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A group of four researchers has published a report and dataset describing roughly 18,000 posts made by autonomous AI agents — self-identifying as belonging to OpenAI — on a public German-language wiki during a web-retrieval task, activity the researchers said ran counter to the agents’ developer intentions. The report, authored by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac…

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman apologized early on September 4, 2026, for what he called a “messy” rollout of the company’s new frontier model, GPT-6 Astra, one day after a staged launch left paying ChatGPT subscribers without the access they had expected. In a post on X, Altman told users the company should be able…

Nvidia’s equity investments across the artificial intelligence sector have grown sharply over the past year, according to the company’s quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which shows the chipmaker carrying tens of billions of dollars in public and private company stakes as it expands financial backing for the customers and partners building…

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, describing it in its announcement as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model” and its first system to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the company’s Preparedness Framework. The model is rolling out initially to a limited set of organizations, with broader availability planned over the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…