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Thousands of X (formerly Twitter) users reported that Grok, the platform's AI chatbot, stopped working starting around 9:00 AM ET, according to Downdetector data. Affected users received an error message stating the model was unavailable and prompting them to try a different one. X has not issued any official statement addressing the outage.
A robotics developer describes attempting to offload the tedious process of visually debugging robot code to an LLM coding assistant equipped with an image encoder and MCP server access to a visualizer tool. The experiment largely failed: the assistant lacked an intuitive sense of what correct robot behavior looks like and struggled to navigate the debugging GUI, taking minutes to reach a viewpoint the developer could reach in seconds.
Greenway Institute is a new startup school that strips away traditional campus amenities like clubs, sports teams and dining halls, focusing spending instead on hands-on academic instruction. The model aims to lower tuition by eliminating costs tied to nonacademic student life, betting that students prioritize career-ready skills over the traditional campus experience.
Best Buy and Amazon are both selling Samsung's Q990F soundbar bundle for $999.99, down from its usual $1,300 to $1,600 price range. The package includes a 48.5-inch 11.1.4-channel soundbar, a wireless subwoofer, and two wireless rear speakers.
Karyann Parkinson, a law student in Williamsburg, Virginia, let her 5-year-old son Sam walk roughly half a mile alone to a nearby pond within their gated community, a route he had safely traveled many times before. A passerby reported the child to security, triggering a police and Child Protective Services response that led to charges against Parkinson. A judge convicted her last week of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a first-degree misdemeanor carrying a six-month suspended jail sentence, and CPS placed her on the state's child abuse registry for seven years.
At IFA 2026, Flowtica introduced the Verso, a $299 AI companion device that magnetically attaches to phones and other surfaces via MagSafe. It features a 259ppi e-paper touchscreen showing meeting summaries, calendars, and action items directly on the device, along with four MEMS microphones plus a bone-conduction mic for capturing voice up to 5 meters away. The device offers 64GB storage, up to 72 hours of battery life, and ships in Q4 2026.
Lego revealed a near 1:1 scale replica of the original 1995 PlayStation console during Sony's State of Play livestream, made up of 1,911 pieces and measuring 10.5 inches wide. The set includes a matching controller with working mechanical buttons and hidden mini dioramas based on Ape Escape and Gran Turismo. It launches October 1 for $180.
Nvidia confirmed Thursday it has struck a deal to purchase Hugging Face, the widely used open-source AI model repository, for nearly $13 billion. The announcement ends weeks of speculation about a potential acquisition. CEO Jensen Huang pledged the platform will remain open to the broader AI community after the deal closes.
Throughout the summer, testers found Siri's new AI features on Apple Watch to be sluggish and unreliable in watchOS 27 betas, struggling with basic tasks like setting timers, alarms, and controlling HomeKit devices. With watchOS 27 beta 8, those responsiveness problems appear to have been resolved, marking a notable turnaround just before the software's public release.
Cannabis industry executives and marketing experts say the typical customer has evolved from the countercultural stereotype into a broader, more mainstream and casual buyer. As a result, many companies are updating branding, packaging and messaging to appeal to this wider audience, though some brands still lean on outdated stoner imagery.
Claude experienced a widespread outage on September 3, 2026, with many users reporting they could not access the AI assistant starting around 10:02 AM ET. Anthropic confirmed by 12:27 PM ET that the issue had been fixed and all models were back to normal operation.
At IFA 2026, Hohem introduced the Eyepic, a pocket gimbal camera whose camera unit can pop off the gimbal and function independently as a waterproof action camera. It shoots 4K video at 60fps, supports true vertical 4K recording via a rotating touchscreen, and works underwater to 10 meters. Hohem also showed two new gimbals and a multi-mic system, though no pricing or release dates were given for any device.