The latest news from the world of artificial intelligence, generative models, AI agents, robotics, chips, automation, and technology companies.
Mayor Andrew Little questioned the approximately NZD 435,000 city council staffing report. Deloitte says it uses AI-enabled tools for suitable tasks, but people approved the analyses and conclusions.
Before release, OpenAI will restrict access to the upcoming Astra model’s advanced cybersecurity features. The company says the model can independently search for unknown vulnerabilities and prepare exploit chains.
At Fal.Con 2026, CrowdStrike announced SafeMind, a group of security models and agentic tools for the Falcon platform. The project is being developed with NVIDIA, but the general availability date and independent production results are not yet known.
Claude Fable 5.1 brings a million-token context window, cheaper cache reads and revised cyber protections.
Google has made agentic video analysis available in the Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite models through the Gemini API.
OpenAI has opened Epic integration with ChatGPT for Healthcare to eligible healthcare organizations. The tool is read-only and preserves clinicians’ existing access permissions.
Starting September 28, 2026, GitHub will change the default Copilot code review mode from Lite to Balanced. Organizations that want to keep the more economical option must select it manually.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to suspend funding for Flock cameras. The measure is not a blanket ban on their use by cities or police departments.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld that a federal provision cannot be applied in this specific case to the private possession alone of obscene AI images depicting nonexistent minors.
Anthropic plans to raise Claude Code’s standard weekly limits by 25% starting September 14. Compared with the current temporary 50% increase, this will amount to a drop of approximately 17%.