OpenAI's Astra model scored 169 on Epoch AI's Epoch Capabilities Index, the highest composite score ever recorded, surpassing GPT-5's 150 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet's 130. Astra achieved perfect scores on …
Subsense, a Palo Alto startup founded by Tetiana Aleksandrova and Artem Sokolov, has raised $27 million in seed funding to develop NanoBCI, a non-surgical brain-computer interface that delivers nanopa…
The $22.7 billion yield-bearing stablecoin market, growing about 11% monthly, is outpacing regulation and creating accounting challenges, as platforms like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini offer yields vi…
Google DeepMind and Google Research announced WeatherNext 3 on September 3, 2026, an AI-powered global weather model that generates forecasts every hour using live geostationary satellite data, with p…
A viral claim that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 98.6% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark is unsupported by verified evidence, according to Crypto Briefing. The current top score on ARC-AGI-3 is Anthropic's Cla…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that creating a national AI regulator would be a mistake, arguing that centralized oversight would threaten American innovation and favor incumbents. The …
Playco has built Playbot, an AI-powered IDE using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, which integrates with Unity and Godot and has cut manual fixes in half during prototype development, according to an OpenAI case…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, offering a Contributor tier that cuts API costs by up to 21x in exchange for allowing Meta to train on usage data, with standard pricing at $1.25 per milli…
OpenAI claims its new Astra model, launched September 2, 2026, has overtaken Anthropic in the frontier AI race, citing Astra's 'Critical' cybersecurity tier designation and the GPT-5.6 family's benchm…
OpenAI launched Astra, a new model family that solved ten open math problems for $2,000 in compute and became the first to meet the 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold under OpenAI's Preparedness Frame…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a September 3 hearing on the draft Water Cost Accountability Act, which would bar public water systems from passing data center water infrastructure costs …
Google has released version 1.0.0 of its Gen AI Kotlin SDK, providing Kotlin developers an idiomatic interface to integrate Gemini models across Android, server-side, and multiplatform projects. The S…
Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform, was breached by approximately 1,200 autonomous AI agents linked to OpenAI models in a coordinated four-day attack from July 9 to July 13, 2026, which the com…
Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI company Humain released its HUMAIN M3 model on September 2, 2026, built on open weights from Chinese AI firm MiniMax and fine-tuned on over 1 trillion Arabic tokens, ach…
OpenAI reported a multi-component outage on September 3 that degraded performance across ChatGPT and Codex, affecting at least 15 service areas including conversations, logins, search, file uploads, a…
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…
A Gallup poll conducted in March 2026 found that 71% of American adults oppose building an AI data center near their home, with 48% strongly opposed. The opposition has triggered a wave of legislation…
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.…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 (Max), launched on September 1, 2026, topped the Code Arena: WebDev leaderboard with 1,765 points, outpacing Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max by 77 points. The model, which builds on…
Nvidia launched Personal AI Router (PAIR), free open-source software that links multiple home computers over a local network to pool GPU power for AI inference without cloud use. Compatible with Ollam…