Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, speech-to-speech models aimed at real-time conversational agents. The pair is available in the Gemini…
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OpenAI Buys Camera Startup Glass Imaging for About $300 Million
OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a camera and computational-photography startup, for about $300 million, according to Digi Bites and The Neuron’s September digest. The deal…
Anthropic Merges Claude Chat and Cowork, Adds Docs and Slides
Anthropic announced that Claude chat and Cowork are merging into a single interface. Artifacts, Cowork, and Claude Design capabilities are now reachable from any conversation,…
Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Widen Global AI Access
The Gates Foundation pledged at least $1 billion over the next two years to expand access to artificial intelligence and reduce the risk that the…
Salesforce and Nvidia Launch Koa, a CRM Reasoning Model Built on Nemotron
At Dreamforce, Salesforce and Nvidia announced Koa, Salesforce’s first in-house CRM reasoning model for Agentforce. The model is described as post-trained from Nvidia Nemotron 3…
Anthropic Targets October Nasdaq IPO at a $2 Trillion Valuation
Anthropic has selected Nasdaq for a planned initial public offering targeted for October, according to reporting compiled on September 15, 2026. The contemplated valuation could…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Meet on an Industry AI Standards Body
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have been meeting since July to design an industry-led AI standards body, The Information reported on 13 September. The talks sit…
China’s Spy Chief Warns AI Is a National-Security Arena
China’s minister of state security, Chen Yixin, warned that artificial intelligence has become a “new arena for strategic rivalry among major powers.” He said hostile…
Frontier AI CEOs Call for a Coordinated Slowdown
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published a plan over the weekend asking frontier labs to “slow the pace” of capability gains so safety work can…
Universal Music and ElevenLabs Launch a Licensed AI Remix Platform
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year deal on September 10 to build a licensed AI music platform. Fans will be able to remix,…