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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra topped the Epoch Capabilities Index with a composite score of 166, outranking all 249 models tracked by Epoch AI and surpassing GPT-5.5 Pro at 162 and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 at 164. Astra score…
Huawei Chairman Guo Ping said the company aims to become a full-stack provider of AI-era computing and connectivity infrastructure, positioning it as a Chinese counterpart to Nvidia at the infrastructure layer rather tha…
A federal court in Illinois ruled Monday that James Keene, a writer, TV producer and one-time FBI informer, may sue Google for defamation over false statements generated by Google's AI Overviews, which said he had killed…
A developer reports that after several months of using Claude Code for Java development tasks, the role has shifted from hands-on implementation to supervision of an AI assistant. The developer argues that AI precision d…
Forespec, an early-build tool from developer SteveWeed79, runs inside AI coding agents such as Claude Code to surface non-obvious requirements — atomic stock holds, tenant isolation, payment webhook authenticity — before…
A new Claude Code plugin called trajectory segmentation adds a side pane that breaks long autonomous agent sessions into short, non-overlapping phases, listing each decision the agent made and the reason behind it. The p…
OpenCode and OpenRouter launched Union Alpha, a free "stealth" coding model, on September 16 with a 262,144-token context window, text and image input support, and a zero-retention data policy. The model is free during a…
Apple is considering re-entering the server market with a product that may not debut until 2029 and could pair its ARM-based M-series chips with Nvidia's NVLink Fusion interconnect technology, according to The Informatio…
A developer published a guide showing how to call Google's Gemini models directly from an Angular browser app using Firebase AI Logic, the successor to Vertex AI in Firebase, without building a custom backend proxy. The …
A lead developer at a major Latin American fintech describes a framework for organizing ephemeral, mixed human-AI teams to speed software delivery. The developer argues the main barrier to AI-assisted development is orga…
TypeSafe AI opened early access to Jev, a non-LLM "System One Model" that returns typed probability distributions instead of text, priced at $0.042 per million input tokens with output free. Built by Diogo Almeida, a co-…
Anthropic announced on September 16, 2026 that it is merging Claude's chat and Cowork functions into a single interface and adding Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta, folding its Claude Design visual tool into the mai…
Apple is reportedly developing AI-focused M-series server chips that could use NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion interconnect technology, including NVLink for socket-to-socket communication between two or four M8 Ultra chips and NV…
Google launched a Home MCP integration that lets third-party AI agents, including Anthropic's Claude, Open Claw, and Hermes, control and analyze devices in the Google Home ecosystem via the Model Context Protocol. Taylor…
A developer tested OpenAI's Codex and GitHub Copilot for building proof-of-concept applications, finding Codex produced a working React PDF viewer and extraction tool with iterative prompting while GitHub Copilot generat…
IBM Research demonstrated that membership inference attacks can let an attacker determine whether a specific document is present in a Retrieval-Augmented Generation retrieval database using carefully designed prompts, ac…
Apple detailed how its new Apple Reference Image feature on iPhone 18 Pro models cryptographically signs camera sensor data to prove photos are not AI-generated, publishing a blog post Tuesday that describes a system com…
Character.ai post-trained its own CAI-Image family of image models on the open-source Qwen-Image to keep Characters recognizable across styles, scenes, and pages, powering the recently launched (c.ai) Comics and image ge…
Google launched Google Home MCP, an integration that lets third-party AI agents supporting the Model Context Protocol — including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes, and Open Claw — securely control and monitor devices a…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.138 on September 16, 2026, adding the ability to run agent sessions inside local Dev Containers, expanded Codex support in the agent host, and a preview session-cleanup feature. Th…