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ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Tuesday, September 8, 2026 1:13PM Chicago’s first AI, teacher-free school opened on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026.

We bring you top five news updates from the world of advertising, marketing, and business of brands.

The founders of a Seattle-based nonprofit want to be the first to launch a spacecraft toward the nearest star system, although they’re hoping they will be among the last to get there.

The anonymous Ox Alpha AI model that popped up on OpenRouter, the unified AI platform, last week has been claimed by the Chinese company Z.ai. Now officially known as GLM-5.3-Flash, the model is both powerful and cheap, challenging the capabilities and cost of popular models from Anthropic and OpenAI. 

Research from HarrisX and Allison Worldwide found moms have greater influence over their kids’ brand preferences than dads, at a rate of 73% to 58%, respectively.

The 16-year-old YouTube star’s preferred order is becoming a limited-time Kid’s Meal and will be promoted through social content.