A short AI news roundup for Workollab readers. These are the updates worth tracking this week.
News
- Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent (The Verge AI)
Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Cond - Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters (MarkTechPost)
We cloned one 10-second voice on 7 platforms and ranked them on reference audio, consent, licensing, and cost. - StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: A 600B-Total, 27B-Active MoE Model With 1M Context for Long-Horizon Agentic Work (MarkTechPost)
StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters and 27B active per token. It supports a 1M-token context window and accepts text, image, and video input. The model targets long-horizon agent - 6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (TechCrunch AI)
Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then. - World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets (TechCrunch AI)
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
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