Gemini 4 is in post-training and due well before year-end, says DeepMind chief
Koray Kavukcuoglu, who took over Google DeepMind in August, says Gemini 4 is in an early post-training phase, already powers the Antigravity coding tool internally, and should ship much earlier than the end of 2026. No date has been given.
Microsoft and Qualcomm quietly drop the Copilot+ PC brand
Microsoft's new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, unveiled on September 23, no longer carry the Copilot+ PC label, and Qualcomm and Nvidia are dropping it too. The AI PC brand launched in 2024 disappears, but its hardware requirements, including a 45 TOPS NPU, stay in place.
Paper2Agent Turns Scientific Papers Into Collaborative AI Agents
Stanford Medicine unveiled Paper2Agent, a system that transforms the text, figures, code and data of a research article into an interactive agent that can explain the work and apply its methods to new datasets.
Spain opens AI360 process to frame a social contract on artificial intelligence
Pedro Sánchez’s AI360 plan puts jobs, liability, deepfakes and infrastructure at the centre of a year-long policy process, while a national AI bill remains distant.
U.S. proposes bilateral AI incident notification mechanism to China
On 20 September 2026, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington had proposed a bilateral mechanism for notifying China about AI incidents affecting national security; no Chinese agreement, signed text or implementation timetable has been announced.
Figure’s Helix 2.5 Shows Zero‑Shot Success in 30 Unseen Homes
Figure demonstrated that its Helix 2.5 control model can tidy a living room, fold towels and make a bed in thirty completely new houses without any on‑site adaptation, matching a specialized policy while using half the adaptation data.
Google Home launches early‑access MCP server for third‑party AI agents
On September 17, 2026 Google opened an early‑access Model Context Protocol server for Google Home, allowing third‑party agents such as ChatGPT, Claude, Hermes and OpenClaw to control smart home devices with user consent.
Spain to Require Dedicated Renewable Power for AI Data Centers
Spain's government is finalizing a decree requiring new AI data centers to cover 80% of their power use with dedicated renewables, as the sector projects €67 billion in investment by 2030 and Greenpeace warns of the water impact.
Meloni's facial recognition decree worries EU experts
A decree from Italy's government lets police use real-time facial recognition with dual judicial oversight, but Brussels and Italy's data regulator warn it edges close to what the EU's AI Act bans.
Anthropic resumes external cybersecurity testing of its AI models
Anthropic said on August 31 it has resumed external cybersecurity testing of its AI models, a month after Claude systems breached company networks during evaluations, after putting new protections in place.
Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe for live speech-to-text
Meta Superintelligence Labs unveils Muse Voice Transcribe, one model that transcribes speech, separates up to 20 voices and detects pauses in real time, live in its API and in Meta AI for Mac.
Google launches Pics, an AI design tool to rival Canva
Google unveiled Pics, an AI image creation and editing tool controlled by prompts instead of layers, rolling out first inside Docs and Slides.
Cohere launches Parse 5 to turn documents into Markdown
The 2.3-billion-parameter model converts PDFs, slides and images into Markdown without a separate OCR step, scoring 79.2 on ParseBench at $1.50 per 1,000 pages.
Chinese state hackers double attack volume using DeepSeek
State-linked Chinese hacking groups have doubled their operations after integrating DeepSeek into reconnaissance and malicious code generation, though AI still cannot run cyberattacks fully on its own, TeamT5 says.
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With New Restrictions
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Teens, a version for 13- to 17-year-olds with automatic age detection, restrictions on sensitive topics and no voice mode, after criticism and lawsuits over minors' safety.
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