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OpenAI and Anthropic each drew a new line around their most powerful artificial intelligence systems this week, and for the first time both companies are pointing to the same reason: the models have gotten too good at hacking. On September 1, 2026, OpenAI said its upcoming Astra model is the first system to cross the…
Contentful just changed owners. On June 1, 2026, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy the headless CMS pioneer, and the deal closed on September 1, 2026 — yesterday, as of this writing. Salesforce never confirmed the price tag, but The Information pegged it between $1 billion and $1.5 billion, a number multiple outlets have…
It’s Wednesday, September 2, 2026, and today’s tech news is less about new toys than new limits. OpenAI just rated its next model a critical cyber risk. Texas froze data-center power hookups after a rush of “ghost” demand. New York […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 2, 2026: Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Perplexity,…
A federal judge ordered an end to practices that depress ad rates for web publishers, but declined to order a divestiture of Google’s ad exchange and other technology.
When Google ignominiously exited the European thermostat market last year, it pointed its customers to Tado. This week, the German-based smart home company is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen), and aiming to attract European Nest users who haven’t already jumped ship. Google shutting down the servers for its 1st- and 2nd-gen thermostats drove…
Sega’s Dreamcast lasted less than two years on store shelves, yet its library keeps growing in 2026 thanks to one open-source project: Flycast. The emulator, maintained by a developer known as flyinghead, just shipped version 2.7 on August 19, 2026, adding frame pacing improvements, five new localizations, and multiscreen support for arcade cabinets that originally…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices. ThreatFabric said the campaign’s advertisement focused on Spain and reached an estimated 570,950 Meta accounts in the European Union
Three open-weight language models shipped inside eight weeks of each other this summer, and none of them came from the usual suspects. Tencent’s Hunyuan team released Hy3 on July 6, 2026. Moonshot AI followed with Kimi K3’s API on July 16 and its full weights on July 27. Then Zhipu AI’s Z.ai division dropped GLM-5.3-Flash…
Plus, models from Anthropic, Google and World Labs
Google is kicking off a multi-year partnership with Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, across Gemini and Google Health.
