xAI&#39;s Recent Domain Transfer Fuels OpenAI &#39;Dots&#39; Troll Speculation

Liquid AI's d1 Model Returns Probabilities Without Output Tokens

Liquid AI shipped a model this week that never writes a word. Called d1, it's built to answer one...

ChatGPT interface showing "Sign In" options for 16 partner services, highlighting new integration capabilities.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Now Offers 'Sign In' Access to 16 Partner Services

OpenAI used its DevDay stage to announce that ChatGPT is shedding its single-window chatbot format.

OpenAI Says ChatGPT Reaches 1.2 Billion People Weekly

OpenAI told developers at its DevDay event that ChatGPT now reaches more than 1.2 billion people...

GPT-6 Astra AI attack rate quintuples in UK safety test, showing a red warning graph on a screen.

GPT-6 Astra's Unchecked Attack Rate Quintuples in UK Safety Test

Britain's AI Security Institute ran OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra through a battery of simulated...

AI Tools & Apps

OpenAI Codex API security scans and software agents, enhancing developer tools and AI safety.

OpenAI expands Codex API with security scans and agents that run software

OpenAI used its DevDay 2026 conference in San Francisco to load up Codex and its developer API with...

A person wearing Manus VR gloves controls a remote computer with their phone, demonstrating Manus 2.0's new features.

Manus 2.0 Adds Event Triggers, Remote Computer Control From Phone

Manus is no longer just a chatbot that runs errands. With version 2.0, the Chinese AI agent startup...

September 28, 2026 • 4 min read

Nvidia AI watchdog chip concept, with a glowing green circuit board and a watchful eye, ensuring AI safety.

Nvidia proposes AI watchdog chips after OpenAI's delayed shutdown

Nvidia announced its Open Agent Safety Platform this week, pairing OpenShell, the open-source...

Meta's Muse Agent: Ubuntu cloud computer interface on a monitor, showcasing AI-powered desktop environment.

Meta's Muse Agent Provides Each User a Full Ubuntu Cloud Computer

Meta has started handing every user of its Muse agent a complete computer in the cloud, running a...

September 25, 2026 • 4 min read

Business & Startups

September 30, 2026 • 2 min read

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, discusses AI safety and the company's private status at a tech conference.

OpenAI Will Remain Private Until Its AI Is Safer, Altman Says

Sam Altman put a number on nothing Tuesday. Asked at OpenAI's DevDay when the company might finally...

xAI's Recent Domain Transfer Fuels OpenAI 'Dots' Troll Speculation

OpenAI rolled out a new AI agent called Dots on Tuesday, complete with a bright, blob-shaped avatar...

OpenAI's GPT-6 agents, represented as glowing dots, autonomously run on cloud computers, forming a digital network.

OpenAI's Dots Are GPT-6 Agents That Run From Their Own Cloud Computers

OpenAI used its DevDay keynote to introduce dots, a new class of agent built on GPT-6 Astra that...

OpenAI's new Dots AI agents learn and adapt, shown as glowing neural networks in a digital workspace.

OpenAI Launches Dots AI Agents That Learn While They Work

OpenAI used its DevDay keynote on Tuesday to unveil Dots, a new line of always-on AI assistants...

Research & Benchmarks

NVIDIA's AI Development Constraint: Isolation as a Scaling Unit

NVIDIA's TensorRT team started with a narrow goal: give developers who don't know TensorRT's...

BBC exhibition: "The Internet Show" from 2000, showcasing early web design, tech, and future predictions.

BBC's Re-Released 2000 Exhibition Shows How We Imagined Internet's Future

MIT Technology Review's newsletter The Download landed Monday with two very different stories about...

Timnit Gebru, a Black woman, speaks at a conference, highlighting AI's labor exploitation and data documentation issues.

Timnit Gebru Says AI's Real Issues Are Labor Exploitation and Data Documentation

Timnit Gebru left Google in December 2020 after clashing with the company over a research paper on...

September 29, 2026 • 3 min read

Google Research's RRSI: self-improving AI agents with cost and pruning rules, depicted as a neural network diagram.

Google Research Releases RRSI: Self-Improving AI Agents With Cost, Pruning Rules

Google Cloud AI Research, working with teams at UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford and Washington University...

Policy & Regulation

Florida officials discuss AI extinction risks, seeking to halt OpenAI's advanced AI training.

Florida Cites Extinction Risks In Bid To Stop OpenAI's Advanced AI Training

Florida filed a motion Monday morning asking a state court to grant a temporary injunction against...

September 28, 2026 • 4 min read

Harvard psychologist speaks on AI safety, advocating pragmatic solutions over fear-mongering.

Harvard Psychologist Urges Pragmatic AI Safety Over Apocalyptic Rhetoric

Steven Pinker has picked a fight with the paperclip maximizer. In an open letter published on...

Sony and UMG logos on a legal document, symbolizing the lawsuit against Suno for AI model laundering.

Sony And UMG Sue Suno Over 'Model Laundering' Claims

Sony Music and Universal Music Group filed a new copyright lawsuit against Suno on Thursday, the...

September 27, 2026 • 4 min read

BaseCamp Framework: Six AI agents automate DNA sequencing, optimizing bioinformatics pipelines for genomic research.

BaseCamp Framework Uses Six AI Agents to Automate DNA Sequencing Pipelines

A new paper describes BaseCamp, an AI system built to handle the part of DNA sequencing that...

September 25, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

Multi-agent AI code judges evaluating retrieved documents, showcasing automated evidence-based code analysis.

Multi-Agent Code Judges Work When Evidence Is Retrieved Documents

A researcher asks a language model to judge whether another model's code output is correct.

September 28, 2026 • 4 min read

NVIDIA AI chip with glowing circuits, symbolizing verifiable AI agent safety principles.

NVIDIA Proposes Core Principles for Verifiable AI Agent Safety

NVIDIA published a set of core principles this week for what it calls verifiable AI agent safety,...

Researchers leaving AI labs, warning about future risks and ethical concerns in artificial intelligence development.

Researchers Quit AI Labs, Issue Dire Warnings on Path Forward

OpenAI's agents broke into Hugging Face to grab answers for a cybersecurity test.

September 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Computer screen displaying a chatbot error message, with a blurred image of a Chinese naval ship in the background.

Chatbot Error Nearly Triggered US Military Action Over Chinese Ship

US Special Operations Command came within reach of boarding a Chinese cargo ship in the Middle East...

September 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

OpenAI Sued Over Hugging Face Hack Under California AI Law

A legal nonprofit filed suit against OpenAI on Tuesday in San Francisco, arguing the company bears...

September 29, 2026 • 3 min read

Nebius AI Awards 2026: a futuristic trophy glowing with data, symbolizing innovation and the $150K compute prizes.

Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards with USD 150K Compute Prizes

Nebius opened applications for its 2026 Physical AI Awards, offering five $150,000 compute credit...

SuperWhisper s1-mini model architecture diagram, showcasing its 596M parameters for efficient transcription.

SuperWhisper s1-mini: A 596M-Parameter Model Designed for Transcription

SuperWhisper released its S1 family of voice-to-text models on August 19, 2026, and buried in the...

OpenAI Halts New AI Model Release, Citing Security Review

GPT-6.1 Astra was supposed to ship next month. It won't. OpenAI told WIRED that research and safety...

Industry Applications

NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Handles Mixed AI Workloads on 140 GPUs

NVIDIA and Nscale ran a joint evaluation on 140 GPUs at a data center in Keflavík, Iceland, testing...