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.
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-o3's code execution score fell from yesterday's 94.50 to 69.80, a 24.7-point drop, and the main leaderboard overall declined from 86.04 to 78.13, down 7.9 points. The anomaly is most likely due to question-sampling variance rather than genuine model degradation, though code-intensive users should stay vigilant.
GPT-5.5's code execution score dropped from 94.50 to 72.00 in today's Smoke evaluation, a fall of 22.5 points, while its material constraint score jumped from 71.40 to 100.00, a gain of 28.6 points. The main leaderboard score only edged up from 84.11 to 84.60.
In the 2026-09-10 YZ Index Smoke quick test covering 10 models, Gemini 3.1 Pro ranked first with a main-leaderboard score of 98.35. The daily 10-question Smoke test is suited to observing short-term signals and is not equivalent to the conclusions of the Full weekly leaderboard.
Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.
"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
