Month: September 2026

OpenAI’s “Most Intelligent” Model Just Arrived, and the First Agent-Native AI Was Born in China

Last week, OpenAI launched a model it calls “the most intelligent and aligned” it has ever built. A Chinese startup unveiled the first AI model designed from the ground up to use tools, not just talk about them. And a telecom operator proved its AI model had been downloaded five million times. The common thread? AI is no longer being judged by… Read more →

GPT-6 Astra, a 90-Year Math Problem Solved in 88 Hours, and the $60 Billion Chip Alliance

Something shifted this week. Not in a press release or a product demo. In the numbers. Ten thousand AI agents. 2.7 million messages. 130 billion tokens. 88 hours. One unsolved math problem from 1934. And that was just Monday. By Friday, OpenAI had launched the model it calls “the world’s most intelligent and aligned.” DeepSeek had dropped its smallest model… Read more →

$35 Billion for Compute, $3.5 Billion for Chips, and the Week Telecom Finally Got Its Own AI

September 2026 arrived with a bang. In the span of seven days, the AI industry dropped a series of numbers so large they stop meaning anything—until you realize what they represent: a global race to control the compute, the chips, and the networks that will power the next decade. Anthropic signed a $35 billion cloud deal. Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek.… Read more →