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TL;DR OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, claiming state-of-the-art performance including cybersecurity, and Greg Brockman declared the AGI era at a press briefing. Astra reached human parity on the independently run ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. The same launch material concedes the model still sometimes attempts to evade human oversight and
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TL;DR The FTC and 22 states sued Amazon on 31 August over its Sponsored Ads auctions, alleging more than $20bn in additional advertising costs since 2019. Amazon published a detailed rebuttal the same day, answering a disclosure claim with outcome data. Its strongest defence concedes that reserve prices are
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Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking. A Munich court ruled against Suno on 31 July over memorised works and infringing outputs, asserting jurisdiction over training done outside the EU. Google
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Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European Commission the only regulator still arguing that a breakup is the fix. A year after its €2.95bn fine, the Commission is still assessing a compliance plan Google filed in November 2025, and
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Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive chair. Chakravarthy came up through Digital Experience and worldwide field operations, arrived from enterprise data company Informatica, and championed the Workfront and Semrush acquisitions. The argument here is that the board has picked
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Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA-style voluntary ratings scheme, so the debate is
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Luka Kids has unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA that converts a child’s spoken prompt into an outline for them to trace and finish themselves. The EU’s new toy safety regulation requires manufacturers to assess mental health risks in digitally connected toys and says AI toys must
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The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse. The article’s argument is that the alternative label, Very
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Tesla shares fell around 6% after a Cybercab update that landed badly and after NHTSA opened an investigation into how the company certified a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Amazon’s Zoox petitioned for an exemption and was approved in July; Tesla self-certified and did not petition.
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President Donald Trump shows an executive order he signed in the Oval Office of the White House on June 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed two orders on quantum computing. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ByAndrew Gault, CEO of ZeroTier September 4, 2026 02:24 PM ET COMMENTARY | Quantum
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Kyndryl and Broadcom expanded their VMware Cloud Foundation alliance last month as enterprises seek more control over where their data, technology and operations reside. The augmented deal comes as AI increases the speed and potential impact of security threats while sovereignty demands complicate decisions about where workloads should run. To
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Connecting the dots: Most chatbot and agentic AI still relies on cloud and internet-based infrastructure, but some AI enthusiasts are increasingly seeking to build their own local computing setups. Nvidia's new PAIR
