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Grok Bot is available in early beta on desktop and iOS for $120/month, operating its own cloud computer to sign into apps and complete tasks. It can run multiple bots that coordinate, share context, and message each other like colleagues.
G20 members unanimously agreed to adopt US-proposed guidelines calling for lighter-touch AI regulation, a win for the Trump administration and Silicon Valley. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged faster AI adoption and infrastructure expansion, while OpenAI's Sam Altman called AI as essential as electricity.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's policy bars student-facing generative AI for nearly 600,000 students in 2-K through 8th grade, effective 2026-27. Companion chatbots are banned in all grades, while high schoolers get limited pilots and twice-yearly AI literacy modules.
Meta Superintelligence Labs' fourth Muse Spark release in five months uses ~20% fewer tool calls and ~25% fewer tokens than Muse Spark 1.2. Pricing is $0.2 vs $25 per 1M output tokens versus Claude Opus 5, with a 90%+ discount if you opt in to training.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash packs a 552B backbone with native image and text input and up to a 1M-token context window. It debuts at $0.003/1M off-peak cached-input tokens, with one benchmark showing 98% of GPT-6 Astra's score at 1.4% of the cost.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI suffered overlapping outages on Sept 3, disrupting ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. OpenAI attributed its issue to a routing error starting 7:43 am PT, resolved by 8:17 am PT. SpaceXAI blamed an outage at its Memphis compute center for Grok's problems.
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