Four paying subscribers have sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, alleging that the CEOs' public statements and coordinated efforts to slow AI development unlawfully restrained competition. The case tests whether safety-motivated coordination among rivals crosses antitrust lines.
Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
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On 2026-09-22, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first at 96.01. The Smoke test is a daily 10-question quick assessment useful for observing short-term signals, not equivalent to full weekly rankings.
Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.
A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.
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Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.
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Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution as enterprise networks face diminishing returns from static dashboards, pushing logistics directors towards autonomous execution. Predictive demand models display recommendations, yet human planners still clear every action. Multi-agent systems replace that approval stage across targeted operational boundaries. Instead of waiting for weekly scheduling runs, independent software […] The post Multi-agent AI systems are taking over
The president offered few details on what his proposed new AI Force would do.
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 US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the US in April 2024, the day before…
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She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost.  It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández crossed the border from the eastern edge of Tijuana into Southern California, sending voice messages to her mother and sister as she walked.  This story is part of Dying…
When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses.  As he walked through the desert in southern New Mexico that morning, he was within range of three surveillance towers. Newly installed…
MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas surveilled by advanced, AI-enabled towers and later died nearby, where their bodies remained unnoticed for…
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego. Journalists in both newsrooms spent the past…
Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security.
On September 18, 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI signed the AEF-1 embedded evaluation standard, while more than 100 researchers including Geoffrey Hinton and Stuart Russell signed an open letter warning that the existing framework is insufficient to prevent conflicts of interest. The simultaneous moves highlight the tension between principles and enforcement.
