WDCD Run #336 (2026-09-23) benchmarked 11 models on multi-turn commitment, recording an average instruction decay of -36.4% from Round 1 to Round 3, with Gemini 3.1 Pro standing out at 0% decay.
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 to submit a claim.
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
The 2026-09-23 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Claude Sonnet 4.6 leading at 96.98. The brief highlights daily leaderboard signals, notable score changes, and items that require follow-up runs to confirm.
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.
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Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
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Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype  —Timnit Gebru, executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), and Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics at the University of…
The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented hundreds of people who moved through areas watched by these towers without…
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