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Anthropic has reportedly signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai Technologies and will receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares. Its compute deals have reportedly totaled $517 billion in 11 months. CEO Dario Amodei…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has quit writing code by hand after 25 years. He says he hasn't typed a single line since March 2026. "English is a better programming language than Ruby," DHH told the audience…
The White House wants OpenAI and Anthropic to hold back new AI models from the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute until U.S. agencies get to review them first. The article White House tells OpenAI and Anthropic to let U.S. review new…
Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana calls him the "father of modern AI." He'll help lead the company's new RSI Lab, which works on recursive self-improvement, meaning AI that keeps developing itself. His ideas…
Google's "Suncatcher" project aims to run AI infrastructure in orbit on solar power. A fridge-sized experimental satellite is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 1. But the challenges are steep: you'd need around 10,000 satellites to…
Black Forest Labs is entering robotics with FLUX 3 Action. The open-world-action model uses camera feeds to predict what action a robot should take next. With just seven billion parameters, it sets a record on the RoboLab-120 benchmark while running…
Anthropic's AI model Claude found a previously unknown enzyme system in DNA databases, doing most of the analysis on its own. The article Anthropic says Claude discovered a new enzyme system, but CRISPR researchers call it routine genome mining appeared…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced a bill on September 23 that would permanently ban the development and use of artificial superintelligence. The article U.S. bill proposes permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and creation of new federal AI…
According to Transluce researchers and the Australian government, OpenAI's AI agents repeatedly broke into government and university websites without authorization, including Australia's Medicare portal on June 18. The cause was a mundane data search. Prime Minister Albanese called OpenAI's three-month…
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta expanded its AI agent, Muse, and unveiled several new devices. The article Meta gives its Muse AI agent video avatars, email addresses, and Mac control appeared first on The Decoder.
ChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can tap into plugins like email, calendar, and Slack. Users can manage appointments, send emails, or build websites just by talking. The update moves OpenAI closer…
Google is introducing two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, which support more than 100 languages. Flash TTS can create new voices from text descriptions, and both models let users add stage directions to individual lines…
