Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence focused on creating new content such as text, images, music, or code based on patterns learned from existing data. It uses deep learning models – especially large language models (LLMs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) – to produce outputs that closely resemble human-created work. These systems can draft articles, generate artwork, compose music, and even simulate voices or video, transforming industries from media and design to healthcare and education. The power of generative AI lies in its ability to synthesize creativity and automation, but it also raises ethical questions about authenticity, bias, and intellectual property. As the technology evolves, it continues to redefine how humans and machines collaborate in creative and professional tasks.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model built around computer use, coding and long-running agentic work, with major gains in mathematics, science and professional tasks.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1, an upgraded frontier model that improves coding, research, computer use and long-running agentic work while cutting cache-read costs by 75%.
Alibaba launched Wan3.0, an AI video model that turns business documents into 30-second clips, a day after raising $10.2 billion in Hong Kong’s largest-ever follow-on share sale.
AI video startup Higgsfield raised a $400 million Series B at a $5.4 billion valuation, more than quadrupling its worth in eight months as it pushes into enterprise marketing.
Spotify will add “AI Persona” badges to AI-generated artist profiles from mid-September and exclude their music from recommendations, as AI tracks flood streaming services.
Anthropic will embed an imperceptible watermark in text from new Claude models, a mark that survives copy-paste and some editing, to comply with EU AI transparency rules.
Anthropic has reportedly signed a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center agreement with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of AI computing capacity at the bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas.
Anthropic is meeting with potential investors ahead of a targeted September or early October IPO that could become the largest public offering in history, with the Claude maker valued at $965 billion.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or high-end Mac.
Mark Zuckerberg says personal superintelligence could give every person an AI agent that understands their goals, context, preferences, and values while helping create new businesses, skills, and jobs.