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Jizai opens pre-orders for Palmimo DevKit, a 21-axis desktop AI robot built for software engineers entering robotics.
Japanese startup Jizai began pre-sales on September 3 of the Palmimo DevKit, a customizable desktop AI robot development kit, pricing the initial production lot at 598,000 yen (~$4,000, tax excluded)...
Everspin deploys AI-MTD-based EverSafe Web security platform at Korea University of Technology and Education
Everspin, a Seoul-based AI security firm led by CEO Ha Young-bin, said it has deployed its EverSafe Web dynamic web-security solution at Korea University of Technology and Education (KOREATECH). The s...
MentionOS launches autonomous AEO agent to track and repair brand visibility inside AI answers
MentionOS, a London-based AI search visibility startup founded by Ahmed Boateng, launched an autonomous answer-engine-optimization (AEO) agent that checks how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google A...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra rollout stumbles with lockouts for paying users despite safety claims
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, a flagship model built for computer-use and cybersecurity tasks, positioning built-in safety features as its most robust to date. Reviewers testing the model note it r...
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 Briefly Tops Google on AI Benchmarks, Undercuts DeepSeek on Price
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model iteration in five months after the original Muse Spark in April, version 1.1 in July, and 1.2 in August. On the Artificial Analysis intelligence index th...
NVIDIA and Microsoft Unveil Local AI Acceleration Tools at IFA 2026
At IFA 2026, NVIDIA and Microsoft introduced local AI acceleration tools for Windows PCs, including offline support for Hermes Agent (built by Nous Research) and the open-source OpenClaw agent project...
OpenAI Frames Astra as a 'Digital Worker' Agent for Enterprise Tasks
OpenAI introduced Astra as a system built to navigate web pages, operate spreadsheets, build software, and support research tasks on its own, rather than respond turn by turn like a chatbot. The compa...
Nvidia's PAIR software links idle home computers into a private, on-premises AI inference cluster.
Nvidia unveiled Personal AI Router (PAIR) at IFA 2026, a free, open-source tool that discovers compatible PCs on a home network and pools their idle compute for local AI inference tasks run through Ol...
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra and its president says the industry has entered the AGI era.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it a generational leap in cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use — the first model to cross its self-defined "critical c...
Ollie Positions SOC 2 Privacy Compliance as Its Wedge in the AI Assistant Market
Ollie, a San Diego-based family-focused AI assistant startup that has raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures with participation from AI House, has achieved SOC 2 compliance, an ind...
Flock Safety's AI Police Search Tool Flags Abuse Risks Its Guardrails Don't Stop
WIRED reverse-engineered the code behind Flock Safety's latest police search suite, which now lets officers find people on camera by written description, not just by license plate. The toolset include...
Anthropic Launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, Keeping Misuse-Monitoring Data in Customer Cloud
Anthropic announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS) on September 1, 2026, an enterprise service combining security and privacy protection for customers running its frontier models. Activity logs...
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash weeks after 3.7, betting on reasoning depth over token cost
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash barely three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, keeping the same introductory pricing ($0.75 per million input tokens, $3.75 per million output tokens) while warning the mo...
iFlytek subsidiary open-sources Spark X2.5 on-device models with million-token context
iFlytek's wholly owned subsidiary Ciyuan Xinghuo (词元星火) open-sourced two on-device language models on September 1: Spark X2.5-4B and Spark X2.5-1.7B, which the company describes as the industry's firs...
Perplexity launches 'Hybrid Compute' to split AI tasks between local and cloud processing
Perplexity has rolled out "Hybrid Compute" for Perplexity Computer on Mac, a feature that routes AI workloads between an on-device model and cloud-based models. A "privacy gate" determines which data...
Anthropic lowers Fable cache-read costs 75% in Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, pairing the updates with a 75% reduction in the price of Fable cache reads. It also loosened prior usage restrictions. The change is a commercial up...
World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, has launched Atlas, a next-gener...
World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, has launched Atlas, a next-generation world model built on what the company describes as a multimodal autoregressive diffusion Trans...
Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with signed chain-of-thought security
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and a restricted-access Mythos 5.1, claiming top results across eight public benchmarks with the largest gains in scientific research and coding versus both Fable 5...
Sharp will begin offering "NIAH" (ニア), an integrated AI agent service, in Japan starting September 3...
Sharp will begin offering "NIAH" (ニア), an integrated AI agent service, in Japan starting September 30, 2026, following preview events in Tokyo and Osaka. The app-based agent connects to 52 of Sharp's...
Cloover reaches profitability at a $350M run rate, adds a $100M facility, and launches an AI-native neo-utility.
Berlin-based Cloover, founded in 2023 by Jodok Betschart, Peder Broms, and Valentin Gönczy, secured a new €86.2 million ($100 million) financing facility and turned profitable three years after launch...