Thursday, 24 September 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Thursday, 24 September 2026.
Research & Products
YouTube releases new AI features for creators within its Studio app
YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.
Read moreOpenAI Releases a Mental-Health AI Test That Goes Beyond Crisis Responses
MentalHealthBench scores how models respond to everyday stress and urgent situations. A companion study found that users and clinicians value different qualities in a helpful answer.
Read moreGoogle Releases Gemini Speech Models With Custom Voices and Line-by-Line Direction
Flash TTS can copy a permitted voice from a 30-second sample, but Google requires a matching consent recording. Enterprise API access is still to come.
Read moreMeta Introduces $1,299 VR Glasses and a Handheld Shortcut to Its AI Agent
An external processor helps slim down the glasses. Muse Charm promises faster access to the agent, but Meta has not priced it.
Read moreAnthropic’s Amodei Pledges to Slow AI Releases as Needed for Safety at UN
He also sought global testing standards, while OpenAI’s chief called for government oversight and US officials resisted international rules.
Read morePolicy & Ethics
New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence Security chiefs will set up a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia, Andy Burnham has announced, saying the government had a duty to “stem the poisonous tide” from damaging British interests. The National Centre for Information Defence will “detect, attribute and disrupt” information attacks by foreign powers, many of which are enabled by AI , bringing together the intelligence agencies, law enforcement and social media...
Read moreAs Congress confronts AI, Senate lawmakers are shut off from its most advanced tools
While Senate offices have access to chatbots like ChatGPT, they are not authorized to use any of the more advanced tools that are at the center of regulatory talks and public debate about AI safety.
Read moreAI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel
By Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding Roughly 7,600 fake GitHub repositories, 6,600 fraudulent profiles and more than 14 million downloads: that is the scale of FakeGit, a malware campaign documented by Island in July 2026. Over 800 repositories impersonated AI skills and MCP servers, distributing SmartLoader and […] The post AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel appeared first on AI News .
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Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
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Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
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 glasses.
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