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Meta Superintelligence Labs product head Nat Friedman said on X that Muse, Meta's AI product, was 'heavily inspired' by the open-source OpenClaw but was 'built from scratch.' The admission followed viral claims from users, including AI app co-founder Ansh Nanda, that Muse resembled a consumer-friendly version of OpenClaw, citing shared file structures like SOUL.md.
Italian Institute of Technology's Barbara Mazzolai, known for bioinspired robots modeled on octopuses, plant roots and seeds, has co-authored a manifesto in Nature Machine Intelligence proposing a new discipline called sustainability robotics. The approach calls for embedding environmental impact reduction directly into how robots are designed, rather than treating it as an afterthought.
Singapore-based startup Nexstrom, incubated by Xora Innovation, has built a system called North Star designed to grow transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) directly onto standard 300mm chip wafers used in commercial foundries. These ultra-thin materials, just a few atomic layers deep, are seen as a potential alternative to silicon as transistors shrink toward physical limits. The company's approach draws on research from co-founder and chief scientist Lance Li.
Sonos has released the Ace Ultra, an update to its original Ace headphones that keeps a similar design but overhauls internal technology. The headphones run on Sonos' new Headphone Engine 2 software, enabling 'headphone linking' that lets users send audio from Sonos speakers or turntables directly to the headphones, alongside expanded noise cancellation and EQ customization.
Winamp, the once-dominant MP3 player from the late 1990s known for its llama mascot, is returning to relevance through a partnership with streaming platform Deezer. The two companies plan to launch a subscription-based streaming service next year, positioning Winamp as a competitor to established players like Spotify.
Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud says it will fly dedicated Bitcoin mining hardware on its second satellite, Starcloud-2, targeting an early 2027 launch. CEO Philip Johnston argues that ASIC chips are far cheaper per kilowatt than GPUs, and that abundant orbital solar power could make space mining economically appealing, following the company's earlier Starcloud-1 test that put an Nvidia H100 GPU into orbit.
The Austrian Academy of Science, working with French AI lab Mistral and tech firm Sail Reply, has released Apollo, described as the first large language model built specifically for Ancient Greek. Trained on roughly 600 million words from manuscripts, papyri and inscriptions, it will be offered free to scholars through a chatbot interface to help them locate relevant fragments and reconstruct damaged texts.
After spending a week testing both Apple's newly unveiled iPhone Duo and Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8, an Android Authority reviewer concludes he'd still choose Samsung's foldable if spending his own money. The comparison highlights that the iPhone Duo, unveiled at Apple's September 9 event under new CEO John Ternus, weighs 254 grams and measures 11.3mm folded, while the Galaxy Z Fold 8 comes in at 201 grams and 9.7mm.
A software professional describes a growing trend where colleagues use AI to retroactively generate design documents, pull request summaries, tickets, and even personal messages after work is already done. The writer argues these AI outputs are technically detailed but lack context, perspective, and human judgment, making them exhausting and frustrating to read despite AI's usefulness for improving writing speed and quality elsewhere.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Foxconn have unveiled Ceer, the kingdom's first domestic car brand, showcasing an Exobot sedan and SUV built with falcon-style 'Shahin Wing' doors. The company plans to release seven vehicles, including hybrids, by 2030, initially targeting the Gulf Cooperation Council market before considering wider expansion.
Amazon has launched a Colorado River Basin Collaborative, committing $20 million of its own money and aiming to raise $100 million total over two years for conservation projects along the drought-stricken river, which supplies water to 40 million people across seven US states and parts of Mexico. Part of the funding includes $2.2 million for leak detection in Orange County, California, projected to save 189 million gallons annually.
Microsoft has reissued a reminder to enterprise IT admins that IE Mode, the legacy compatibility feature in Edge that runs sites using Internet Explorer's old Trident/MSHTML engine, will be discontinued by the end of 2029. The notice, sent via the Microsoft 365 admin center, reaffirms a 2021 commitment and asks organizations to begin planning now to migrate old applications away from IE dependencies.