Meta Platforms has introduced Muse, its new AI agent that users can converse with through a pocket-size disk called Charm, which is complete with a video screen that allows users to make video phone calls.
Category: 29 September 2026
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AI LAB CREATES NEW WAY FOR AI TO THINK, SLASHING COSTS
Researchers at AI lab Pathway claim to have developed an entirely new way for AIs to think. This “vector-based” non-linguistic approach will be dramatically cheaper to operate, they say.
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AI WATCHDOGS ARE STRESSED OUT AND SEEING COUNSELORS
Several researchers at the U.K.’s AI Security Institute (AISI) have been given leave from their jobs due to high stress, and many are undergoing counseling, the Financial Times reported.
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COLLEGES EMBRACE AI AS THEIR STUDENTS FACE “COGNITIVE SURRENDER”
Universities, their professors, and students face a dilemma, The New York Times said in an article this month: do they “use more AI to stay relevant or dial back to preserve learning and thinking?”
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BUSINESS LEADERS JOIN THE CALL FOR AI CONTROLS
At a business conference convened by Yale University’s business school in mid-September, dozens of CEOs from across sectors and various parts of the U.S. joined the call for closer scrutiny and controls over AI.
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BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: U.S. IS ‘NO LONGER THE ALLY IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST’
Belgium’s Foreign Ministry produced a strategic document that was leaked to the Financial Times last week that identified the United States as an unreliable partner and recommends recalibrating the relationship and seek alternative partners.
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GERMAN WAR MACHINE: GERMANY WANTS EUROPE TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE PATRIOT MISSILES
Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, is trying to convince the Trump administration to allow European countries to produce Patriot air defense missiles, citing the risks of a wider war with Russia and to keep up with demand in Ukraine.
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RAMPING UP THE WAR: DENMARK WARNS THAT RUSSIA COULD ATTACK A NATO MEMBER WITHIN MONTHS
The Danish defense intelligence service issued a report last week that said Russia could launch a military attack on a NATO ally within the next few months, which was seen as one of the most urgent warnings since the start of the war in February 2022.
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NANOPARTICLES MAY OFFER AN ALZHEIMER’S CURE
A group of U.S. researchers have created a possible Alzheimer’s disease treatment that reversed the condition’s symptoms in mice engineered to develop the illness.
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SCIENTISTS INTEGRATE HUMAN AND MOUSE BRAIN CELLS
Scientists at Stanford University have experimented with integrating human and mice cells. Researchers turned human stem cells into cells that form the cortex, or outer layer, of the brain.