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September 2026

388 events 25 days with news

Importance: monitoring Robotics 1 source

Tesla halts production of Model S and Model X due to reassignment to development of the Optimus robot

In May 2026, Tesla halted production of the Model S and Model X in Fremont and reassigned both workers and engineers to development of the Optimus robot. According to a report by The Information, development is being slowed by the complexity of robotic hands and employee resistance to training their own replacements.

Importance: monitoring GitHub Tools and apps ✓ official

GitHub Copilot: usage metrics API now tracks pull request review phases

The GitHub Copilot usage metrics API has a new field, pull_request_review_times, which shows the median and 90th percentile duration of three pull request review phases – for enterprises and organizations with the metrics policy enabled.

Importance: monitoring Audio generation 1 source

AI-generated song used as evidence in murder trial

At a U.S. trial of Caleb Flynn, accused of murdering his wife, a song the defendant created for his mistress using the ElevenLabs tool was played as evidence. The forensic team found the recordings on his iPhone.

Importance: monitoring Microsoft Hardware 1 source

Microsoft is dropping the Copilot+ PC label for new Surface devices

The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop (2nd Edition), which will be released on 13 October, meet and exceed the technical parameters for Copilot+ PC (80 TOPS NPU versus the required 40), but Microsoft is not marking them with this label and is switching to the more generic label "performance PC".

Importance: monitoring AI agents 1 source

John Gruber warns of security risks of Meta's agentic system Muse

Commentator John Gruber points out that Muse from Meta, the first consumer-available agentic AI system with its own persistent Linux VM in Meta's cloud, is more dangerous than users realize due to its friendly packaging with a mascot.

Importance: monitoring GitHub Tools and apps ✓ official

GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams: public preview of an improved integration

GitHub has launched a public preview update to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams with improved use of conversation context, model switching, and linking to GitHub issues. Available for Business and Enterprise plans, gradual rollout.

Importance: major Meta AI agents ✓ official

Meta's Muse app reaches 3.4 million downloads and the top spot in app stores

Meta's Muse app reached 3.4 million downloads in the first 17 days after launch (2.3–4.3 million according to other firms) and took first place in both the US App Store and Google Play. Its download growth rate significantly outpaces ChatGPT.

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

Sony and Universal Music Group sue Suno again over v6 model

Sony and Universal Music Group have filed another lawsuit against Suno. They claim that the v6 model infringes their copyrights because it was trained on the outputs of older Suno models, which were created from music illegally downloaded from YouTube and other sources.

Importance: monitoring Amazon Tools and apps 1 source

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo enable AI model training across AWS regions without data replication

Amazon Web Services and Qumulo have described a solution that, using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Cloud Data Fabric, enables training AI models with data located in a different AWS region without copying it. A test on the LLaMA v3 model at 60 ms latency showed performance comparable to that with local data.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

AI remediation: a new category of work to check and correct AI outputs

According to an analysis by The Conversation, a new category of work is emerging called AI remediation – people checking and correcting erroneous outputs from language models. White-collar workers in finance, tech and retail report that this is actually adding to their workload.

Importance: monitoring Marketing 1 source

APEK survey: half of Czech online shoppers have already used AI when shopping

According to the E-commerce Study 2026 research by the APEK association, 50% of Czech customers have used AI when shopping online, most often for comparing products, summarizing reviews, and searching for alternatives. So far, people use AI agents only to a small extent.