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Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4

Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 AI

GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8% (arcprize.org)
2026-9-4

DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 Trump

A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance (www.politico.com)
2026-9-4 Trump AI Zuckerberg

Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026 (venturebeat.com)
2026-9-4 Microsoft AI

Master Unity, Unreal Engine 5, and Blender for $19.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4

HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4

Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 AI Nvidia

OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-9-4

OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas (www.axios.com)
2026-9-4 Texas

OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the “world's best computer use model”; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person (www.wired.com)
2026-9-4

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially available to organizations in its Daybreak Access program; Greg Brockman says “we are now in the AGI era” (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-4

OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Alarms AI Safety Experts (it.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 AI

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the $50B+ valuation it sought last year (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-4

Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-4 China AI

India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-4 India

Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-4 Microsoft Xbox

Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind (news.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 Open Source

Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI (www.wired.com)
2026-9-4

Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta (www.theverge.com)
2026-9-4 AI Nvidia

Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model In Six Weeks (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 Google

Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPU (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-9-4 Nvidia

Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-4 Google

Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are experiencing issues; Anthropic reports errors across Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, and OpenAI reports errors across ChatGPT and Codex (9to5google.com)
2026-9-4

Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4 WordPress

Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4

Microsoft: KB5120998 mouse reset bug affects only non-English PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-4 Microsoft

Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised $300M at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-9-4

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