A senior Pentagon official on September 3, 2026 said Anthropic remains a designated supply chain risk to national security, days after a federal judge ruled that the Department of War’s blacklisting of the artificial intelligence company was unlawful. Under Secretary of War Emil Michael stated in a post on X that “Anthropic is still a […]

Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2 on September 3, 2026, a speech recognition model the lab said ranks first on the FLEURS benchmark across 60 languages with an average word error rate of 5.2%. In its announcement, Microsoft described the model as its most capable transcription system to date and priced it at $0.10 per hour of […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Greg Casar of Texas on September 3, 2026 announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation that would permanently ban the development and deployment of superintelligent AI in the United States and temporarily pause advanced AI development until a federal regulator establishes safety rules. The measure would also […]

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, describing it in its announcement as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model” and its first system to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the company’s Preparedness Framework. The model is rolling out initially to a limited set of organizations, with broader availability planned over the […]

Nvidia’s equity investments across the artificial intelligence sector have grown sharply over the past year, according to the company’s quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which shows the chipmaker carrying tens of billions of dollars in public and private company stakes as it expands financial backing for the customers and partners building […]

Uber and Wayve on September 3, 2026 launched supervised autonomous rides on the Uber platform in London, the first time autonomous trips have been available to riders in the United Kingdom, the companies announced. Londoners requesting an UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort may now be matched with a Wayve vehicle at no extra cost, […]

ai& and Tenstorrent launched JapanFold on September 3, 2026, a drug discovery platform serving open-source structural biology models entirely on infrastructure inside Japan. The platform runs on ai&’s sovereign infrastructure powered by Tenstorrent Galaxy superclusters, and the companies say every computation executes within the country. Japanese researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and biotech firms can access the […]

Sivers Semiconductors AB said on September 3, 2026, that it will invest USD 30 million to expand its Indium Phosphide (InP) manufacturing facility in Glasgow, Scotland, as the company prepares for anticipated customer production ramps tied to AI datacenter and optical networking demand. According to the company’s announcement, the expanded facility is expected to support […]

The UK Health Security Agency and Swedish sleep technology company Sleep Cycle on September 3, 2026 published the results of a joint research study evaluating whether cough data collected passively through a consumer sleep app could serve as an early warning signal for respiratory illness in England. The study found that rises in nighttime coughing […]

LITEON Technology announced on September 3, 2026, a strategic investment in DCX Liquid Cooling Systems, a Warsaw, Poland-based provider of advanced liquid cooling systems for AI and high-performance computing data centers. Upon closing of the transaction, LITEON will hold approximately 25% equity ownership in DCX, with a total transaction value of approximately US$176 million, according […]

Walter Torous, senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development Program (MSRED), was recently named executive director of the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE) — effective July 1, 2026. In announcing Torous’ appointment, School of […]

OpenAI said on September 1, 2026 that healthcare organizations can now connect their Epic electronic health record environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, alongside a new Healthcare Public Data plugin that links the workspace to nine official healthcare datasets. The announcement, published on OpenAI’s newsroom, describes two complementary capabilities. The EHR integration brings authorized patient context […]

Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026. The two releases are configurations of the same underlying model with different levels of safeguards: Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is restricted to Anthropic’s trusted access programs, with safeguards designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences. […]

Aramco Digital and Avathon on September 1, 2026 announced a strategic partnership to accelerate Industrial AI adoption across energy, mining, aerospace and transportation sectors in Saudi Arabia and global industrial markets. The agreement pairs Aramco Digital, a Saudi Industrial AI company, with Avathon, a Pleasanton, California firm that describes itself as a provider of autonomy […]

Acer on September 2, 2026 announced the Veriton RI110 AI Mini Workstation (VRI110), a compact desktop built around an Intel Core Ultra X7 processor 358H and Intel Arc B390 graphics that the company says supports AI models of up to 120 billion parameters for local inference, design, and content creation work. Announced from Berlin, the […]