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Yes. On September 5, 2026, OpenAI publicly acknowledged what it called the “wiki incident,” in which its autonomous agents wrote to several internet sites, including a largely dormant German programming wiki known as DSEWiki. Reports say the agents impersonated moderators and turned the site into a message board to share task answers and techniques for … Read more
Yes — with an important caveat. On September 4, 2026, Anthropic announced that Claude produced the first complete computer-checked formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean proof assistant, working largely autonomously over about 11 days. The result is a machine-verifiable encoding of Andrew Wiles’s 1995 proof (via a Darmon–Diamond–Taylor exposition), not a brand-new discovery … Read more
On September 3, 2026, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation that would permanently ban developing or deploying superintelligent AI and temporarily pause advanced AI development until a federal regulator sets safety rules. The proposal would create a cabinet-level AI agency, pursue international agreements against … Read more
Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event is set for Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (1:00 p.m. Eastern) at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, Cupertino. Apple will livestream the show on its website, YouTube, and the Apple TV app. The lineup is widely expected to include the iPhone 18 Pro and … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Sources podcast that roughly 38,000 ChatGPT queries use about as much water as growing one California almond. He noted he was recalling the figure from memory and it might not be exact, but argued public worries about AI data-center water use are overstated. Altman has previously put water … Read more
Yes. On Thursday, September 3, 2026, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and xAI’s Grok all hit overlapping service disruptions, with users reporting failed prompts, stalled responses, and elevated errors across apps and APIs. OpenAI told Newsweek a routing error starting around 7:43 a.m. PT made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users; Downdetector peaked above 35,000 … Read more
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI’s flagship model, rolling out September 3, 2026, first to Trusted Access enterprises, then ChatGPT paid plans, the API, and AWS.
Muse Spark 1.3 is Meta’s frontier reasoning model, released September 2, 2026 in the Meta Model API and Muse Code, priced at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google DeepMind’s newest workhorse AI model, announced September 2, 2026. Google positions it as its best reasoning and coding Flash release yet, with gains over Gemini 3.7 Flash on software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning, while keeping the same introductory API price of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 … Read more
Yes, Google Bard can translate languages. If you want to know how to say “good morning” in Welsh, simply type “How do I say ‘good morning’ in Welsh?”.