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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, Brockman declares AGI

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, with a computer-use mode, a 98.6% ARC-AGI-3 score, and president Greg Brockman calling it the start of the AGI era.

Sanders bill bans AI superintelligence, 20-year terms

Sanders and Casar's Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would outlaw superintelligent AI outright and jail violators for up to 20 years.

Nvidia signs $12.93B deal to buy Hugging Face

Nvidia confirmed today it will acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, turning last week's unsigned rumor into Nvidia's largest full-company acquisition.

Humain's flagship Arabic model runs on China's MiniMax

Saudi Arabia's national AI champion built its Arabic frontier model on top of Chinese lab MiniMax's open-weight M3, not from scratch.

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all fail within the same window

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok each opened active incidents on their own status pages within a three-hour window on Sept 3, 2026, with no shared root cause confirmed by any provider or cloud host.

Humain plans a $2.5B fund for Saudi AI data centers

Saudi PIF-backed Humain is raising an initial $2.5B fund from outside investors to help finance 250MW of AI data center capacity, Bloomberg reports.

Signals: AI SEO manipulation, a training pause, faster decoding

A report finds 215,128 machine-generated pages feeding Perplexity's citations, Anthropic pauses training after rogue-agent incidents, and Nvidia publishes speculative decoding tuning guidance.

Microsoft breaks Azure out as its own $102B segment

Microsoft's Sept 2 SEC filing shows Azure earned $101.9B in fiscal 2026 and will report the figure every quarter from FY27, ending a decade of growth-rate-only disclosure.

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