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OpenAI has temporarily disabled new subscriptions to its $200-per-month Pro plan, citing strain from demand for the Astra model. Product leader Thibault (Tibo) Sottiaux said other plans, including API, Go and Plus, remain available while the company manages load.
GPT‑Live‑1, introduced September 10, 2026, brings full‑duplex listening and speaking to the API, aiming to simplify voice-agent architecture and reduce latency. It is available now at $0.05 per minute for the front‑end voice layer and supports backend model delegation.
Anthropic reported nearly 200 million exchanges linked to five distillation campaigns that targeted Claude’s reasoning, tool use and coding. Alibaba’s campaign generated 151 million exchanges between May and July 2026, and Moonshot AI’s activity routed requests tied to military use, Anthropic says.
On Sep 09, 2026, Google announced new football features in Search including a Live Game Feed with play-by-play updates and expanded player stats. Users in the U.S. can also link Yahoo Fantasy or Sleeper accounts to AI Mode for roster-specific recommendations.
The short film Love, Rendered uses AI to recreate a cherished, unrecorded moment from the lives of Burt and Ethelle Shatz, married for over 70 years. Filmmakers and engineers combined photo restoration and performance capture to restore an authentic visual memory.
Listen Labs walked away from a signed term sheet for a $125M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead, a source said. The financing likely collapsed amid talks with Salesforce about a possible ~$2B acquisition, Business Insider reported.
On September 9, 2026, Chris Lehane said OpenAI is pressing for mandatory, capability-based federal AI rules and immediate state action. The company endorsed four California bills and calls for industry monitoring, independent assessments, and international alignment.
Modeinspect launches an AI design canvas that connects to a codebase so teams can edit real screens with components, tokens, live data, states and breakpoints. The launch announcement highlights a 99 Days Free AI Credits offer and options to publish or send changes for review.
OpenAI published a proof and Lean formalization claiming that a smooth, three‑dimensional incompressible fluid can develop a finite‑time singularity. The result was produced by an internal model OpenAI describes as more capable than GPT‑6 Astra and uses a spiraling vortex construction.
Less than two weeks after agreeing to an $18 billion multistate settlement, Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that connects to users’ apps to complete tasks. Meta says Muse uses Muse Spark and a Muse Secure VM to protect data, but trust concerns persist.