GPT-6 Sol and Luna Cut Prices in Half, and This Time It Is the Default Price, Not a Promotion
Sam Altman announced on X on September 22 that OpenAI had released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna that afternoon, extending the GPT-6 family…
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Alibaba Unveils the Zhenwu V900: 216GB of Memory and Clusters Scaling to 500,000 Accelerators, With Mass Production Not Until Q1 2027
T-Head, Alibaba's chip unit, unveiled the next-generation Zhenwu V900, an AI chip for both training and inference, at Alibaba's 2026…
Alphabet's Intrinsic Open-Sourced Its Industrial Robotics Base Under Apache 2.0, and the Repo Says It Is Not an Officially Supported Google Product
Intrinsic, the robotics software company owned by Alphabet, announced Intrinsic Core at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto on September 22, with the…
OpenAI Moves Third-Party Assessment Into the Training Phase, but the Desks and Publication Rights Promised Ten Days Ago Are Not in the Framework
OpenAI published a document on Tuesday, September 22, setting out priorities and principles for third-party assessments, saying it will…
Four Labs Are in Court Over Agreeing to Slow AI Down, and the Complaint Leans on That Antitrust Waiver Request
Four paying subscribers — Charles Buist, Cheyenne Hunt, Christine Bullock and Nick Spetsas — filed a proposed class action on September 18…
Researchers Say OpenAI's __obi Cookie Follows You Across Sites, and Its Cookie Policy Classifies It as "Analytics"
The security research outfit Buchodi Threat Intel published a measurement report on September 20 — it reached the top of Hacker News that…
SoftBank Is Borrowing $11 Billion in Junk Bonds to Buy OpenAI Equity, While the Yield on Its Own Bonds Has Gone From 6.7% to 8.2%
SoftBank Group launched a speculative-grade bond offering worth more than $11 billion equivalent on September 21, comprising $10 billion…
Four Coding Agents Pinned Their Plugins to a Commit That Was Never Actually Pinned: Plugin4Shell Is a Zero-Click RCE
Researchers Or Nevo, Dor Granat and Niv Hoffman at the security firm AIR disclosed a vulnerability they call Plugin4Shell on September 17…
Qwen-Image-2.1 Ships Open Weights, but the License Stepped Back From Apache 2.0 to Research-Only
Alibaba's Qwen team released the image model Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, with downloadable weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope at…
StepFun's Step 5 Preview: 600B Parameters at $1 per Million Input Tokens, With the Weights Promised for October 15
StepFun opened API access to Step 5 Preview on September 20, a sparse MoE model aimed at long-horizon agent work with roughly 600 billion…
Anthropic Is Bringing Independent Evaluators Inside the Company: Accenture Gets Employee-Level Access, and Each Side Puts in at Least $1 Billion
On September 18 Anthropic announced a partnership with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI, led by Faculty, Accenture's…
Crusoe Raised $3.9 Billion at a $30.9 Billion Valuation, and the Most Solid Number in the Announcement Is Neither of Those
AI infrastructure company Crusoe announced on September 17 the initial closing of a $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion post-money…
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