15 – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
Skip to main content

Ai Artificial Intelligence Archive

Archives for September 2026

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
A Quibi co-founder and the former boss of Sora are launching an AI video startup.

According to The Information, former DreamWorks co-founder (and co-founder of the quick bites video app) Jeffrey Katzenberg’s latest move is joining up with Bill Peebles, who left OpenAI after it pivoted away from the Sora team he was leading.

The unnamed venture will apparently “train its own video models and try to win over filmmakers,” once it secures enough funding. On the plus side, they already have a long list of things to not do this time around.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Twitch is testing an AI ‘Stream Coach’ that gives creators tips after their streams.

The AI coaching feature is only available to a small group of streamers right now. Unlike Twitch’s generative AI training toggle, which is opt out, the company says this feature would be opt-in if it’s ever expanded beyond this test.

A screenshot of a Twitch tweet responding to questions about an AI Steam Coach feature
Image: Twitch
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

An Anthropic researcher’s resignation letter went viral, and the company released details of four concerning cybersecurity incidents.

Hayden Field
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Suno admits it scraped audio from YouTube in a court filing.

We already kinda knew that thanks to a hack of the company’s data in July. And Suno admitted to training its models on publicly available music. But this is the first time it has explicitly copped to ripping audio from YouTube, saying in a court filing:

Suno admits that audio data was obtained from YouTube for use as training data using YT-DLP.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Due to GPT-6 Astra demand, OpenAI has paused new subscriptions to its $200 ChatGPT Pro tier.

Those subscriptions “put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible,” OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux says on X. The company is working on “adding more capacity as fast as we can.”

A screenshot of an X post from OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux. The text reads: “To make sure our current users have an incredible experience and continued access to Astra, we are going to pause subscriptions to our $200 Pro plan. These put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible. All other plans and the api remain available. There is no impact to existing accounts and we are working on adding more capacity as fast as we can. Thanks!”
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Adobe reports record $6.76 billion in revenue as it continues its AI push.

That’s a 13 percent increase from the same time last year, according to Adobe’s Q3 earnings report released on Thursday. The company also reached more than one billion monthly active users across its suite of software, as it fills out Photoshop, Premiere, Express, Acrobat, Lightroom, and other apps with new AI tools.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
California governor signs law blocking “addictive” social feeds for minors.

Under AB1709, social platforms can’t provide algorithmic recommendations, infinite scroll, or autoplay features to users under 16 unless they receive parental consent.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of other online safety-focused bills into law as well, including new rules requiring chatbot makers to notify young users that they’re not talking to a human.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Hasbro disavows DHS Transformers posts.

Posts from the official DHS account on X marked “Made with AI” show Optimus Prime with “ICE” and a DHS logo on him, along with the Transformers logo above “Age of Deportation.” Hasbro’s response says they were “done without permission” but didn’t mention any specific action to take them down.

A Hasbro Instagram post reading: “Optimus Prime is a beloved character who represents humility, leadership, compassion and justice. Hasbro is aware of the recent posts using his likeness. These posts were done without permission and do not represent the Transformers brand or Hasbro.”
Image: Hasbro
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google’s Dreambeans AI app is rolling out to everyone in the US.

The app, which Google began testing in June, pulls information from across Search, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, and Gemini to provide AI shopping recommendations, travel suggestions, event reminders, and more. It pairs these suggestions with somewhat unsettling storybook-style drawings of yourself.

You can download the app on Android and iOS.

Screenshot: David Pierce / The Verge
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI says it has made “substantial progress” on another major math problem.

That’s according to a statement OpenAI provided to The New York Times shortly after its Navier-Stokes breakthrough:

In addition, since the completion of Navier-Stokes, we have made substantial progress on another Millennium Prize problem. We are working through how to share these results thoughtfully.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Gemini now has a Windows app.

With the app, you can press Alt + Space to pull up Gemini when you need it, Google says. Grab the app from Google’s Gemini website. Google launched a macOS app in April.