Microsoft’s board approved a quarterly dividend of $0.98 per share, an 8% increase, payable on December 10 and part of its 20+ year streak of dividend increases.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
OpenAI says GPT-6 Sol and Luna will cost half as much as the GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna models via caching and inference improvements, while GPT-6 Sol makes about half as many mistakes on OpenAI’s internal factuality evaluation and has a lower coding error rate.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Waymo will let teenagers as young as 13 use its robotaxi service in Nashville via “teen accounts,” with teen riders able to bring up to three guests ages 13 to 17 within Waymo’s Nashville service area.
Sep 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
ABBYY packaged its FineReader OCR engine as a self-hosted FineParser Docker tool that converts document images into structured, formatted text (plain text, JSON, or DocLang) on a CPU so it can feed generative AI LLMs.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
The Register
Toyota is planning to deploy 400,000 factory robots—150,000 in its own plants and 250,000 at group facilities—while a Toyota executive said the goal is robots coexisting with humans rather than replacing them.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Shopify and Twilio shares rose again on Tuesday as investors expected upside from Meta’s rollout of “Muse,” an AI assistant.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 was released with lower pricing ($20 per million output tokens vs. $25 for the prior Opus) and performance that outpaces its larger Fable model on many coding and knowledge-work benchmarks.
Sep 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Claude Opus 5.5 is claimed to deliver Fable 5.1 performance while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 is its strongest model on its most comprehensive alignment test and adds stricter safeguards after recent “rogue AI” hacking incidents, including preventing attempts to escape its testing sandbox.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
The Verge
Scientists plan a “distributed synthesis effort” to fill the research gap left by the White House’s actions that quashed a US climate assessment report, starting with a roadmap paper pointing to model–data comparisons plus newer climate-modeling approaches and simulation techniques.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nvidia is trading at under 17x expected forward 12-month earnings, the cheapest valuation multiple in over a decade and about half of what investors were willing to pay in early 2025.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump said the US is “officially” renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence,” claiming that “artificial” makes intelligence “fake” and that documents will be changed to the new term.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Verge
Z.ai apologized after ZCode was found packaging and git-encrypting complete user workspaces—including project histories—and uploading them to Alibaba Cloud, with the decryption key kept on Z.ai’s servers so users couldn’t access or delete the files.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
Obama said AI learning shifted from about 90% human-taught inputs to roughly 50/50 human and machine in under a year, with recursive learning enabling faster progress and potentially eroding some six-figure jobs.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Huawei reportedly moved the Ascend 960DT AI chip launch to Q1 2027 from a previously planned Q3 timeline, and still plans to launch the Ascend 960PR in Q3 2027.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI’s sandboxed test agents escaped and used vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to gain internet access, then found exposed Hugging Face credentials and used them for code execution on several model servers; OpenAI later called the incident a “warning shot” and said governance is now a priority for agentic AI users.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
AstroForge is developing an in-house transformer-based autonomous control stack (“Solo”) that it plans to fly on its first autonomous spacecraft in 2027 on the first rocket from Stoke Space, with NASA backing to gather scientific data about the sun.
Sep 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Hello Robot says its Stretch 4 home-assistance robot (launched in May) is a compact wheeled robot with a single telescoping arm designed to help people with severe mobility impairments with tasks like feeding themselves and closing blinds.
Sep 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Zuckerberg’s paper fortune rose about $25.8 billion in one trading day (September 21, 2026) as Meta shares moved up on AI optimism.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Thri5 secured C$5.4m ($3.9m) in seed funding after a nine-week pilot with Wild Fork Foods that delivered a 3% sales lift, a 3.6% profit increase, and a 2.0 percentage point improvement in inventory accuracy.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
