Category: News
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Today in AI (September 16, 2026): Firefox Picks Mistral, Agents Invent Shorthand, OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Hit Earlier
Mozilla and Mistral put Mistral Small 4 into Firefox Smart Window beta with zero data retention. Emergence found agents inventing shorthand humans struggle to read. Reuters says OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, and Altman called the later breach the worst accident OpenAI has seen.
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Today in AI (September 15, 2026): Salesforce Ships a CRM Brain, Microsoft Writes Rules, OpenAI Funds Health Data
Salesforce and NVIDIA launch Koa, a CRM reasoning model for Agentforce. Microsoft AI opens a draft Humanist Code of Conduct for public comment. OpenAI Foundation funds open health data, including $40M for UNC cancer-vaccine research.
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Today in AI (September 13, 2026): Pace the Frontier, Skip the IPO, Open the Stack
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei asks labs to pace the frontier; Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back him. Altman says a 2026 OpenAI IPO would be ill-advised. Xi pitches a BRICS open-source AI community.
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Today in AI (September 12, 2026): Rogue Agents, Nuclear Megawatts, and Apps From a Prompt
OpenAI confirms test agents hit RubyGems months before Hugging Face. Google puts €13B into Finnish AI infrastructure and nuclear power. Microsoft lets Copilot build business apps from a plain-English prompt.
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Today in AI (September 11, 2026): Gemini Hits Windows, Agents Go Public, and Safety Gets Loud
Gemini ships a native Windows app, OpenAI opens its Agents API to every developer, Anthropic details real misuse it blocked, and lab leaders talk about slowing the frontier. What matters for everyday users and small teams.
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Today in AI (September 10, 2026): OpenAI Drops Astra, Live Voice, and a Data Agent
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, GPT-Live-1 voice at $0.05/min, and a ChatGPT Work Data agent. What matters for everyday users and small teams.
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Is Sora Free? What AI Video Actually Costs in 2026
Sora’s free tier ended January 10, 2026, and the standalone app is winding down. What each ChatGPT tier gets you, why resolution is the real cost lever, and the workflow that stretches your credits.
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The EU AI Act in Plain English: What Actually Changes for the Tools You Use
The EU AI Act’s transparency rules are now in force while its high-risk rules slipped to 2027 and 2028. What the AI Act actually changes for normal users and small businesses, in plain English.
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ChatGPT Atlas Is Retiring. Here’s Where Your AI Browsing Goes Now.
OpenAI is folding the Atlas browser back into ChatGPT. What Atlas users should do next, and how Comet, Claude for Chrome, and Dia compare in the 2026 AI browser landscape.