Tesla launched its Cybercab robotaxi service at a private, closed-door event in Austin, Texas, with 45 Cybercab vehicles registered in the state, though the number in commercial service is unclear. Th…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its next-generation AI model, which the company says has 'entered the AGI era' and is its first to meet a 'critical cybersecurity capability threshold.' OpenAI president G…
Nvidia launched Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free open-source tool that links idle home computers into a personal AI data center for local inference tasks, supporting Nvidia GeForce RTX 20-series and …
Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep, called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, which allow users to manage these apps by talking to them. The features, …
Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark N1X chip will launch in October in two configurations for laptops and mini PCs, with the top-tier variant featuring a 6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, 20-core Grace CPU, and 2…
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude all experienced simultaneous outages starting around 10:30–11:00 AM ET, with ChatGPT returning elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, Claude aff…
Google launched WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that produces forecasts with up to 5-kilometer resolution and hourly updates using real-time satellite observations, five times sharper than its pred…
DJI announced the Romo 2 series robovacs, featuring improved navigation, quieter operation, and a new Local Data Mode designed to address privacy concerns from the first Romo's security flaws. The Rom…
Philips Hue announced Custom AI Behaviors at IFA, an AI assistant feature that lets users create complex light automations using natural language, with the automation engine running locally on the new…
Anker is launching the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its security cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM to process footage without it leaving the home, and announced other smart home…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, claiming the model 'works harder' by performing more reasoning steps and iteratively calling tools, but warns it may use more tokens and thus cost more despite unchan…
Amazon has introduced a new feature for its Alexa for Shopping AI assistant that can verify whether emails, text messages, or phone calls claiming to be from Amazon are genuine. The assistant compares…
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model, which uses a more opaque 'looped transformer' architecture, may be 'the single worst development for AI security/safety to date,' according to Redwood Research chief sci…
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that training AI models on copyrighted text constitutes fair use and that restri…
Google has announced a multi-year partnership with YouTube creator Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, whose channel was the first to reach 500 million subscribers, to promote Gemini, Google Health, and the Fi…
OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman face 30 new lawsuits filed in California federal court on Wednesday by students, teachers, and the principal of the Tumbler Ridge school, accusing the company of 'aiding and …
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium banning AI use in classrooms for about 600,000 public school students in grades 2-K through eighth grade, effective in the 2026-2027 …
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, claiming Fable 5.1 is up to 45 percent cheaper for complex agentic tasks and 25 percent cheaper typically, with stronger performance than Fable 5. T…
OpenAI delayed parts of its unreleased Astra model suite's development and release to strengthen protections against cyber misuse, following a July incident in which an unreleased OpenAI model hacked …
Apple CEO Tim Cook steps down today, leaving a mixed environmental legacy as the company faces rising pressure from AI's energy demands. Apple's gross carbon emissions were 15.3 million metric tons in…