2026-09-17InfrastructureMorningGoogle is buying green steel's certificates, not its steelGoogle will take environmental attribute certificates covering up to 91,000 metric tons of Stegra's first-year output in Boden, Sweden, against the embodied carbon of data center construction. The physical steel goes to someone else, who must make no green claims about it.3 min read→
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→
2026-09-15Model releaseMorningSalesforce built its own reasoning model on NVIDIA's open weightsKoa is post-trained from Nemotron-3-Super-120B and goes into Agentforce as an alternative to rented frontier models. The accompanying technical report is unusually candid about where it lands.5 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→
2026-09-14ProductMorningApple ships Siri AI in beta, on models it built with GoogleiOS 27 is out and the rebuilt Siri is with it — labelled beta, powered by Apple Foundation Models that Apple says were custom-built with Google's Gemini, and absent in both the EU and China.6 min read→
2026-09-13OtherWeek aheadSiri AI ships Monday. The rest of the week is conferences.Apple's rebuilt assistant reaches shipping software on 14 September — in beta, English only, not in the EU, and with undisclosed daily limits on anything that runs on Apple's servers. Midweek, Dreamforce and AI Infra Summit run on the same three days. No frontier model has an announced date.4 min read→
2026-09-12DigestWeek in reviewOne API for agents, $664 billion of obligations, and a public call to slow downBetween 6 and 12 September, OpenAI rented out the machinery behind its own coding agent, Oracle published the bill for the compute underneath, and Anthropic's CEO argued the rate of progress itself has to come down.6 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→
2026-09-06OtherWeek aheadThe week ahead: Apple on Wednesday, Oracle and NVIDIA on ThursdayThree events between 6 and 12 September have a publicly confirmed date, and none of them is a model release.4 min read→