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MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew…
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…
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,…
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository’s own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer’s machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command executes as the user, outside the agent’s sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation…
OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal…
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.
Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed.
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. AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better? Puzzles and games have always been central to AI development. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article…
