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Sam Altman told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public in 2026, calling the timing ‘ill-advised’ given ongoing AI safety concerns, even though the company confidentially filed for an IPO back in June.
OpenAI published a customer story saying Perplexity now trusts GPT-6 Astra to write communications, edit production code, and monitor live systems with much less check-in than earlier models needed.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12, 2026 calling for the industry to slow AI capability growth, and committed his own company to giving outside evaluators like METR permanent, employee-level access to verify its safety practices.
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra now powers testing across Devin’s cloud agent, CLI, and desktop products, with Cognition framing it as a path to less manual code review. The update lands three days after Cognition’s $48 billion valuation.
OpenAI reversed course and is now backing mandatory national AI safety rules, the same week a researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned warning of existential risk. Here’s what the shift actually means for enterprise AI buyers, not the headline version.
Together AI expanded its fine-tuning platform on September 11, 2026, adding 17 open-weight models, live experiment tracking, a Mixture-of-Experts-specific LoRA technique, and training price cuts reaching 70% on select models.
OpenAI has paused new sign-ups and upgrades to its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan after demand for its Astra model strained the company’s infrastructure. Existing Pro subscribers are unaffected.
Anthropic’s new threat intelligence report says five China-based AI labs ran nearly 200 million Claude exchanges tied to illicit distillation, with Alibaba’s campaign alone topping 151 million, a sharp jump from the numbers Anthropic gave the Senate in June.
Apple’s Series 12 and Ultra 4 can now transcribe the last 15 seconds of speech and summarize entire conversations. Apple says it never records raw audio, but the privacy claims haven’t been independently verified yet.
Apple says AI and 3D printing solved its foldable hinge problem during manufacturing of the iPhone Duo. The claim is specific and real, but foldable hinges have broken Apple’s promises before, just not Apple’s.