ZeroSlop — September 22, 2026
Today: SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the…; Meta's New 'Personal AI Agent' Muse Beats ChatGPT in…; NVIDIA Introduces SoL-Pi: Auto-Research Loops That Cut…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the Same $2/$6 Price as Grok 4.6
MarkTechPost
SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.7, its new flagship model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Grok 4.7 is built on a larger base model and a longer reinforcement learning run. It still ships at the same price and speed as Grok 4.6. Is it deployable? Yes, as a hosted model. You can call grok-…
2. Meta’s New ‘Personal AI Agent’ Muse Beats ChatGPT in Downloads - and Get Blocked by Amazon
Slashdot
Meta’s AI “personal agent” Muse overtook ChatGPT as the #1 iOS free app in the U.S. on Friday, reports CNBC — and it’s still showing more downloads as of Monday night.
Muse now has over 2.5 million downloads since its debut less than two weeks ago, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower…
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3. NVIDIA Introduces SoL-Pi: Auto-Research Loops That Cut Coding Agent Token Traffic by Up to 49%
MarkTechPost
NVIDIA researchers have released SoL-Pi, 4 harness mechanisms for the open-source Pi coding agent, discovered by an AI running auto-research loops across 535 environments. On EdgeBench, SoL-Pi cuts token traffic by 44.7% to 49.0% and API cost by roughly 33%, while keeping about 94% of Pi’s score on …
4. OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
TechCrunch AI
The group won’t be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI’s ongoing mathematical research….
5. Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch AI
Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now….
6. Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
NVIDIA Blog
Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles (AVs), while Omdia estimates that roughly 60 million industrial robots will be deployed between 2026 and 2035. As these machines enter r…
7. From Love Letters to AI Agents: Cybersecurity’s Evolution
Cisco Security
Discover how Cisco security solutions and the four pillars of agentic security protect organizations against autonomous AI risks and evolving threats….
8. EU Kids Act Won’t Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
EFF Updates
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the privacy of all users. The EU Kids Act aims to protect chil…
9. How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Tech Review
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Review …
10. Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
TechCrunch AI
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures….
11. President Trump has announced plans for new ‘AI Force’ and ‘AI Czar’ amid growing AI safety concerns — new unit will ‘cherish’ AI and not ‘stifle’ it, Trump clarifies, while dismissing safety warnings as hoaxes
Tom’s Hardware
President Trump says he will create an AI Force and appoint a new AI czar while prioritizing rapid U.S. AI development and competition with China….
12. Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 60 GPUs might not be released until 2028, prominent leaker claims — gaming takes a back seat as company focuses on delivering data center products
Tom’s Hardware
Leaker Kopite7kimi claims that Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 60 series may not be released until 2028, meaning that consumers will have to wait three years between GPU generations…