Over several hours Thursday morning, OpenAI (ChatGPT and Codex), Anthropic (Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, and briefly Claude Sonnet 5), xAI (Grok), and Google all experienced significant, overlapping service interruptions affecting request errors or degraded performance.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit alleges Apple imposed stricter App Tracking Transparency rules on third-party app developers than on Apple’s own services, giving Apple’s advertising ecosystem an advantage.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Engadget
A privilege-escalation zero-day called FalconFlank can be used against CrowdStrike Falcon’s Microsoft Office malicious macro remediation feature on fully updated Windows 11 25H2 and Windows Server 2025 with Phase 3 – Optimal Protection, with a PoC that works when the remediation feature is enabled.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Register
OpenAI released Astra, which the company says is its most powerful and capable model yet and its most intelligent and “very importantly” aligned model to date.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
OpenAI is beginning to roll out GPT-6-Astra, which the company says is a “generational leap in capability” and performs better than GPT-5.6 and its flagship model Sol on computer-use tasks, coding, alignment, and safety.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
CNET
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is rolling out starting today to enterprise OpenAI cybersecurity customers (with Daybreak access), and OpenAI plans to expand access over the next several days to all Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Verge
CERN is migrating several thousand underground “front end” accelerator control computers from Red Hat-family Linux to Debian, after CPU-compatibility changes from RHEL/CentOS would have forced it to replace about 65% of its front end machines (47% eliminated by x86-64-v2 and another 17% by x86-64-v3).
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
The CFTC asked a federal judge to dismiss CME’s lawsuit over the agency’s approval of Kalshi’s Bitcoin perpetual futures, arguing CME failed to show financial harm or greater competition from the decision.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Microsoft says a serious Exchange vulnerability (CVE-2026-62911) can be exploited to gain full access to affected systems, and it released patches for the issue in its August 2026 Patch Tuesday release.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Computerworld
The Trump administration imposed a 100% tariff on imported drones with thermal imaging or over 55 pounds, alongside 25% tariffs on “nonsensitive” drones starting Thursday and smaller tariffs on allied countries, which critics say will raise costs and strain US public-safety operations that rely heavily on DJI.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Anthropic forced sign-outs of affected Claude accounts, deleted saved payment cards, and refunded extra usage charges after attackers used infostealer malware to harvest active browser login sessions from users’ PCs.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
Supergirl will stream exclusively on HBO Max starting Thursday, Sept. 10, with a version featuring American Sign Language (ASL) also available that day.
Sep 3, 2026 ·CNET
Ollie says it is among the first mainstream, family-focused AI assistants to achieve SOC 2 compliance, positioning the assistant as designed to protect customer data through independently audited controls.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all reported outages starting around 10:30–11:00AM ET, with OpenAI citing “elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex” and Anthropic initially listing multiple Opus/Mythos/Fable versions impacted before narrowing it to Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Verge
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is positioned as a way to move from patching all CVEs to proving “Are we actually secure?” by scoping business-impacting assets, mapping real exposure paths, validating exploitability, and then “closing the loop” by retesting after fixes—so teams can define “fixed” as the system can no longer be traversed.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
The Justice Department announced a $541.5 million Medicare fraud settlement over allegations that The Villages Health filed false diagnosis codes to increase Medicare Advantage reimbursement for Humana and other insurers.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DJI’s Romo 2 adds a “Local Data Mode” that severs DJI Home’s app connection with the internet, disables syncing of photos/camera feeds, lets users disable the vacuum’s camera and microphone, and delete stored data.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Verge
Fishbrain disclosed an August 19 breach in which attackers accessed users’ password hashes and corresponding salts along with names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, Fishbrain usernames, and country information.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
DJI ROMO 2 robot vacuums will add “Local Data Mode” in Q4 2026 that cuts the DJI Home app’s internet connection so photos or videos captured by the vacuums don’t reach external servers.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
Bitcoin rose to $77,892.97 and ethereum rose to $2,402.09 as of 7:19 a.m. ET on Thursday, September 3, 2026 after both opened lower (BTC -0.1%, ETH -1.1% vs Wednesday).
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
