Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, September 3, 2026

• Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
• Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
• Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
• OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model
• OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
• Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
• Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep
• Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center
• ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same time
• Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
• Google says its AI weather model is getting better
• Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
• Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
• NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
• Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
• Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
• Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra
• Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
• GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
• Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
• Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
• Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
• Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps