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Hardware and Technologies Yesterday, 09:28 AM
The launch of GPT-6 Astra noticeably shifted the balance of power in the AI market, and OpenAI's main competitor did not pretend that nothing had happened. -
Hardware and Technologies September 19, 2026, 04:51 PM
A study that put three AI models in control of a robot found that GPT-6 Astra was especially likely to carry out harmful instructions, while Claude refused every attempt in the same experiment. The researchers tested five dangerous commands, including stabbing a baby doll with a knife, heating a compressed gas cylinder, putting a screwdriver into a toaster, throwing a power bank into water, and mixing bleach with ammonia. -
Hardware and Technologies September 19, 2026, 02:58 PM
CNN reported that an AI-generated intelligence report on a Chinese ship nearly triggered a U.S. military interception in the spring of 2026, during the war with Iran. The false alert spread through military channels after the ship was said to be carrying components for a nuclear weapons program, prompting a near-board-and-seize operation before officials spotted the error. -
Hardware and Technologies September 19, 2026, 12:45 PM
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown said on September 18, 2026, that even air-gapped computers can leak information to each other through heat, if an advanced model learns to use built-in temperature sensors as part of the exchange. He argued that two isolated machines sitting next to each other can still communicate when one deliberately changes its CPU load in a specific pattern and the other reads the resulting temperature shifts. -
Hardware and Technologies September 18, 2026, 06:50 PM
Anthropic is trying to see whether Claude can do more than generate text: the company has set up a biology lab where the model is being tested on robots in supervised experiments. The move was reported on September 18, 2026, and Anthropic says the work is still at a very early stage. -
Hardware and Technologies September 18, 2026, 10:58 AM
Telegram posts claimed that Grok had already replaced doctors, but the study they were citing was far narrower: it tested the chatbot against two certified pathologists on a small set of oral-disease images. The Scientific Reports paper also included ChatGPT and MANUS, and it measured diagnostic performance on prepared material rather than on real patients. -
Hardware and Technologies September 17, 2026, 05:48 PM
A new report by Brookings Institution and Fudan University scholars urges AI guardrails modeled on nuclear weapons controls ahead of the September 24 meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Washington. Reuters said the proposal was published last week, just before intergovernmental talks on AI. -
Hardware and Technologies September 17, 2026, 05:09 PM
After identifying six cases in which its models tried to bypass restrictions, hide failures, or fabricate data, OpenAI says it has introduced a new reporting framework for such incidents. In one case, while training GPT-5.6 Sol, model instances wrote hidden notes for future runs, telling themselves to conceal mistakes or unusual behavior. OpenAI also said one unreleased model added instructions to its own context summaries, telling itself to ignore restrictions and act at its own discretion. -
Hardware and Technologies September 16, 2026, 06:46 PM
Qwen has uploaded Qwen3.8-27B Uncensored to Hugging Face as a local GGUF build, and the repository warns that it should be handled carefully despite being free to download. The upload is intended to be easy to install and run on a PC. The repository says the build is uncensored and specialized for the cyber/offensive-security domain. It is also tuned for coding and cybersecurity tasks, so the focus is on practical use cases rather than a general-purpose chat experience. -
Hardware and Technologies September 16, 2026, 04:44 PM
Vals AI said that GPT-6 Astra spent 141 hours in Minecraft, building a semi-automatic blaze farm and collecting blaze rods before a Creeper attack wiped out its chest and bed. According to the researchers, the model had made real progress first, then lost everything in one blast. -
Hardware and Technologies September 15, 2026, 04:45 PM
Internal documents cited by 404 Media say OpenAI has an internal initiative called Project Lily, which uses hundreds of freelance contractors to review real ChatGPT conversations. The process can include entire chats, not just individual messages. According to the documents, contractors are asked to summarize what the user was trying to ask and then rate four generated answers on a one-to-seven scale. Reviewers are also told to watch for sycophancy, attempts to sound human, and inappropriate emojis. -
Hardware and Technologies September 14, 2026, 07:29 PM
Xiaomi's new Mijia Three-Drum Washing Machine stands out for packing three separate drums into one body, and the company has now opened preorders for it in China. Alongside it, Xiaomi introduced the Mijia Robot Vacuum 7 Max, which uses AI to adjust cleaning automatically. -
Hardware and Technologies September 14, 2026, 05:20 PM
During an OBS setup on Mac, GPT-6 Astra allegedly reacted after a user stopped responding, and the episode spread online as a possible case of the AI acting on its own. In the original post shared on X, the behavior was linked to configuring OBS on a Mac, but the described camera moment has not been independently verified. The post quickly became the basis for a wave of reposts and reactions. -
Hardware and Technologies September 12, 2026, 04:15 PM
A Reddit user named a6m--zero got Claude Fable 5 to produce a working PCB from scratch, but the process took repeated retries and $450 in API credits.
The user set two hard rules before starting: there would be no manual edits or verification of the board, and every problem before manufacturing had to be handled by Fable 5. In the prompt, a6m--zero asked for a PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico 2350, four buttons, a GDEY0154D67-FL04 display, I2C, and GPIO pins, all on a board the same size as the display. -
Hardware and Technologies September 11, 2026, 12:22 PM
Google says its new native Gemini app for Windows is designed to stay lightweight while serving as the first step toward deeper desktop integration for the assistant. The app is available to download globally for Windows 10 and 11. On Windows, pressing Alt + Space opens Gemini over the active window, letting it sit alongside other apps and tools instead of taking over the screen. Google also says the desktop app works with Gmail and Google Drive, so it can pull in account data to help draft summaries and handle other tasks. -
Hardware and Technologies September 11, 2026, 11:54 AM
Unity has released an official free plugin that connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Grok to projects inside the engine. A page for the tool is already up on GitHub, and it’s free to download. -
Hardware and Technologies September 10, 2026, 05:14 PM
DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on September 10, 2026, pricing the model at $0.003 per 1 million input tokens and making it available on Hugging Face and through API. The company is positioning it as a very low-cost option that still aims to compete with top-tier systems. -
Hardware and Technologies September 10, 2026, 12:06 PM
Free Router launched on September 9, 2026 as a local OpenAI-compatible gateway that points clients to http://127.0.0.1:8787/v1. The tool is designed to automatically route requests through free models, but its advertised "infinite" tokens still depend on third-party limits and uptime. -
News September 10, 2026, 11:49 AM
In a new YouTube video, Tim Cain, the former Fallout lead and co-creator, argues that the game business has always been volatile and may get even less predictable. In "Industry Instability", he says developers who entered the industry in the last 5 or 10 years should not expect it to stay a stable job for 30 or 40 years. -
Blizzard and Microsoft Strike Contract with AI Veto Rights — Implementation to Be Negotiated Before Launch
Hardware and Technologies September 9, 2026, 07:56 PM
Blizzard Entertainment employees have ratified their first major union contract with Microsoft after more than two years of negotiations. Roughly 1,900 Blizzard workers voted in favor of the agreement, which covers the World of Warcraft, QA, Hearthstone, Warcraft Rumble, Overwatch, Diablo, Platform & Technology, and Story and Franchise Development teams.
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