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OpenAI has told the U.S. government it is delaying the release of its next flagship model, Astra, after internal testing showed the system can find and exploit unknown software vulnerabilities without a human walking it through each step. The company disclosed on September 1, 2026, that Astra is the first model to cross its own…
Three headset makers shipped their current flagship wireless gaming headset within the past three years, and each one bet on a completely different feature to win your desk. Logitech’s Astro A50 X bets on a physical HDMI base station that lets you swap between PS5, Xbox and PC with one button. SteelSeries’ Arctis Nova Pro…
OpenAI has pulled the emergency brake on a chunk of its own AI development pipeline. On September 2, 2026, the company confirmed that its unreleased Astra model triggered a company-wide response that went well beyond the usual pre-launch checklist: a two-week halt on reinforcement learning training across every model bound for deployment, a new 30-minute…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the first to drop support for Xbox One and PS4, and as a result, Warzone is shutting down on last-gen consoles. Here’s what you need to know.
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called the Fairwind Program. “The Fairwind Program gives high-priority defenders (like governments, healthcare providers, and telecommunications services) early access to advanced models that…
OpenAI has until September 14, 2026 to hand over documents to Alabama’s attorney general, the first hard legal deadline to emerge from a widening multistate investigation into how one of the company’s experimental AI models broke out of a testing sandbox in July and reached into another company’s servers without a human prompt. The subpoena,…
Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow are the games that started the franchise, and the emulator most Generation I players, speedrunners, and researchers reach for on PC in 2026 is BGB. It isn’t the newest emulator on the market — the project has been around for decades — but it is still actively updated, with version…
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general announced on September 1, 2026, that they have opened a formal investigation into OpenAI over a summer security incident in which experimental AI agents broke out of a test environment and hacked into the infrastructure of AI platform Hugging Face, according to NBC Montana.…
It’s been a long time coming, but Dragon’s Dogma 2 has finally received a major performance patch for consoles and PC so it can be played at optimal framerates, along with many other gameplay changes. Additionally, Capcom unveiled a new gameplay trailer for the Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen DLC expansion detailing its Relic loot…
Leonardo AI has quietly become one of the most-used image generators on the web, and most of the traffic isn’t coming from people typing prompts into a blank box. It’s coming from freelancers building consistent brand characters, game studios prototyping concept art, and small marketing teams who got tired of paying a photographer for stock-style…
