AI news archive.

new SOTA computer use and coding, 2.5x pricier per token, but WAY cheaper per task, less monitorable. overall, a very successful launch of OpenAI’s new frontier model class.

Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook...

In two years of existence, the vendor has completed three funding rounds totaling $800 million.

We spent 20B+ tokens of GPT-6 Astra to explore everything. Here’s our learnings.

While most attention has been on model makers such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google regarding which vendor will win the race, the star of the moment is Nvidia.

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

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. New com…

An AI Assisted search and retrieval tool for regulatory guidance documents.

HHMI Janelia, Google and partners mapped the brain and central nervous system of a male fruit fly, a key model organism in science.

Frontier research, safety, and technical AI advances.

With the new model, Google focused on long-horizon reasoning tasks, while also boosting cyber performance. It also introduced a cyber program similar to that of other AI vendors.

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.

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

where do my tokens go?

September is here with 28 more games streaming on GeForce NOW this month, led by a slam dunk: NBA 2K27 with the NVIDIA DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering feature. Through NVIDIA’s close collaboration with Visual Concepts…

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.

I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and instit…

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

an epic comeback story for Meta

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.

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

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

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

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and...

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....

Google’s Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there’s yet another Gemini Flash today.

Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.

The AI image-generating tool works inside the vendor’s Workspace platform.

NVIDIA CUDA remains the foundation of GPU-accelerated computing, powering everything from scientific simulations to large-scale AI training. But writing...

Frontier research, safety, and technical AI advances.

Frontier research, safety, and technical AI advances.

The $399 small-scale robot is the company’s second desktop robot, after Reachy Mini in 2025.

The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.

The vendor reduced cache read pricing for Fable 5.1 and said the model is similar to Mythos 5.1, with different safeguards.

A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner…

ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.

Queue the usual rush of model launches...

Most current vision-language-action (VLA) models—such as OpenVLA, π0, RT-2, and RDT-1B—are “monolithic.” This means they generate raw motor commands or very short sequences of actions, without organizing behaviors into r…

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

Meta returns to the open source ecosystem with the release of Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight dense model with a 120K+ context window built for local AI...

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined…

The move comes after rival OpenAI paused development for two weeks following agent escapes.

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026

AI can only communicate in languages that it's been trained on.

AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to...

Frontier research, safety, and technical AI advances.

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.

Vercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.