UST, a US-based AI and technology transformation company, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Italian design and engineering firm Italdesign from the Audi Group, announced September 7, 2026. The transaction closes a deal first signed in December 2025 and transfers majority control of the Moncalieri, Turin-based company to UST. The completion brings…
Google is partnering with Cathay Pacific to test AI-powered contrail avoidance on ultra-long-haul flights across Asia-Pacific, the company announced on September 7, 2026, reporting that early trial flights reduced the warming impact of contrails by an estimated 40%. Cathay Pacific is Google’s first commercial airline partner in Asia to test contrail avoidance on ultra-long-haul routes,…
NEURA Robotics and SECO announced a strategic partnership on September 7, 2026, under which the Italian embedded-computing company will design, engineer and manufacture electronic compute modules for NEURA’s cognitive robots, including the humanoid 4NE1. The companies’ joint announcement, datelined Metzingen, Germany, and Arezzo, Italy, frames the collaboration as an effort to industrialize and scale Physical…
Amazon has posted a closure notice on the official Mechanical Turk site confirming that its crowdsourcing marketplace will permanently close on September 30, 2026. The decision ends the service that matched businesses and developers with a distributed human workforce for small digital tasks, which Amazon termed Artificial Artificial Intelligence. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools,…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay on September 6, 2026, stating his belief that no AI lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed responsibly. In “An Alien Mind,” posted on OpenAI’s website, Pachocki wrote that he expects and hopes for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until…
OpenAI said on September 6, 2026 that, according to its measurements, it has reached the goal it announced last fall of fielding an “automated research intern” by September of this year, and that its research organization now uses 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every workday of human labor. In a blog post titled “Research acceleration:…
Plenty of people these days have the same idea sitting in their Notes app: a mobile app they’re sure would take off, if only they could actually build it. Until recently, the honest answer was the same for most of us: learn to code, hire a developer, or let the idea die. That’s what Rork…
Model routing selects among models, tools, or configurations for each request according to capability, risk, latency, availability, and cost. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act identifies real failures in AI governance. But its publicly released definition risks confusing artificial general intelligence with superintelligence, potentially restricting the very technologies that could advance education, healthcare and scientific discovery. Editor’s note: As of September 5, 2026, the full statutory text of the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act has not…
Banks, telecom carriers, and a district government in China have begun packaging artificial intelligence tokens as consumer products, embedding the units of AI computing into credit card rewards, mobile-style monthly plans, and a new category of business lending. The offers, documented across official product and government pages, meter AI usage much like airline miles or…