Perplexity&#39;s Search Engine Improves as GPT-6 Astra Writes Better Code

Anthropic Adds Six Grader Types to Claude's Plugin Evaluation System

Anthropic shipped a new command for Claude Code this week that lets plugin developers actually test...

ChatGPT interface displaying image creation prompts, showcasing AI's ability to generate reusable creative content.

ChatGPT Now Shares Image Creation Prompts for Reuse

OpenAI pushed out ChatGPT Images 2.5 this week, and the pitch is different from the usual "look how...

CapQuiz: Infographic showing a video frame with captions, evaluating caption quality and information fidelity.

CapQuiz: New Method Tests Video Caption Quality with Information Fidelity

A video captioning model can describe a clip perfectly well and still get marked wrong, simply...

Chinese AI lab's fake accounts, 5,380, funnel 300,000 user queries to Anthropic. Data breach.

Chinese AI labs used 5,380 fake accounts to relay 300,000 user queries to Anthropic

Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report, covering December 2025 through August 2026, reads...

AI Tools & Apps

September 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Clearview AI's new tool for police to map online life, showing a digital interface with facial recognition.

Clearview AI’s New Tool Lets Police Map Your Online Life

Clearview AI built its reputation, and its notoriety, on 3 billion scraped photos that let police...

Meta AI analyzing real-time conversation, identifying over 20 speakers with advanced audio technology.

Meta's Audio AI Identifies 20+ Speakers in Real-Time Conversations

Meta's Superintelligence Labs put out its first real-time audio perception model this week, called...

September 6, 2026 • 4 min read

Microsoft chatbot logs, skewed data, overstating NYT article use, digital analytics, AI, technology news.

Microsoft Claims Chatbot Logs Skewed to Overstate NYT Article Use

Microsoft has a number for the judge in its ongoing copyright fight with The New York Times, and...

September 4, 2026 • 4 min read

Smartphone displaying Instagram's AI label over a blurred image, symbolizing flawed content identification.

Instagram’s AI Labeling Flaws Echo Past Mishaps

A photographer removes one blemish with Canva's touch-up tool, uploads the result to Instagram, and...

September 4, 2026 • 4 min read

Business & Startups

September 12, 2026 • 3 min read

Perplexity's Search Engine Improves as GPT-6 Astra Writes Better Code

Perplexity's engineers used to babysit their models. Now they don't have to as much, according to...

Sakana AI's Fugu models with Nemotron, enabling cheaper multi-agent AI.

Sakana AI's New Fugu Models Add Nemotron for Cheaper Multi-Agent AI

Sakana AI added Nvidia's Nemotron models to the mix behind its Fugu system this week, part of a...

Meta AI app Muse interface on a smartphone, showing a creative text-to-image generation.

Meta’s AI App Muse Is Second in U.S. Behind ChatGPT's Launch

Meta's new AI app Muse landed on the App Store this week, and Sensor Tower has the first real...

OpenAI Agents API public beta: a developer's screen showing code for creating AI agents with a single call.

OpenAI's Agents API Enters Public Beta, Creating Agents With One Call

OpenAI opened public beta access to its Agents API on Thursday, handing outside developers the same...

Research & Benchmarks

Oriol Vinyals, ex-DeepMind VP, discusses AI self-improvement limitations, emphasizing missing components for rapid advancemen

Ex-DeepMind VP Vinyals: AI Self-Improvement Lacks Key Components for Explosion

Oriol Vinyals spent years running research at Google DeepMind, shipping AlphaStar, AlphaCode, and...

Anthropic's AI model, a digital brain with glowing circuits, poses a cybersecurity risk, potentially causing severe harm.

Anthropic's Cybersecurity AI Model Called Most Likely to Cause Severe Harm

Anthropic published a report on Wednesday walking through four cases this year in which its own AI...

AI researcher discussing machine threat within a decade, with a serious expression.

AI Researcher: >10% Chance of Machine Threat Within Decade

Rishub Jain quit his job at Google DeepMind in June. He'd been using AI to speed up work on the...

Google ToolGrad framework on a screen, showing a 99.8% pass rate for tool-use data. AI, machine learning.

Google's ToolGrad Framework Hits 99.8% Pass Rate for Tool-Use Data

Building datasets that teach language models to call APIs correctly has always run into the same...

Policy & Regulation

Meta Faces Lawsuit Over AI Training Data, Facial Recognition

A group of parents and children in Illinois and California filed suit against Meta last week in...

Anthropic Claude lawsuit: Deceptive subscription claims, legal documents, and a gavel on a wooden desk.

Anthropic Accused in Lawsuit of Deceptive Claude Subscription Claims

Anthropic is facing a class action lawsuit over how it markets Claude subscription plans, according...

OpenAI Questions Legality of AI Industry Slowdown

OpenAI has spent recent weeks pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill for a straight answer to an odd...

September 9, 2026 • 4 min read

Microsoft executive and teachers union leader shake hands, symbolizing agreement on AI privacy rules for schools.

Microsoft agrees with teachers unions on AI privacy rules for schools

Microsoft signed onto ten AI safety and privacy principles for K-12 schools this week, striking a...

Market Trends

September 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Graph showing top AI spenders reducing per-employee costs by nearly 10%, highlighting efficiency gains.

Top AI Spenders Cut Per-Employee Costs By Nearly 10%

The companies spending the most on AI just spent less of it. Ramp's AI Index for September 2026...

AI experts advise Pentagon officials on risks of next-gen AI models, cybersecurity, and national security.

AI Firms Advise Pentagon on Risks of Next-Generation Models

Contracts obtained by The Intercept show OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier AI companies are...

September 9, 2026 • 4 min read

AI-generated cityscapes and data streams symbolize emerging AI civilizations amidst fading corporate accountability.

AI 'Civilizations' Emerge as Corporate Accountability Fades

Last week's reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack were supposed to close the book on a July...

September 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Data scientist at Sotheby's analyzing art market trends on a computer to predict auction prices.

Sotheby's Data Scientist Builds Algorithms to Predict Art Prices

Kelly Shen ’17 spends her days figuring out what a painting might sell for before it ever hits the...

August 25, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

Moonshot AI's K3 Models Generate 300 Billion Daily Tokens

Moonshot AI wants to double its money in four months. Bloomberg reported Friday that the Beijing...

Meta AI suggests invasive question after user cross-posts, highlighting privacy concerns and AI ethics.

Meta AI Suggested Invasive Question After User's Cross-Post

Meta is walking back a feature after its AI assistant asked a mother to identify her own daughter.

Cohere's 218B North Small Translate Model achieves 83.6 on WMT26, a significant NLP benchmark.

Cohere's 218B North Small Translate Model Scores 83.6 on WMT26

Cohere and Cohere Labs put out a new open-weight translation model this week called North Small...

Anthropic AI distillation attacks: five campaigns launched 200 million attacks, cyber security threat, data breach.

Anthropic: Five Campaigns Launched 200 Million AI Distillation Attacks

Anthropic published a report Thursday laying out what it says are coordinated efforts by...

Industry Applications

AI pioneer's complex neural network training, showing dangerous emergent behaviors from the process itself.

AI Pioneer: Training Process Itself Creates Dangerous Behaviors

Yoshua Bengio, one of three researchers who shared the 2018 Turing Award for their work on deep...