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Google says Extended Thinking can talk through longer tasks as it works, with rollout beginning in Gemini Live, developer tools and selected Workspace features.

Core and Premium combine paid features across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Meta says the apps’ core experience will remain free.

The company says it banned accounts, but has not established harmful intent or an imminent biological threat.

Meta is advancing custom MTIA silicon, planning to deploy MTIA 450 (Arke) in H1 2027 and MTIA 500 (Astrid) by end-2027. These target efficient inference workloads with better performance-per-watt and cost than Nvidia systems. Meta partnered with Broadcom and TSMC.

WIRED describes repeated clothing comments as an attempt to evade politics. CBS News recounts an interview with the AI actor that left its interviewer feeling creeped out.

The September 14 updates address Remote Desktop failures, Linux shared folders and multichannel audio. Microsoft says some USB audio devices still may not work.

The Hill reports a 49–50 vote on a motion to proceed, with all Democrats and a few Republicans blocking the cryptocurrency regulation bill from advancing.

Apple rolled out iOS 27 with a major Siri overhaul powered by Apple Intelligence, offering conversational and context-aware responses. New child safety features include age-based app controls, Ask to Browse for website approval, Communication Safety detection, and Time Allowances for daily usage limits.

ZDNET says its picks follow testing of every iPhone model in recent years, including the iPhone 18 series.

Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Live, a native speech-to-speech model with low-latency voice interactions, and Extended Thinking for complex multi-step reasoning. Both support visual context, multilingual switching, and agentic workflows available via Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

Meta introduced Muse, a proactive personal AI agent handling email, travel booking, payments, and workflow automation across connected apps. Running in a secure VM with privacy controls, it is available in the US via app, WhatsApp, and web with free and subscription tiers ($20/$100).

Apple released iOS 27 with conversational Siri AI featuring personal context awareness, app actions, and onscreen understanding. Supports iPhone 11 and later, with advanced AI on iPhone 15 Pro/16+ models, plus performance gains and Liquid Glass UI refinements.

Tom's Hardware reports that natural gas consumption by US AI data centers is projected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for computing increases.

Pulse 2.0 reports that the cybersecurity company is expanding its platform for protecting robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and other intelligent machines.

Apple’s rebuilt assistant starts in English as a beta, requires a newer iPhone and initially excludes iPhones and iPads in the EU.

IGN reports that Travis Scott, Future and Morgan Wallen have shared zoomed-in GTA 6 images as Rockstar begins teasing who's on the game's soundtrack.

TechCrunch reports that developers can use Claude, Cursor, Codex and ChatGPT to handle messaging templates, testing and troubleshooting through the new MCP server.

MarketWatch reports that SpaceX plans six orbits of Earth during a nearly 10-hour Starship flight.

Bloomberg Law reports that Blanche says he prefers restraint in enforcement against AI companies and executives as debate over the technology’s risks grows.

The account-free X reader cites a new legal development. Nitter’s repository is read-only, but permanent closure remains unconfirmed.