September 2026 - Page 17 of 29

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Humanoid Robot Learns to Sprint and Perform Spin Kicks Using AI Trained on Human Motion Data

A humanoid robot learned to sprint, throw spin kicks and land aerial cartwheels with one training recipe. We read the BeyondMimic paper from UC Berkeley and Stanford behind the headline, split its 70.8% humanlike score into walking and running, show that 15 of about 150 minutes of motion ran on hardware, explain the motion capture behind the obstacle demos and the licence on its training motion, and set it against the sprint records at the World Humanoid Robot Games.

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NASA and IBM Made an AI Model for Exploring the Moon

NASA and IBM made an AI model for exploring the Moon: the open NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, trained on nearly two million co-registered tiles from LRO, GRAIL, Lunar Prospector and SELENE and released on Hugging Face with the SomBench benchmarks. We trace the press release’s 23%, 22%, 19% and 3% claims to the technical report’s tables, explain the orange-wedge data split and the shadow problem, set out what the model card says the model cannot do, and show what the 12.79 GB download contains.

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Mathematicians Want Proof OpenAI Didn’t Use Their Work

Mathematicians want proof that OpenAI didn’t use their work. After OpenAI said an internal model solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, NYU’s Tristan Buckmaster asked whether his Codex sessions had trained it, and TU Dresden’s Andreas Thom asked the same about his ChatGPT chats and OpenAI’s non-sofic group result. OpenAI says no person or agent looked at their data, but it cannot rule out that de-identified data from their product use helped improve its models. We set out the timeline, the compute arithmetic, what each side claims, what OpenAI’s data controls actually cover, what real proof would look like, and what the dispute means for any business that puts unpublished work into AI tools.

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Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI

Siri AI reaches iPhones with iOS 27 on Monday 14 September 2026. We go through everything new you can do with Apple’s rebuilt assistant: questions about your own messages, mail and photos, onscreen awareness, Siri mode in Camera, Write with Siri, app actions, the dedicated Siri app and expressive voices. Then we check WIRED’s feature tour against Apple’s own release notes, support pages and footnotes, which add a beta label, English only at launch, no iPhone access in the EU or China mainland, an age floor of 13, a possible waitlist and daily usage limits with a fee for more. There is a device table, an MDM section for IT teams and a quick setup checklist.

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Apple Watch’s New AI Features Are Normalizing the Idea That Technology Is Always Listening

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add Audio Intelligence: Sound Recognition, Shazam, Live Rewind and Siri Recap. Apple’s privacy paper shows careful engineering, with no audio recordings, a hardware-isolated Secure Exclave, no speaker identification and summaries deleted after seven days. It also shows the gap TechCrunch called normalising always-listening technology: Live Rewind chimes and lights a microphone indicator, while Siri Recap, the feature that runs in the background, gives people nearby no audible signal. We set out the data flow, the consent laws in the US and UK, Apple’s Siri history and what businesses should decide before the late-2026 beta.

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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

Clearview AI has built and tested InquiryIQ, an unreleased AI assistant that takes a face-recognition lead and fans out across the web to assemble possible employers, aliases, associates, addresses and arrest history. WIRED found it in files Clearview’s login page sends to every visitor, and one of the models tested came from xAI, the Grok maker now part of SpaceX. We downloaded the same public files on 10 September 2026, recorded what they still say, and set the prototype against Clearview AI’s legal record in Europe, the UK and the US.

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Anyvids Is Now Available on AIxploria — Ranked 251st, Below Eight of the Models Inside It

AIxploria listed Anyvids at 05:25 UTC on 10 September 2026 with a Free trial tag, a 4.5 rating from four votes and a badge reading “#251 in Video Generators”. We tested that badge against known category positions, read the platform’s pricing page, terms, refund, acceptable use and privacy policies, changelog and page source, and checked the card claim by claim. The card is accurate. What it omits — an unnamed operator, a 100-credit refund ceiling, per-second pricing and tools that raise consent and fake-review questions — is what decides whether a business should use it.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B MoE Model Released on Hugging Face. It Beats V4 Pro on Agents and Trails It on Knowledge

DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash on Hugging Face on 10 September 2026: a 552B mixture-of-experts model under the MIT licence that activates 8B parameters to read and 16B to write, stores its global KV cache in 890 bytes per token, and replaces V4 Pro for every API caller from 04:00 UTC on 14 September. Its own model card shows it leading V4 Pro on all 12 agentic rows and trailing it on 12 of 16 base-model rows, including a 12.9-point gap on SimpleQA-Verified. This breakdown covers the causal encoder-decoder architecture, the KV cache arithmetic, the new price sheet with a worked agent bill, the 511 GB checkpoint and 614 GB serving floor, the mismatched reasoning-effort aliases, and a pre-cutover checklist.

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