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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents that run on their own cloud computers, where they fix bugs or send out forgotten invoices, sometimes before anyone asks. Users can reach them through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft T…

At DevDay 2026, OpenAI gave Codex reusable cloud environments, automatic security scans for GitHub repositories, and a code review view in the desktop app. The Agents API now supports Computer Use, and a new Decisions AP…

OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of the cost, according to the company's own benchmarks. The planned flagship, GPT-6.1 Astra, is staying under wraps for now. Safety lead Saachi Jain says the…

Fei-Fei Li's AI startup World Labs is being acquired by AMD for $8.2 billion. Li, the pioneer behind ImageNet, will join AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su. World Labs…

On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spell…

OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" acr…

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but large language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.

The quality of life for people living next to one would be destroyed, writes Moira Brewer ; plus a letter from Mark Davis So, George Osborne thinks people who don’t want an AI datacentre on their doorstep are nimbys ( Op…

Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces. I had GPT-6 Astra build this…

Benjamin Lyons , Léo Pio-Lopez , Michael Levin Abstract Alignment is a central problem in systems composed of diverse, interacting components, from biological development to social and engineered systems. One crucial asp…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a court to ban OpenAI from giving ChatGPT human-like traits and marketing it to minors. He also wants to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent safet…

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

Scientific progress and its perils. TLDR: The vulnerable world hypothesis is likely correct. Once enormous amounts of cognitive labor start getting applied to basic science, it will quickly become apparent how many avenu…

Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick shapes how accurately its AI-powered features respond to your requests. Part 1 of a two-part series covers the foundational principles and reusable frameworks (specificity, context-sett…

Part 2 of our Amazon Quick prompt engineering series goes component by component. Learn the prompt patterns that get the best results from Amazon Quick Research, Quick Flows, Quick Sight, chat agents, and action integrat…

Manually extracting data from hundreds of vendor contracts doesn't scale, and RAG chat tools fall short on portfolio-wide questions. This post shares a contract intelligence platform on AWS that uses AI agents to extract…

Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work

Condé Nast's editorial teams spent an average of 250 minutes per task searching a library of more than 140,000 videos using only titles and descriptions. Working with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, they built a…

I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the key…

Here’s a screenshot from Anthropic’s recent “training a reward seeker” post : Recently there’s been a lot of discussion about how RL has actually produced not merely reward hacking, but explicitly reward-seeking behavior…

Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.

It’s OpenAI’s turn in the fall tech events calendar. The company is hosting its annual DevDay on September 29th in San Francisco, and during a live keynote featuring CEO Sam Altman, it revealed several notable updates, i…

"Intelligence too cheap to meter" is a dream peddled by AI companies and accelerationists. In a narrow sense it is already true: if intelligence means solving coding and mathematics problems, AI is cheap today. But anyon…

Instinct founder said the platform is growing 10% day by day, with transaction volume increasing at a similar rate.

Increasing Skill Level Recruits Deeper Attention Layers in a Frozen Chess Transformer Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23917 TL;DR: Maia-3 is a transformer-based chess model that takes Elo (the standard metric for chess…

This was written with some assistance from Claude Fable 5, Opus 5.5, and GPT-6 Astra in collecting sources and fact-checking claims. This was written quickly, so some slop may leak through despite my best attempts. An Ap…

Elevenlabs' new speech model, Eleven v4, follows cues for laughter and whispering more accurately and keeps voices consistent across long productions like audiobooks. Its Turbo variant starts speaking in 150 milliseconds…

Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’ Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out an expansive vision for collecting, sharing and analyzing US health…

Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.

The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.

Crossposted from my Substack . This is a steelman of a view I do not hold ; I drafted it in May after coming across thoughtful arguments for accelerationism from Ege Erdil and Matthew Barnett. I really tried to feel the…

Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account. That's despite Meta placing great emphasis on the s…

Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and…

Mayer argues that if a photo is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions. By analyzing all the photos stored on your phone, Dazzle claims to understand your hobbies, interests, food, and style preferenc…

The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers.

Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop

Digital workspace company Omnissa LLC today unveiled new artificial intelligence agents for information technology teams and virtual desktop users, a managed cloud PC service and an AI governance product named Omnissa El…

Data connectivity and integration firm CData Software Inc. today introduced Connect AI Gateway, a platform designed to control how artificial intelligence agents choose models, use tools and access company data. The prod…

Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.

Manus vs Muse and examples for computer use

Mozilla’s Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.

This post is crossposted from my Substack, Structure and Guarantees , where I explore how formal verification and related ideas might scale to more complex intelligent systems. Here I draw attention to the fact that rece…

Just wait until you hear the bad news

As OpenAI discloses multiple incidents of its technology going rogue and the UN warns of uncontrollable agents, Meta is putting an AI agent in the hands of millions Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake M…

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away