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Three new budget-tier language models shipped inside a five-day window in late September 2026, and none of them price themselves the same way. MiniMax dropped M3.1 Flash Preview into its coding agent on September 27 without publishing a single rate. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna, live since September 22, undercuts its own flagship Astra tier by roughly…
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Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta said AI could soon self-improve faster than humans can keep up with.
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Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
