A viral open-source tool called claude-obsidian is taking GitHub by storm with 13.5K stars, transforming Claude Code into a self-organizing AI knowledge base that automatically links and files any source into a fully user-owned, local-first Markdown graph with zero silent cloud uploads.
Waymo surpasses 200 million fully autonomous miles and reveals the cutting-edge AI and sensor technology — including multimodal sensors, HD maps, Gemini-powered Vision-Language Models, and an independent onboard safety validator — driving its push toward true Level 4 self-driving at scale.
Meta agrees to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 U.S. states alleging the company knowingly addicted children to Instagram and Facebook, with the deal introducing a 10-year framework of teen protections including daily time limits, Night Mode, and hidden like counts — pending judicial approval.
IBM launches Granite 4.2, a family of open-weight AI models in 3B, 8B, and 30B variants featuring agentic capabilities like web search and tool integration, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic as enterprises increasingly seek cost-effective, self-hosted alternatives to expensive cloud-based frontier models.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a powerful new AI speech-to-text model that is 70% faster than its predecessor, supports 85 languages, reduces live-speech error rates, and is already live in Gboard, the Gemini macOS app, and developer tools.
AI robotics startup Generalist raises $200M just two months after a $400M round, surpassing a $2 billion valuation, with backers including Nvidia and Bezos Expeditions fueling its mission to build smarter 'robot brains.'
Anthropic launches a $5 million grant program funding independent research into AI's impact on user wellbeing, offering clinicians, psychologists, and methodologists funding, model access, and technical support, with applications due September 21.
Revolut launches a dedicated AI division and unveils PRAGMA, a proprietary foundation model built with NVIDIA, reporting a 65% fraud detection boost, 2.3x credit risk accuracy improvement, and 41% better personalized recommendations across 80 million customers in over 40 markets.
FreeToken is revolutionizing local AI by enabling anyone with a gaming PC to run massive 290B+ parameter AI models at interactive speeds, using an open-source inference engine with smart CPU-GPU co-execution and semantic caching — no expensive cloud subscription required.
Perplexity and Nvidia launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent platform running entirely on users' own hardware that eliminates cloud costs, targeting privacy-sensitive industries like law, healthcare, and finance — though it currently requires 24GB VRAM and is limited to Linux machines with RTX GPUs.