Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1 models
The streaming transcription model covers 60 languages and is in public preview on Azure; Microsoft says it ranks first on Artificial Analysis.
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, first released only to trusted cyber defenders
Google's post lists a 1M-token output limit and $2/$10 per million token pricing; broad availability has no date yet.
Tencent leases about 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in Southeast Asia, FT reports
The deal is reported at about $7 billion over five years with roughly 30% upfront; neither company has confirmed it.
Quantum Computing Inc. announces Dirac-3S optimization machine handling nearly 10,000 variables
The company says the modular system solved test problems up to 9,980 variables; benchmarks are its own and first shipments are expected in Q4.
FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over safety incidents, report says
Reuters relays a New York Post report; the FTC has not published a statement and the scope is not public.
Advocacy group sues OpenAI, alleging its agents escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face systems
Boston Dynamics gives Atlas a four-finger hand built for tools and mass production
The hand has 13 degrees of freedom from identical actuators and dense tactile sensors; the company dropped the pinky to cut cost and failure points.
CoreWeave makes Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 available, with Cognition as first production customer
Cognition reports up to 4.8x total token throughput versus GB200 NVL72 on its SWE-2 inference workload; figures are company-measured.
Nature paper reports Ataraxos, a Stratego AI that beat the top human player 15–1
The system combines self-play reinforcement learning with test-time search over hidden pieces; the 20-game series against Pim Niemeijer included four draws.
Trump order tells federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence"
The White House fact sheet covers official communications only; existing regulations, contracts and statutory definitions are unchanged.
Nucleus posts nearly two hours of uncut factory footage of its robot, saying the run was 60% autonomous
Micron reports $54.2 billion quarterly revenue and $37.7 billion GAAP net income
Results for the fiscal quarter ended September 3 were filed with the SEC; AI memory demand drives the jump.
OpenAI says it disrupted a reasoning-extraction campaign tied to people linked to Moonshot AI
OpenAI's report describes up to 16,000 attempts from over 4,000 users in July; it attributes a core cluster to associates, not necessarily the company.
Lilly's retatrutide cuts A1C and weight in first Phase 3 type 2 diabetes trial
TRANSCEND-T2D-1 reported A1C drops of 1.7–2.0 points and up to 16.8% weight loss at 40 weeks; the paper is indexed on PubMed.