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September 14 to September 20, 2026 · 10 stories · the week is still unfolding
OpenAI released GPT-6, its newest flagship model, adding native multimodal reasoning across text, image and audio. It is live now via the API and ChatGPT at prices 20 percent below GPT-5, with Salesforce and Shopify among the first enterprise adopters.
SpaceX's Starlink network went down for roughly four hours across most regions, cutting off rural and maritime users. SpaceX says a software update to the routing layer triggered a cascading failure and has been rolled back.
Anthropic closed a 10 billion dollar funding round led by a sovereign wealth fund, valuing the company at 250 billion dollars. The company says the capital is earmarked for its own data center buildout.
The Commerce Department introduced a new per-shipment licensing requirement for Nvidia's China-market AI accelerators, replacing the prior blanket approval. Nvidia says the change adds delay but does not halt sales outright.
A report citing people familiar with the matter says Apple has been testing foldable iPhone prototypes internally, with an unconfirmed shipping target for next year.
Attackers exploited a signing bug in one of Binance's hot wallets, moving roughly 90 million dollars in assorted tokens before the exchange froze withdrawals. Binance says user funds are covered by its reserve fund.
IBM researchers published results showing stable logical qubits built from a 1,000-physical-qubit processor, clearing a threshold the company had targeted for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
European regulators fined Meta for failing to disclose training-data sources for its Llama-based assistant, the first enforcement action of this size under the EU AI Act. Meta says it will appeal.
Regulators opened a formal recall investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after at least 14 reports of vehicles running red lights at unmarked intersections. Tesla says a fix is already rolling out over the air.
A federal judge rejected most of Amazon's motion to dismiss the FTC's monopolization case, allowing claims over marketplace pricing algorithms and seller fees to move to trial next spring.
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