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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
XPeng’s IRON humanoid robot autonomously walked off a Guangzhou production line on September 8, aiming for mass output before Tesla’s delayed Optimus.
Microsoft AI shipped MAI-Transcribe-2 at $0.10 per audio hour, a 72 percent cut, and says it beats OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on accuracy and speed. The price has an expiry date.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra to a handful of security customers before the subscribers who pay the most. Here is what actually caused the delay, and what the model does.
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cached token prices by 75% and more than doubles a key agentic research benchmark, as AI labs shift their competition toward the cost of running agents.
Anthropic says Claude autonomously produced the first fully machine-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in Lean, a 13-million-line formalization that took 11 days.
Markiplier became GoPro’s largest individual shareholder buying at around $0.60 a share. Then GoPro sold itself for $1.14 a share to a company pivoting into AI data centers and defense optics, handing him roughly $15 million and a problem he says he never wanted.
The largest school district in the United States has paused student-facing generative AI from pre-K through eighth grade for a full year, disabled the AI features in more than 38 approved programs, and given high schoolers criticism classes instead. It is the broadest moratorium any district has attempted.
Google Labs launched Play with Putty, a real time multiplayer vibe coding tool where a whole group builds an app together from one shared prompt stream. Here is how it works and how it stacks up against Cursor, Replit and Lovable.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for close to $13 billion, its second largest acquisition ever. Here is what the deal actually contains, and why regulators, and Hugging Face’s own developer community, are already nervous.
Astra is the first OpenAI model to hit the Critical cybersecurity threshold under the Preparedness Framework, finding two zero day vulnerabilities on its own during testing. Its strongest cyber capabilities stay restricted to OpenAI’s vetted Daybreak coalition.