Lyria 3.5, our best-sounding music generation model, is now available in the Gemini app and the Gemini API. Lyria 3.5 brings more expressive vocals and richer musical ar…
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
We are sharing the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition […]
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in.
Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 5050 a pretty good deal at $927 for new Woot customers (with code WOOTALIEN used at checkout).
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra.
Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting.
Officially, Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI rendering was supposed to launch this evening with only a single game, only on Nvidia's latest RTX 50 GPUs, and with developers in full control of their artistic vision.
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
Update: A day later, GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plan.
GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now available in GitHub Copilot. OpenAI’s latest general-purpose model, GPT-6 Astra, is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and agentic tasks. In our internal testing, GPT-6…
WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model, is now in Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.
CoreWeave recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. Read the report
CoreWeave recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. Read the report
CoreWeave recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. Read the report
CoreWeave recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. Read the report
CoreWeave recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. Read the report
CoreWeave recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. Read the report
CoreWeave recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. Read the report
AI lab Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly in discussions to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, according to The Information.
Nvidia has released a free tool that will enable users to build an AI inferencing cluster from disparate PCs on the same network, accessible from a single interface.
An overview of upcoming training sessions from the Google AI Educator Series (GES), and how teachers are putting these tools to work.
Traditionally, production inference systems rely on generic kernels to handle diverse...
GPT-6 Astra hits 100% on ExploitBench and finds zero-days autonomously, while independent tests reveal scope violations and monitoring gaps.
OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the model had reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none).
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
Company president Greg Brockman told media publications in a briefing that Astra’s launch could perhaps be viewed as the beginning of an era of artificial general intelligence. Read more: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee and SK Group Chairman Tae-won Chey are traveling to New York at the end of September 2026 to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang again as Washington presses South Korean companies to expand US investment.
The llama.cpp and vLLM updates target RTX 5090, RTX PRO 6000 and dual DGX Spark systems, with support through LM Studio and Ollama.
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.136, an update to the popular programming editor that previews an Agent Merge feature and introduces two experimental features for agentic coding.
Gimlet Labs Inc., a startup that helps developers speed up their inference workloads, has raised $300 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation.
The Gemini overlay on Android now has a multitasking option that gives you a floating bubble shortcut when you Minimize. more…
Haggle Bot audits SaaS seats, drafts vendor negotiations and price-checks purchases, with humans retaining control over contracts and spending.
CEO Amjad Masad confirmed the rollout as Replit turns rapid access to frontier models into a core product advantage.
CarPlay has picked up its fifth major AI chatbot app with the addition of Claude. Anthropic’s iPhone app adding CarPlay is the second AI chatbot app to be updated with support this week. more…
The stock market fell this week before bouncing. Nvidia, Micron, Sandisk are new buys, but for how long? Apple, inflation data loom. The post Dow Jones Futures: Nvidia, Micron, Sandisk Flash Buy Signals; Apple, Inflation Reports Ahead appeared first on Investor's Business Daily.
Desktop version 0.39.0 defines list and put operations for per-agent profiles and logs behind a rollout gate, but its packaged code reveals no confirmed call site or conflict semantics.
The modern edge computing platform has arrived. Before the explosion of artificial intelligence, edge computing sites were generally regarded as a back-end support function, smaller and more remote copies of a data center.
Today, HP Inc. announced its new HP OmniBook Ultra 16 and HP OmniBook X 14 along with new details around the upcoming HP OmniDesk, all powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark and Windows.
Artificial intelligence agents linked to OpenAI Group PBC reportedly took over a German website and used it to exchange information.
Business Premium seats also get access in Work and Codex, while Plus and standard Business accounts remain in the rollout queue.
Nvidia says its custom NVHBM beats HBM4E by 30% on bandwidth and 15% on power, but the standard has yet to be produced en masse.
A modder has ported DLSS 5 Neural Rendering onto an AMD GPU for the first time, less than a week after the tech started spreading to older NVIDIA cards.
Windows build 7868 can rank up to 100 Work and Codex chats by five-hour, weekly and credit use, with a new system designed to include subagent activity under the parent task.
Last month, SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot, an iMessage-style AI system that displays agents as teammates. The product originally arrived as an iPhone and Mac app with a very expensive price tag. In the weeks since launch, Grok Bot has expanded to the iPad and dramatically lowered the cost. more…
The morning agent reads across Gmail, Calendar and Gemini chats, provided users enable Memory and connect their Google Workspace data.
Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it...
Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run...
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
The company proactively reported a concerning chat to police amid rising fears of violence against AI executives.
Cybastion has committed $75 million to fund the construction of digital infrastructure in Cameroon, including a data center and an accompanying power plant in the economic capital Douala, in a move that advances the country's push for digital sovereignty.
Anthropic could soon add CarPlay integration to the Claude iOS app, based on code found in the latest Claude app update.
The Pentagon’s Emil Michael said the Claude maker is still designated a supply chain risk after Commerce Secretary Lutnick indicated Anthropic and Trump were “in tune.” The post Anthropic faces different government responses as Pentagon battle continues appeared first on FedScoop.
Sam Altman OpenAI has released a new model called GPT-6 Astra to a limited set of customers, calling it the world's most intelligent AI system and the first of its models to trigger advanced internal safety protections because of its cyber capabilities.
"Claims that our Legal team discouraged investigation of the incident are false." The post OpenAI Denies Coverup After Rogue Swarm of Agents Reportedly Targeted a Second Site From Hugging Face appeared first on Futurism.
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.me platform, has formalized a complete … Continue reading →
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI.
Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.
GPT-6 Astra was paused a month ago for triggering safety protocols and now it's being slowly rolled out.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse.
AI infrastructure dominated the largest venture rounds this week, with two multibillion-dollar deals in the sector taking the top spots. Data center and cloud provider Crusoe led with a massive $3 billion financing, followed by Fluidstack’s $1.5 billion raise.
Meta is offering developers a discount of roughly 95% on its new Muse Spark model, an AI system built for coding and other agentic tasks, in exchange for allowing the company to use their prompts and outputs to train future models. Under the “contributor” pricing tier, input tokens drop from $1.25 to 10 cents per […]
Data center developer Crusoe has reportedly raised a new $3 billion round at a $30 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg.
OpenAI has released its new AI model, Astra, describing it as the company’s most powerful and capable system to date, particularly for computer and browser use.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injections.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Guickly, the AI measurement layer for enterprises, has announced the launch of the company with $4.2M in seed funding, led by Engineering Capital, to monitor and attribute AI investments and spend, offering total visibility into AI expenses and ROI while optimizing AI usage and...
Boston-based startup Blue Voice has emerged from stealth with $6 million in funding led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC, offering an AI tool that gives police officers real-time access to department policies and legal guidance in the field.
Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking.
Google DeepMind and Google Research have released WeatherNext 3, a new AI weather forecasting model that the company says will begin powering weather information across Search, Google Maps, and Gemini, while also being available to researchers on Google’s cloud platforms.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Clipto, a startup building the AI video memory layer, announced $15 million in funding at a $250 million post money valuation from leading global investors including HSG (fmr.
At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany, ASUS introduced mini PCs and laptops powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark SoC.