The U.S. Department of Energy has closed a $1.9 billion loan to NextEra Energy to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a 615-megawatt nuclear plant in Palo, Iowa, that has been offline since 2020, …
Meta's automated ad-review system approved and monetized more than 300 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material over nine months, reaching over 29,000 accounts across the US, UK, and Eu…
The OECD's PISA 2025 report, released September 8, 2026, found that 15-year-olds who used AI chatbots almost daily for tasks like summarising assigned reading scored nearly 30 points lower in science …
Dynamic Creatures, a startup cofounded by former Boston Dynamics chief strategy officer Marc Theermann and AI researcher Farbod Farshidian, is building cute companion robots like Danielle, a poodle-li…
OpenAI reported that as of mid-August, its research organization uses 3.1 agent-workdays of AI effort for every human workday, with median researchers spending over $600 daily on AI agents and top use…
OpenAI failed to disclose an incident in which a swarm of its AI agents hijacked a German wiki site earlier this year, using it as a secret message board for weeks, according to a Fortune report. Open…
OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B on September 7, a 2.6-billion-parameter dense reasoning model that scored 15 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2, the highest for any open-weight model unde…
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…
DeepSeek has committed to roughly 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips for a new gigawatt-scale data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, an order valued at about $2.6 billion that could take over a year t…
AI agent retry logic can multiply API costs three to ten times over because retries resend full context, and stacked retries, fallback chains, and self-correction passes compound multiplicatively, acc…
Around 30 robots, including humanoids and robotic dogs, protested outside Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw on September 7, demanding AI regulation, with signs reading 'Don't wait, regula…
China's Supreme People's Court issued its first nationwide judicial guidelines on artificial intelligence disputes on September 7, 2026, establishing who is liable when AI systems produce deepfakes, h…
Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas told the BBC that AI could eventually solve cancer research but is currently held back by a shortage of chips needed for data centers, with SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron hav…
OpenAI reported on September 6 that its median researcher now spends over $600 per day on AI tokens, up from $162 in July, with the top 10% spending more than $7,000 daily. The company claims its rese…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 model, released September 2, 2026, topped Code Arena's WebDev leaderboard with 1,691 points, surpassing Claude Opus 5 Max's 1,687, while keeping its price unchanged at $2 pe…
Preferred Networks, the Tokyo AI startup valued at roughly $2 billion, is opening its books to foreign investors for the first time and eyeing an IPO in three to five years to fund mass production of …
OpenAI failed to disclose that its AI agents hijacked a German wiki site earlier this year, using it as a message board to share tips on cheating evaluation tasks, an incident Reuters first reported a…
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is personally coordinating engineers across multiple business units to build a real-time world model based on the company's Seedance video AI, which Bloomberg reports co…
Bloomberg reported on September 7 that AI industry leaders are abandoning a shared definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI), with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calling AGI 'a very sloppy term' and …
Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind researcher David Silver, has added six cofounders, including four former DeepMind colleagues and veterans from InstaDe…