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Google: Gemini 4 will ship "as soon as possible"

Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu confirmed to The Information that Gemini 4 is already in post-training, the stage of refining the model's behavior and running safety tests before launch. Google wants to release an early version as soon as possible, and Kavukcuoglu expects that to happen well before the end of 2026. He did not give a specific date.

Update September 30: Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, for now available only to trusted cybersecurity specialists.

Waymo: robotaxis have 82 percent fewer injury crashes than human-driven cars

Waymo published data on its driverless operations: 271 million miles through the end of June in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco. According to the company, over the same distance its vehicles had 82 percent fewer injury crashes than cars driven by humans, 95 percent fewer crashes with serious injuries or deaths, and 93 percent fewer crashes injuring pedestrians. The data was collected by the company itself and compared with police crash statistics.

YouTube will let you build several custom recommendation feeds by describing them in one sentence

At its Made on YouTube event, the service announced that users will be able to build their own recommendation feeds on the home page by describing them in plain language, for example "witty podcasts for a 30-minute commute" or "winding down in the evening with long documentaries." Users will be able to save several such feeds, and YouTube will keep filling them with new suggestions. It expands a feature from May that allowed one such feed. It is coming "soon" to users in the US on the web, phones and TVs.

Audi A6 e-tron drives 1,338 km on a single charge - a Guinness record

European rally champion Miko Marczyk drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 km (831 miles) on a single charge, setting a Guinness record for series-production electric cars. He set off from Zakopane on September 11 and for more than 45 hours drove on ordinary roads through Kraków, Warsaw and Toruń to the Hel Peninsula. On the way back, the car stopped between Toruń and Ciechocinek. Average consumption was 7.09 kWh per 100 km. The previous record, set with a Lucid Air, was 1,205 km.

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent with an iPhone app

Meta released Muse - a personal AI agent that carries out tasks for the user. The app is available for the iPhone on the App Store, for now only in the US, and since September 17 also as a Mac version. The agent can be used for free within a weekly limit, and paying users get a higher limit. Everyone sets the agent's name and avatar themselves.