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Nvidia's SoL-Pi system cuts coding agent token usage nearly in half by optimizing the harness

SoL-Pi cuts coding agents' token usage by up to 49 percent with little change in performance by optimizing the control layer between the model and its environment. A research agent tested 152 approaches across more than…

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can now tell you exactly where you screwed up your IKEA shelf

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can look at a photo and tell whether an IKEA furniture piece was assembled incorrectly, hitting an 80 percent accuracy rate. Back in November 2025, the best model managed just 28 percent. According…

OpenAI pauses its "most capable models" after agents exploit loopholes and leak data

OpenAI has shared new details from its ongoing AI safety investigation. One research model exploited a DNS loophole to reach the internet from a locked-down environment, while another deliberately leaked a GitHub token and twice ignored…

OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha

In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.

Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

Pentagon was right to slap Anthropic with a security supply chain risk label, federal court says

A federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon's decision to bar Anthropic from military contracts. Defense Secretary Hegseth argues the company's safety restrictions could jeopardize military operations. Anthropic says the designation has already cost it billions.…

Another Google Deepmind researcher quits, says building superintelligent AI soon is "inherently irresponsible"

Google Deepmind researcher Robert O'Callahan has quit, saying AI's "current rate of change is far too high." He worked on chip design tools that helped make AI cheaper and faster, a contribution he can no longer…

Quoting John Gruber

Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install…

Microsoft gives Copilot another makeover, adding an Autopilot agent and usage-based billing

Microsoft is splitting its Copilot app into three sections: Home, Code, and a new agent called "Autopilot." Built on OpenClaw, the agent runs continuously in the cloud, where it can monitor Teams channels and complete tasks…

Meta's Muse agent gives every user a full cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux

Meta gives every Muse user a free cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux where they can install software, write code, and browse the web. A "Sentinel" process monitors sensitive actions outside the user's workspace, while users can…

Intelligence doesn't come cheap as AI drives up costs for the NSA, hospitals, and insurers

The NSA is already spending billions of dollars to test advanced AI models, mostly on computing power, according to The Washington Sun. Lawmakers expect full-scale AI oversight to cost tens of billions of dollars a year,…

Google's "Call for Me" lets Gemini phone businesses for you

Google is testing "Call for Me," a feature that lets Gemini call businesses on a user's behalf. The article Google's "Call for Me" lets Gemini phone businesses for you appeared first on The Decoder.

Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year

Anthropic has reportedly signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai Technologies and will receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares. Its compute deals have reportedly totaled $517 billion in 11…

Ruby on Rails creator DHH says he's done writing code by hand

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, has quit writing code by hand after 25 years. He says he hasn't typed a single line since March 2026. "English is a better programming language than Ruby,"…

[AINews] The Future of Latent Space

a quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!

Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican

Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CANew 200-800mm Canon EF lens got me my best photo of Morris yet. They really like hanging out under that…

Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.

Note on 24th September 2026

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline…

commit-rewriter 0.2

Release: commit-rewriter 0.2 Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3 Tags: git

Top AI experts badly underestimated how fast the field is moving, study finds

Leading AI experts have consistently underestimated how fast AI is advancing, according to the Forecasting Research Institute. AI reached gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad five years ahead of the median expert forecast, and Anthropic's…

datasette 1.0a41

Release: datasette 1.0a41 Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release. I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use.…

Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update

Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana calls him the "father of modern AI." He'll help lead the company's new RSI Lab, which works on recursive self-improvement, meaning AI that keeps…

Google's Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy

Google's "Suncatcher" project aims to run AI infrastructure in orbit on solar power. A fridge-sized experimental satellite is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 1. But the challenges are steep: you'd need…

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model

Black Forest Labs is entering robotics with FLUX 3 Action. The open-world-action model uses camera feeds to predict what action a robot should take next. With just seven billion parameters, it sets a record on the…

Anthropic says Claude discovered a new enzyme system, but CRISPR researchers call it routine genome mining

Anthropic's AI model Claude found a previously unknown enzyme system in DNA databases, doing most of the analysis on its own. The article Anthropic says Claude discovered a new enzyme system, but CRISPR researchers call it…

Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science

Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm

Team Zuck is absolutely on fire.

How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows

Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

ChatGPT Voice gets closer to "Her" with email, calendar, and Slack access

ChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can tap into plugins like email, calendar, and Slack. Users can manage appointments, send emails, or build websites just by talking. The…

Google's new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptions

Google is introducing two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, which support more than 100 languages. Flash TTS can create new voices from text descriptions, and both models let users add stage…

Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just…

YouTube adds AI tools to Creator Studio with script coaching, smart thumbnails, and Gemini editing

YouTube is adding AI tools to its creator studio. A storytelling assistant analyzes scripts and rough cuts, Gemini becomes a chat-based editing assistant for Shorts, and a new live translation feature turns English streams into Spanish.…

Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.