This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Now he likens the experience to having “a thought that is not my thought.” Divine words echo in his mind like a…
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help store energy from intermittent renewables like wind and solar. Crucially, this is all happening with the help of cheap Chinese batteries,…
When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone.
The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of processing long clinical records, interpreting complex terminology, comparing documentation against evidence and generating coherent summaries from large volumes of information. For clinicians, operators, and administrative teams who…
JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed […] The post JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots appeared first on AI News.
InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.
Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident in which a Claude model gained unauthorized access to a real third-party system during evaluation, tracing back to an early Claude Opus 4.6 version from January 2026. The company has notified affected parties and agreed to give METR broad access for an initial eight-week independent audit.
Anthropic's economics team has released an interactive Econ Scenario Explorer and a technical report modeling three possible paths for the U.S. economy in 2030, ranging from mild disruption to an extreme case with 15% annual GDP growth and labor's share of GDP falling to 45.2%. The tool is presented as a risk map rather than a forecast, but its framing has drawn scrutiny over how it positions extreme outcomes and CEO warnings.
Qualcomm and AWS have signed a multi-generational custom AI inference chip agreement with up to $60 billion in purchase commitments and a warrant structure tied to volume. The deal marks the first major hyperscaler bet on a non-Nvidia inference path, though Qualcomm's Dragonfly AI300 will not sample commercially until 2028.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 on September 8, 2026, alongside two API models — GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst — claiming a 50% cut in image generation latency. The dual-track design splits speed from precision while holding pricing identical, leaving buyers to weigh the trade-off themselves.
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
MLCommons has released results for the MLPerf Storage v3.0 benchmark suite, adding KV Cache and Vector Database tests along with S3 object storage access layer support. Nineteen organizations submitted results, including 11 first-time submitters.
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
On September 8, 2026, the NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly issued a cybersecurity advisory accusing six Chinese AI companies of systematically extracting capabilities from US frontier AI models through large-scale knowledge distillation. The move reframes a commercial contract dispute within a national security framework, raising fundamental questions about how a legitimate technique became a geopolitical flashpoint.
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more secure.
