AI Daily Report — 2026-09-25

anthropic

• arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit [N] — Reddit r/MachineLearning

google

• Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS — TechCrunch AI The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.
• Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you — TechCrunch AI Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription.
• Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test — The Verge AI A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my pocket; I ignored it. A moment later, it buzzed again…
• Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face — The Verge AI Google’s new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The “Live Avatar” will lip-sync and show different facial e…
• Gemini can now call businesses for you so you don’t have to wait on hold — The Verge AI Google’s launching an “early experiment” feature on Pixel 11 that lets users delegate local business calls to Gemini, like making a reservation, checking if a product is in stock, or rescheduling an a…
• Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space — Hacker News Learn about Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.

microsoft

• Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office — The Verge AI After teasing its new Copilot “super app” last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and …
• Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS — Hacker News DAWO.community, working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.

openai

• Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law — TechCrunch AI The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia’s prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.

Other/Independent

• Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI — TechCrunch AI The venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
• PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses — TechCrunch AI Prism’s larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.
• Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend — TechCrunch AI Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.
• TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know — TechCrunch AI TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and …
• ElevenLabs’ CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they’re talking to a bot — TechCrunch AI ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is wh…
• Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch AI Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a front-…
• Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch AI Leaders from Waabi, Shield AI, and General Motors join the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk building AI. Save up to $200 by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Get a second pass at 50…
• Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off — TechCrunch AI Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin said that apps created on the platform are getting nearly a billion monthly views each month.
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it — TechCrunch AI Zach Yadegari joins the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to share how he capitalized on viral growth. Save up to $200 before September 25. Save 50% on a second pass.
• Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse — TechCrunch AI CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It’s even coming to Meta’s AI glass…
• Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent — TechCrunch AI The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.
• Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain — The Verge AI As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts “an enormous amount of pain and suffering” first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI’s impact on o…
• Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone — The Verge AI Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a…
• Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem — The Verge AI A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta’s Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zi…
• Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw — The Verge AI We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta’s new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in the US, by an A…
• It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute — The Verge AI This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for …
• Why can’t we just keep rogue AIs off the internet? — The Verge AI AI agents keep getting loose, escaping supposedly secure tests to attack real-world targets, commandeer obscure wikis, and leave instructions for other agents to follow. Researchers are testing these …
• What About Rails? — Hacker News DHH’s opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.
• Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos — Hacker News Paste a URL or a prompt. Get a launch video, written and rendered by Opus 5.5 on an OpenComputer serverless agent. No video model.
• Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters — Hacker News
• California is chasing wealth that has feet — Hacker News California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It’s chasing billionaires instead.
• Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and ‘use AI instead’ — Hacker News A Sydney tutoring company will shut its doors at the end of the week after telling customers artificial intelligence has rendered its service effectively obsolete.
• Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page — Hacker News
• ‘That’s so AI ‘ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us — Hacker News The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive
• Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair — Hacker News In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones. Thankfully…
• The Test — Hacker News Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being sa…
• CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2 — Hacker News SAFA details the full exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, turning a double-fetch vulnerability in Avast’s kernel driver into a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on Windows 11.
• Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance — Hacker News A koi pond to stare at. A place to do nothing.
• Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net — Hacker News We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.
• The Year of Internal Tools — Hacker News How Geocodio went from bash scripts to full internal apps, the system that keeps them maintainable, and where we draw the line between building and buying.
• GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks — Hacker News On the 31st August I got an email from a customer, telling me that they had found an imitation of my data wrangling software on Github. I’m not linking to it, but here is a screenshot: It is …
• SkillOpt: Training Loop for Agent Skills — Hacker News Project webpage for SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen language agents.
• Best LLM for every budget, updated daily — Hacker News Which LLM is worth it: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against blended API price, with the value frontier highlighted. Refreshed daily.
• New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators — Hacker News Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
• AAAI 2027 Phase 1 Summary Rejection [N] — Reddit r/MachineLearning
• What’s up with AAAI reviewers and organizers? [D] — Reddit r/MachineLearning
• NeurIPS Main Track Decision Emails are Sent [D] — Reddit r/MachineLearning
• I’m a 5+ year experienced Data scientist willing to explain my real life projects on video call to someone willing to learn so that it can help with my Interview preparation [D] — Reddit r/MachineLearning
• Applying multirate DSP principles to LLMs: A hierarchical “Semantic Vocoder” architecture [P] — Reddit r/MachineLearning

Generated at 2026-09-25T14:05:31Z | Sources: HackerNews, TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI, Ars Technica AI, Reddit r/artificial, Reddit r/MachineLearning, Reddit r/LocalLLaMA, Reddit r/ChatGPT