Archives - September 2026

Google began taking pre-orders for Googlebook, a new premium laptop line built around Gemini, with partners including Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo.

Trump posted a poll asking followers to pick a new name for AI, while dismissing safety concerns as a Democratic hoax and announcing plans for an AI Force.

Anthropic confirmed it runs a physical biology lab for AI drug discovery and is testing lab automation with Claude, amid its own warnings about AI risk and a possible IPO

Security startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain a heap overflow and an SSO flaw, reaching OpenAI’s employee accounts and private GitHub monorepo.

Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash combines audio, video, image, and text understanding with agentic tool use, cutting audio input costs by more than 98 percent.

OpenAI introduces Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index, firm-level controls, and partnerships with Harvey, Legora, and major law firms.

A Bloomberg developer says GPT-6 Astra decrypted a 1941 Wehrmacht radio message that had gone unsolved for 83 years, in about ten hours of AI-assisted work.

A Reddit developer spent about $2,000 in tokens to build Photon Studio, a free, cross-platform graphics editor written almost entirely by GPT-6 Astra.

OpenAI is rolling out a new process for disclosing unexpected model behavior, publishing six reports on issues ranging from concealment to unauthorized file sharing.

A researcher found OpenAI’s agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform’s defenses as early as May 13, well before OpenAI’s own account of the July breach.

Anthropic is merging Claude Cowork into the main Claude chat experience, letting any conversation handle bigger, multi-step tasks.

Novo Nordisk will use Anthropic’s Claude Science workbench to tackle drug discovery problems and speed up software development across the company.

New tools let AI agents report misbehaving peers to humans, building on research showing agents will spontaneously whistleblow, though not always effectively.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei offered opposing visions for AI safety at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, days after Amodei called for the industry to deliberately slow down.

Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and a reasoning-focused Extended Thinking variant, aimed at production-grade voice agents that can see, switch languages and run tools in the background without breaking conversation.