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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant service interruptions over a period of hours Thursday morning. Anthropic first reported a "partial outage" related to "elevated errors on requests to Claude…

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware. New compact NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs are also coming in…

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain

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NVIDIA PAIR Virtual Inference Router Expands Available Compute on Your Local Network

AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents.... AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and…

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion

Nvidia has agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion, in the latest step by the $5.4 trillion chip giant to use its financial might to accelerate the technology’s boom while exerting greater control over the industry. Hugging Face, which only last year turned…

STAT+: OpenEvidence launches new family of AI models

Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech readers! Today, a look at how some generative AI…

Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services

OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.

NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra

Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.

Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra

Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.

NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Over the past decade, Clem, Julien…

GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

STAT+: FDA pilot offers generative AI medical devices a path to patients before they are authorized

As the Food and Drug Administration wrestles with how to regulate medical devices that rely on generative artificial intelligence to make decisions about care, it’s provisionally allowing some developers to launch their products on the market. AI products from Cadence and Limbic…

Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.

Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps

Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM, working with the MIT-IBM Computing Research…

Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks

Google hasn't released a frontier-level Gemini Pro AI model since early 2026, but it sure loves rolling out new Gemini Flash variants. Today, Google is announcing its third Flash model release in just six weeks, making it more likely that we'll never see the promised Gemini 3.5…

Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing

Four federal agencies have been sued amid calls to release information about the secret framework that the Trump administration uses to conduct safety reviews of frontier AI models prior to release. In a Wednesday press release announcing the lawsuit, a nonpartisan nonprofit…

The Modern CUDA Toolbox in Practice: A Step-by-Step Optimization Walkthrough

NVIDIA CUDA remains the foundation of GPU-accelerated computing, powering everything from scientific simulations to large-scale AI training. But writing... Source

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber