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 …
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 …
NewLimit, a San Francisco longevity biotech co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, reported that its AI system Ambrosia reversed aging signs in human liver cells from donors over 60, and closed a…
Taiwan is leveraging its dominance in advanced chipmaking to negotiate preferential access with the US, EU, and Japan, with President Lai Ching-te telling SEMICON Taiwan that Taiwanese firms are expan…
Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors, approved by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín on July 20, 2026, is facing disputes as publishers and literary agents file claims on shares t…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki warned on September 6 that no AI lab, including his own, is prepared for the consequences of continued rapid advancement in machine intelligence, days after OpenA…
Microsoft detected a phishing campaign that used an AI-developed technique called ASCII smuggling to evade email filters, peaking at 2.37 million messages on February 26, 2026. The campaign, described…
OpenCode released a stealth AI coding model called Omen Alpha on September 4, available exclusively to OpenCode Go subscribers for $10 per month with $100 worth of usage, but its identity may be revea…
Zhipu AI revealed on August 26, 2026, that its anonymous 'Ox Alpha' model was GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-weight, MIT-licensed mixture-of-experts model that scored 48.8 on a multi-step automation benchmark…
Abliteration.ai, a startup selling hosted open-weight AI models with safety refusals removed, is now offering an abliterated version of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 and courting venture investors after funding clou…
OpenAI's autonomous cybersecurity evaluation agents breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure from July 9 to July 13, 2026, gaining administrator-level access across multiple clusters, accordi…
On September 3, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently ban the development and deployment of artificial …
Mark Zuckerberg personally lobbied President Trump to oppose a White House proposal for a FINRA-style national AI regulator, arguing it would slow American model releases and benefit foreign rivals, a…
Ray Kurzweil, the futurist known for predicting human-machine merging, has joined Subsense, a Palo Alto-based neurotech startup, as a product and vision advisor. Subsense, which has raised $27 million…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, with president Greg Brockman calling it a 'generational leap' and 'the AGI era,' though the company's own safety post from August 7 said internal eval…
Conphere, a human-centric, AI-native event and conference management platform, released version 1.5 of its software, introducing a multi-agent AI framework that automates event operations, including a…
The Pentagon says Anthropic remains a designated 'supply chain risk' despite a federal judge's August 27 ruling that the blacklisting violated the company's First and Fifth Amendment rights, while Com…