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…
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…
Nvidia on September 3, 2026 released the beta of the Personal AI Router (PAIR), free open-source software that links compatible computers on a home network into a single cluster for local AI inference, routing requests from agent workloads across whichever machines are available. Despite its name, PAIR is not a hardware router and not a…
Nitin Seth, author of Human Edge in the AI Age, is a global business leader, entrepreneur, and bestselling author focused on the intersection of technology, AI, and organizational transformation. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Inc., a digital, data, and AI services company, and brings nearly three decades of leadership experience that includes serving…
OpenAI opened an incident on its official status page on September 3, 2026, after detecting elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, with the incident record listing degraded performance in every tracked component of both services. The record carries the title “Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex” and classifies the event as “Degraded performance” with an…
Bing Xu, Founder and CEO of INT21, is an AI infrastructure engineer and entrepreneur with deep experience spanning GPU optimization, machine learning systems, and autonomous AI agents. Before founding INT21 in 2026, Xu was a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA, where he worked on agent-driven software development and created multiple generations of coding agents, including work…
Google DeepMind and Google Research on September 3, 2026, introduced WeatherNext 3, a global AI weather forecasting model that generates hourly forecasts at up to 5-kilometer resolution and is being integrated into Google Search, the Gemini app, Google Maps, the Google Maps Platform Weather API, and Google Earth Engine. The teams described WeatherNext 3 as…
HUMAIN, the Public Investment Fund-backed artificial intelligence company, announced humain-m3 on September 3, 2026, unveiling the frontier Arabic-language model at LEAP in Riyadh and releasing it in research preview through HUMAIN Node. Commissioned by HUMAIN and delivered by MiniMax, the model was further pre-trained on more than one trillion tokens of Arabic-native content. humain-m3 is…
OpenEvidence released a new family of medical AI search models on September 3, 2026, making three production models available free to verified clinicians and opening a fourth, which it describes as its most advanced, to researchers by application only. The three production models are named for figures in the history of medicine. Osler, which the…