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Google launched agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cutting video analysis costs by up to 66% and token consumption by up to 88% while improving accuracy by up to 7%. The feat…
Microsoft will soon speed up Windows 11 on PCs with 8 GB RAM, promising faster boot times and smoother Windows Hello, as confirmed at IFA 2026 in Berlin. The update will be rolled out gradually, addressing performance is…
XPeng has activated what it calls the world's first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots, with its IRON robot walking off the line under its own power in Guangzhou, where more than 80% of core processes…
A Washington Post analysis found that 39 congressional candidates reported payments to OpenAI this election cycle, with Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) spending the most at roughly $3,260 since 2025. At least two candi…
Logitech launched the MX Keypad, a $99.99 accessory with nine customizable full-color LCD keys for launching commands, running macros, and accessing AI tools, available starting September 8 in Graphite and Pale Grey. Dev…
OpenRouter's multi-provider routing causes significant performance variability for the same AI model, according to a developer who runs the iMessage assistant Olly and has processed over 18 million messages. Benchmarks s…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model, launched on 3 September, has gone viral for generating detailed mechanical parts, but engineers warn that almost none of its designs are safe to manufacture. Astra scored 95.9% on the BenchCAD…
Arm Holdings plc launched the Arm AI Portal, a platform connecting more than 22 million developers and their agents to optimized AI software across the Arm compute platform spanning cloud, edge, and physical AI. The port…
Falcons AI, a Ras Al Khaimah-based AI company, has seen its NSFW image classification model surpass 50.8 million downloads on Hugging Face in the past 28 days, ranking sixth among over 1,400 models and outpacing DeepSeek…
Våld Labs has released Tresse, a polyphonic hybrid synthesizer plugin that pairs two independent oscillator layers with a generative step sequencer, originating from a hardware prototype. The plugin combines 24 classic M…
A developer spent six months building an AI-powered system to autonomously find, win, and deliver freelance work, but despite a fully functional pipeline and 300+ tests, it generated zero contracts and a net loss. The ex…
Independent AI researcher Jinho Jang has published altered FP8 weights for Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.3-Flash model through his DeAlignAI project, claiming the modified model complied with all 320 prompts in its HarmBench-…
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 audio in 80-millisecond…
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 structures. The API…
Mistral raised €3 billion in a Samsung-led Series D at a €21 billion-plus valuation, marking the largest equity round ever for a European tech company, with funds allocated to compute, frontier research, and expansion ac…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 reasoning engine keeps deep thinking enabled for every request, replacing the on/off toggle with an 'effort' control that lets developers dial reasoning depth from low to max. The updated API r…
Meta's agentic AI assistant, Muse, has entered a limited closed alpha/beta phase, with users required to join a waitlist or use an invite code for access, according to a report from Testing Catalog. The 'Muse from Meta' …
A new experimental app called Deep Talk Buddy, built by developer echohive42 and distributed via Patreon, lets users converse with an AI that can interrupt and interject mid-sentence to keep a lively back-and-forth going…
WeChat Pay has launched a software development kit (SDK) enabling smart-glasses makers to support QR-code payments, with Rokid AI Glasses among the first products to integrate it. Users can initiate a payment scan by voi…
ByteDance is developing a real-time spatial video generation model under the direct oversight of founder Zhang Yiming, with a possible launch as early as next month, according to Bloomberg. Built on ByteDance's Seedance …