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September 24, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. Thinking Machines Lab Signs $65M Annual Deal for Crusoe Cloud Inference Thinking Machines Lab committed $65M annually to Crusoe for inference workloads on September 23, 2026. This signals sustained demand for alternative inference providers beyond hyperscaler clouds, with multi-year contracts now the infrastructure norm. 2. Power … Read more

September 23, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna Models Released OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna this week alongside the earlier GPT-6 Astra launch, with Sol optimized for coding and Luna for general intelligence. Developers now have three GPT-6 variants to route based on task complexity and … Read more

September 22, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. Gemini App Lands on Windows Free, Pro Tier at $19.99 Google shipped native Gemini for Windows with Alt+Space shortcuts, Gmail/Drive integration, and $19.99 Pro tier. Desktop-native AI assistants now compete directly with browser-based alternatives for everyday user capture. 2. Qualcomm Launches AI-Enhanced Smartphone Chips for 2026 … Read more

September 21, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. Lawsuit Alleges Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google Made Illegal Agreement on AI Slowdown Plaintiffs filed an antitrust suit in California claiming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google collectively agreed to slow AI development in violation of US competition law. Companies now face antitrust risk for coordinating on … Read more

September 18, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. AMD Warns Partners Of A 10% Price Hike On AI Chips, Sparing Ryzen AMD announced a 10% price increase on AI accelerators and Radeon GPUs effective Q4 2026, citing TSMC wafer cost pressures. Builders pricing inference and fine-tuning workloads need to lock in GPU contracts now … Read more

September 17, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. OpenAI Agents SDK Production Release OpenAI shipped Agents SDK as a production-ready upgrade from Swarm, offering lightweight primitives for agentic AI apps with minimal abstractions and built-in control over deployment, storage, and runtime integration. This signals OpenAI is committing to a standardized agent framework that competes … Read more

September 16, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. OpenAI, Github Seal Win in Copyright Case Over AI Coding Tool Federal appeals court ruled open-source programmers cannot proceed with claims that Copilot failed to provide proper code attribution, eliminating a major copyright threat to AI training practices. This marks a significant shift in copyright liability … Read more

September 15, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. Apple Intelligence and Siri Launch in English Apple Intelligence and Siri are now rolling out in English across iOS 27 devices. For developers, this signals Apple's on-device LLM stack is production-ready; for consumer apps, it creates direct competition with OpenAI/ChatGPT in the assistant layer. 2. Veo … Read more

September 14, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. OpenAI Launches GPT-Live: Native Voice Model with Sub-300ms Latency OpenAI shipped GPT-Live, a native voice model powering ChatGPT Voice with sub-300ms latency and emotional nuance, eliminating text-pipeline bottlenecks. This removes a key friction point for real-time voice agents and developer tools building voice-first experiences. 2. Anthropic … Read more

September 11, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. Attacker Used AI Agents to Hack 395 Organizations via PaperCut Print Flaws A single attacker weaponized OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model to automate exploitation of PaperCut vulnerabilities across 395 organizations starting August 31, 2026. This signals that commodity AI agents now compress reconnaissance, exploitation, and … Read more

September 10, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. IBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model to Support Lunar Exploration IBM and NASA released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model as open-source on Hugging Face, trained on ~2M orbital tiles for Moon-mapping tasks and outperforming baseline models on key scientific benchmarks. Developers can now fine-tune and … Read more

September 9, 2026 — curated links and takeaways. 1. OpenAI, New York Times Case Tees Up Key Test of AI Training Under Copyright Law Manhattan federal court is consolidating OpenAI, Microsoft, and author suits against the NYT in a case that will define fair use doctrine for generative AI training. The ruling directly impacts whether … Read more