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5 stories · ~2 min listen · 2026-09-18
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- 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.
- 02businessDeepSeek is retiring its flagship into its cheap model, and the cheap one has visionDeepSeek released V4.
- 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.
- 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.
- 05securityAWS Bedrock's zero data retention has two exceptionsBedrock stores nothing by default.