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- Thursday, 10 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On September 9, Apple presented the iPhone Duo, with a stated 7.6-inch inner display and storage options of 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. In Italy, the starting price indicated by the company is €2,369; pre-orders open at 2:00 p.m. on October 16, with availability starting October 23, initially in more than 70 countries and territories (Apple Newsroom, La Stampa).
- Thursday, 10 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On September 8, Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent available via web, iOS and Android apps, WhatsApp, and, prospectively, on the company's AI glasses. The free tier is usage-metered; the Power and Maximum plans cost $20 and $100 per month respectively. Claims about ease of use and reliability are the company's own position (AI Weekly, LLM Stats).
- Wednesday, 9 September 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI claims a solution to Navier-Stokes: an assertion, not a validated theorem
A new story compared to this morning's, which had covered the rollout of GPT-6: the company states that an unreleased model, with roughly ten thousand agents, produced a solution to one of the millennium problems in 88 hours. Any peer validation is missing.
- Wednesday, 9 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The Intercept has obtained over 400 pages of US Department of Defense documents through litigation based on the Freedom of Information Act: they concern agreements signed in July 2025 by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, worth up to 200 million dollars each, involving two-way data exchange, seconded engineers and joint exercises. The story currently comes from a single source, The Intercept's investigation, and lacks independent confirmation (AI Weekly).
- Wednesday, 9 September 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 "Astra" and reports a decline in reasoning monitorability
The model reaches select organizations and ChatGPT subscribers. In the technical documentation the company acknowledges a substantial decrease in the readability of the chain of thought; external evaluators report problematic behaviors in testing.
- Wednesday, 9 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Google released versions 152.0.7977.82 and .83 of Chrome on September 4, 2026, to fix vulnerability CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion error in the V8 JavaScript engine that can allow remote code execution. The company confirms an exploit exists in the wild. Single source (AI Weekly), without independent confirmation.
- Tuesday, 8 September 2026 · Analysis
ChatGPT designated a "very large search engine": the European obligations
The Commission applied the Digital Services Act regime to ChatGPT after the declaration of over 45 million average monthly users in the Union. In the same span of days, OpenAI published data on internal agent use and its chief scientist calls for a slowdown.
- Tuesday, 8 September 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI declares artificial general intelligence achieved, Congress moves to propose a ban
The partial release of GPT-6 Astra on September 3 prompted the company's president to speak of a milestone reached; in Washington two lawmakers announce a bill to ban superintelligent systems. Technical assessments remain internal to the company.
- Tuesday, 8 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Researchers from VUB and KU Leuven argue that incomplete reference data explain much of the decline in scientific disruption measured in the 2023 cover article; the original authors reply in the same issue (DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-10787-y and 10.1038/s41586-026-10788-x). The lead author of the rebuttal is PhD candidate Vincent Holst: "Shortly after publication I tried to reproduce the study with open data" (transl. from English). Sole source: Phys.org; no independent confirmation is available.
- Monday, 7 September 2026 · Analysis
BepiColombo has left the propulsion module: the arrival maneuver at Mercury has begun
A story the morning did not tell. The European-Japanese probe separated the module that carried it here on September 3rd; orbital insertion around Mercury is expected by the end of the year.
- Monday, 7 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar announced on September 3 a bill aiming to ban the development of artificial superintelligence and to suspend research and development on advanced artificial intelligence systems. The announcement was released by the senator's office and picked up by industry roundups: the report currently comes from a single source (Sanders' office statement); no independent confirmation is available, and the text of the bill is not known. (AI Weekly)
- Monday, 7 September 2026 · Analysis
GPT-6 Astra and Fermat's Last Theorem: two announcements, no independent verification
OpenAI has rolled out its new model to Daybreak program enterprise clients; Anthropic states that Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. In both cases, the figures come from the companies themselves.
- Monday, 7 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
According to the specialized review AIdapted on September 6, India is preparing a $7.4 billion investment for an AI campus with a capacity of one gigawatt, amid a period of strong growth in global investment in computing infrastructure. The story currently comes from a single source (AIdapted, based on Indian government and industry announcements); no independent confirmation available. (AIdapted)
- Sunday, 6 September 2026 · Analysis
Spectrum launcher reaches orbit from Andøya, NASA postpones Crew-13 mission
The rocket from German company Isar Aerospace lifted off from the Norwegian spaceport at 22:12 on September 5. In the United States, an oxidizer leak in the Dragon's propulsion system halted preparations for the flight to the Space Station.
- Sunday, 6 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On September 3, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act," which calls for a pause on domestic artificial intelligence development and a push for international reciprocity. In the week before August 18, Sanders had called for a pause in a letter to Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Mark Zuckerberg. The story currently comes from a single source (a Washington Post article from September 3, picked up in this entry); no independent confirmation is available.
- Saturday, 5 September 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI announces GPT-6 Astra and one billion in advertising revenue: figures stated by the company
A story new from this morning, when the Tech section was following the Hera mission. Two announcements in the same week — a model with record scores on a benchmark test and the economic milestone of advertising within ChatGPT — share the same feature: the source is the party that benefits from it.
- Saturday, 5 September 2026 · Analysis Correction published
Hera will reach Dimorphos a month early, in November
The European probe will inspect the crater left by DART's 2022 impact and will release two CubeSats. Meanwhile, NASA has moved up the launch of the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station to mid-September.
- Saturday, 5 September 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
At IFA 2026 the company announced on September 4 Personal AI Router, software that according to the manufacturer is free and open-source and distributes artificial intelligence workloads among computers on the same local network, shifting them to idle machines to prevent multiple processes from competing for the same graphics card. The performance claims come from the company's press release and are not verified by third parties; only source available: Dataconomy.
- Friday, 4 September 2026 · Analysis
Simultaneous outage across major chatbots: ChatGPT down for about two hours
On September 3, disruptions hit ChatGPT with over 38,000 reports worldwide, and issues were also reported on Claude, Gemini and Grok. The same day OpenAI had released GPT-6 Astra.
- Friday, 4 September 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI opens up GPT-6 Astra and restricts cybersecurity capabilities it calls "critical"
The company states that the new model is the first to exceed the highest threshold of its internal cybersecurity framework and reserves the most advanced capabilities for select partners. In Congress, a proposal to ban superintelligence.
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