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Meta Made a Tamagotchi-Like Wearable for Its Muse AI Agent

At Connect 2026 on 23 September, Mark Zuckerberg revealed Muse Charm, a palm-sized keychain device for talking to Meta’s Muse AI agent. It has a touchscreen of about 2 inches with a customisable animated character, a fingerprint sensor that starts a conversation, a real-time voice model and built-in 5G. It ships in time for the December holidays, with no price yet. This article covers what Meta confirmed, why reviewers compare it to a Tamagotchi, how it fits the Muse agent, the unanswered questions on price, battery and camera, the history of failed AI gadgets such as the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1, and what businesses should watch.

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Discover Grok 4.7, Freshly Added to AIxploria

AIxploria added SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 at 01:29 UTC on 24 September 2026, a little over two days after launch. Its blurb calls the model “twice as fast and half the cost,” but SpaceXAI’s own announcement says Grok 4.7 is served “at the same price and speed as Grok 4.6,” and its “half the price” claim referred to rival models such as GPT-5.6 Sol, which OpenAI replaced the next day. We checked 13 claims, worked through the 200K-token pricing threshold, compared Grok 4.7 with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on three job sizes, and tested Musk’s pre-launch forecasts.

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The Promise and Peril of Using Visual AI to Study Cities

How AI Sees the City: Urban Visual Intelligence,” a new Routledge book from the MIT Senseable City Lab and Peking University, argues that visual AI can turn the images cities already produce into detailed data on traffic, emissions, greenery and public space. MIT research in New York used 331 traffic cameras to show congestion pricing cut traffic by about 10% but emissions by 16% to 22%. The authors also warn of surveillance and bias. This article explains the method, the findings, the risks and the questions to ask before deploying visual AI in public spaces.

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New AI Tool: GPT-6 Sol and Luna Has Just Landed on AIxploria

AIxploria published a single card for OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at 02:51 UTC on 24 September 2026, about 33 hours after launch. We checked 14 claims against OpenAI’s model pages, pricing tables and launch reporting. Prices, context window and headline benchmarks are right, but the “half the price” promise ends for prompts over 272,000 tokens, the “not in Chat” drawback was already out of date, Luna’s later knowledge cutoff is missing, OpenAI’s alignment results are left out, and the “#5 in LLM models” badge belongs to Claude Opus 4.8.

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Claude Opus 5.5 Is Now Available on AIxploria

AIxploria published its Claude Opus 5.5 card at 03:23 UTC on 24 September 2026, about 35 hours after Anthropic’s launch. We checked 14 of its claims against Anthropic’s launch post, model overview and pricing page: nine are fully correct, but the card contradicts itself on the 1M-token context window, labels a paid model Freemium, misstates the launch gap with GPT-6 Sol, drops the benchmarks GPT-6 Astra wins, and carries a “#4 in LLM models” badge for a slot Grok 4.6 already holds. Here is what the card gets right, what it gets wrong and what the price cut really means.

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Meta Announces AI-Native VR Glasses and Updates to Muse Assistant

At Connect 2026 on 23 September, Meta unveiled Meta VR Glasses, about 100-gram glasses with a 5K micro-OLED display and a clip-on compute puck that replace the Quest headset. They are controlled by eye tracking, hand gestures and voice, cost $1,299.99 and launch in spring 2027. Meta also updated its Muse agent with real-time voice, voice design, Muse Realtime Avatar, its own email address, Mac app control and 18 new connectors, and promised hands-free Muse on its AI glasses in the coming months. This article covers the specs, launch content, trade-offs, privacy questions and business implications.

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Meta Bets Big on Wearable AI, New AI Agent as Zuckerberg Pushes Back Against AI Doom

At Connect 2026 on 23 September, Meta launched Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses, camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio, an FDA-cleared hearing feature, $1,299.99 Meta VR Glasses and the Muse Charm pocket device, all built around its Muse agent. Mark Zuckerberg used the keynote to reject calls for a coordinated AI slowdown, arguing that spreading AI widely is safer than concentrating it. This article covers the launches, the prices, the $4.62 billion quarterly Reality Labs loss behind them, and where Meta’s case against AI doom is strong and weak.

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Call for Papers: Advancing Research on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

On 23 September 2026, UNESCO and the AI and Society Institute at ENS-PSL launched a call for papers for researchers who completed a PhD within the past five years. Applicants submit an anonymised 800 to 1,000-word extended abstract by 30 October on any of 14 themes framed by UNESCO’s 2021 Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. The laureates and jury of the UNESCO Beruniy Prize will review proposals, successful authors will be notified by 15 November, full papers of 5,000 to 7,000 words are due on 1 December, and selected authors present at ENS in Paris on 10 December. This guide covers eligibility, the timeline, the seven required abstract elements, the jury, the publication route and the mistakes that sink submissions.

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Laravel AI SDK 1.0 Adds Classification and Tool Approvals

Laravel released version 1.0 of its first-party Laravel AI SDK on 23 September 2026. It adds classification as a capability of its own, running on TypeSafe’s Jev models and OpenRouter, with Boolean, Choice and Score questions and a new Str::decide macro. Tools that implement the Approvable contract now pause the agent until a person approves, rejects or edits the call. The SDK speaks the Vercel Chat and AG-UI protocols, runs agent middleware on every step, and adds tool search, provider-side code execution and consistent token reporting. The upgrade from 0.11 has 23 breaking changes, five rated high impact, including a new steps column that needs a backfill migration. This article covers each feature with code, the breaking changes and a production upgrade plan.

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China AI: Data Centres Rise from the Rolling Plains of Inner Mongolia

The BBC visited Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia this week and found data centres rising beside potato fields at what workers call “China speed”. The city has signed 100 data centre projects worth more than 500 billion yuan and already holds 8.7% of China’s computing capacity. Cold air allows free cooling for about ten months a year, a quirk of the West Inner Mongolia Power Grid keeps electricity at roughly half the Beijing price, and a fibre link reaches Beijing in 4.2 milliseconds. DeepSeek plans a 1 GW campus with 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips, and Envision has commissioned a 2 GW campus. But villages have been relocated, a large data centre employs only a few hundred people, and an estimated 10% to 15% of the investment stays local. This article covers the numbers, the chip question and what it means for businesses outside China.

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