Artificial Inteligence feed for Monday, September 21, 2026

• The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
• California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
• OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
• Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
• Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
• Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
• With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete
• Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini
• From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• Can John Ternus find Apple’s next big thing?
• Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem
• iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI settlement
• Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
• She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
• The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
• 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
• How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
• Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
• UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty
• Building standards for the next phase of AI
• Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
• Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
• tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured
• How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory