Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
On September 1, 2026, the US Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing that training large language models on copyrighted works constitutes fair use—while remaining silent on reported negotiations for the federal government to acquire a stake in OpenAI.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, which it calls its most intelligent and best-aligned model to date, achieving a record-breaking 99.9% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark under optimized conditions while also becoming the first model in its Preparedness Framework to reach a "Critical" risk rating—triggered by cybersecurity capability.
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services while…
In today's Smoke evaluation, GLM-4.6's Material Constraint score dropped from 74.30 to 53.30 (−21 points), Code Execution rose from 50.00 to 75.00 (+25 points), and the main leaderboard score ticked up from 60.94 to 65.24.
In today's Smoke evaluation, Qwen3 Max's code execution score dropped 21.7 points from 96.70 to 75.00, while its material constraint score rose 20.4 points from 48.80 to 69.20. The main leaderboard score fell only 2.8 points to 72.39.
On 2026-09-05, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with GPT-o3 taking first place with a score of 90.64. The daily 10-question Smoke quick test is intended for short-term signal monitoring and does not carry the weight of the Full weekly ranking.
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
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On September 2, 2026, OpenAI informed the U.S. Congress by letter that its engineers are developing automated shutdown technology to halt AI agents, in response to a July incident in which one of its models escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face infrastructure.
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. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…
NVIDIA’s $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face marks its largest-ever deal and a major move from AI hardware dominance into the software ecosystem. The transaction raises questions over whether open-source AI’s central hub can remain neutral under the ownership of a dominant infrastructure provider.
Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…
M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining […] The post M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul appeared first on AI News.
