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Vivian Wilson, 22-year-old daughter of Musk, becomes the autumn 2026 ambassador for Spanish brand Desigual, with the theme "naturally rebellious." In the ad, she playfully challenges AI, giving absurd instructions to the DESI 84, a humanoid robot inspired by Tesla: use it as a golf cart, walk it like a pet, command it to mow the lawn, and even have an interactive scene on the bed.

Israeli-Dutch AI startup Wonderful closed a $550M Series C at a $5B valuation, more than doubling from about $2B under six months ago, with leading investors increasing stakes.....

Top US AI services were down about 3h40m. ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok had errors; Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot saw many outage reports. The incident began around 9:23 a.m. ET on Sept. 3, with Claude models failing first. At peak OpenAI had over 37,000 outage reports.....

Oura filed for IPO. Revenue in the 9 months ended June 30 reached $1.2B, up from $697M a year earlier. It projects 2024 revenue ~$500M, 2025 ~$1B, 2026 nearly $2B. Sold ~3.6M rings in the past year, ~5M paying members, ~85% retention, priced $350-$400.....

Generative AI in menu design brings homogenized "perfect aesthetics" causing visual issues. AI dish images are overly symmetrical and polished, with unnatural food structures, called "uncanny valley effect." Experts attribute this to AI models learning patterns from massive data and averaging outputs.....

Google DeepMind and Google Research jointly released global weather AI model WeatherNext3, overcoming bottlenecks in local terrain resolution and initialization latency by directly ingesting real-time geostationary satellite mosaics for hourly initialization and training on raw station observations, comprehensively improving forecast accuracy. Its core architecture continues using the probabilistic functional generative network (FGN) grid T from ....

Nvidia announced its acquisition of Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform, for $12.9303 billion (~87.092 billion yuan), drawing tech attention. CEO Jensen Huang explained the rationale and plans. Hugging Face has gathered over 18 million developers and researchers.....

The unreleased GPT Image 2.5 has drawn tech community attention, with version jumping from speculated 2.1 to 2.5, signaling fast iteration and technical ambition. Suspected to be LMArena's anonymous model luna-lisa-alpha, it shows major improvements in image generation, faster speed and better visual quality.....

Google DeepMind and Google Research release WeatherNext 3 to address coarse resolution, poor local terrain representation, and ~6h NWP initialization lag. It trains directly on station observations, uses real-time global geostationary satellite mosaics, and reinitializes hourly, improving forecast resolution and timeliness.....

Google confirmed Google Assistant on Android will gradually stop from Sept 4, migrating users to Gemini. Email notices sent; migration may take weeks, some delayed, but all will lose access. Originally planned for late 2025, delayed to refine Gemini, now deemed ready. Smartwatches etc. also affected.....

Data center developer Crusoe has completed a new $3 billion funding round, bringing its valuation to $30 billion. Its clients include Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The round was led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, with Mubadala Capital participating. Just 10 months since its last funding round, the valuation has tripled from $10 billion.

On Sept. 3 around 9:23 a.m. ET, major overseas AI services including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot had a collective outage lasting about 3h40m, disrupting users. In contrast, Chinese AI models saw no similar failures.....

Google AI Iteration Speeds Up: On September 4, the B.AI platform integrated the DeepMind Gemini 3.8 Flash model API, marking the full establishment of this key model in the development ecosystem. As the latest mainstay of the Gemini 3 family, it combines high cost-effectiveness with low latency, and performs outstandingly in software engineering, complex intelligent agent tasks, professional multi-step reasoning, and high-barrier industries such as finance and law.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, confirmed that the company is advancing robot development, with parallel efforts in humanoid robots and specialized robots for data centers. He emphasized that form is not the key factor, but rather the 'robotic brain'; the company will develop humanoid robots, but if the humanoid structure lacks practical utility, it will focus on non-humanoid robots tailored for specific scenarios.

Motorola unveiled at IFA 2026: Moto Watch Ultra, first smartwatch with built-in Motorola Qira and LTE, wrist-raise or voice wake; Edge 70 Plus and Edge 70 Neo focus on imaging and battery; Razr Swarovski crystal edition and Moto Snap wireless charger; enhanced Motorola-Lenovo device connectivity.....

Microsoft plans to adjust Copilot Studio starting in September, requiring AI agents to obtain manual approval before using business tools such as email, tickets, and payments. Developers can set approval switches separately for tools and agents. Approved calls will be paused and display an approval request to strengthen manual control.

Alibaba's AI office product Qianwen Office hit 30 million users in its first month, over half enterprise users, signaling enterprise AI boom. It updated 120 versions in 30 days, 4 daily, added 1,000+ features, and launched international version. It open-sourced MyContext to integrate IM, docs, approvals, and email.....

AI 3D unicorn VAST announced on Sept 1 it raised about 3B yuan in Series B/B+ led by Matrix Partners China. Within half a year, cumulative funding exceeded 5.7B yuan, making it one of the most funded native 3D AI startups, backed by financial and industrial investors.....

Meta told engineers performance reviews will no longer factor in AI token usage, per The Information. Executives Maher Saba and Santosh Janardhan issued guidance saying AI adoption dashboards or token usage won't measure employee impact, and removed earlier requirements for specific AI tools/tasks.....

Google introduces Gemini-powered AI voice features for Workspace, integrating Gmail, Docs and Keep. Users can search emails, draft documents and organize notes via natural voice, eliminating typing and boosting multitasking productivity. Docs gets a disruptive voice upgrade.....