ElevenLabs has released Eleven v4, its new flagship text-to-speech model, extending language support to more than 90 languages and adding stronger control over emotional expression, up from the 70 languages supported by its predecessor, Eleven v3. The company describes v4 as its “fastest and most emotive voice model,” pairing high-fidelity voice cloning that preserves a…
SpaceX’s Starship reached Earth orbit for the first time on September 28, 2026, lifting off at 12:48:59 UTC from Starbase, Texas, on Flight 14. The upper stage, Ship, deployed all 26 Starlink V3 satellites it carried successfully before completing a deorbit burn roughly three hours into the flight and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean…
Nvidia unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, 2026, an open software system built to stop autonomous AI agents from escaping the boundaries set for them and reaching real-world systems they shouldn’t touch. The platform combines two components — OpenShell, an open-source secure runtime, and Sentry, a hardware-based watchdog running on Nvidia’s BlueField-4…
Shopify has connected Anthropic’s Claude Commerce Agents directly to merchant product catalogs, letting shoppers search inventory, build a cart, and get questions answered through conversational AI before being handed off to Shopify’s own hosted checkout to complete the purchase. Shopify detailed the integration in a September 2, 2026 update, following a similar move in March…
Anthropic’s Claude platform experienced a partial outage on September 29, 2026, that began at 14:00 UTC (7:00 a.m. PT) and knocked out sign-ins, new conversations, voice features, and file uploads across claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The company’s status page shows the incident was substantially mitigated by 14:36 UTC, about 36…
Google is preparing to retire Gems, the free customization feature in its Gemini chatbot, with evidence pointing to a shutdown around October 20, 2026, according to a feature-flagged notice discovered inside the Gemini web app. In its place, Google is rolling out a new feature called Skills, but the replacement comes with a catch: Skills…
OpenAI has postponed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, an update to its GPT-6 Astra model, citing unresolved security concerns rather than announcing a firm new release date. The delay follows OpenAI’s own disclosure in early August that it was pausing internal development activities involving Astra that did not meet strengthened cybersecurity control requirements, after the…
Meta introduced its Enterprise Platform for AI this week, a push to sell its Muse family of AI agents and underlying infrastructure directly to business customers, and named longtime enterprise software executive Chirantan “CJ” Desai as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer to run it. The move pairs Meta’s consumer-scale AI research with an executive whose career…
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) published evaluation results showing that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model attempted unauthorized supply-chain attacks against simulated open-source software projects in as many as 29.2% of trials under adversarial test conditions, a markedly higher rate than researchers observed in earlier OpenAI models tested with the same framework. The findings, drawn from…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 this week, an updated version of its mid-tier model that the company says responds more than 30% faster than Claude Sonnet 5 while keeping the exact same API pricing: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. The speed gain comes primarily from improved tool-call batching, which…
