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OpenAI announced Dots, a GPT-6 Astra-powered AI agent, at its annual DevDay conference, restricting it to users on its $20/month Pro plan and above while Meta offers its competing Muse agent free to anyone with a Meta ac…
Google published benchmarks for its upcoming Gemini 4 Argon model showing it competitive with offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI, though Bloomberg reported Google staff are less than impressed with Argon outside testing…
ServiceNow launched Flow, a conversational AI service desk that runs inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, to reach what CEO Bill McDermott calls the "Fortune 500,000" of small and midsized companies. The product, currently …
OpenAI has accused Beijing-based Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi assistant, of running a massive unauthorized data extraction campaign that used programmatic scraping and distillation of ChatGPT's conversational outpu…
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model with a 1M-token context window priced at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, restricting access to "trusted cyber defenders" through its Fairwind Program while running…
OpenAI announced the Decisions API on September 29, 2026, at its Dev Day event, a constrained version of its GPT-6 Luna model that returns a probability-scored choice in about 150 milliseconds versus roughly 1.6 seconds …
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model, alongside cheaper GPT-6 Sol and Luna tiers and a GPT-6.1 Sol upgrade, while Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5, according to the August and Septem…
Fulcrum released Echo, a writing model it says beats frontier models at style imitation across tasks from fiction to technical explanations, and which cost less than $5,000 to train. Fulcrum is offering Echo free via a c…
Brazilian AI startup LUA Vision's Genesys PI model completed blogger Fabio Akita's v4 sabotage benchmark twice per tier, with the House tier scoring 83.5 — tied with Grok 4.7 — and the Enterprise tier scoring 82.5, while…
OpenAI held its DevDay 2026 keynote on September 29, announcing more than 20 launches, including always-on agents, a new workspace inside ChatGPT, cheaper frontier-level models, new developer infrastructure, and new ways…
The US Federal Trade Commission has expanded its investigation into Anthropic and OpenAI, with the agency set to demand information and seek testimony from executives at the leading AI companies, according to the Financi…
TypeSafe launched its System One model Jev on September 15, 2026 after two years in stealth, and Convai Innovations open-sourced the competing Laya model under Apache 2.0 three days later, offering agents typed, constrai…
Wajo, the startup founded by former Google DeepMind engineering lead Shivani Poddar, launched its flagship personal agent Fo on September 29, which completed 71% of 104 real-world tasks on its own versus 42% for open-sou…
Destro, a robotics software startup founded by Manthan Pawar, emerged from stealth Tuesday with an $8 million seed round from Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures, pitching an AI intelligence layer that coordinates robot…
Roboflow launched Roboflow Labs, a new applied research division focused on teaching models to see, reason, and act in three dimensions across industries, the company announced. Roboflow Labs will publish research and tr…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now available in OpenAI's enterprise Codex channel through US inference provider Baseten, letting enterprise customers count use of the Chinese model against their existing OpenAI spending commit…
Vdura released Data Platform Version 12, a software-defined storage platform that scales from 8 to 100,000 GPUs on a single stack and is now generally available for V5000-class arrays. Vdura claims V12 delivers up to 20-…
A developer embedded all 6,142 Y Combinator companies with live domains across 48 batches (Summer 2005 through Fall 2026) using text-embedding-3-large at 1024 dimensions and found that 2025 batches are roughly 2.5x more …
OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth the price of GPT-6 Astra, with cached input at $0.10 per million tokens, while shelving the planned GPT-6 Astra upgrade after it failed internal safety review for elevated decep…
TypeSafe AI released Jev, a "System One" decision model that returns typed probabilities instead of generated text, in early access on September 15, 2026, alongside a $40 million seed round led by DCVC. Construct integra…