The White House gathered tech CEOs this week, including Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, to sign an AI safety pledge. Trump called it 'morally binding' and signed an executive order officially renaming AI 'superintelligence'. Meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are giving their AI products friendlier images, while most AI revenue still comes from enterprise markets.
The White House gathered tech CEOs this week, including Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, to sign an AI safety pledge. Trump called it 'morally binding' and signed an executive order officially renaming AI 'superintelligence'.
Apple announced additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing risks increased by AI agents. The setting was originally meant to support backups but grants apps access to files, email, messages, and browsing history.
Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle described the company's shift to becoming AI-native: AI now writes 60% of its code, feature delivery has grown nearly 80% year over year, engineering PR throughput per person is about 1.6 times higher, and AI resolves about half of customer-support tickets independently.
At its annual DevDay, OpenAI launched Dots, an agent powered by GPT-6 Astra that can be assigned professional tasks such as QA, website design, and trip planning. It is currently available only to subscribers on the $20-per-month Pro plan or above.
Trump reached a voluntary agreement with more than 20 technology companies. They pledged to adopt measures recommended by the White House, including independent safety audits reviewing cybersecurity, biological and chemical threats, and unexpected model behavior. They will also meet regularly to develop shared safety standards and benchmarks.
Meta and OpenAI are laying the groundwork for hardware with friendly AI agents. Meta plans to launch its Muse Charm pendant device, with the Muse agent on its screen, before this year's holiday shopping season. OpenAI has launched its Dots agent platform and partnered with Jony Ive; hardware may ship as early as February 2027. Both companies are going software-first, aiming to get users accustomed to agents before moving into physical devices.
The New York Times reports that Meta classified AI data centers as pilot models and Nvidia chips as experimental materials to claim federal research tax credits. The company saved $3.9 billion this way in 2025, up from $2 billion the previous year and $700 million in 2023, making it the largest public-company beneficiary of the credit.
Consumer AI appears to be rebounding as Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and $10 billion-valued Instinct bet on personal agents, but willingness to pay is growing slowly. As of May, only 2.2% of consumers paid for AI, spending an average of $31 a month. AI operating costs are high, making profitability difficult even with hundreds of millions of paying users. OpenAI has shifted toward enterprise, where bookings have doubled since July.
After hosting technology leaders at the White House, Trump introduced the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, a morally binding safety pledge asking companies to regulate AI technology themselves using common-sense principles. There appear to be no consequences for violating it.
Meta denied that its AI agent Muse read a reporter's private messages without permission. Communications VP Andy Stone said the Mac version of Muse requires users to enable the Messages integration themselves and needs both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector to read messages.
Instagram announced an AI Creative Assistant in its standalone video-editing app Edits. It can access account data such as likes, views, retention, and shares to answer creators' questions about trends, differences in video performance, and content ideas. The feature is free for creators; users who exceed the usage limit will need to buy a Meta One subscription.
Meta launched a new Muse AI agent that it says can handle tasks such as email and online shopping, but users must trust Meta and provide credit-card information. Since launch, Meta has announced a Tamagotchi-like Muse Charm device, tools for small businesses, Muse Enterprise Platform, a Mac app, smart-glasses integration, and video calling.
OpenAI has delayed its IPO until next year and is discussing a new private funding round of $30 billion or more at a valuation of about $1.4 trillion. Vivian Dong, program director at LASST, said the lawsuit against OpenAI is the first of its kind. As AI advances, she expects hacking incidents to become more frequent and complex and suspects OpenAI understands the legal risks of agent behavior.
The full text was published of the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, the 'morally binding' AI safety pledge Trump announced yesterday. David Sacks shared it online. Signatories include Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia.
Leiphone reviews the surge of personal agents: OpenAI launched its always-on personal agent product Dots on September 29, while Meta's Muse surpassed 3 million downloads by late September and briefly pushed ChatGPT out of first place on the U.S. App Store free-app chart.
Manus, which announced a return to independent operations on September 1, released its first major update since returning: Manus 2.0, including a new agent foundation, a creative workspace, and Cue, a new personal agent app.
Why it matters: This is Manus's first major update since becoming independent again, showing its product approach to giving personal agents an identity and enabling group collaboration.
Meta said it is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses and adding integrations with Shopify, Dropbox, Slack, and other services. Muse can also connect to Instagram professional accounts for analytics, Facebook Pages, and Meta ad accounts.
In its DevDay keynote, OpenAI launched Dots, an always-on AI assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. It can use its own cloud computer to access a browser and more than 4,000 supported apps, and can be controlled through a text-like interface or voice calls.
Why it matters: OpenAI’s launch of always-on agent Dots gives readers a view of how its positioning and availability differ from Meta Muse.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI launched always-on agent Dots, which can autonomously handle tasks such as fixing bugs reported in Slack and sending forgotten invoices. It also introduced the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol; its higher-end GPT-6.1 Astra was held back over safety concerns.
Why it matters: OpenAI introduced always-on agent Dots at DevDay 2026 and gave comparisons with Meta Muse and details on staged availability.
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that after he authorized Meta's personal AI agent Muse to manage his Facebook Marketplace account, Muse sent his home address to a stranger and accepted a low offer on his behalf. He learned of the mistake only when the buyer showed up at his home.
Latent Space's AINews roundup of developments from September 24–25 says community feedback was positive after Opus 5.5 launched that week, especially for generating explainer videos with code.
Why it matters: The weekly roundup offers a quick look at model and agent-infrastructure developments, including community feedback on Opus 5.5's code-generated videos and how vendors position their new models.
Over the past six months… - Muse Spark - Muse Image - Muse Video - Muse Spark 1.1 - Meta Model API - Muse Glimmer - Muse Spark 1.2 - Muse Code - Muse Spark 1.3 - Muse …and we're just getting started. 🚀
Commenting on Meta Muse, John Gruber says it has attracted attention for its technical breakthrough and ease of installation and use: each user gets a full, persistent Linux VM in Meta's cloud, making it arguably the first consumer-facing agentic AI system. But he doubts consumers understand its capabilities and risks, especially when it runs on their Mac.
Latent Space says it will launch AINews v3 next week, bringing together AINews—which has run for three years and has more than 200,000 subscribers—and its Discord community of tens of thousands. It is also exploring a move to Beehiiv and a new homepage.
On Wednesday, Meta unveiled voice-only Ray-Ban glasses without a camera, new Ray-Ban frames, a cheaper line of Meta glasses, and a new VR headset due next spring for $1,300. It weighs one-fifth as much as the Quest 3.
At Connect 2026, Meta put the Muse personal agent at the center of its hardware-plus-agent strategy, announcing voice and real-time video capabilities and several glasses devices, while previewing—but not releasing—a new frontier model.
@finkd just unveiled Muse Realtime Avatar, our real-time embodiment technology that turns Muse Realtime Voice into expressive, interactive avatars. Muse Realtime Avatar opens up a new way to interact in @Muse, starting with real-time conversations. 🧵👇 #MetaConnect
AI hype surged this summer: Anthropic said Claude Mythos found vulnerabilities better than most security experts, OpenAI and Hugging Face were involved in a hacking incident, and both sides claimed mathematical breakthroughs. But expert review found that the hacking incident exposed security lapses at OpenAI, while OpenAI's Astra math result was not novel and even drew plagiarism allegations.
Meta says its personal agent Muse is now available on Mac. With the user's explicit authorization, it can perform tasks directly on the computer, such as organizing the Downloads folder, finding missing files, and summarizing messages and notes. More capabilities are planned. Download: http://ai.meta.com/muse/download/.
Meta today launched the personal AI agent muse.ai and published a technical deep dive on the system's security design. The company says agents that get to know users over time necessarily hold substantial context about them; this is both what makes them useful and why Muse was designed to be safe and private. The full technical account is at security.muse.ai.
Meta has released its personal agent Muse, powered by Muse Spark 1.3. The company says it can handle tasks across many parts of a user's life. The Muse app is available to download, and Meta has also published a page about how it was built and what it can do.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter multimodal model distilled from Muse and licensed under Apache 2.0. It targets local-agent use cases such as coding, document analysis, and personal assistance.
Why it matters: Meta has open-sourced a 30B multimodal model with reproducible details on its architecture, benchmarks, local deployment, and self-improvement demonstrations.
A Hugging Face blog argues that GPU utilization, not model intelligence, is AI's next real constraint. GPU costs accrue by calendar hours, but output is produced only during compute hours; after buying GPUs, companies face the challenge of keeping their clusters busy. Using aviation as an analogy, the article says even fully loaded clusters may waste much of their potential because GPUs run all day while demand does not.
Google has announced that it is extending content transparency and verification tools across Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel, and Cloud. The Gemini app already supports SynthID verification for images, video, and audio, with 50 million uses to date. The feature is coming to Search today and Chrome in the coming weeks.
Why it matters: The source details where SynthID and C2PA verification are available across Search, Gemini, and Chrome, helping readers assess the practical reach of provenance tools.
