
Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI and Google on speed and price
Microsoft's new speech recognition model hits 5.2% word error rate across 60 languages at $0.10 per hour — 72% cheaper than its predecessor and up to 10× faster than rivals.
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Microsoft's new speech recognition model hits 5.2% word error rate across 60 languages at $0.10 per hour — 72% cheaper than its predecessor and up to 10× faster than rivals.

GPT-6 Astra rolled out first to cybersecurity partners through OpenAI's Daybreak program, with ChatGPT and Codex subscribers following days later. OpenAI says the model meets the Critical threshold for cyber capability under its own safety framework.

The Chinese AI lab behind the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, with revenue roughly tripling in two months on the back of the model's coding benchmark results.

CVE-2026-20212 leaves two TCP ports reachable on 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches, letting unauthenticated attackers execute code as root on the data center fabric AI clusters depend on.

Xiaomi's first flagship built on its in-house XRing O3 chip adopts the wide passport foldable form factor with a 200MP Leica camera, 6,000mAh battery, and LPDDR6 RAM. It launches in China on September 7.

The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would prohibit AI capable of exceeding human cognition, pause all advanced AI development, and apply criminal penalties up to 20 years — triggered by the July 2026 OpenAI agent escape incident.

ChatGPT for Healthcare now connects directly to Epic's electronic health record system, letting authorized clinicians pull patient notes, labs, and medications into a chat without leaving their workflow. Access is strictly read-only.

Attackers are actively chaining two SonicWall SMA 1000 vulnerabilities, one with a maximum CVSS score of 10, to gain full remote code execution on perimeter appliances without needing a password. Patches are out; SonicWall is urging immediate upgrades.

A CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in JFrog Artifactory's default configuration is being actively exploited to mint fake administrator tokens, letting attackers read, tamper with, and poison software packages that downstream systems trust automatically.

Tesla's purpose-built two-seat robotaxi makes its commercial debut September 3 in Austin, Texas, running the same Full Self-Driving stack as its existing unsupervised fleet.

The Department of War has deployed Starshield AI's Grok for Government on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon's generative AI platform, giving troops and civilian staff a second frontier model alongside Google's Gemini for tasks from acquisition research to supply chain logistics.

A critical unauthenticated remote code execution bug in the open-source Langflow platform is being actively exploited, with attackers specifically querying environment variables for OpenAI API keys, AWS secrets, and Langflow superuser credentials. Attack volume has grown from 50 to 360 attempts in days.