In the 2026-09-16 YZ Index Smoke Quick Test, Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranked first with 100 points. The test covered 10 models and is intended for short-term signal monitoring rather than long-term conclusions.
Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.
OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.
Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.
Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Watch a conversation unpacking AI extinction fears: where they come from, whether they hold any water, and, if so,…
The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie Misaligned, tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you’re wearing.
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. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs…
Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and tech leaders October 13–15.
Essentially a camera app, Superpose analyzes selfies or photos and generates four potential poses using AI.
Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, she proposed, it might be possible to obtain detailed regulatory filings, manufacturing strategies, and safety data—information usually kept hidden as valuable trade secrets. She called these…
Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A lound led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.
Pony.ai has unveiled an autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets, developed with GAC Commercial Vehicle for freight supply chains. Unveiled at IAA Transportation 2026, this Level 4 (L4) heavy rig marks the fourth-generation (Gen-4) iteration of Pony.ai’s Robotruck platform. It builds on GAC Commercial Vehicle’s T9 battery-electric truck architecture, with mass production set to start […] The post Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets appeared first on AI News
Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-support tasks.
Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…
A proposed overhaul of UK settlement rules would double the wait for permanent residence, and it reaches back to sponsored engineers already here. For AI employers, it is quietly becoming a retention problem. By Sunny Sandhu, Senior Immigration Associate, AY&J Solicitors For years, the offer that brought skilled engineers to Britain was straightforward: work here […] The post The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future appeared first on AI News.
On September 15, 2026, Cloudflare began blocking AI training and Agent crawlers by default on ad-bearing pages for newly onboarded domains while allowing search crawlers through, and introduced tiered content-use permissions. The move shifts crawler economics from pay-per-crawl to pay-per-use and forces AI companies into licensing, payment, or clean-data alternatives.
A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a "national security supply chain risk" was unconstitutional retaliation aimed at punishing the company's public safety stance, not a genuine security assessment. The case lays bare the unresolved question of who defines safety boundaries when the government is one of AI's largest buyers.
When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.
