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5 stories · ~2 min listen · 2026-09-18

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  1. 01softwareMCP Apps put a real interface in the chat, and both ends have to opt inAn MCP server can return an interactive HTML interface that renders inside the conversation, sandboxed in an iframe.
  2. 02businessDeepSeek is retiring its flagship into its cheap model, and the cheap one has visionDeepSeek released V4.
  3. 03softwareGoogle's cheapest AI plan gets voice in Gmail and Keep, not in DocsGoogle added four features to its consumer AI plans on 9 September 2026, and the conditions in brackets are the story.
  4. 04chipsAWS's new G7 instances won its own benchmark with half the GPUsAWS benchmarked its Blackwell-based G7 instances against G5, G6 and G6e on 30B mixture-of-experts models.
  5. 05securityAWS Bedrock's zero data retention has two exceptionsBedrock stores nothing by default.