WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model, is now in Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.
An overview of upcoming training sessions from the Google AI Educator Series (GES), and how teachers are putting these tools to work.
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.
Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.
TL;DR Why another multimodal encoder? NeoMME encoder backbone One Transformer for images and text Learning from images through masked text NeoMME -Retriever A dual-head design for dense and late-interaction retrieval Competitive retrieval at compact model...
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
K2 Horizon models, datasets, and supporting resources
It’s an investor, backer, supplier and guarantor for companies its Hugging Face acquisition potentially disrupts
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with Hugging Face, the chipmaker will "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide."
Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."
OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use.
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
All the rumors leading up to Nvidia's announcement of its Arm-based RTX Spark chips over the summer mentioned two specific chips: the N1X and N1. While the N1 won't be arriving this year, Nvidia says its N1X chip is arriving in RTX Spark laptops in two different configurations in October. You'll be able to buy […]
Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Ollama and LM Studio. Let's get the obvious thing out of the way, despite what its name might imply: PAIR is not a hardware router. It's open-source software […]
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues.
Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often.
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
At IFA 2026, Nvidia and its partners showed off the first RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs, designed to run AI models right on your computer.
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker.
GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.
When Nvidia said Thursday that it plans to pay $13 billion to acquire Hugging Face, the question arose of whether the open AI platform would remain open when it becomes a unit of Nvidia.
Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware.
I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.
OpenAI announced on Thursday it’s committing $1 billion to help “resource-constrained cyber defenders,” including many critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments, get access to the company’s cybersecurity defense tools.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the Trump administration's voluntary review of the company's forthcoming Astra model a "productive process."
Grok Bot is now available for enterprises. Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers have free usage for the next two weeks, and can invite their whole organization, including people without an existing seat.
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google were grappling with service problems Thursday, disrupting several of the tech giants' massive popular artificial intelligence products.
OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
It’s been a busy week for AI developers.
GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS" - I've not tried it yet myself, so I don't have a great deal to say about it yet.
Three stranded hikers rescued on Mount Shasta told officials they relied heavily on Google’s AI assistant Gemini for information about the route and what to pack.
NVIDIA has introduced PAIR, a new way to combine and distribute AI inference across your home devices without any hardware installation.
Alongside major events at Best Buy and Amazon, the official Sony site is running an impressive Labor Day sale of its own headlined by some of its 2026 BRAVIA TVs.
Nvidia announced that it will buy AI startup Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a massive bet by the chipmaker to expand the reach of open-source AI technology.
Kevin Owens and three co-founders are betting enterprise buyers will pay for model-level intervention beyond dashboards that score bad answers.
The mechanics of Nvidia's US$12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face say as much about the deal's purpose as the strategic case does: a tenth of the consideration is set aside to stop the team from walking, part of the payout goes to Intel and AMD, and the whole transaction is framed against an open-weight model...
Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion pushes the world's dominant AI chip supplier past silicon and into the layer where developers actually pick their models — a position that gives it early sight of demand shifts, a structural hedge against customers designing their own accelerators, and...
Enterprises are facing a disturbing new question in the age of AI: What happens when agentic assistants go dark?
Cloudflare Inc. today opened early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, a service that uses OpenAI Group PBC’s cybersecurity models to find software flaws in customer applications and block attacks on them at the network edge.
Matthew Prince's latest security bet uses GPT-5.6 Cyber to rank findings, propose patches and prepare WAF rules, with humans approving every change.
OpenAI Group PBC today started opening access to GPT-6 Astra, its newest and most capable large language model.
OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported.
The production desktop app can assign Codex to keep checking a PR every 10 minutes, repair CI failures and merge conflicts, push fixes, and optionally continue until the pull request merges.
NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with CEO Jensen Huang announcing the deal in a blog post today.
The five-year GPU contract would turn a former quant trader's energy startup into Jane Street's second multibillion-dollar AI cloud supplier.
The open-source beta routes parallel agent requests across Windows, Linux and macOS devices without pooling their GPU memory.
The fully sold equity offering gives optical-switching veteran Jitender Miglani fresh capital for TrndX's UniFlex infrastructure platform.
The latest first-party app that Gemini Spark can control is Google Photos. The personal agent can “handle complex, multi-stage workflows” with your library. more…
OpenAI has announced the launch of GPT-6 Astra, its most advanced model yet. The model will begin rolling out immediately.
In a livestreamed keynote on Thursday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to The post OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking appeared first on The New Stack.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, positioning it as a computer-use flagship rather than a chat model.
Following an outage earlier today, OpenAI is launching GPT-6 Astra, it’s latest model which is “the world’s most intelligent.” more…
Nvidia Corp. today confirmed that it has agreed to buy Hugging Face Inc. for just over $12.93 billion.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra Larry Dignan Thu, 3 Sep 2026 - 13:12 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on enterprise technology, digital...
OpenAI's next big model, Astra, a.k.a. GPT-6, is done with training and ready to launch, but CEO Sam Altman's warning and recent reports on the model's inscrutable nature have us worried.
Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the catalog, an approval gate, and an eval suite.
The new model costs 2.5x more per token than GPT-5.6 Sol's current promotional rate, putting the premium on autonomous work.
The unreleased interface promises higher-quality results and smarter tools, while OpenAI's public documentation still lists Images 2.0.
The latest Google Home update is fixing issues with alarms that some users were experiencing while also improving media and smart home voice controls in Google’s continued effort to address pain points in Gemini for Home. more…
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI era." Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecurity and is the first model OpenAI rates as "critical" under its safety framework.
AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents....
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business.
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
NVIDIA has announced its decision to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.
An impressive system that can (to some unknown extent) build symbolic world models
Authorities say three hikers became stranded on Mt. Shasta after relying solely on Google's Gemini AI.