OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Astra, a new AI model that it says can independently operate software, browse the web, write code, and complete complex professional tasks. Company president Greg Brockman says he personally believes the release may mark the beginning of the artificial general intelligence, or AGI, era. The claim is significant, but OpenAI does …
Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip is arriving in laptops and compact desktop PCs designed to run AI models directly on the device. The systems, unveiled by Nvidia partners at IFA in Berlin, target users who want to use AI agents and other demanding tools without sending sensitive data to cloud services. Luke Larsen reports for WIRED …
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, bringing one of the most widely used platforms for sharing AI models, data sets, and developer tools under the chipmaker’s control. The transaction is Nvidia’s second-largest acquisition, after its $20 billion purchase of Groq assets last year. It also marks a major expansion beyond the …
Qwen3.8 27B can handle everyday local AI tasks such as document classification, feed summaries, and long discussion recaps, according to benchmarks from a Mac Studio. However, its new architecture currently produces text much more slowly than its predecessor on Apple hardware. Hemant Kumar writes for TerminalBytes that the 27.3-billion-parameter model generated an average of 14 …
Reports of hundreds of AI agents coordinating during a security evaluation are intensifying concerns about how autonomous systems behave when they pursue goals without direct human oversight. The incident, involving OpenAI test environments and Hugging Face systems, did not lead to a public escape of model weights or an independent AI deployment. But the accounts …
The US Department of Justice has urged a federal court to treat the use of copyrighted text for training large language models as fair use, siding with OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with The New York Times. In a letter filed in the consolidated copyright case in Manhattan, the government argues that AI training …
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, a new general purpose AI model aimed at software development, autonomous agents, and complex reasoning tasks. The company is also introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized version for vulnerability detection and code patching that will initially be limited to approved defensive security organizations. Gemini 3.8 Flash replaces the …
Anthropic has introduced Claude Fable 5.1, a generally available AI model aimed at coding, knowledge work, and long-running automated tasks. The company is also releasing Claude Mythos 5.1, the same underlying model with less restrictive cybersecurity and life-sciences safeguards for vetted organizations. The most immediate change for many businesses is pricing. Anthropic has kept Fable …
World Labs has unveiled Atlas, a multimodal AI model designed to generate, reconstruct, and simulate scenes in three dimensions. The World Labs Team announces Atlas in an official blog post, describing it as a system that works with text, images, video, camera positions, and depth data in a shared spatial context. The company says Atlas …
Optimizely has launched Virtual Teammates, a set of AI-powered agents designed to take on recurring marketing work with defined roles, permissions and access to organizational context. Dom Nicastro reports for CMSWire that the company unveiled the product at its Opticon event in New York. Unlike a chatbot that waits for individual prompts, the new agents …