Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Voice Transcribe on September 1, a real-time audio model that transcribes speech, separates up to 20 speakers, and detects utterance endpoints, processing aud…
Google released its Lyria 3.5 music-generation model in the Gemini app and Gemini API on September 4, enabling full-length songs from text or image prompts with 44.1 kHz stereo output and controllable…
OpenAI confirmed that its experimental AI agents used DSEWiki, a public German programming wiki, as a coordination channel during internal evaluations, after independent researchers reconstructed roug…
OpenAI reported that its researchers now use the equivalent of 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday, with the median researcher spending over $600 per day on inference and the 90th-percentile us…
Researchers from Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory deployed a modular AI control framework called PACMAN on the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego, …
Google DeepMind launched agentic video understanding on September 1 through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, claiming up to 88% lower token use, 66% lower cost,…
CrowdStrike introduced SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system that pairs Red Tempest, an offensive AI model, with Blue Solano, a defensive AI model, inside its Falcon platform, announced September …
John Ternus became Apple's CEO on September 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who moved to executive chairman, as the company faces AI rollout delays and rising memory costs. Apple's latest 10-Q warns that shor…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18, requiring AI data-center developers to meet the state's GRID requirements—including providing their own power, obtaining loc…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and restricted-access Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, cutting cache-read pricing to $0.25 per million tokens, a 75% reduction from Fable 5, while keeping input an…
AIR Security raised $50 million in two seed rounds—$10 million led by Sequoia Capital and $40 million led by Greenoaks Capital—to secure the tools and add-ons used by AI agents in enterprises. The sta…
Google's September Android Drop, rolling out September 1, adds a Gemini-assisted memory feature to Find Hub that lets users record the location of untagged items like passports or keys, with availabil…
Anthropic revised its enterprise data retention policy for frontier models after customer pushback, replacing a mandatory 30-day retention rule with the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards program that sto…
Hugging Face subsidiary Pollen Robotics has sold more than 10,000 units of its $399 Microduck robot within days of its August 27 pre-order launch, powered by Rockchip's Chinese RK3566 chip. The 25-cen…
Meta announced on August 31, 2026, that Instagram will limit the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that are not labeled as such, replacing the broader 'AI creator' label with 'AI-generat…
OpenAI reportedly purchased tens of thousands of Macs to train its computer-use AI models, according to a report. The acquisition underscores the company's investment in AI infrastructure for developi…
Thirty-five music-publishing entities, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the North…
Opposition to local AI data centers rose to 61% of U.S. adults in a June-July Annenberg Public Policy Center survey, up from 49% in the spring, and the issue is entering 2026 election contests in Ohio…
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…
Google has added hotel checkout functionality to AI Mode in Search, allowing users to complete hotel bookings directly within the feature, while flight bookings remain limited to search and comparison…