News — 2026-09-02

John Deere has launched JD, an AI assistant that answers farmers' questions using their own machine and field data. The tool is part of the company's farm management platform and comes with a ten-point voluntary Farmer Data Commitment, ensuring farmers control their data.Read more

Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress, says the game industry is in shambles due to its obsession with generative AI, leading to brutal layoffs and studio closures. Adams criticizes CEOs for trying to replace human labor with AI, predicting a reckoning unless the industry changes course.Read more

Perplexity has introduced Hybrid Compute, a new tool that allows users to split tasks between cloud-based AI models and local models running on their computer, ensuring sensitive information remains secure. This feature is part of Perplexity's evolving platform, which includes Personal Computer for Mac and other products.Read more

A small transformer model trained from scratch in 1.5 hours has achieved a score of 44% on the ARC-1 benchmark, outperforming many larger language models. The model uses a combination of techniques including supervised training, 3D RoPE embeddings, and dihedral permutations to achieve state-of-the-art results.Read more

Checkly, a monitoring platform, successfully rewrote its Results Daemon in Go using AI agents, resulting in a 70% reduction in running pods and improved database performance. The rewrite was made possible by a robust test harness designed to ensure the new application's behavior matched the legacy system.Read more

Anthropic has committed $35 billion to a cloud deal with Lambda, a company backed by Nvidia, for capacity in a Texas data center. The deal is part of Anthropic's strategy to diversify its suppliers and reduce dependence on a single provider.Read more

The United States will urge the G20 not to establish new institutions for governing artificial intelligence, arguing that existing bodies are sufficient. This position, outlined before a two-day meeting in North Carolina, sets the stage for negotiations leading up to the G20 leaders' summit in Miami in December.Read more

Anthropic has released Fable and Mythos 5.1, its latest AI models, with significant upgrades and a 75% cut in cache read prices. The new models boast improved performance and reduced token costs, making them more accessible to users.Read more

AIR, an AI security startup, has raised $50 million to help companies monitor and secure the growing software supply chain around AI agents, which are increasingly being used to access sensitive systems and data.Read more

A new solution enables running the 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model on Macs with as little as 48GB of RAM, achieving ~12 tokens per second warm decode, by streaming the model from SSD and dynamically managing memory allocation.Read more

Jaron Lanier suggests a new approach to AI, focusing on 'data dignity' where people are connected to and compensated for their digital creations, potentially easing the transition to an AI-integrated economy.Read more