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427 stories · page 16 of 48Figure signed a deal for up to 100,000 Vera Rubin chips to train its humanoid model Helix
On 3 September Figure and Nscale announced a partnership for NVIDIA Vera Rubin with up to 100,000 GPUs, with initial deployment targeted from the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas. The initial commitment is $3.5 billion of compute, with intent to exceed $6 billion. Nscale also comes in as an investor in Figure.
Read →Grok Bot moves into companies, and Cursor Enterprise customers get it free for two weeks
On 3 September SpaceXAI released Grok Bot for Enterprise with access, network and audit controls. Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers can use it free for two weeks and invite their entire organisation. Six days earlier OpenAI announced it is pulling its models from Cursor.
Read →Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash at the old price, and gave the cyber version only to trusted partners
On 2 September Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber - the third Flash release in six weeks. The regular model costs the same as 3.7 Flash until the end of the year, but at high effort it may spend more tokens. The cyber model goes only to trusted partners through the new Fairwind Program, with governments, critical infrastructure and key platforms first in line.
Read →Seven flaws in one day in the actively exploited catalogue, LiteLLM and Artifactory among them
On 2 September CISA added seven CVEs to KEV. For people running AI infrastructure, two stand out: LiteLLM lets anyone with a made-up token reach the MCP tools, and Artifactory hands out admin rights without a login. The deadline for Artifactory and SonicWall is 5 September.
Read →Microsoft released an open model that transcribes who says what in real time, but not in Bulgarian
On 2 September Microsoft Research uploaded VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming to Hugging Face in two sizes, under the MIT licence. The model turns speech into text as it flows, separates the speakers and accepts a custom list of names and terms. There are ten languages, and Bulgarian is not among them.
Read →Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the same model, and the only difference between them is the safeguards
On 1 September Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 for everyone and Mythos 5.1 only for vetted cybersecurity and life sciences teams. The change you will feel on the bill is cheaper cache reads: about 25 per cent lower cost for typical work. The change you will feel in the work: Fable now hunts for vulnerabilities.
Read →OpenAI now believes Astra can break into well-protected systems on its own, and delayed parts of its release
On 1 September OpenAI said its next model, Astra, meets the Critical cybersecurity threshold - the first model with that designation. Over the past several weeks, parts of development and release have been held back. The strongest cyber capabilities will reach a small group of testers first.
Read →Waymo picked up its first riders in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and now drives in 14 cities
On 1 September Waymo began carrying its first public riders in three more US cities, bringing the number of cities with fully autonomous rides to 14. According to the company, tens of thousands have signed up in each. Access opens gradually, not all at once.
Read →Google is rolling out Pics, a Nano Banana image editor that goes straight into Docs and Slides
On 1 September Google announced Pics - an image creation and editing tool rolling out over the coming weeks to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and most Workspace business customers. It works on its own and inside Docs and Slides, with Drive coming later.
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