January–September 2026
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144 stories about AI and people. Browse by month, newest first.
September 2026
View month- AI agents: what can they actually do?Agents
- Sonnet 5.5 makes everyday work fasterModels
- Eleven v4 adds more expressive speechTools
- What builders are making with Gemini 3.8 FlashPeople & AI
- Copilot canvases make the workflow a shared interfaceTools
- Gemini Live gets a visual presenceCulture
- Opus 5.5 combines stronger work with lower pricingModels
- GPT-6 Sol and Luna bring more choices to the new familyModels
- Isaac ROS 5 brings agents into robotics developmentResearch
- Grok Transcribe 2.0 targets difficult real-world audioTools
- Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a combination agreementPeople & AI
- Grok Build carries project knowledge between sessionsAgents
- Perplexity describes putting Astra to work on complete systemsAgents
- Local AI: where to startModels
- North Small Translate focuses on multilingual workModels
- OpenAI packages cloud-agent orchestration as an APIAgents
- GPT-6 Astra opens a new OpenAI generationModels
- Gemini 3.8 Flash extends Google’s agent-focused seriesModels
- Gemini learns to inspect video selectivelyAgents
- Hugging Face brings optimized AI kernels to WebGPUTools
August 2026
View month- Cohere Parse turns complex pages into structured dataTools
- Anthropic funds independent work on AI and wellbeingPeople & AI
- Gradio makes the pipeline the interfaceTools
- Granite 4.2 adds reasoning at several sizesModels
- Mistral’s Agentic Search reads beyond the first retrieved chunkAgents
- A multilingual model can still miss the cultureCulture
- ChatGPT for Teens adds a more explicit youth experiencePeople & AI
- Gemini 3.7 Flash focuses on coding and agentsModels
- Grok 4.6 focuses on staying with a complex taskModels
- Sign-language AI reaches the phone keyboardPeople & AI
- Mistral connects open models with regional infrastructureResearch
- Muse Glimmer puts Meta’s model closer to the deviceModels
- OpenAI and the APA focus on youth wellbeingPeople & AI
- Waterloo’s AI program starts with organizational changePeople & AI
- Shieldstral lets the policy be part of the inputTools
July 2026
View month- Alice’s July update spans images and accessibilityTools
- Gemini Robotics 2 extends intelligence across the whole bodyResearch
- Cosmos-H-Dreams generates simulations for surgical roboticsResearch
- North Automations connects isolated agents into workflowsAgents
- Opus 5 targets stronger everyday professional workModels
- Claude can query its own Economic IndexPeople & AI
- Google splits Flash into more specialized rolesModels
- Grabette records robot data without starting with a robotResearch
- The University of Toronto brings AI into institutional workflowsPeople & AI
- Inkling brings Thinking Machines into open multimodal modelsModels
- VoiceEQ looks at what speech benchmarks missResearch
- GPT-5.6 offers several balances of capability and costModels
- GPT-Live makes voice a model familyTools
- Robostral Navigate uses one camera to get aroundResearch
- LeRobot 0.6 closes more of the learning loopResearch
- Leanstral 1.5 makes formal proofs more accessibleResearch
June 2026
View month- Claude Science gathers research tools into a workbenchResearch
- Sonnet 5 narrows the gap between a daily assistant and an agentModels
- ScarfBench tests agents on Java migrationsResearch
- Alice AI adds memory and a stronger focus on outcomesTools
- Computer use becomes part of Gemini 3.5 FlashAgents
- Claude Tag brings an agent into the team conversationAgents
- Mistral OCR 4 returns the text and its place on the pageTools
- Control over agents is a system, not just a promptAgents
- GLM-5.2 builds for longer engineering tasksModels
- LifeSciBench asks AI the kinds of questions researchers faceResearch
- Strands and LeRobot connect the robotics learning loopResearch
- North Mini Code gives Cohere a coding-focused modelModels
- Gemini Live Translate brings speech translation closer to conversationPeople & AI
- OpenAI opens an economic research exchangePeople & AI
- Claude partners get a path from pilot to deploymentPeople & AI
- GPT-Rosalind extends its research capabilitiesResearch
- Mellum2 gives workplace tools a compact model componentModels
May 2026
View month- MiniMax M3 brings coding and multimodality togetherModels
- Opus 4.8 adds more control over reasoning effortModels
- Mistral explores AI for physical simulationResearch
- Warp organizes work around multiple agentsTools
- Mistral moves Vibe agents into the cloudAgents
- Command A+ gives enterprise agents an open-weight optionModels
- Gemini 3.5 puts action at the centerModels
- Gemini for Science follows more of the research processResearch
- Gemini Omni starts with video and mixed inputsCulture
- An AI accelerator turns toward environmental problemsPeople & AI
- Runway expands closer to Japan’s creative industriesCulture
- Claude packages workflows for small businessesTools
- AlphaEvolve searches for better algorithmsResearch
- GPT-5.5 Instant updates everyday ChatGPTModels
- Voice AI depends on the plumbing, tooTools
April 2026
View month- Claude connects to the creative workflowCulture
- Nemotron Nano Omni brings several inputs into one modelModels
- Mistral Workflows addresses life after the demoAgents
- DeepSeek V4 asks what long context is actually forModels
- NEC expands Claude access across its engineering organizationPeople & AI
- GPT-5.5 brings more working skills into one modelModels
- ChatGPT agents move into the workspaceAgents
- Kimi K2.6 tackles longer coding assignmentsModels
- Opus 4.7 puts more emphasis on checking its workModels
- GPT-Rosalind specializes in life-sciences researchResearch
- Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 looks more closely at the physical worldResearch
- Microsoft gives image generation a production-focused optionCulture
- OpenAI publishes a child-safety blueprintPeople & AI
- Safetensors joins the PyTorch FoundationTools
- Anthropic’s next models need tomorrow’s computing capacityResearch
- Gemma 4 expands Google’s open-model familyModels
March 2026
View month- Granite Vision uses a small model to read complex documentsModels
- Command-line tools now have two kinds of usersTools
- Cohere Transcribe turns speech into a separate building blockModels
- EVA evaluates the conversation, not just the transcriptResearch
- Voxtral adds a voice of its ownTools
- Measuring intelligence takes more than one scoreResearch
- GPT-5.4 mini and nano find roles inside larger workflowsModels
- Mistral Small 4 combines reasoning, vision, and codeModels
- Yandex brings a stronger Alice model to smart devicesTools
- Implementing AI becomes a skill in its own rightPeople & AI
- A Rails testing agent needs to run what it writesAgents
- LeRobot 0.5 connects more of the robotics workflowResearch
- GPT-5.4 combines code, documents, and computer useModels
- Modular Diffusers makes generation a set of building blocksTools
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite targets high-volume workModels
February 2026
View month- OpenAI outlines changes for vulnerable usersPeople & AI
- Nano Banana 2 speeds up the image-editing loopCulture
- Anthropic acquires Vercept for computer useAgents
- The llama.cpp team joins Hugging FacePeople & AI
- Gemini 3.1 Pro tackles questions that need more workModels
- Sonnet 4.6 updates Claude’s everyday modelModels
- Qwen3.5 makes multimodality part of the foundationModels
- CodePath brings Claude into developer educationPeople & AI
- Codex-Spark bets on faster iterationModels
- Gemini Deep Think takes aim at research problemsResearch
- Opus 4.6 brings more context to extended workModels
- GPT-5.3-Codex looks beyond the code snippetModels
- Voxtral separates live speech from recorded audioTools
- Codex gets an app for coordinating agentsAgents
January 2026
View month- Kimi K2.5 connects visual understanding with agentsModels
- Vibe 2.0 gives a coding agent working habitsAgents
- Prism puts the manuscript and the model togetherTools
- Claude’s constitution makes its intended values visiblePeople & AI
- AI education becomes an infrastructure questionPeople & AI
- A year after DeepSeek, the open ecosystem is widerModels
- ChatGPT Go reaches a wider audienceTools
- AI at work: measure tasks before predicting jobsPeople & AI
- The people shaping Claude’s next interfacesPeople & AI
- Veo turns reference images into video ingredientsCulture
- Claude moves into healthcare workflowsTools
- Tolan builds a voice companion around memoryPeople & AI
- Falcon-H1-Arabic puts language firstModels
- Beyond the parameter countResearch
- An AI startup can begin before the ideaPeople & AI
- How to read an AI benchmarkResearch