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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.
Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.
Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26 and 27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses that remained […] The post 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating appeared first on AI News.
An arXiv paper from NVIDIA's Nemotron team reports that Nemotron-3-Ultra-CC scored 535.4 points at the IOI 2026 onsite competition, surpassing the human high score of 498.27 points and the gold medal threshold of 361.12 points. The paper also details how the smaller Nemotron-3-Nano-CC reached gold medal level at IOI 2025 through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and the GenCorrect test-time strategy.
OpenAI's 117-page GPT-6 Astra system card confirms a record 91.5% jailbreak resistance rate and the company's first "Critical" cybersecurity rating, while disclosing that recurrent depth reasoning is systematically eroding the monitorability of chain-of-thought.
This article examines Google DeepMind's release of Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a restricted AI variant available only to institutions vetted under the Fairwind program, and analyzes how tiered capability distribution is reshaping AI security governance — including the model's benchmark performance, who qualifies for access, and whether this distribution model can hold up at scale.
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
A test report released by ARC Prize on September 3, 2026, shows GPT-6 Astra posting a 37-point score gap on the ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private task set—62.7% under the standard harness versus 99.9% under the Provider Adapter harness. The discrepancy stems from differing state retention rules between the two evaluation frameworks.
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
On September 3, 2026, OpenAI began the phased rollout of its next-generation flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, to ChatGPT paid users. The company calls it a generational leap toward AGI and touts its "Critical" cybersecurity rating as a first, though third-party composite benchmarks still show Anthropic's Fable 5.1 ahead.
Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Greg Casar have introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, proposing a permanent U.S. ban on ASI development with penalties comparable to nuclear weapons violations, plus a temporary moratorium on frontier AI. The bill follows a series of documented AI escape and autonomous hacking incidents at major labs.
For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future models by sharing their prompts and model outputs.
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
