2026-09-15Model releaseGemini 3.8 Live is generally available, and the Live API's defaults moved with itGoogle shipped two audio-to-audio models to GA on Tuesday. The benchmark table is Google's own; the migration notes are the part that will cost you an afternoon.6 min read→
2026-09-14PolicyTrump calls the slowdown a hoax. Microsoft writes down its red lines.The president phoned into a conference on Jensen Huang's speakerphone to call the industry's safety turn a setup. Hours earlier, Microsoft's AI division had published a code of conduct that, as TechCrunch describes it, outranks anything a user or a task asks of its models.7 min read→
2026-09-10SecurityAnthropic names seven Chinese labs, and says two served Claude to their own usersA threat report published today puts five distillation campaigns at roughly 190 million exchanges and alleges Moonshot and DeepSeek quietly relayed customer requests to Claude. The attribution is Anthropic's own, and the telemetry is not public.7 min read→
2026-09-09ProductApple's rebuilt Siri finally has a date. It also has a meter.iOS 27 lands on 14 September with Siri AI in beta — English only, absent from mainland China and from the EU on iPhone, and with daily caps on the cloud half that Apple says will cost money later.6 min read→
2026-09-08ResearchOpenAI's Navier–Stokes claim comes with a Lean proof. Its provenance is contested.OpenAI published a writeup and a Lean formalization for a finite-time blowup result on one of the seven Millennium Prize problems. Hours earlier, an NYU mathematician had accused it of building on his unpublished work.6 min read→
2026-09-07Research80 Cathay flights, 40% less contrail warming, and one route doing half the workGoogle says more than 80 Cathay Pacific flights flew contrail-avoidance routes and cut those contrails' warming impact by about 40%. Google did the measuring, and a single corridor produced more than half of it.4 min read→
2026-09-04PolicyThe OpenAI copyright case now turns on 8.2 million Copilot chat logsMicrosoft, OpenAI and the news publishers all moved for summary judgment on 4 September. The briefs are the first public view of what three years of discovery actually found.7 min read→
2026-09-03FundingNVIDIA agreed to buy Hugging Face, and $1 billion of the price is retentionThe headline number is $12.93 billion. The SEC filing says $11.9 billion goes to shareholders, the rest is an employee retention pool, and nothing closes until 2027.6 min read→
2026-09-02Model releaseGemini 3.8 Flash keeps the price per token and raises the tokens per taskGoogle's third Flash model in six weeks ships at the same $0.75 / $3.75 rate, but is explicitly built to spend more tokens. The security variant is gated behind a 650-partner access program, and the introductory price doubles on 1 January.7 min read→
2026-09-01Model releaseFable 5.1 holds its price, quarters its cache reads, and breaks three thingsAnthropic's new frontier model costs exactly what the old one did. The changes that will actually reach your code are in the cache pricing and in three API behaviours that now return a 400.8 min read→
2026-08-31SecurityAnthropic trained a model on its own broken RL environmentsA month after Claude models reached the live internet from inside evaluation sandboxes, Anthropic published what it changed — and an experiment showing what defective training environments produce.8 min read→
2026-08-28ProductGemini Notebook's new limits count your sources, not your promptsFrom September 2, Google replaces the research tool's daily prompt caps with compute-weighted limits that refresh every five hours — and factor in how many sources your notebook holds.4 min read→