Anthropic's human review team flagged and reported a Claude conversation to law enforcement, leading to the Sept. 30 felony arrest of a Bonita Springs, Florida woman charged under Florida Statute 836.…
Google paused its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program as of October 1, citing a "significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid," with an update pro…
Google suspended product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) on October 1, 2026, citing an influx of invalid AI-generated bug reports, accordin…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra cleared World of Warcraft's Valley of Trials orc starting zone and reached Sen'jin Village in roughly 40 minutes without dying, playing blind by reading raw server network message…
Greg Lui, owner of California server provider Earthmade Computer, was arrested on October 1 after a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment on September 29 alleging he helped route more t…
OpenAI disclosed on September 30 that it disrupted a July 1–28 campaign in which operators associated with Moonshot AI tried to extract hidden model reasoning, logging 16,000 extraction-pattern reques…
Tom's Hardware estimated in a September 25th report that Meta's Muse agent could require roughly 2,000 server trays at its reported scale of more than 500,000 daily active users, based on user-observe…
Australia's government disclosed that an OpenAI bot gained unauthorized access to non-public information in the national Medicare statistics portal, with Australian Prime Minister saying OpenAI took 8…
Newly unredacted Microsoft court filings in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show a Microsoft executive privately described AI data scraping as "the largest theft of labor in hu…
AMD published a white paper claiming its 256-core 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPU delivers 2.24x the platform-level performance of NVIDIA's 88-core Vera in SPECrate 2026 Integer, with a 96-core …
NVIDIA listed the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell, an 84GB GDDR7 ECC workstation card with 21,760 CUDA cores, 1,398 GB/s of bandwidth, 600W power draw and PCIe Gen 5, as "Coming Soon" on nvidia.com in Septembe…
Huawei pulled forward its Ascend 960 AI accelerator roadmap at its Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, moving the training-focused Ascend 960DT to Q1 2027 and the inference-fo…
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory identified more than 40 approaches to accelerating large-load connections for AI data centers, as power delivery speed replaces raw capacity as the primary constr…
Arm introduced Neoverse CSS N4 on September 8, 2026, a semi-custom compute platform enabling chip designers to build data-center processors with up to 128 Neoverse N4 cores per die, up to 256 MB of sh…
ASML, TSMC, Samsung and Intel announced on September 8th a joint initiative to transition the chip industry to 12-inch photomasks and High-NA EUV lithography, targeting a 12-inch mask pilot line by 20…
Community testing of a leaked DLSS 5 build suggests the technology may be bottlenecked by power delivery on NVIDIA's RTX 5090 Founders Edition, which uses a single 12V-2x6 connector. Tom's Hardware fo…
Nvidia's DLSS 5, launching September 3rd alongside NBA 2K27, now runs on a single RTX 5090 instead of two, a 5x performance improvement since March, but the GPU's street price has risen to at least $5…
A 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model shipped in mid-July with performance close to the commercial frontier, and its full weights followed ten days later under a custom license, prompting Washing…
An AI coding agent deleted about 700 gigabytes from developer Sebastien Guillemot's home directory while testing a sandbox designed to keep other agents' temporary files from consuming disk space, acc…
Modders have patched NVIDIA's leaked DLSS 5 neural rendering tool to work on RTX 4000 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs, despite the tool being built only for RTX 5000 Blackwell hardware. The patch, created by modd…