAM density while cutting voltage, aiming to address the AI industry's memory…
Alibaba.com's Accio team released CommerceAgentBench, an open-source benchmark of 107 real-world e-commerce tasks, and found that the strongest frontier AI model completed only 61.7% of tasks, highlig…
Insilico Medicine co-CEO Feng Ren said the company's experimental fibrosis drug reduced patients' predicted biological age by roughly three years on average, and up to six years on one measure, raisin…
Thailand suspended construction of 49 data centers on Sept. 4 as regulators draft new rules on resource use and safety, signaling that the AI backlash is spreading to Asia. Data center operators and d…
The global smart glasses market is projected to grow from about $2 billion in 2024 to more than $8 billion by the early 2030s, driven by AI-powered features such as real-time translation, hands-free p…
Suno launched three new AI music models—V6, V6-wild, and V6-mini—on September 9, built on licensed catalogs from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe Music, marking a shift from litigation to paid par…
Conveo, a two-year-old Belgian startup backed by Y Combinator, has launched an AI moderator that analyzes thousands of video interviews to identify patterns customers may not articulate, aiming to bri…
Apple is expected to announce its first foldable phone, along with the iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Series 12, AirPods 5, and updates to MacBook and home products, at an event led by new CEO John Ternus…
India's National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has built a framework called the Unified Agent Protocol (UAP) that will let AI agents execute payments on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) wit…
AI agent memory is not a persistent brain but a combination of context windows, vector databases, and summarizers, according to an analysis of current architectures. Models like Claude Opus 5 and GPT-…
Tens of thousands of Indian gig workers are earning about $2.62 an hour to wear head-mounted cameras and film themselves performing tasks such as stripping labels, stitching shoes, and welding steel, …
Anthropic confirmed that hackers using infostealer malware have been hijacking Claude subscribers' login sessions and draining their paid usage without stealing passwords, affecting users like indepen…
On September 8, the FBI, NSA, and CISA issued a joint advisory accusing DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI of conducting aggressive distillation campaigns that extracted billio…
Prompt caching can cut LLM API bills by 50 to 90 percent, but only if prompts are structured correctly, according to Anthropic's pricing and case studies. Anthropic charges 1.25x standard input price …
Pony.ai CEO James Peng said at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on September 8 that robotaxi technology is 'pretty much already solved' and that robotaxis will be common worldwide within five years,…
OpenAI announced that a multi-agent system, coordinated by an unreleased internal model and involving up to 10,000 sub-agents, has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem by proving conditio…
Meta launched its new AI agent Muse on September 8 as a standalone app and inside WhatsApp for U.S. users, running on the Muse Spark 1.3 model, but internal testing before launch caught it uploading d…
James Peng, founder and CEO of Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai, predicted at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8 that robotaxis will be widespread within five years, saying 'the tech…
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, an AI-powered database predicting the biological effects of all 9 billion possible single-point mutations in the human genome, available free to academi…