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Google Home will integrate the Model Context Protocol, letting agents like Claude, Hermes, Open Claw and Google's own Antigravity connect to a user's devices and event history through natural language commands. The feature will roll out as early access in the coming weeks, but only for subscribers paying $20 a month or $200 a year for Google Home Premium Advanced.
Google has launched early access to a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Google Home, enabling AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, OpenClaw and Google Antigravity to interact with connected smart home devices. Through natural language, users can review camera summaries, monitor activity, control devices, and build custom dashboards, after linking their agent via a Google Cloud project and granting permissions.
Fountain 0, an AI studio co-founded by Ash Koosha, released Odysseus: The Fall, a 2.5-hour film billed as the first fully AI-generated movie made at blockbuster quality. Koosha wrote, directed, voiced the lead character, and composed the score. Reviewers found the film riddled with visual inconsistencies—shifting cyclops heights, mismatched wave directions, unsynced mouths, and warping oars—undermining its ambitious claims.
Linum has released JiT-DDT, an experimental encoder-decoder architecture that trains text-to-image generation models using 3.6 times fewer GPU-hours than its previous Linum v2 system, while producing images with four times the pixel resolution. The approach merges compression and generation into a single pixel-space model rather than relying on separate VAE and diffusion transformer components, addressing a detail-loss problem seen in earlier pixel-space designs. Code and weights are being released under Apache 2.0 as a research checkpoint on the way to Linum v3.
A VicOne-sponsored analysis highlights how physical AI systems—robots that use multimodal sensors and AI models to perceive and act—can be manipulated through corrupted training data, tampered infrastructure, or spoofed real-time sensor input, without any visible malfunction. It cites BadVLA, a NeurIPS 2025 study showing how a hidden trigger embedded in a Vision-Language-Action model can cause a robot to behave normally until the trigger appears, then subtly alter its physical movements.
Anthropic is merging its Claude Cowork tool with Claude Chat, leaving users with just Claude Chat and Claude Code instead of three separate modes. The rollout begins with Pro and Max subscribers over the coming weeks, and the update also brings new Claude Docs and Claude Slides features plus Claude Design integrated directly into conversations.
Amazon has discounted the recently released Garmin Vivoactive 6 fitness smartwatch by 23% off its list price, marking the lowest price the device has seen since launch. The deal applies to Garmin's latest wearable, which tracks fitness and health metrics.
A new survey finds that over three-quarters of parents say support from Boomer grandparents has become essential to affording the cost of raising children. Rather than singling out big-ticket items like daycare or college savings, the survey points to everyday expenses as the source of the strain that's pushing families to lean on grandparents.
Security researchers have identified a novel attack technique, dubbed BragJack, that exploits agentic AI assistants embedded directly in web browsers. The attack allows malicious actors to manipulate these assistants into accessing sensitive user information, performing unauthorized actions, and exfiltrating data without the user's knowledge.
A new report from the nonprofit Basel Action Network estimates that AI infrastructure will generate far more electronic waste than previously projected, potentially amounting to enough discarded material to fill 23 million shipping containers by 2050. Unlike earlier estimates that only counted servers and GPUs, this analysis includes power supplies, cooling systems, backup power, and networking equipment tied to data centers, plus a category BAN calls 'AI Waste Contagion.' The group attributes 15-20 percent of the world's projected 211 million metric tons of annual e-waste by 2050 to AI-related infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that customer data hosted in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates regions was permanently lost following Iranian drone strikes on its data centers months earlier. An AWS status update posted September 15 said the company could not restore data in one UAE availability zone and across all three availability zones in Bahrain, though recovery work continues elsewhere.
Microsoft confirmed it is investigating reports that the Windows 11 KB5124008 security update is severing secure channel connections between domain-joined PCs and Active Directory after a reboot, locking out users with valid credentials. Administrators on Reddit and Microsoft's Q&A forums say the problem appears tied to the Windows Machine Identity Isolation feature when running in audit or enforcement mode, and that uninstalling the patch and repairing the domain trust restores access.