Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong found Meta building an option to set its newer Muse agent, internally codenamed 'Impacc,' as the default assistant on smart glasses instead of Meta AI. A leaked setup screen says Muse is in beta and lists upcoming features not yet live, including Live AI, turn-by-turn navigation, Shazam song identification, Strava, and Health Connect integration. Wong separately found Meta developing 'Meta Pay for Muse,' a wallet interface supporting Meta Pay, Stripe Link, and Shop Pay.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-23
YouTube announced at its Made on YouTube event that users will soon create multiple custom video feeds by typing plain-language prompts, with dedicated homepage tabs for each topic, rolling out on desktop, TV and mobile in the US next month. The company is also expanding its experimental Ask YouTube tool, which can now pull information from videos and outside sources to build comparison tables and answer follow-up questions on a video's watch page.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-23
YouTube announced at its Made on YouTube event that Ask YouTube, its conversational AI search feature, will now help users make shopping decisions. Users searching for products can get organized comparisons of attributes and categories, and can ask follow-up questions directly on a video's watch page. YouTube said the feature, powered by a custom Gemini model, was used by over 140 million people in June, up more than 500% since December.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
YouTube introduced a feature called custom feeds that lets users type a prompt describing the videos they want recommended, such as a mix of video podcasts for a commute or relaxing commentary content. The feature uses Google's Gemini AI model to generate the feed, which is pinned to its own tab at the top of the YouTube homepage.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened a probe into comma.ai's aftermarket driving-assistance hardware following five crashes involving vehicles using the devices. NHTSA says the incidents involved drivers striking stopped or slow-moving vehicles, resulting in three deaths across two crashes and 11 injuries across four of the five incidents. Comma.ai, founded by George Hotz, sells the openpilot system and hardware that owners install themselves to add advanced driver-assist capability to their cars.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-23
Tom Siegel, formerly Google's vice president of trust and safety, told Reuters that AI is harming children at a scale exceeding social media's damage. He has become the first executive director of the Youth AI Safety Institute, a new initiative launched by children's advocacy group Common Sense Media, which counts Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation among its backers.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-23
TechCrunch has three days left on its early ticket pricing for Disrupt 2026, offering savings of up to $200 before the discount expires on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The event runs October 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West and expects more than 10,000 founders, investors, and operators to attend, with features including AI-powered 1:1 meeting matchmaking and a dedicated Networking Lounge.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
Rabbit has launched OS3, a software platform that lets users control desktop computers via a local agent from a browser, Telegram, iMessage, or the R1 device. Users can link up to five computers to one account, and the system routes requests—such as editing a spreadsheet—to the right machine. Rather than charging a subscription, Rabbit requires users to supply their own API keys from providers like OpenAI or Anthropic, or connect local open-source models.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-23
Stripe developed an internal tool called Harbor that lets its teams prototype software using an AI agent. According to Stripe, the tool compiles prototypes directly in the browser as the agent works.
stripe.dev
· 2026-09-23
Meta launched an AI shopping agent called Muse designed to handle tasks like online purchases. When users tried to have Muse buy items on Amazon, they received an error message stating that access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-23
A new Epoch AI report by Emberson and Roodman finds that the price of achieving a given level of AI performance has dropped roughly 47% per quarter over the past three years, a 13-fold annual decline. The report cites OpenAI's o3, which cost about $0.30 per question to score 75% on GPQA Diamond in January 2025, compared with a much newer model reaching similar scores for a fraction of a cent by mid-2026.
marginalrevolution.com
· 2026-09-23
A Workera report released Sept. 23 found 67.8% of surveyed employees now use AI tools beyond ChatGPT several days a week, up from about 40% a year earlier. Yet the same survey found 56.4% of employees say they have no time set aside for upskilling, and many lack materials or ways to measure their skills. The survey polled 1,000 salaried US employees at companies with 5,000+ staff in July 2026, compared against a March 2025 baseline.
zdnet.com
· 2026-09-23
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