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When enterprise buyers build out their next AI accelerator evaluation list this cycle, they're more likely to put a non-Nvidia chip on it than Nvidia's own next-generation GPU. According to VentureBeat's July VB Pulse survey of 170 AI infrastructure respondents, 39.4% said they're likely to evaluate non-Nvidia accelerators — AWS Trainium, Google TPU, AMD Instinct,…
Acer used IFA 2026 to unveil a laptop that looks like a routine refresh on the outside and a small rebellion on the inside. The Acer Vero 16, introduced this week and first detailed by Notebookcheck, pairs an Intel Panther Lake processor with a 16-inch 3K OLED display and a chassis built around tool-free repairs,…
Ask a SOC analyst in September 2026 what changed their job most this year and most won’t say a new EDR agent or a fresh threat feed. They’ll point to the chat window sitting inside their console, the one that reads an alert queue and writes a KQL query, drafts an incident summary, or flags…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model “works harder” than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and “calling tools iteratively.” It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million…
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
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…
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…
Trump administration officials said in a court filing that limiting AI companies’ ability to train on content creates national security concerns.
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…
A writer has a scene fully formed in their mind. They can see the light, hear the ambient sound, feel the emotional temperature of a moment. Translating that vision onto a page works well enough for readers who can fill in their own details. Translating it into something visual used to require an entirely different…
