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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...
Ropedia unveils HOMIE Gen2, a wearable capture device built to record human "experience" data for training robots.
Ropedia, a Singapore-based Physical AI company co-founded by CEO Zhaoxi Chen and CTO Fangzhou Hong, has launched HOMIE Gen2, a roughly 380-gram wearable multimodal data-capture device. The unit combin...
MiniMax and fal.ai ship H3 Max, a faster-than-realtime video model behind a new interactive AI livestream.
fal.ai opened a free demo site for MiniMax's H3 Max video model, generating 480p, five-second clips with audio in about three seconds from text or image prompts; registered users get five free generat...
OpenClaw 2.0 launches multiplayer AI coding tools for enterprise development teams
OpenClaw released version 2.0 of its AI coding tool, introducing "multiplayer" collaboration features that let multiple developers and AI agents work on the same codebase in real time. The release is...
APOLLO11 launches EdgeLLM, a fixed-price on-premise generative AI platform for Japan's compliance-bound industries.
APOLLO11, a Nagoya-based AI infrastructure provider founded in 2011, began selling EdgeLLM on August 31, an on-premise generative AI platform that runs inside a customer's internal network with zero e...
Qiyuan Robotics Opens Public Orders for Q1 and T1 Consumer Humanoids
Qiyuan Robotics, a unit of listed materials company Shangwei New Materials, opened public preorders on August 23 for its Q1 and T1 personal robots, with initial deliveries projected for September. Q1...
Alibaba's Qwen Creation launches Agent Teams for AI short-drama and video production
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen content platform, Qwen Creation (千问创作), has rolled out an "Agent Teams" feature that coordinates multiple specialized AI agents — acting as writer, director, and art director...
Google Launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, Challenging Anthropic and OpenAI
Google Cloud unveiled Gemini Enterprise for Legal, an enterprise AI platform for law firms and legal departments built around firm-specific practice skills and Model Context Protocol connections to ex...
Hisense launches JUOS, a home AI operating system centered on a household companion.
Hisense has introduced JUOS, a home-focused AI operating system for TVs, projectors, smart displays and connected appliances. The company says its self-developed Xinhai model and four native engines u...