AI news of 16 September 2026 · Robots Versus Humans

Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home

Google opens smart home control to AI agents like Claude via standardized protocol.

Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with all of the devices and event history in your Google Home ecosystem," Taylor Lehman, group product manager at Google Home &…

The Verge 11h ago 4 min read

OpenAI, generative AI

Reimagining advertising with AI Opens at the publisher in a new tab

OpenAI introduces AI-powered advertising tools including sponsored agents for marketers.

OpenAI 11h ago

AI hardware, benchmarks

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

Nvidia reports benchmark performance gains in AI inference efficiency and throughput.

Nvidia Blog 9h ago

AI agents, smart homes

Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Google launches MCP server allowing AI agents to control smart home devices via natural language.

TechCrunch 7h ago

AI models

Former OpenAI researcher builds an AI model that judges options instead of writing text

Former OpenAI researcher releases classification model optimized for software with low latency and cost.

The Decoder 8h ago

AI hardware chips

Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI

Apple reportedly building enterprise AI inference server with custom M8 Ultra chips, launch planned no earlier than 2029.

Ars Technica 5h ago also at The Decoder

Claude, productivity software

Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

Anthropic releases document and presentation creation tools within Claude interface.

The Verge 11h ago

AI optimization

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Machine learning model generates database query plans 81 percent faster than Postgres baseline.

Hacker News 5h ago

AI regulation

We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Nvidia CEO argues AI safety should be handled by product makers, not regulators.

TechCrunch 23h ago

NVIDIA, Salesforce, AI models

‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang promotes AI capabilities at Salesforce event, announcing Koa, a new reasoning model for customer relationship management.

Nvidia Blog 1d ago

Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home

Reimagining advertising with AI Opens at the publisher in a new tab

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Former OpenAI researcher builds an AI model that judges options instead of writing text

Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI

Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres Opens at the publisher in a new tab

We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says Opens at the publisher in a new tab

‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce

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