AI & Machine Learning
US AI Data Firms Bill China $500M, Serve Pentagon [2026]
Four Silicon Valley data-labeling companies that help train some of the world’s biggest AI models are also selling the same kind of work to China’s leading AI labs,…
Anthropic Rumored to Prep 2 New Claude Models [2026]
Anthropic may be sitting on two unreleased Claude models at once, according to a growing thread of trade-press speculation that picked up steam this week. Neither model has…
Google Kills Assistant on 5 Platforms Sept. 4 [2026]
Google has stopped hinting and started confirming. After months of a quiet support-page warning that Google Assistant would remain “available for use until March 2026” on Android Auto,…
OpenAI Retires DALL-E GPT, o3 as 6 AI Deadlines Hit [2026]
OpenAI pulled the official DALL-E GPT out of ChatGPT’s model picker on August 30, 2026, closing out a three-week stretch that has quietly reshuffled which AI models people…
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Hits Gmail in 85 Languages [2026]
Google has started pushing its Gemini 3.5 Transcribe speech-to-text model out of the lab and into the apps hundreds of millions of people already use every day. The…
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Ships 40-Sec Scenes, 4K Video [2026]
Google shipped a new video generation model on August 27, 2026, and it changes a real constraint that has capped AI video tools since they launched: clip length.…
Nvidia Cuts AI Model Releases to 4-6 Weeks [2026]
Nvidia is rewriting its own release calendar. According to an interview with Bryan Catanzaro, the company’s VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, published on August 24, 2026, Nvidia…
Meta AI Glasses Cut Camera Feed, Hit 84% Share [2026]
Meta pushed a fresh update to its AI glasses on August 28, 2026 that closes a gap privacy advocates had flagged for months. The company’s capture LED, the…
Claude Adds Text Watermarks as EU Fines Hit €15M [2026]
Anthropic switched on invisible watermarking for Claude’s text output this month, a move the company confirmed in an August 14, 2026 post on its official blog. The trigger…
Google Ships Gemini 3.5 Transcribe at 2.6% WER [2026]
Google shipped a new speech-to-text model on August 26, 2026, and by the numbers it just quietly reset the bar for transcription accuracy. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe lands with…
