Microsoft’s multi-model agentic scanning system for finding security flaws in software, codename MDASH, has deployed to Microsoft Azure Government, the company announced on September 8, 2026, with preview access available to select US government customers and authorized partners. A Defender Feature Inside Azure Government The announcement was authored by Douglas Phillips, President and Chief Technology…
AWS said on September 8, 2026, that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, describing it in an AWS Machine Learning Blog post as OpenAI’s latest and most capable model. Customers can call the model directly through the Amazon Bedrock APIs or configure ChatGPT Work and Codex to use it, and OpenAI…
Better AI will make it possible for more people to run million-dollar businesses on their own. The reason is practical: a person who can deliver more of a valuable job has more room to build a business around it. An idea for a service is only the beginning. Someone has to understand the customer, develop…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 on September 8, 2026, calling it the company’s new state-of-the-art image model, and added two companion models to its API. OpenAI said people create more than 3 billion images each week across ChatGPT Images and the GPT-Image models in the API. Sharper Images and New Creation Tools According to OpenAI,…
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge have publicly posted three preprints establishing finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for the incompressible porous medium equation, the two-dimensional Boussinesq system, and the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations, alongside Lean formalizations of the proofs. In a statement posted with the preprints, Buckmaster also recounts contacts with OpenAI…
Cognition has raised over $2 billion in a Series E round at a $48 billion valuation, the AI software-engineering company announced on September 8, 2026. New investors Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the round, joined by existing investors Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. The company’s Series E announcement lists a broad syndicate of additional…
Accenture and Google Cloud launched the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group on September 8, 2026, a global group designed to help enterprise clients scale outcomes on Google Cloud’s agentic AI platform, with plans to establish a 1,000-person forward deployed engineer workforce. The new unit sits inside the existing Accenture Google Business Group and represents what…
Rusty Wiley, CEO and President of Datasite, has led the company since 2014, overseeing its transformation from Merrill Corporation, a business focused largely on financial communications and print-related services, into a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) company focused on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and strategic transactions. Prior to joining Datasite, Wiley spent more than seven years at…
Google announced a statewide partnership with Missouri on September 8, 2026, that will give nearly 100,000 educators and more than 1.1 million students across K-12 and higher education no-cost access to the company’s AI tools, training curriculum, and industry credentials. The agreement covers the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of…
Qualcomm said on September 8, 2026 that it has entered a multi-generational product collaboration with Amazon to supply customized silicon at scale for large-scale AI data centers, with the two companies working together on AI inference. The announcement from Qualcomm covers multiple generations of customized silicon intended to support Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure. Beyond…