On 2026-09-09, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Doubao Pro ranking first at 89.91 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited for observing short-term signals and is not equivalent to the Full weekly ranking.
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.
A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe and PSG Equity.
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. Introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2026 What will the next generation of science and technology look like? Our latest Innovators Under 35 list offers a glimpse. Every year,…
Arm has launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI alongside a new robotics framework to establish common standards across automated systems. Physical industries – spanning mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and global transport – account for trillions of dollars in economic activity and an estimated $200 billion annual compute opportunity by the 2030s. To address engineering fragmentation […] The post Arm launches Total Design for Physical AI and robotics framework appeared first on AI Ne
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 in September 2026, with identical underlying parameters but differing guardrail layers. Fable 5.1 scores 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, yet the performance gap between the two variants has sparked industry discussion.
Mistral completed a €3 billion Series D round on September 8, 2026, setting a European record for tech equity financing just three years after its founding. Led by Samsung Electronics, the round signals growing commercial validation for the combination of open-weight models and sovereign compute.
Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China, the story goes, was killed crossing a road because she couldn’t see oncoming traffic. And Lu’s own…
The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures inside blast furnaces, where the material reacts with gases to trigger chemical reactions that remove oxygen. It…
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up…
Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup building chips that recycle energy usually thrown away as heat—a strategy known as reversible computing.…
Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in what quantities through its Coke Buddy platform. The Perfect Basket feature uses Coca-Cola’s Central Recommendation Engine to analyse previous orders, ordering frequency, seasonality, weather, and purchasing patterns among similar businesses. Coca-Cola said Coke Buddy currently supports about 39,000 retail outlets across […] The post Coca-Cola uses AI to improve retailer ordering in Malaysia appeared
YouTube was the most frequently cited website in Google AI Overviews across a panel of vitamin and supplement searches, according to new research. The video platform appeared in 186 of 350 AI-generated answers, or 53.1%, making it the only website cited in more than half of the answers collected. Searcherries followed 50 searches daily from […] The post YouTube Appears in 53% of Google AI Overviews for Vitamin and Supplement Searches appeared first on AI News.
Google’s newest AI weather forecasting model predicts wind speed at 100 metres above the ground, roughly the height of a modern wind turbine. It also forecasts cloud cover and how much sunlight reaches the surface, and it updates every hour. Energy traders, grid operators and wind and solar developers already pay other companies for that […] The post AI weather forecasting enters the energy market as Google targets grid operators with WeatherNext 3 appeared first on AI News.
On September 7, 2026, OpenAI announced that it had achieved the automated research intern goal established last autumn, with 3.1 agent workdays of compute running for every human workday of research input as of mid-August. The announcement also disclosed two security incidents, including new restrictions placed on the Astra model after preliminary evidence suggested it may possess critical-level cybersecurity capabilities.
On September 2, 2026, Edelson PC filed 30 new complaints in a California court against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School shooting, marking the first time the allegations have been characterized as "aiding and abetting." The filings allege that a PR-led chain of command overruled the safety team's recommendation to report the shooter to Canadian authorities.
