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Meta launched its agentic AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, across WhatsApp, AI glasses and business agents, claiming early consumer reach. Google countered with Gemini, now deployed at scale in its cloud and integrated into Android, Maps, Gmail and Google Pay, giving it an OS‑level advantage. In Q2, Google’s revenue rose 24.2% to $119.8 billion, with Cloud up 82% and nearly 90% of Fortune 100 firms using Gemini Enterprise. Meta’s revenue grew 28% to $117 billion, but earnings per share missed [...]

OpenAI announced a postponement of its upcoming AI model, codenamed Astra, to conduct additional safety testing. The company said the model must meet evolving safety standards before a broad rollout, though it did not disclose the specific risks prompting the delay. The decision arrives amid heightened global scrutiny of AI ethics and regulation, and follows OpenAI’s public apology for mishandling a security breach that exposed an Australian government website. In response, OpenAI is reviewing internal security protocols [...]

In episode 46 of the 9to5Google podcast “The Sideload,” host Will Sattelberg sits down with tech analyst Allison Johnson to evaluate Meta’s newly released agentic AI chatbot, Muse. The conversation probes whether AI agents can genuinely streamline tasks for users, weighing Muse’s conversational abilities against practical productivity gains. Johnson also shares her impressions of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro, focusing on its variable aperture system and how it may affect low‑light photography. The duo further discusses the iPhone Duo, a dual‑screen [...]

Pope Francis XIV warned that artificial‑intelligence risks must be taken seriously, criticizing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for promoting AI safeguards while opposing any government regulation. Speaking aboard his papal plane on 28 September after a four‑day visit to France, the pontiff rejected claims that expert warnings are “fake news” and urged world leaders to agree on common limits. He singled out Huang, noting his recent comments at a Salesforce event that new laws are unnecessary and his alignment with U.S. [...]

AI disruption is reshaping demand for traditional IT services, prompting a shift toward cloud, data engineering, cybersecurity and digital transformation. In India, analysts expect revenue growth of only 1‑3% for IT services this fiscal year and the next, as discretionary spending stalls and geopolitical uncertainty weighs on contracts. Crisil notes that AI‑driven productivity gains pressure existing business models, while ICRA projects a modest rebound to 3‑5% annual growth in FY2027 after a 3.5% rise in FY2026. Gartner [...]

Netlist has lodged a new complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking an import ban on Micron Technology’s DRAM chips that are incorporated into artificial‑intelligence hardware produced by Google, Nvidia and Broadcom. The Irvine‑based firm alleges that Micron’s memory devices infringe two of its patents covering high‑bandwidth memory technology, and it also requests that the ITC block the related graphics processing units, servers and other products that embed the contested chips. The filing, first sealed [...]

Elon Musk sat to the left of President Donald Trump at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026 that gathered CEOs of the nation’s largest AI firms, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, as well as Vice President JD Vance and Speaker Mike Johnson. The meeting concluded with a voluntary “White House Accord on Superintelligence,” a set of principles for AI safety that Trump called “morally binding” and pledged to appoint [...]

The White House released a seating chart for Tuesday’s “Super Intelligence Luncheon,” placing President Donald Trump at the center of a gathering of the AI industry’s most influential figures. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sits directly to Trump’s right, while Elon Musk occupies the seat on his left; Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is positioned a seat away, and Vice President JD Vance sits opposite the president. The table also includes OpenAI co‑founder Greg Brockman, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Broadcom’s Hock Tan and [...]