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OpenAI resolved a nearly four-hour outage on September 3 that disrupted 19 components across ChatGPT and Codex, with services restored by 2:56 PM ET. The incident, which began at 10:58 AM ET, affected…

MAI-Transcribe-2, a new speech recognition model from MAI, claims to be the fastest, most accurate, and cheapest in the world, ranking first on the FLEURS benchmark across 60 languages with an average…

Meta is positioning its 'Meta Superintelligence' initiative as a competitor to Anthropic and OpenAI, offering an open-weights commitment and a pricing incentive that cuts costs by over 90% for users w…

OpenAI teased its upcoming Astra model on September 3rd with archival footage of MIT's 1979 'Put That There' system, which combined voice commands and pointing gestures, signaling a multimodal launch …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced new voice capabilities for Gemini AI, enabling users to search Gmail, organize notes in Google Keep, and create documents in Google Docs via conversational commands.…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that next-generation AI models will be 'sobering' and require companies to pace releases around safety advances, as OpenAI disclosed that its Astra model reached a 'Critic…

A simultaneous outage took down OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and X's Grok on Thursday morning, with OpenAI reporting elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex and Anthropic no…

A developer has published a technical guide for building a multilingual voice AI sales agent for ecommerce, combining Vapi's voice gateway, Shopify's GraphQL API, OpenAI's GPT-4 for conversation, and …

Microsoft has added MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-to-text model, to its Microsoft Foundry model catalog in public preview, announced at Build 2026. The model is part of a broader update that includes oth…

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest on Sep 1, 2026, in the copyright case between OpenAI and The New York Times, arguing that access to copyrighted training material is vital …

A developer has published an open-source directory of AI agent platforms, categorizing 49 tools into five distinct types: AI coworkers, agent builders, workflow automation, browser agents, and coding …

AI data centers are projected to consume nearly 12% of all U.S. electricity by 2030, nearly six times the pre-AI boom share in 2018, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, but the U.S. electric …

A simultaneous outage hit ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude starting around 11 AM ET yesterday, disrupting core features including conversation logs, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) published a guide for deploying OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with the open-source LiteLLM gateway on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Bedrock, enabling centralized e…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently ban superintelligent AI and temporarily pause advanced AI develop…

OpenAI reported that ChatGPT and Codex experienced higher error rates than normal on September 3, 2026, with mitigation steps implemented and the outage resolved by 1:24 PM ET. The issues followed sep…

A major outage hit multiple AI services on Thursday, with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok all experiencing stability issues as of publishing. DownDetector reported users began facing proble…

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have called for a ban on artificial superintelligence, proposing legislation that would criminalize AI systems matching or exceeding human cognitio…

Major AI platforms, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude, experienced significant service disruptions on Thursday, affecting thousands of users globally, according to outa…

Major AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Google's Gemini experienced outages or degraded performance on Thursday, with issues beginning after 9:00 a.m. ET, acc…