OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
A federal court in California vacated the Pentagon’s “national security supply chain risk” designation against Anthropic, finding violations of the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and the Administrative Procedure Act. The ruling limits the government’s ability to use procurement powers to pressure AI suppliers over protected speech or contract positions.
At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, the US pushed the Carolina Principles urging countries not to create new AI-specific regulators—a bet that China signed onto while the EU charted a directly opposite course, exposing a three-way rift in global AI governance.
A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
The 2026-09-03 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first at 83.94 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to observing short-term signals and does not equate to Full weekly ranking conclusions.
ChatGPT Ads has hit $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days, and OpenAI is expanding self-service ads to new regions. Tens of thousands of advertisers now use the platform and self-service access through Ads Manager is launching today in India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. According to OpenAI, people […] The post ChatGPT Ads passes $1B run rate in 200 days appeared first on AI News.
Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at Motional that includes CEO Laura Major, working alongside researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their proposed method, […] The post Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions appeared first on AI News.
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.  A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of […]
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.  A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of […]
Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than…
Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.
HiddenLayer has raised a $100M Series B from Delta-v Capital, Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.
Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.
Wonderful's $550M Series C was led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce, Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer participating.
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
