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ChatGPT claws back web traffic share to 55.5 percent as Gemini's brief comeback fades
Similarweb data shows ChatGPT regaining chatbot web traffic share to 55.5% while Gemini slipped to 25.6% and Claude grew to 9.3%.
Similarweb figures show ChatGPT's share of AI chatbot website traffic rising from 52.7% three months ago to 55.5%, though it remains far below its 73.3% share a year ago. Google Gemini declined from 27.8% to 25.6% after a brief comeback, while Anthropic's Claude grew from 1.9% to 9.3% year-over-year. DeepSeek (3.4%), Grok (2.4%), Copilot (1.6%), and Perplexity (0.9%) trail the leaders. The data covers website traffic only and excludes mobile and desktop app usage.
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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Clearview AI is prototyping InquiryIQ, an AI analyst assistant that would automatically profile individuals identified through its face-recognition searches for police.
WIRED uncovered InquiryIQ, an unreleased Clearview AI prototype described as an AI analyst assistant that fans out across the web from a face-recognition search result to assemble profiles including employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics. The company tested a model from xAI (merged with SpaceX), maker of Grok, and the interface accepts age, gender, and race inputs to guide searches. Clearview says the prototype was never pitched or shipped to customers and no law enforcement user has used it; the database has grown to over 70 billion images used by more than 2,000 law enforcement agencies.
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The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
Ars Technica probes diffuse accountability behind TeraWulf's $3.2B Lake Mariner AI data center after a June fire exposed safety and job gaps.
A June fire at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York exposed missing alarms, a nonfunctioning suppression system, and dry hydrants, highlighting how responsibility is split across TeraWulf (owner-operator), Fluidstack (operator), Google (lease guarantees and equity warrants), and Anthropic (compute customer). The article details local concerns over the gap between promised 165 permanent jobs and a projected 35-40, socialized grid costs, and Governor Hochul's moratorium on hyperscaler development. Anthropic's February 2026 pledge to cover electricity price increases applies to the site but leaves other commitments unverified.
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Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
Simile AI raised a $2B Series B from GreenOaks and Index Ventures to scale human-behavior simulation for Fortune 100 clients like CVS.
Simile AI, co-founded by Generative Agents researcher Joon Sung Park, announced a $2 billion Series B backed by GreenOaks and Index Ventures, with Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy among backers. The company runs tens of millions of simulations for Fortune 100 clients including CVS, reporting 85-99% accuracy versus human focus groups and digital twins of 1,000 real people at 85% behavioral accuracy. The long-term ambition is foundation models of human behavior, post-trained on interviews, transaction data, and randomized controlled trials, potentially simulating all 8 billion people.
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Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
Mistral and Mozilla partnered to power Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing assistant in France and North America, with zero data retention.
Mozilla's Firefox Smart Window (beta) AI browsing assistant is now powered by Mistral models for users in France and North America, with the UK and Germany expected later this year. Conversations are not saved on Mozilla's servers by default, and Mistral agreed to zero data retention. Both companies frame the partnership as advancing open-source, privacy-first, and regionally fine-tuned AI, with models trained on regional languages, dialects, and cultural context.
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Meta Releases Muse, a Personal AI Agent With Privacy ‘Built Into It’
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent on iOS, Android, WhatsApp, and web, with VM-isolated execution and prompt-injection protections.
Meta released Muse, a personal AI agent from Meta Superintelligence Labs that automates tasks such as sending email, booking travel, and making purchases, accessible via a dedicated app, Muse.ai, and WhatsApp. The agent runs in a Secure VM architecture that isolates untrusted web and integration data from the action-taking component, with a Sentinel system that routes human-in-the-loop approval prompts directly to users to resist prompt injection. Purchases use Stripe's Link single-use card numbers with no-fee return protections, and a future Confidential VM co-developed with Moxie Marlinspike will run in trusted execution environments with user-held keys. Meta added Muse to its public bug bounty with payouts up to $300,000, including up to $130,000 for single-user prompt injection findings.
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[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeno custom inference chip claiming 1.5-1.9x better perf-per-watt than NVIDIA GB200/GB300, deploying in-house by year-end.
At the 37th Hot Chips conference, OpenAI published first benchmark details for its custom Jalapeno inference chip, claiming 1.5-1.9x more work per watt, 1.7-3.6x lower end-to-end latency, and 2.1-4.1x higher interactive-workload performance versus NVIDIA GB200/GB300, with the 700W-rated part staying at or below 550W in tests. Deployment into OpenAI's own infrastructure begins by year-end, with Gen 2 deep in development and Gen 3 underway. OpenAI also said GPT-Astra and Codex helped write low-level kernels, reportedly 1.5-1.8x faster than human-expert code for selected attention and MoE blocks. Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX and Apple M6 were also featured at the conference.
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Microsoft says Copilot buttons still missing in classic Outlook
Microsoft is still investigating a bug that makes Copilot buttons disappear in classic Outlook for affected M365 Copilot users.
Microsoft confirmed the missing Copilot and Copilot Chat buttons occur after upgrading classic Outlook for Windows to build 20026.20182 and higher, because Outlook cannot locate the MAPI property PR_PROFILE_USER_SMTP_EMAIL_ADDRESS_W. The issue affects Copilot Chat (Basic) and paid M365 Copilot (Premium) customers, and Copilot remains reachable via OWA, new Outlook, and the standalone app. A temporary workaround enables 'Show Apps in Outlook' under Advanced settings, and Microsoft also acknowledged Outlook crashes tied to Kaspersky's Mail Checker (mcou.dll).
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[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Latent Space AI news roundup: Steve Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks reports 60% higher coding spend on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI launches misalignment disclosure framework.
Latent Space's AI News digest for September 15-16, 2026 leads with Steve Yegge shutting down his Gas Town orchestrator despite spending thousands monthly on coding-agent subscriptions. Databricks rolled out GPT-6 Astra to roughly 3,500 engineers, reporting superior long-horizon performance over Opus 5 and Sol 5.6 but a ~60% increase in coding spend. OpenAI published a formal framework for disclosing model misalignment incidents with six case reports, while Microsoft and Google Research released safety papers on 'capability laundering' and the Fuse motive-inference benchmark. Xiaomi shared live RL training telemetry for MiMo-V2.6, estimated at $493k/day for the 1T-class Pro run.
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Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface
Anthropic unified Claude chat, Cowork, and Artifacts into one auto-routing interface, adding Docs and Slides creation with PDF and PowerPoint export.
Anthropic merged the Claude chat and Cowork front-ends so one window routes requests automatically, ending customer confusion over which tab to use. The update adds Claude Docs and Slides with PDF and PowerPoint export, collaborative sections, and comments, and makes Claude Design, launched in April, available anywhere in Claude. It rolls out to Pro and Max plans on web, desktop, and mobile over coming weeks, with Free and Team tiers later, following a recent Cowork memory upgrade.
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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
TechCrunch compiles a running list of failed AI products and startups, including Relay, OpenAI's Sora, Humane AI Pin, Notion Mail, and Microsoft's Recall.
TechCrunch's 'AI graveyard' tracks notable AI products and startups that shut down or underperformed, citing S&P Global data that about 42% of AI initiatives are abandoned. Examples include the Relay automation startup, OpenAI's Sora video platform (shut March 2026), ChatGPT Atlas browser (discontinued August 9), Notion Mail (shutting September 22), and Apple's delayed Siri AI that contributed to a $250 million settlement. Hardware failures include the Humane AI Pin ($230 million raised, assets sold to HP for $116 million) and the Rabbit R1, which sold 100,000 units but received poor reviews. Microsoft's Recall feature remains controversial after a researcher demonstrated a tool extracting its captured data.
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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
Meta launched Muse, a consumer AI agent powered by Muse Spark that connects to users' apps to execute tasks like emailing, booking travel, and payments.
Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent for US users that connects to email, calendars, payments, shopping, and other services to execute tasks such as booking travel, lowering bills, and completing purchases via Link by Stripe. The agent runs in a dedicated Muse Secure VM with a separate Sentinel agent kept apart at the system level, and Meta claims it cannot see passwords or payment data and does not share conversations with ad systems. Muse is free to start, with Power ($20/month) and Maximum ($100/month) subscription tiers, and is available on the web, iOS, Android, and WhatsApp, with Meta AI glasses support planned. The launch follows Meta's $18 billion multistate consumer-harms settlement and comes as rivals like Gemini Spark and Claude Cowork push agentic AI.
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PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors
Top AI open source projects like Vercel, Astro, Flue, and tldraw are restricting external PRs and using agent-based software factories to triage, fix, and review contributions.
Several prominent AI-native open source projects are closing or limiting external pull requests, largely because submissions are often AI-generated. Vercel built a multi-agent software factory for its AI SDK (over 20 million weekly npm downloads) that now authors 25-35% of merged PRs and closes 70-80% of issues. Astro adopted similar auto-triage automation, Fred Schott created the Flue framework with automatic PR-to-issue conversion, and tldraw automatically closes external PRs.
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Your Website Now Has Two Audiences: Humans and AI
Akamai argues websites now serve two audiences — humans and AI agents — reshaping web traffic, content delivery, and site design considerations.
Akamai published a blog post examining how websites now face traffic from both human visitors and AI systems such as crawlers and agents. The piece frames this dual audience as a trend affecting how sites are built, measured, and managed. No further article text was available, so specific findings are not known.
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