Ansh Chokshi and Shashwat Kapoor are building Mireye, a location data API and MCP server that provides cited parcel, hazard, utility, and site-selection data for AI agents, drawing from 85 authoritati…
OpenAI teased its upcoming Astra model on September 3rd with archival footage of MIT's 1979 'Put That There' system, which combined voice commands and pointing gestures, signaling a multimodal launch …
Anthropic cut cache-read prices for its Claude Fable 5.1 model by 75% to $0.25 per million tokens on September 1, while keeping input at $10 and output at $50 per million tokens, a move CEO Dario Amod…
OpenAI is investigating a broad outage on September 3 that disrupted ChatGPT and Codex services, affecting conversations, login, Search, file uploads, Voice, GPTs, image generation, Deep Research, Age…
Flock Safety's AI-powered person-search interface lets police draw a map boundary and create a watchlist from a written description, with server-side moderation that can block or warn on sensitive que…
Botika, a fashion AI developer co-founded by CEO Eran Dagan, has moved its compute-heavy operations onto Modal, processing a 100-terabyte image dataset, training proprietary foundation models with ten…
OpenAI's latest production desktop build (26.901.20858, build 7658) contains a hidden, disabled-by-default setting that would let its Codex agent control Flipper's BUSY Bar, a $219 LED desk display, a…
Souk, a B2B partner-management startup founded by Leo Crowe, Sofia Hamilton Sambrano, and Ayooluwa Alfonso, has raised $1.6M in pre-seed funding led by Sure Valley Ventures, with participation from An…
NTU-led researchers released Puffin-World, a multimodal model that generates camera-controlled RGB and depth views for 3D point-cloud reconstruction, on September 2. The model, detailed by Kang Liao a…
Qdrant released FineWeb-10B, a benchmark containing about 10.07 billion vectors, and Supernova, an open-source engine to reproduce the benchmark, on September 1st. The dataset, derived from Hugging Fa…
Wayve launched London's first robotaxis on September 3rd, 2026, with fewer than 20 electric Ford Mustang Mach-Es available through Uber's app, each carrying a Transport for London-licensed driver to s…
Nous Research has added persistent multi-gateway connections to Hermes Desktop, enabling users to manage agents running locally, in Hermes Cloud, over SSH, and on remote servers from a single interfac…
Lloyd Armbrust and Emily Colman launched RonanRX, an AI-assisted care platform that uses patient data to help physicians personalize compounded GLP-1 doses, with its public launch as of September 2, 2…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, 2026, improving coding and agentic tasks, with availability through Muse Code and Meta's model API, and a 'max reasoning' version pending safety testing. A…
The Trump administration's Justice Department filed a 20-page statement of interest on September 1st in the Southern District of New York, backing OpenAI in its copyright dispute with The New York Tim…
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash is live and callable through the Gemini API, with RuntimeWire testing it head-to-head against the Fable 5.1 model, though Google's public documentation still lists Gemini 3.7…
Charlie F. Ruan leads WebLLM, an open-source runtime that uses WebGPU, WebAssembly, and compiler-generated artifacts to run language models locally in a browser without an inference server. WebLLM, pu…
OpenAI's head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, said on September 1st that public concern about artificial intelligence is often justified and that he is concerned, adding that most people he knows …
IBM launched the IBM K-12 AI Leaders Fellowship on September 2, targeting up to 100 New York-area superintendents, education leaders, and educators, after an IBM-sponsored Morning Consult survey found…
Mohit Aron launched SciFin on September 1 with $44 million in announced funding to build an AI platform that reconciles conflicting revenue data, with Altimeter and Madrona co-leading the financing. T…