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Newly unsealed documents in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal remarks from Microsoft's Brent Hecht, who predicted the public would eventually see large language model training as unprecedented theft of labor. The filing also cites OpenAI's Greg Brockman acknowledging that ChatGPT can reproduce and complete sentences from NYT articles verbatim.
Google is rolling out a business chat feature in Google Messages that automatically texts users about new app features and updates. A poll of over 1,800 Android Authority readers found more than half consider it unwanted bloat, while roughly a fifth called it a promising addition and the rest are withholding judgment until they see how it works.
Anthropic published a blog outlining measurement standards for tracking AI development pace, revealing that its Claude chatbot now completes most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt with human supervision on 26 percent of the company's AI R&D work. The company also said AI performs at least large chunks of work under close human direction on more than 90 percent of its research, though it stressed Claude isn't fully autonomous on any measured task category. The disclosure came alongside proposals for tracking AI agent oversight and compute usage as ways to gauge how fast frontier AI development is progressing.
The FAA announced that laser strikes on aircraft fell for a third consecutive year, with 4,470 incidents reported between January and July 2026, a 24 percent decline from the same period in 2025. California and Texas logged the most reports overall, while New Mexico and Hawaii topped the list per capita.
Waymo announced plans to bring its autonomous ride-hailing service to Singapore, with vehicles arriving within months to begin mapping and safety-driver testing in 2027 ahead of a public launch in 2028. The company must first pass safety assessments from Singapore's Land Transport Authority and its CETRAN testing center before carrying passengers, and it has already set up a local entity and joined the city-state's autonomous vehicle steering committee.
After Astronomer's CEO and chief people officer were filmed embracing at a Coldplay concert and the clip went viral, fabricated statements attributed to the CEO spread widely online before the company issued any official comment. Astronomer's board eventually confirmed an investigation, and the company later used a Gwyneth Paltrow cameo to redirect attention, but the delay of roughly 48 hours allowed false narratives to take hold first.
Speaking at a UK summit alongside King Charles III, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted the company would sell twice as many chips in the coming year compared to this year. This follows Nvidia's recent guidance of roughly 70% revenue growth for its fiscal year ending January 2028, reaching about $673 billion, a figure that already pushed analyst estimates higher.
NOAA data shows the contiguous United States just endured its warmest summer since record-keeping began, with an average temperature of 75.6°F and daytime highs averaging 88.6°F, surpassing the previous record set jointly by 2021 and 1936. The South and West bore the brunt of the heat, while Arizona logged its second-hottest summer ever and Alaska and Hawaii each posted their third-warmest.
Private fusion companies raised $3.8 billion in the first eight months of this year, already surpassing all of last year's investment, as firms like Pacific Fusion and Helion Energy push toward commercial electricity targets. Despite this funding surge and scientific milestones like the National Ignition Facility's 2022 net energy gain experiment, no company has yet demonstrated a system that produces more electricity than it consumes on a sustained, grid-ready basis.
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, released a 37-page 'Humanist AI Code of Conduct' outlining Microsoft's principles for AI development, including its stance on issues like AI consciousness. In an interview and a companion essay, he criticized Anthropic's approach to 'model welfare,' arguing it dangerously misconstrues what AI systems actually are and complicates the broader safety debate.
Meta's Oversight Board issued decisions on two cases involving AI-generated videos of real people—one showing a Scottish politician making inflammatory remarks he never said, another mocking a menstrual health volunteer. In both instances, Meta failed to label the content as AI-generated and only acted after the Board intervened, despite user reports and appeals being automatically dismissed beforehand.
Rhodium Group estimates that all major Chinese AI companies combined—including DeepSeek, MiniMax, Moonshot, Z.ai, ByteDance and Alibaba—generate roughly one-tenth the annualized revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic alone. DeepSeek's estimated annual recurring revenue is just $500 million, while OpenAI's reaches $40 billion and Anthropic's $65 billion.