24 September 2026

Virtual closet in Google Photos comes to iOS and Android

Google added a virtual closet to Google Photos, reminiscent of the app from the movie "Clueless": AI builds a digital version of your wardrobe from the clothes visible in your photos. Items can be filtered by category and combined into outfits. The feature works on iOS and Android in the US, Brazil and India, and according to Google the clothing data is not shared with stores or other companies.

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Three fired OpenAI employees urge the board to keep monitoring models' reasoning

Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, fired from OpenAI last week for violating rules on access to confidential information they allegedly passed to an AI safety organization, wrote a letter to the company's board and safety committees about chain-of-thought monitoring, Gizmodo reports, citing The Wall Street Journal. "As an industry, we don't yet know how to safely develop and deploy models we cannot monitor," the authors write, urging OpenAI and other companies not to pursue work that would further limit this ability. OpenAI said the employees were not fired for raising safety concerns, and in an internal memo wrote that it "strongly agrees" with the letter's recommendations.

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Porsche: combustion Boxster and Cayman won't return - the new 718 will be electric only, with 2028 its first full year of production

Porsche confirmed to Motor1 that the next generation of the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman will be electric only - the "Sportwagenschmiede '35" strategy presented at Capital Markets Day on Wednesday, October 7, includes no combustion versions. Head of corporate communications Matthias Rauter explained that combustion 718s were never officially approved, so formally nothing was canceled; a year ago Porsche had announced combustion engines for the most powerful versions alongside electric variants. 2028 is set to be the first full year of electric 718 production, which according to Motor1 means a debut next year; on October 15 Porsche will show the Mission S concept, a preview of a hypercar that will sit above the 911 in the lineup.

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Tesla's Robotaxi in Austin now runs until 11 p.m. - Musk: pets are hard to spot at night

Tesla's Robotaxi in Austin now runs an hour longer, until 11 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. Elon Musk wrote on X that the biggest challenge is keeping the cars from hitting pets, which are hard to see at night: "We're literally trying not to run over gray kittens on gray asphalt in the dark." As Electrek notes, cameras typically struggle to detect objects in low light and low contrast, and Tesla relies on cameras alone. No Tesla ever sold has had lidar, and the company removed radar from its cars in 2021. In 2019, Musk argued that anyone relying on lidar is doomed. Meanwhile, Waymo's robotaxis, equipped with cameras, lidar and radar, operate around the clock.

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