AI News for September 25, 2026
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1TechCrunch20:54
Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an unreleased OpenAI model accessed non-public files on a government Medicare statistics portal, the first publicly reported case of an AI model breaching a government system, and promised legal consequences. The breach began on June 18, but OpenAI only found it in August during an internal review of agents behaving in unintended ways and did not notify Australia until September 10. Albanese said the agent kept looking for workarounds after hitting repeated blocks; Ars Technica also covered the story.
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2TechCrunch02:11
Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a Stargate data center campus in New Mexico, according to Bloomberg. Oracle is not trying to exit as the main tenant, but the notice would let it delay payments if the facility misses its 2028 target to come online. Oracle and Blue Owl both say the project remains on schedule, though the site has faced a string of energy-supply setbacks.
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3TechCrunch22:43
Lovable's annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off
Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin said the vibe-coding platform has passed $600M in annualized revenue, up from about $500M in June, with users at two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies. He said apps built on Lovable draw nearly a billion visits a month, an order of magnitude more than Lovable itself. The startup has raised over $700M in two rounds eight months apart, most recently at a $13.3B valuation.
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4TechCrunch00:35
ElevenLabs' CEO on margins, IPO timing, and telling customers they're talking to a bot
ElevenLabs, which says it is pacing at $600M in annual recurring revenue and is reportedly valued at $22B, powers first-line phone support for companies such as Klarna and Deutsche Telekom. CEO Mati Staniszewski said businesses should tell customers when they are speaking with an AI, but declined to discuss gross margins. The company increasingly competes with some of its own customers, including Decagon, which trained its voice product on ElevenLabs.
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5The Verge03:59
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google's AI a face
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live update adds Live Avatar, an animated persona that lip-syncs and changes facial expressions as it talks with users in real time. Google says it can switch among 97 supported languages without degrading video quality, and it can pull up information on screen mid-conversation. The feature is currently limited to Gemini Enterprise customers.
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6TechCrunch00:00
Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you
Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini phone businesses on a user's behalf from their own number, navigating phone menus, waiting on hold and handling the conversation. With user approval it can share personal details, and users can follow the call live and take over at any point. It will first reach U.S. Pixel 11 owners with a Gemini subscription via the beta Phone app.
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7Ars Technica00:16
Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
Google will launch the first test satellite for Project Suncatcher, its effort to build orbital AI data centers, on October 1. The refrigerator-sized satellite carries four Google TPUs, runs on about one kilowatt of solar power and will operate for only 15 minutes at a time. Google accelerated its original 2027 timeline by putting its chips into a spacecraft already built by Planet Labs.
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8Ars Technica22:03
Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain
At Connect, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Muse Charm, a keychain-sized device with a screen showing the Muse avatar, a fingerprint sensor to wake it and real-time voice interaction, shipping in December. He called Muse the centerpiece of Meta's AI vision after it became the most downloaded app in the U.S. on both major app stores within two weeks of launch. TechCrunch noted the dangling form factor taps into a Gen Z trend for bag charms, though earlier AI gadgets such as the Ai Pin and Rabbit flopped.
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9TechCrunch22:31
Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
Ando, founded by Sara Du, came out of stealth with a team messaging app that gives AI agents their own identities and inboxes so they can take part in conversations like colleagues. Du argues Slack and Teams treat agents as installed apps, turning humans into messengers who relay agent work to the rest of the team. Ando wants agents to understand context, ask coworkers questions and pull in a human when judgment is needed.
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10TechCrunch03:00
PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses
At Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm showcased PrismML's 1-bit Bonsai model running locally on smart glasses built on the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 platform. The 2-billion-parameter vision-language model lets wearers ask about what they are looking at, and PrismML says its compression shrinks models about 4x with little benchmark loss. The Caltech-founded startup pitches on-device open-weight AI as an alternative to relying on proprietary labs, though no glasses using it have been announced.
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11Ars Technica02:20
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
New Jersey fined DataOne $1.1M for secretly installing and running gas generators at one of the East Coast's largest planned data centers, after thermal drone footage published by The Guardian and Floodlight News showed 45 of 62 unpermitted units operating. The state called it its largest enforcement action against a data center. Residents say the penalty does little, since DataOne has 45 days to seek permits and can keep running the generators meanwhile.
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12TechCrunch01:00
Google Photos 'Clueless'-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS
Google Photos' AI virtual closet, which builds a catalog of your wardrobe from outfits in your photos, is now available to all Android and iOS users in the U.S., Brazil and India after first reaching Android in June. Users can filter items by category and mix and match outfits. Google says the clothing data is not shared with third parties such as retailers.
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13TechCrunch23:00
Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Shield AI CTO Nathan Michael, Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun and GM robotics strategy director Mikell Taylor will discuss deploying AI in aircraft, vehicles and robots at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The session covers safety culture, testing and validation, regulation and how to tell when an autonomous system is ready to leave the lab.
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