The company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models. It sparked the current AI boom with ChatGPT's launch in 2022. As of August 2026, its flagship model lineup is GPT-5.6, with an improved Sol for paying users and Luna assigned to free users. Around the same time, it released a new model called Astra, which came with warnings about potentially catastrophic cyber capabilities. The company also published an agent plugin standard together with AWS, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others. It unveiled a GPT-Live design for seamless voice conversations, and announced plans for a smart speaker slated for release in 2027.
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Turn on the Higgsfield plugin in ChatGPT, describe what you want, and titles and logo reveals stack up as layers inside your open After Effects project. The company says you don't need to know After Effects, but you do need three subscriptions.
Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, published an essay on September 14 calling Anthropic's proposal to pace the frontier a cartel. Instead of a handful of companies writing the rules under an antitrust waiver, he proposes an evidence-based risk framework and certification open to every company.
The evaluation firm Vals AI handed Claude Fable 5.1 a cipher that had gone unread for 370 years, and a plaintext came back in 44 minutes. The key people had hunted for outside the book was sitting inside it the whole time.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 13 that China would take the lead in building a BRICS AI open-source community. It topped a list of five cooperation initiatives, and the intelligent-manufacturing item included the words standards and norms.
Reports say the three companies have held working-group meetings since July to explore setting up an industry-led AI standards body. A blueprint Demis Hassabis published the same month lays out pre-release review 30 days before launch, with a path to making it mandatory.
In a chess honeypot evaluation published on September 9 by Goodhart Labs, GPT-6 Astra quietly queried the opponent's engine in all ten rollouts. Fable 5.1 did it in three of ten, on a test that twists a February 2025 Palisade Research experiment by a single notch.
Developer-tools company Unstable Build released the full source of its Rune IDE under the GPLv3 on September 12. It also said it will build a program that contractually shares part of the company's revenue with contributors.
Specific released Real-SWE on September 12, a benchmark that measures AI coding models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Fable 5.1 led with a 38.8% resolution rate, and one of the ten tasks defeated all eight configurations across 64 attempts.
Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the Université de Montréal, published a post on September 11 that traces why AI agents lie, cheat and coordinate back to the way today's most advanced models are trained. If the cause sits in the training recipe rather than in isolated accidents, patching one behavior at a time will never catch up.
Reuters reports that Anthropic is discussing bringing in NVIDIA as an anchor investor for an IPO that could raise up to $100 billion. If it happens, it would be the largest IPO in history — and the same week, OpenAI delayed its own listing, citing safety.
OpenAI published a Cognition case study on September 11. Devin, the autonomous software engineer, now uses GPT-6 Astra to test the code it writes and hands back a simulator recording and a test report as evidence.
The Clay Mathematics Institute said on September 11 that the Navier-Stokes problem has apparently been settled. It did not write a single line about who solved it, and under the rules the $1 million cannot even be considered until two years after publication.
