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Dyson CameraJet: A $499 Toothbrush That Runs Computer Vision

Dyson's CameraJet puts a 100,000-pixel camera in a toothbrush head and uses on-device machine vision to spot gaps between teeth and jet them clean.

Inworld Ships Realtime TTS-2 Voice Model Family

Inworld completes its Realtime TTS-2 rollout with a Flash variant and per-character pricing. Where the model actually ranks on the Artificial Analysis arena.

First Complete Male Fruit Fly Connectome Mapped With AI

Google Research, HHMI Janelia, MRC LMB and Cambridge published the first full wiring diagram of a male fruit fly nervous system: 166,691 neurons, 11,691 types.

Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.3 With Big Long-Context Gains

Muse Spark 1.3 posts 98.5 on MRCR and cuts tokens 25% on coding — but cost per task rose 37%, and the headline scores use a mode that has not…

NVIDIA’s $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Is a Bet on Open Models

NVIDIA will acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Why the deal's incentives favor open models — and where the neutrality risk actually sits.

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra With Record Benchmarks

OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, claiming 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 and 100% on ExploitBench. The ARC-AGI-3 result comes with a caveat.

Qwen’s E-Commerce Bench Runs AI Agents for a Simulated Year

Qwen released E-Commerce Bench: an LLM agent gets ¥100,000 and 365 simulated days to run online stores. 18 frontier models tested, none wins overall.

Google’s Fairwind Program Gates Its Least-Restricted Cyber Model

Google launched Fairwind on September 2, 2026: vetted partners get Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber — the variant that ships with deliberately looser safety mitigations.

Gemini Now Picks Which Parts of a Video to Watch

Google's agentic video understanding lets Gemini load video segments on demand. An hour of footage drops from ~475K tokens to a fraction of that.

World Labs Announces Atlas, an Omni World Model

World Labs unveiled Atlas on September 1, 2026: an omni world model over text, images, video and 3D that generates a minute of 1440p camera-controlled video.