On August 31, 2026, the European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the Digital Services Act, the first time a generative AI product has been regulated as…
GitLab 19.3, released August 20, introduces a native Secrets Manager in limited availability and brings the Dedicated AI Gateway to general availability, enabling finance, healthcare, and defense team…
JetBrains' 2026 Developer Ecosystem Survey of over 15,000 developers found that more than half of professional developers now manually write less than 20% of their code, with AI agents generating 46% …
Z.ai launched GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26, an MIT-licensed open model scoring 1773 on Artificial Analysis's general dev and programming leaderboard, ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 (1582) and GPT-5.6 Terra (1…
OpenAI published Path to Astra on September 1, 2026, confirming its upcoming Astra model is the first AI system to reach the 'Critical' cybersecurity capability tier in its Preparedness Framework, hav…
East River Source Control (ERSC) named Martin von Zweigbergk, creator of the Jujutsu (jj) version control system, as its Chief Technology Officer, betting that its new ERSC Storage server will replace…
OpenClaw 2.0, released on August 31, introduces multiplayer AI agent sessions, allowing multiple users to collaborate in real time on a single live agent session with granular permissions, and rebuild…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, cutting cache read costs by 75% from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens, and also released Claude Mythos 5.1 with restricted safety guardrails for cy…
VS Code 1.135, released August 26, introduces Rubber Duck, a secondary AI agent that critiques the primary coding agent's plans, implementation, and tests before commits, using a model from a differen…
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent built by SST, surpassed 194,000 GitHub stars in early August 2026, becoming the most-starred open-source AI coding agent and ahead of Claude Code by roughly 37…
Anthropic shipped three new API endpoints on August 11 that let enterprise security teams pull full transcripts of every Claude Code and Claude Cowork session running on developer machines, capturing …
IBM released Granite 4.2, a family of open-source reasoning models at 3B, 8B, and 30B parameters, under the Apache 2.0 license on August 25, featuring switchable thinking modes and trained via reinfor…
Gambit Security found an exposed Aurora ransomware command-and-control server containing 28 chat logs showing an operator using Cursor Agent, powered by Anthropic's Claude Sonnet, to conduct post-comp…
GitHub retired six AI models from GitHub Copilot on September 1, 2026, including Claude Opus 4.5/4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5/4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Raptor mini, with MAI-Code-1-Flash following on Septemb…
Google will permanently remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, headphones, and phone-projected Android Auto starting September 4, 2026, replacing it with Gemini, with n…
OpenAI confirmed DevDay 2026 for September 29 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, with the company's lead describing it as its biggest developer event ever, amid a safety hold on its next flagship model A…
JDK 27, released on September 15, 2026, by Oracle, now enables post-quantum TLS by default, reduces object header size by 25% (from 96 to 64 bits), and makes G1 the universal garbage collector, with S…
Senator Mark Warner introduced the AI AGENT Act (S.5051) on July 21, 2026, which would require AI agents to register with the FTC before accessing platforms with 50 million or more U.S. monthly users,…
Nvidia announced Monday a $3.5 billion investment in Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek to bring it into the NVLink Fusion ecosystem, an infrastructure layer that lets hyperscalers design custom AI accelera…
Debian's General Resolution 2026-002, 'Responsible Use of Generative AI,' passed with 64% in favor and 36% against, a margin of 55 votes out of roughly 450 cast, permitting contributors to use AI tool…