AI News. October 1, 2026

Perplexity open sourced pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model setting a new state of the art on ConTEB and turbopuffer’s context-bench

Perplexity@perplexity_ai

We built a new way to train contextual embedding models, which encode each chunk of a document with the whole document in view. pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview sets a new state of the art on ConTEB and @turbopuffer's new, privately held context-bench. perplexity.ai/hub/blog/conte…

7:07 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 154K Views

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Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon, showing frontier performance in complex workflows, cyber defense and software engineering

Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai

Lots of discussion out there about our next model(!), so I wanted to give an early look as soon as possible. Introducing Gemini 4 Argon! It shows frontier performance in complex workflows, cyber defense and software engineering. Teams are using it extensively at Google, from …

8:02 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 868K Views

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Inworld acquired Ultravox, the voice agent platform

Inworld AI@inworld

We’re excited to announce that @ultravox_dot_ai is now part of Inworld. Ultravox is the platform developers use to build real-time voice agents. We've worked with the team for a while through our TTS partnership, and today members of the team that built it are joining Inworld to

6:07 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 452K Views

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Google is building a Security review feature for Google AI Studio that applies secure coding practices, alongside a Plan mode

🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog@testingcatalog

Google is working on Security review featue for Google AI Studio. > "Apply secure coding practices". > The new mode may appear in the mode selector, along with a Plan mode (also in development). Will it be powered by Gemini 4rgon? 👀

11:06 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 12.2K Views

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Claude mobile chats are getting Skills as a separate attachment menu

🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog@testingcatalog

Skills are coming as a separate attachment menu for Claude chats on mobile. That makes it way simpler 👀

6:56 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 10.7K Views

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Kled V3 shipped 108 task templates across image, video, audio, text and annotation, and collects 8M datapoints per day

Kled AI@useKled

This is Kled V3. We've solved data collection for artificial general intelligence. Any consumer dataset that can exist, can now be collected from physical reality in under 72 hours. All powered by the largest and most comprehensive data application layer on the planet. (Thread)

2:59 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 1.71M Views

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Sesame is building Connectors (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive), Skills, scheduled tasks and task management, with adjustable thinking effort

🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog@testingcatalog

Sesame is building support for Connectors, Skills, Scheduled tasks, and task management features! > Currently, the app is free; however, Sesame will likely introduce several paid plans soon. Pricing and feature set are yet unclear. > A hidden Activity tab holds sections for …

2:30 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 8.01K Views

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GMI Cloud raised $668M in a Series B led by ARCHIV, with NVIDIA participating and a credit facility led by CTBC

GMI Cloud@gmi_cloud

Announcing our $668M Series B! Led by ARCHIV with participation from @nvidia. This capital expands our GPU capacity across the U.S., Taiwan, and APAC, and scales our inference platform. Our contracted ARR has reached more than 9x since the end of 2025. Thanks to

1:30 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 416K Views

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ChatGPT profiles added Top Plugins and Showcase sections, with a configurable, publicly visible list of sites

ChatGPT@ChatGPT

You built it, now show it off and share it. With shareable profiles, you can bring your Sites and plugins together in one place so others can find them, and reuse them. Teammates can discover your shared skills, too—those stay within your workspace. Available to Free, Go, Plus, …

12:22 AM · Sep 30, 2026 · 114K Views

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Airwallex launched agentic Business Accounts, where AI agents manage entities, accounts, balances and currencies within user-set rules and approvals

Shannon Scott@shannonscott

Introducing Agentic Business Accounts. One of the biggest requests from customers was being able to manage all their entities & accounts in one place. Today, that’s live. We revamped Business Accounts entirely so you can have a single view across your currencies, balances & …

3:51 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 152K Views

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Creatify launched Boreal-H3, a video model for ad production, plus an Ad Agent powered by Claude Opus 5.5

Creatify Labs@Creatify_Labs

Introducing Boreal-H3 — a video model built for ads and our next step toward recursive self-improvement in video generation. A good-looking video isn’t enough. The product has to stay the same. The actor has to stay the same. The label has to be right. And the action in the …

5:15 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 669K Views

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