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September 17, 2026

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Importance: monitoring Meta AI agents 1 source

Instinct and Muse from Meta added the ability to call businesses on behalf of users

The assistants Instinct (Instinct Concierge) and Meta Muse can now call businesses on behalf of users – reservations, cancellations, complaints. Both features are in early access; meanwhile, Instinct is in funding talks at a valuation of 10 billion dollars, and Muse reports 730 000 downloads in its first days.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI AI agents 1 source

Developer at OpenAI warns of token waste in agent swarms

Eric Provencher, a developer of the Codex tool at OpenAI, warns that agent swarms with many parallel sub-agents needlessly burn tokens without improving quality. He cites an example of refactoring a Python file for 20 000 dollars using 1 393 agents, which a single agent could have handled for a fraction of the price.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

OpenRouter: a 25 000 percent increase in token consumption does not mean comparable growth in AI usage

Weekly token consumption on the OpenRouter platform has increased by more than 25 000 percent since January 2025, from 0.5 to 126.2 trillion. According to The Decoder, this is not driven by corresponding growth in AI usage, but primarily by thinking tokens from reasoning models and unoptimized agentic systems.

Importance: monitoring Other 1 source

Artificial intelligence consciousness could become a new social divide, according to the author

According to the author of a chapter in the book Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, debate about the consciousness of future AI systems may become as divisive as abortion or climate change. A survey of 1202 participants in the USA: 45 % consider AI consciousness impossible, 23 % consider it possible, and experts also disagree.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

Treble raised 18 million dollars for a platform for simulating and testing voice AI

Icelandic company Treble raised 18 million dollars in a Series A extension for a platform for simulating and testing voice AI models; this brings the total raised since 2020 to over 40 million dollars. Customers include Amazon and Logitech.

Importance: monitoring Security 1 source

Al Gore: the main risk of AI is the automation of work, not data center emissions

Al Gore said in an interview with TechCrunch that emissions from AI data centers are negligible compared with those from air conditioning and landfills; in his view, the real threat lies in warnings from leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic about job losses due to automation.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

AI photo editors are moving from editing to reconstructing image content

According to Root.cz, AI photo editors are ceasing to be passive tools and beginning to actively reconstruct image content – computing details and smoothing textures without metadata distinguishing this from the original capture.