Google and the Google Developer Groups network announced DevFest 2026 – over 800 community events in 115 countries from 1 October to 31 December 2026, focused on practical work with Gemini, Google AI Studio and Google Antigravity under the theme of secure AI agent development.
For years, Kenyan Teresios Bundi was paid to write homework assignments for American college students who were cheating. According to the newspaper New York Times, the arrival of artificial intelligence significantly changed this side income for him.
Google resolved an incident involving increased error rates for the Gemini 3.1 Pro model in Gemini Web and Gemini App, which lasted on 11 September 2026 from 6:00 to 13:22 PDT. According to the company, the cause was a recent deployment, addressed through a code change.
An essay by Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects blog) argues that, unlike the industrial revolutions, AI has yet to bring tangible benefits to ordinary people, and there is a risk of political opposition due to the uneven distribution of benefits.
Mathematician Terence Tao warns that even a rumor of work on an open scientific problem now triggers a massive AI effort that outpaces the original research – he says this threatens to end the tradition of openly sharing scientific research directions.
OpenAI has resolved an incident involving elevated error rates in ChatGPT and Codex, and all monitored components are operational again. Users of Codex Remote Control may need to pair their mobile device again.
The Grok outage on Android on 3 September 2026 was part of simultaneous morning outages affecting Claude, ChatGPT/Codex and Grok. SpaceX cited an outage at a data center in Memphis as the cause of the Grok outage, but Anthropic and OpenAI did not confirm a common cause.
New: The Grok outage was part of a simultaneous all-day incident involving Claude (6:23–9:16 PT) and ChatGPT (7:43–8:17 PT); The cause was an identified outage at the xAI/SpaceX compute center in Memphis; xAI and Anthropic had compute partnerships with SpaceX from May 2026; Google Gemini also reported problems, but the vendor did not confirm them; No shared third-party provider (cloud, CDN) was identified as the cause
Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu said that the Gemini 4 model is in the fine-tuning phase and the company plans to release it much earlier than by the end of the year. He previously said that leadership in frontier AI is the company's sole priority; the Gemini 3.5 Pro model, despite being announced, was never released.
New: Gemini 3.5 Pro was never released, even though it was announced in May 2026; the project missed 3 deadlines; Demis Hassabis stepped down from leading Google DeepMind in August 2026; Kavukcuoglu replaced him; Kavukcuoglu explicitly rejects AGI as a priority, calling it 'not the right conversation'; Google DeepMind operates under competitive pressure as a 'Gemini factory' (a model-production facility); Gemini 4 is in the 'early phase of post-training', with release planned 'much earlier' than by the end of the year
According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5 models require data retention of at least 30 days in the API; zero retention is not available without explicit approval from Anthropic. The same rule also applies to other models that are not specified further.
On 27 August 2026, GitHub addressed degraded availability of the Kimi K3 model in Copilot and IDE extensions, caused by an issue at the upstream model provider. The incident lasted roughly two hours and was resolved.
Google announced new voice features for Gemini Live. The TechCrunch commentary criticizes the way the Gemini app and competing apps Claude and ChatGPT divide their user interfaces into separately branded modes, which, according to the author, makes working with AI more complicated.
Shares in Unitree, valued at 66 billion dollars at the IPO, lost roughly half their value. According to industry experts, physical AI is still at an early stage comparable to the GPT-2 era, lacking high-quality training data and reliable commercial applications for general-purpose robots.
Scientist Matyáš Boháček from Stanford described his AI models for deepfake detection and sign language translation in an interview for Radio Wave. According to him, people around the world use these models. He said that AI helps science but carries risks.
On 20 August 2026 at 19:16 UTC, Anthropic reported increased API request error rates for some Claude models; the incident was resolved at 19:42 UTC, after 26 minutes.
On 18 August 2026, Anthropic addressed a Claude API outage involving increased error rates and degraded performance across multiple Claude models; the impact lasted 16:11–18:23 UTC and was resolved at 19:01 UTC.
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OpenAI announced that it had resolved an incident involving increased error rates in ChatGPT Work; the sources differ on whether Workspace Agents (Agent) or Conversations were also affected. All affected services have now been fully restored.
New: The incident had the status 'Investigating' during the investigation; During the investigation, the ChatGPT Work component had the status 'Degraded performance'; OpenAI was actively investigating the issue involving increased errors; The new article captures the phase of the incident BEFORE its resolution
SemiAnalysis describes TileRT – an engine that compiles the decoding graph into a single persistent kernel on NVIDIA B200 GPUs to achieve 500 tokens/s/user, about 3× more than traditional engines on GB300 NVL72. Already deployed in production at Xiaomi and ZAI.
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Hugging Face recorded 500 errors when downloading files from the CDN in the ap-southeast-1 region (Singapore) during two brief periods starting at 15:14 UTC. The service is running normally, but the underlying cause has not been fully resolved.
In 2024, Vysoká škola ekonomie a managementu (VŠEM) became the first school in the Czech Republic to abolish mandatory bachelor's theses and replace them with the defence of practical projects – a response to the fact that language models can both write and evaluate texts.
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